Welcome to Ashira Salon
Inhale the pure air and unwind in Ashira Salon’s tranquil non-toxic space.
About Ashira Salon
Welcome to Ashira Salon, a premier clean hair salon where your hair's natural movement is embraced and nourished to reveal its true beauty and set free from harsh products and damaging tools. Each session begins with a detailed one-on-one holistic consultation. Your past hair experiences, goals, and fears are carefully listened to while your hair type, face shape, silhouette, hair personality and lifestyle are meticulously assessed.
The clear image that emerges from your personal story and relationship with your hair guides the process of expert hair sculpting and custom, clean hair color. Every signature session includes a therapeutic, stress-relieving scalp massage treatment, alongside personalized, instructional styling techniques tailored to your everyday needs.
Reveal your ultimate beauty while honoring your personal wellness and the environment. We exclusively use clean, certified B haircare lines and services inside our soothing private salon. Whether you desire a subtle, natural enhancement or are ready for a dramatic hair transformation, together we will bring your vision to life.
Hair Artist
Jennifer Brass, Owner
Helping people to see their unique beauty is my passion. Whether enhancing and illuminating or gently coaxing its emergence, I savor the process and treasure the honor. When I was 11, a hairstylist really listened and understood that even though I was a tomboy, I felt invisible and wanted to feel pretty. The result was the most flattering style that honored my hair type and lifestyle, which made me feel beautiful from the inside out. From that moment on I have been compelled to share this joy. Six years later I was a Zenzi's beauty academy graduate. I received advanced on the job training in San Francisco's Union Square from artists such as Toni & Guy, Vidal Sassoon and Rusk. I went on to become an advanced trainer and was awarded certification in the art of color and curl. In my quest to learn more, I earned certification in personal image consulting and performed whole image makeovers for an expanding clientele. In the last nineteen of my thirty nine year practice, my services have been non-toxic. This transition was driven by a lifestyle choice to honor and preserve our Earth as well as personal health issues resulting from decades of working with conventional hair products.
Services
Holistic Hair Sculpting & Styling
Custom Hair Sculpting Session: A specialized cutting experience tailored to your hair’s natural movement, face shape, and silhouette. Includes a detailed holistic consultation, therapeutic scalp massage, and personalized styling instruction.
Wavy, Curly & Coily hair Sculpting: Expert dry-cutting and shape-building designed specifically for your beloved waves, curls, and coils. Honoring your hair’s natural pattern and teaching you clean-beauty routine techniques to manage your curls at home.
Blow Dry Diffusing & Botanical Styling: A wash and premium style using clean, plant-based products. Perfect for special occasions, an instructional styling session or a weekly refresh without exposing your hair to harsh synthetic chemicals.
Clean Hair Color, Highlighting and Lowlighting, Gray Blending and Camouflaging
Gray Blending and Camouflaging: Embrace your natural hair color pattern, eliminate the dreaded line of demarcation that demands a three week upkeep and welcome in a two to three month hair color maintenance.
Gray Coverage: A gentle, permanent coloring service that completely restores your hair color without the traditional harsh odors, scalp irritation and synthetic toxics.
Dimensional Balayage: Hand-painted, sun-kissed highlights using eco-friendly lighteners for lived-in “bronde” and blonde. This technique creates a seamless, low-maintenance grow-out that enhances your natural movement.
Clean-Beauty Foil Highlights: Precision foil placement utilizing nourishing, non-ammonia formulas to add brightness, depth, and dimension while protecting the structural integrity of your hair.
Gloss & Tonal Refresh: A semi-permanent gloss treatment to quiet white hair, boost shine, lock in moisture, and refresh fading tones between major color appointments.
Therapeutic Scalp & Hair Treatments
Holistic Scalp Treatment & Massage: As an add-on with another service or a stand-alone service with the Nanomist processor for deep penetration, a deeply relaxing detoxifying treatment for dry, oily, or sensitive scalps. Combines organic essential oils, gentle exfoliation, and an extended therapeutic massage to stimulate hair growth and relaxation.
Deep Botanical Moisture Treatment: As an add-on with another service or a stand-alone service with the Nanomist processor for deep penetration an intensive, clean-ingredient conditioning mask that deeply penetrates dry, damaged, or brittle hair to restore elasticity, softness, and vibrant shine.
Detox Treatment: Push the reset button on lifeless, dull hair. New to Ashira Salon and getting your first time hair color? Expect to start with this treatment. Innersense Detox Hair Mask offers the proper reset to properly prep your hair for clean color.
Demineralizer: Removes layers of “rock” on the hair caused by mineral build-up that can inhibit the successful processing of color & highlights. Revitalizes hair and scalp that has hard water mineral build-up and is oxidized, damaged or over-processed.
The Ashira Experience Standards
Private Salon: Enjoy your entire transformation in a peaceful, private environment with zero double-booking and undivided attention.
Clean-Air Environment: Because we ban ammonia, formaldehyde, and synthetic fragrances, you can breathe easily throughout your visit.
Sustainable Practices: We proudly recycle, minimize water waste, and choose eco-friendly backbar products to minimize our environmental footprint as much as possible.
Hairprint
A brilliant scientific breakthrough that restores gray hair to its true color. For individuals with brown and black hair, the color you get with Hairprint is so natural it will defy detection because it brings back your original pigment. Invented by Dr. John Warner, the father of green chemistry, it replenishes the natural eumelanin pigment that is still present in your hair, but which is missing from the gray. Hairprint is completely safe, 100% non-toxic, hypoallergenic, and odor free. It is designed to be a better, kinder, and safer way to honor the health of women and men, and the living world around us. Cheers to biomimicry!
Mission & Sustainability
Honoring Indigenous wisdom of living harmoniously with Mother Earth by doing our part to provide a livable planet for our future. We offer only clean products and services that set hair free of toxic ingredients and harsh tools to reveal its natural beauty. We partner only with companies who share our passion of honoring the wellness and nourishment of our guests as well as the health of Mother Earth on whom we all depend upon for life.
Here at our salon we are doing everything in our power to be good ancestors and leave a livable planet for our descendants as well as all who we share our planet with. Ashira Salon is climate positive, which means we go above and beyond current standards of carbon neutral. We are as close to zero-waste-to-landfill as currently possible, donating acceptable landfill to The East Bay Depot for creative reuse. Beyond basic recycling and compostables, we separate and take our non-landfill waste to the proper facilities ourselves to avoid the carbon footprint of shipping it out. We carefully collect hair clippings from haircuts into compostable bags and donate them through HumSum to Matters of trust, which turns hair and fur into mats and coils that clean up oil spills and filter oil out of run off water to keep it from contaminating our Bay. We collaborate with Sustain Beauty, using their climate positive products, such as their Ecohead shower head that reduces how much water we consume while it filters out damaging minerals and chloramine. Our hair care products: Rahua and Innersense, found on their own pages on this site, are certified B companies whose ingredients keep our waters clean and who share our passion of sustainability as well as honoring ancient wisdoms of living harmoniously with nature. May Asherah’s legacy continue here at Ashira Salon as we nurture and nourish our guest’s health with clean ingredients, while honoring the health of our Mother Earth on whom all of life depends on for nourishment and survival.
Namesake
Ashira Salon's namesake is the ancient and powerful Earth goddess Ashira, more commonly spelled Asherah, known as God’s wife. Referred to as Mother Goddess, the one who came before all other Goddesses, she embodies the spirit of motherhood, fertility, and believed to be the creator of all life on Earth. She was worshipped by many different cultures who gave her names such as Astarte, Inanna, Ishtar, and found in the earliest Sumerian writings as Ashratu. As new research on her continues to evolve, what fascinates me is the consistency of who she was to people across so many diverse cultures. She was treasured as the luminous goddess of the seas and prayed to as the goddess of reproduction and life-sustaining vegetation. If there was no place to worship her, all one needed was a tree. Associated with sacred trees, her name even translates as a grove of trees in some languages. Asherah poles, often trees, were found at sites of worship, while small wooden Asherah carvings have been discovered well beyond her origin, the Fertile Crescent. Her association with trees is echoed in Ashira Salon’s logo, as I’ve always felt a deep connection with trees.
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*Entrance to the salon is around the corner on Carmel Ave. Free parking is on Carmel, just past the 90 min parking signs at the corner of Solano Ave. Salon policies: In honor of those waiting patiently on the wait list, a 48-hour notification is required to avoid payment of any services canceled. Thank you for remembering that our salon is free from synthetic fragrances such as those found in fabric softeners.
Contact Us
1398 Solano Ave. Suite 4
front door around corner on Carmel Ave*
Albany, California 94706
Tel: 510-301-1818 texts welcome
Email: ashirasalon@gmail.com
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