Demo site

Marlowe & Fern is a business we invented, to show a salon owner what their own website could look like.Marlowe & Fern is not a real business. We built this to show what yours could look like.

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Grey Lynn, Auckland

A small studio, two chairs, and as long as it takes.

Marlowe & Fern is a two-chair studio. We take one client at a time, which means your appointment does not get interrupted and your colour does not get rushed.

An arched mirror in a slim brass frame above a walnut ledge, against a warm plaster wall in late afternoon light.

What we do

Cutting

A cut is a conversation first. We will ask what your hair does on the mornings you do nothing to it, because that is the haircut you actually have.

Colour

Balayage, tonal work, grey blending and correction. Colour is booked by the hour rather than by the name of a technique, so nobody is upselling you a word.

Prices

  • Cut and finish$95 + GST
  • Cut, colour and finishfrom $210 + GST

    Quoted at the consultation, because it depends on length and history.

  • Balayagefrom $260 + GST
  • Toner or gloss$65 + GST
  • Grey blendingfrom $140 + GST
  • ConsultationNo charge

    Twenty minutes, and you are not obliged to book anything.

Prices are a starting point. Anything that will cost more than the price above is quoted before we begin, not after.

The studio

We are on the ground floor of a villa on Williamson Avenue. There is no music fighting you, no retail wall, and no reception desk between us and you. Just the two chairs, the window and the kettle.

A freshly cut and coloured shoulder-length bob, photographed from behind against a warm plaster wall.

Nobody should be able to tell where the colour starts.

Six months of grow-out, blended in one appointment.

Book an appointment

Tell us roughly what you are after and when suits. If you have never been to us before, book the free consultation first: twenty minutes, no pressure, and it makes the real appointment better.

  • Tuesday to Saturday
  • Late night Thursday
  • Off-street parking behind the building

C.E.A Smith

Marlowe & Fern is not real. A website like it, for your business, is.

We designed and built this page to show a hair studio what their own website could look like. Yours would be built the same way, around your work, your photographs and your area. Quick Start starts at $499 + GST to build and $49 + GST a month to host and look after. Bigger jobs are quoted properly, once we know what they involve.

Every website on our work page is a real New Zealand business we built for. The five demos are the ones we invented, and they are labelled as such.