Rae Weir Salon is a boutique hair salon in Raumati Village on the Kapiti Coast, offering the area a new concept in haircare: the highest level of hairdressing expertise delivered with carefully selected organic products, so results are beautiful and gentle on your skin.
Behind the chair is Rae Weir, Managing Director and Master Hairdresser — an award-winning stylist who spent years delivering first-class hairdressing to the high-end corporate market in Wellington's CBD and now brings his Sassoon-inspired precision cutting and colouring to the coast, where he has lived for 17 years. The salon was born from the post-punk ethos of attitude, creativity, style, technique and difference, but has matured into a totally focused, user-friendly team that strives to bring out your best look while still having a great time.
Clients asked for organic products, and the salon listened. It offers an organic choice in hair care and a cleaner choice in hair colour, researching the market regularly and choosing colours with the cleanest chemical content for professional, consistent results. Its natural colour products sit closer to natural tones than traditional chemical colours and have low allergenic properties. Whether you want a sensational cut, a great colour service, something more natural, something a bit edgy — highlighted, low lighted or shined up, or a combination of all — everybody ends up enlightened.
The salon's holistic, integrated approach extends beyond hair to grooming and overall well-being, with a hand-curated retail range of the best organic and near-natural skin care and fragrance, plus dedicated Tier for Teens and Men's Grooming collections. During your visit, settle into a relaxing toxic-free salon experience with free Wi-Fi — and let the team keep you hydrated.
Nestled in Raumati Village on the Kapiti Coast, Rae Weir Salon offers something a little different: a boutique hair salon built around organic haircare, cleaner colour and a genuinely relaxing, toxic-free salon experience. It is the kind of place where precision cutting meets free Wi-Fi and a glass of water, and where the team's love for hairdressing is matched by their care for your overall well-being.
The salon's story begins with a love affair with the post-punk ethos of Attitude, Creativity, Style, Technique and Difference. Rae Weir, the salon's Managing Director and Master Hairdresser, was highly recognised and awarded by the industry during that era — but, as he says, the whole time he was driven by a love and creativity for hairdressing rather than the trophies.
Time has moved on, and Rae with it. After years delivering first-class hairdressing to the high-end corporate market in Wellington's CBD, he brings that experience to the Kapiti Coast, where he has lived for 17 years. He aspires to the Sassoon school of hairdressing when it comes to precise directional cutting and styling, and his greatest passion is driving the engine room of the salon: cutting, colouring, and staff education and development. Hairdressing, in his view, is a relationship-based business — built on creative professional relationships with clients and the salon team.
The organic focus came straight from clients. When they asked for organic hair products, Rae — who for a large part of his career had been looking for better product offerings than those available through the major hair brands — listened. The salon now offers an organic choice in hair care and a cleaner choice in hair colour, researching products regularly to track what is changing in the market.
That research matters. The team understands the chemical content of colours and chooses those with the cleanest chemical content to deliver professional and consistent results. Their natural colour products sit closer to natural tones than traditional chemical colours and have low allergenic properties — it is what clients want, and what the team wants to be using.
Whether you want a sensational cut, a great colour service, something more natural, something a bit edgy, highlights, lowlights or a shine boost — or a combination of all of them — the goal is the same: everybody ends up enlightened. The team describes itself as totally focused, user-friendly hair professionals who strive to bring out your best look whilst still having a great time.
While your colour processes, you can keep up with business communications and your social media on the salon's free Wi-Fi — and they will even keep you hydrated.
The salon takes a holistic, integrated approach to grooming and overall well-being. Its vision now extends beyond hair into organic and natural skin care and fragrance, with a hand-curated retail range of the best organic and near-natural products, offered at a comfortable price point. Dedicated collections include Tier for Teens and a Men's Grooming range, so there is something for every member of the family.
As the salon's favourite Alice Walker quote puts it: whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. Come and see Rae for everything about hair — and leave with healthier options in hair care, skin care and fragrance that nurture your well-being.