Color consultation
30–45 minYour hair in daylight, your color history and photos you bring. You leave with a plan and a schedule for coming back.
Brunette color and cuts in Bellingham
Fern Tilden works alone in a quiet suite on Chestnut Street. She colors and cuts so that your hair looks right in week one and still looks chosen in week twelve. Fern is taking new clients, and every first color visit starts with a consultation.

The grow-out guide
A rough calendar for root color and soft all-over color. Your own schedule comes from your consultation, because hair and plans differ.
The tone is at its richest and the shine is up. Your roots are blended into the length, so there is no hard line.
Tone at its fullest
Roots softened into the length
The tone relaxes a little with every wash. A soft shadow starts at the roots, which reads as depth rather than a line.
Tone eases toward your natural shade
A gentle root shadow
Your roots have come in, and because the color sat close to your natural level they stay close to the rest. A gloss now brings the tone back.
Roots near your natural shade
A gloss between visits is optional
A visit every ten to fourteen weeks keeps soft color looking chosen. Gray blending runs a little shorter, closer to every eight to ten weeks.
Book the next visit before you leave
Closer to week eight if you blend gray
Portfolio
One tool, one mix, one pair of hands at a time.
Sample photos.
The menu
Every service lists how long it takes. Fern sets your price after your consultation.
Every color plan begins with a conversation.
Your hair in daylight, your color history and photos you bring. You leave with a plan and a schedule for coming back.
A short look at your roots and tone between visits, and a plan for the next one.
Chosen close to your natural level, so it grows out softly.
Color at the roots, softened into the length so there is no hard line as it grows out.
One shade, chosen near your natural level, from the roots to the ends.
Lowlights and soft color that blur gray into your natural shade, so new growth reads as depth.
Lowlights and soft highlights woven through for movement, kept close to your base color.
Prices are set by the length and density of your hair and the steps in your plan, and they show on the booking page before you confirm.
Gray blending
Gray changes how color behaves. Fern softens the contrast, so the roots that come in don't announce themselves.
Fern checks how much gray you have, where it sits and how it takes color, in daylight.
A color close to your own level means new growth sits close to the rest.
Fine lowlights near the part and the temples blur the border between gray and color.
Gray shows sooner than other roots, so a visit every eight to ten weeks keeps it blended.

Owner and stylist
One stylist, one chair, one conversation from the first look to the last.
Fern colors and cuts in a private suite on Chestnut Street. She works with brunette hair, with gray blending and with anyone who wants color that is easy to live with. She keeps her book small so every visit has room to run long.
Cosmetologist license · WA Lic. # 000000
Questions
For color, yes. Fern looks at your hair in daylight and goes through your color history before she mixes anything. A cut can be booked directly.
For soft color, most plans run about ten to fourteen weeks between visits. Gray blending runs a little shorter. Fern gives you a schedule at your consultation.
Yes. Blending gray into a soft, natural-looking color is one of the things Fern does most. The approach is on the gray blending page.
Color visits are booked a few weeks out, because Fern is the only stylist in the suite. Cuts and glosses are easier to fit in.
Street parking is on Chestnut Street, and there is a public lot behind the building. Fern texts you the suite's door code the day before your visit.
A quiet guest is welcome to wait with you. The suite is small, so we ask for one guest at most.
Hours and place
A private suite at 114 W Chestnut Street with one chair and one stylist. Fern texts you the door code the day before.
By appointment only. Fern is in the suite alone, so please text if you are running late.
Tell Fern what you want and what your hair has been through, and she will plan the visits.