How it works
Plan for your appointment to take three to four hours.
What things cost, how to prepare, what aftercare looks like, and how we run the salon. It answers nearly everything.
Before you book →Type 1–2 or Type 3–4. Use your best guess — it decides how long we reserve and which Smoothologist suits your hair. Booking for a child? There's no curl pattern to pick.
Six ways to book, from a Smoothologist in training through to Kaylie herself. They're all listed below with prices.
One last thing
We strongly recommend booking Type 4C appointments with a Senior Smoothologist.
Much of what makes a Smoothologist senior is the sheer range of textures they've worked on. Our Smoothologists in training generally haven't worked on 4C hair yet, and our Established Smoothologists have done only a handful of 4C treatments.
Working over relaxed hair or a previous smoothing treatment is safe. There's no waiting period and nothing you need to grow out first.
The one thing we need is for you to tell your stylist what's already in your hair. Knowing your history is what lets us customize the treatment properly, and it's the difference between a great result and an unpredictable one.
Book your keratin treatment before your darker color or gray-coverage appointment.
Keratin can lighten, pull or shift artificial color and may expose extra warmth. Most clients prefer to refresh color afterward for a cleaner, more predictable result.
Book your keratin treatment roughly two to four weeks after highlighting or bleaching.
We don't treat freshly bleached hair. Recently lightened hair is especially vulnerable, and recovery time protects its condition.
Keratin may also shift your tone slightly. We don't recommend highlighting freshly treated hair either, since bleach breaks the treatment down and shortens how long it lasts.
Book the first future appointment that works for you, then join the waitlist for any earlier date you'd prefer.
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Kaylie · Founder
$1,200
Kaylie has personally completed around 15,000 treatments, and developed the method the whole team works from. She only guarantees work done by her own hands.
She usually sees each guest for their first one to three appointments. Maintenance then moves to a Senior or Established Smoothologist, so she can keep welcoming new clients while your long-term care stays consistent.
Advanced
$650
More than 2,000 treatments completed. Reaching 2,000 is what makes a Smoothologist Senior, and that depth covers a broad range of curl patterns, hair histories and highly customized goals.
Signature experience
From $500
More than 500 treatments completed, cleared to work unsupervised. $500 is our benchmark — the lowest rate we do a treatment at outside of a training appointment. Pricing rises $50 for every additional 500 treatments.
Limited availability
$350
A hands-on training appointment with a Smoothologist in the earliest stage of their SMOOTHED training. Kaylie or a Senior supervises every one, start to finish.
No curl pattern to select
$750
Its own appointment, booked only with Kaylie or a Senior Smoothologist. It's the most advanced work we do, and it isn't priced like a standard treatment.
$750 is usually where the second and third treatments sit as well. After that, hair tends to arrive in a much more manageable place, and your Smoothologist may have the option to move to $650.
Occasionally available
$950 · a $250 saving
Your treatment, done by Kaylie, with a new member of her team working alongside her as she teaches. Kaylie leads the whole appointment and her hands are in your hair the whole way.
This is how Kaylie trains the Smoothologists she hires — it isn't a class for visiting stylists. Before anyone takes their own first client, they train hands-on in her chair under close supervision.
You get pulled into the process more than in a normal appointment, and most guests find it genuinely fun. Kaylie guarantees your finished result, exactly as she would in any appointment of her own.
Only open when Kaylie is actively training.
Good to know
Each Smoothologist at SMOOTHED operates as an independent business owner and independently manages their own scheduling, pricing, payments, client relationships, policies, records and day-to-day business operations. Unless otherwise stated, appointments are booked directly with the individual Smoothologist, who is responsible for the services they provide and the ongoing care of their clients.
We can't wait to meet your hair.
