Department 01 · Cut & Finish

A cut is
architecture.

Worn every day, in every light, by a face that never sits still. We cut for how your hair falls when you stop thinking about it, not for the ten minutes it behaves under the mirror.

Three stylist tiers · Dry-cut for curls · Tue–Sun · 11 AM – 9 PM

A client with a long layered brunette blowout and caramel balayage in the AAINA atelier
Every cutConsult firstWe measure twice. Then once.

The philosophy

Built to fall
the right way.

A good cut has structure you never see. Weight removed where the hair wants to lift, length kept where it wants to fall. We study the cowlick, the part, the way you push it back at your desk. Then we cut for that, not for the photograph.

01Read the head

Growth pattern, density, cowlicks and the way you actually wear it. The face shape matters less than the habits.

02Cut to the fall

Sectioned, tensioned and checked dry, because hair lies when it is wet. The shape has to hold the second day too.

03Finish for the city

Salt air, hard water and a forty-minute commute. We build a cut that survives Mumbai, then teach you to keep it.

The ladder

Choose your hand.

Same chair, same hour, same consultation. The price follows the experience of the hand holding the scissors: Stylist, Senior, or the Style Director who trained them both.

ServiceStylistSenior StylistStyle Director
Cut & FinishConsultation, wash, the cut itself and a polished finish.₹1,800₹2,800₹4,500
RestyleA full change of shape. Length, weight and direction reworked.₹2,400₹3,400₹5,100
Fringe TrimBetween visits. On the house for cut clients, otherwise as priced.On the houseOn the house₹400

Tiers describe years at the chair, never the care given. Every cut, at every price, gets the full consultation and the same unhurried hour.

Finishing & specialist

The finish, and
the exceptions.

Blow-dries, curl sets and the specialist chairs: textured hair, senior years, a child’s first cut. Prices are from; the consultation reads the hair and confirms the rest.

Restyles and first-time colour clients are read together. Book the consultation and we will plan the order so nothing is cut twice.

In the detail

Scissors, then the
brush.

The cut is the architecture. The finish is the lighting. We never hurry either. A section trimmed against the grain or a blow-dry rushed at the root undoes the whole hour.

A precision haircut in close-up, a section of chestnut hair held to the comb while steel scissors trim the ends
01

The cut. Sectioned, tensioned, checked dry. Point-cut ends so the line grows out soft, never blunt.

A round-brush blow-dry in progress, a stylist drying a client's glossy brunette hair to a smooth finish
02

The finish. Round-brushed at the root for lift, cooled on the brush so it sets and holds past dinner.

The curly chair

We cut curls the way curls grow.

Dry, curl by curl, watching each spring find its place. No raking it straight to cut it even. The diffuser comes last, and the shape behaves on wash-day too, the real test.

Every head of hair

One chair for all of it.

Coils, silver, a five-year-old’s first cut. The same care, the same consultation, three chairs that were built for exactly this.

A smiling client with natural coily textured hair being styled with a wide-tooth comb
Textured & coilyFrom ₹2,600

Cut dry, with the pattern. Product chosen for moisture, not control.

An elegant senior woman with a silver pixie cut being combed and shaped by a stylist
The senior chair₹1,400

An easy, elegant shape with time for the conversation. Scalp massage included.

A smiling young boy in a cape getting his first haircut while his mother watches
First chairs₹900 · Under 10

A patient hand, a small cape and a sticker. The no-tears policy is mostly kept.

The hand behind the chair

Booked by name.

Our Style Director trained in London before she trained the room here. Restyles and editorial shapes are her chair, but the whole ladder is hers in spirit, because every junior hand learns the cut from her first.

Not sure which tier suits the change you want? Book a consultation and we will be honest about who should hold the scissors.

A haircut should survive a Mumbai monsoon and a Paris winter.

Meher Vakharia · Creative Director

Restyles · Editorial cuts

Book a consultation

The shape you stop fighting.

A consultation costs twenty minutes. The right cut buys back ten of them every single morning.

+91 98200 11011 · Tue–Sun · 11 AM – 9 PM · Juhu · Mumbai