Hair Salon Near Me for Curly Cuts in Midtown Miami: Salon Ethos

Salon Ethos asks curly-haired guests to arrive with clean, dry, detangled hair and no product, because its Curly Cut & Style, from $185, is done dry. The shop is Salon Ethos, at 3301 NE 1st Avenue, Suite 102, Miami, FL 33137. It opens Tuesday through Friday from 9 am to 7 pm and Saturday from 9 am to 6 pm. Sunday and Monday are dark.

The founders are Evan Wingate, a master stylist, and Bryan Drelles, a master colorist. Their Green Circle Salons profile says the pair spent the better part of two decades at top Miami salons before deciding they had bigger plans, and it calls Salon Ethos the realization of their shared dream. The split shows on the menu: Wingate's side of the house is shape and finish, and Drelles's side is formulation, placement and the new metered color system described below.

The team page now lists more than a dozen people beyond the two founders. There are senior stylists James Stafford, William Laurel and Christina A. Miranda, senior colorist Laura Zerbolio, stylists Jessie Sobze and Jesus Lizardo, a junior stylist and several apprentices. The apprentice track matters to guests, because the site openly recruits trainees, and pricing is listed as varying by stylist. A first visit with a newer name on the roster usually lands nearer the starting price than a chair with one of the founders.

The curly menu is the most specific thing about this salon. A complimentary curly consultation comes first if you are unsure, then the Curly Cut & Style from $185, which includes styling and diffusing. Men's Curly Haircut starts at $95. Curly Hair Styling, a cleanse, condition and diffuse without a cut, starts at $55. A Curly Hair Treatment starts at $35, but it does not include styling, so add the $55 diffuse if you want to walk out with defined curls.

The house rules for the curly cut are blunt and worth reading twice. Come with hair in its natural state. Ponytails, braids, buns and anything else that bends the pattern before the appointment work against you. A stylist cutting dry needs to see where each curl actually falls, so the day you book is not the day to test a new gel or leave a clip in on the drive over. Wash the night before and let it dry the way you normally wear it.

Straighter hair has its own clear ladder of prices. A Women's Haircut & Style starts at $100 and includes a consultation, shampoo, conditioning, cut and blow-dry. The Styling Blowout starts at $60, a blowout over installed extensions at $70, a pinned Curl Set at $45 and a standalone flat iron or curling iron finish at $35. That last one is done on dry hair only, so book a blowout first and add the iron if you want both.

Miami humidity drives the smoothing list. Cezanne, a formaldehyde-free keratin, starts at $300 and lasts up to five months with no waiting period before you shampoo or swim. The amino acid treatment the salon calls Hair Plastic Surgery also starts at $300 and runs about three months. The Keratin Express, from $135, is the quick option at about six weeks, but you have to keep the hair dry for eight hours afterward, so do not book it before a beach afternoon.

Color here is billed differently from most Miami salons. Salon Ethos uses Vish, a color management system that weighs every gram of product a colorist mixes, saves your exact formula and charges you for what went on your head. The bill splits into labor and parts. The policy page says color is priced this way across the board, and the Vish page promises the team will walk you through formula and cost before they start if you ask.

The starting prices give you a floor. Root Color and Gray Coverage starts at $95, All-Over Color at $115, Face Frame Blonding at $100, Face Frame and Part Blonding at $120, Half Head Blonding at $200 and Full Head Blonding at $250. Global Blonding starts at $400 and the site recommends a free consultation before the first one. One honest caution: gloss or toner and the blow-dry are booked separately on nearly every color service, so a blonding appointment rarely ends at its headline number.

The policies page is long, and three parts deserve your attention. Cancel or move an appointment at least 24 hours ahead, or you pay 50 percent of the booked service minus any deposit. A no-show costs 100 percent. New guests, extensions, corrective color and big transformations may need a deposit, which is applied to the service rather than added on top. Late arrivals can lose part of the service, and the salon states plainly that it will not run late on the next guest to make up your time.

If something looks wrong afterward, contact the salon within 7 days. The team may offer a complimentary adjustment after reviewing the original consultation, but only for problems with the service itself, not for a change of mind about tone or length. Do not let another salon or a box dye touch the hair in the meantime, or the adjustment may be forfeited. Services are non-refundable, and unopened retail can be returned within 14 days with a receipt.

Salon Ethos is a Green Circle Salons partner, which means your clippings, used foils, color tubes and leftover chemicals do not go in the regular trash. The sustainability page explains that hair gets turned into booms for oil spill cleanup, metal gets recycled and chemical residue gets converted to energy. Paired with Vish, which mixes only what your hair needs, it cuts both the waste in the color room and the leftover dye that would otherwise go down the sink.

The treatment shelf is worth knowing before you book. The Milbon Signature Repair Treatment, from $95, is the deep reconstruction pick for hair fried by bleach or flat irons. K18 Molecular Repair starts at $65, a Brazilian bond-building treatment at $50, and Wella's 90-second leave-in repair is a $25 add-on that cannot be booked alone. Skip stacking all of them on one visit. One targeted treatment, chosen with your stylist, does more than three layered on top of each other.

The service list itself tells you who books here. There is a separate men's section with a $65 cut, a $60 camo gray blend that leaves some silver showing, $95 men's highlights and a men's express keratin from $100. There are blowouts over extensions for guests who wear tape-ins, a curl set for event nights and a complimentary consultation for people who are not sure what to ask for. A first-time men's cut gets extra consultation time at the same $65 starting price.

Booking runs through the salon's Phorest page, linked from every page of the site. If your stylist is full for the week, take a complimentary haircut consultation and book the following week. If you cannot wait, IGK Salon at 56 NE 41st St in the Design District is about half a mile north and books through its own online calendar. It is a different style of room, built around its own product line, so go there for a blowout rather than a curl-specific dry cut.

The salon sits on NE 1st Avenue at 33rd Street, a block from the Shops at Midtown Miami. With a long color appointment, plan the walk for afterward, when your hair is done and you are not watching the clock. Head north on NE 1st Avenue and cross 36th Street into the Miami Design District, where the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, keeps free general admission with a timed reservation.

The Design District's Palm Court, with Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome in the middle, is a good place to sit and look at the finished blowout in a shop window. If you would rather go south, Wynwood's murals start a few blocks below 29th Street. Leave the long walk for another day if you just had a Keratin Express. Midtown humidity and eight hours of no water make a poor match.

Address: Salon Ethos, 3301 NE 1st Avenue, Suite 102, Miami, FL 33137. Hours: Tuesday to Friday 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. Booking: online through Phorest from the salon website. Starting prices quoted here come from the salon's own service pages. Haircut and color prices are posted as starting points that vary by stylist, and color is billed as parts plus labor through Vish.

Bring reference photos, but read the consultation note on the policy page first. Photos guide the result, they do not guarantee it, and some changes take more than one appointment. Schedule color before a haircut if you book both. Give 24 hours' notice to cancel. If something is off, call within 7 days. Leave the iron at home on curly-cut day, and plan on paying separately for the gloss and the blow-dry after most color services.