Salt Hair Newtown, previously known as Coop, is a fully certified sustainable hair salon located on Constable Street in Newtown, Wellington. The salon offers haircuts and colour services delivered by a small team of stylists, with a focus on quality cutting and colour work.
The service menu spans everything from straightforward cuts and blow waves through to more involved colour work — solid tint, foils and highlights, balayage, and solid bleach services — as well as hair treatments like the K18 Peptide Treatment and scalp detox. Kids' cuts are also available for ages 5 to 12.
The salon's stylists include Allister E, Brooke N and Melissa W, and Salt Hair Newtown is active on Instagram and Facebook, where the salon's earlier branding as Coop is still referenced.
On Constable Street in Newtown, Wellington, Salt Hair Newtown — previously known as Coop — operates as a fully certified sustainable salon offering haircuts and colour services. The salon's small team, made up of stylists Allister E, Brooke N and Melissa W, covers everything from a simple cut and blow-dry through to more involved colour transformations.
The cut menu starts with the essentials: a Cut & Blow-dry at $109, including a consultation, wash, cut and blow wave. For anyone after a bigger change — a big chop, an in-depth curly cut, or work on longer or thicker hair — the Restyle service runs $123 and includes the same consultation, wash, cut and blow wave process, just with more time built in. A Clipper Cut (short back and sides) is available at $79, and kids aged 5 to 12 can get a dry cut for $72 — no wash included, so children need to arrive with clean, knot-free hair.
Colour services span several tiers. Solid Tint options include a Root Retouch (from $200 with a blow wave, $235 with a cut), Global Colour ($245 with blow wave, $280 with cut), and a Toner service ($162 with blow wave, $197 with cut).
For highlights, the Foils/Highlights menu scales from a Quarter Head ($265 with blow wave, $300 with cut) up through Half Head, Three Quarter Head, and Full Head Foils, topping out at $330 with a blow wave or $365 with a cut for a full head. Balayage sits at the top of the colour menu, priced at $370 with a blow wave or $405 with a cut. Clients wanting a fresh bleach look can choose from Bleach Retouch ($287 with blow wave, $322 with cut) or a Bleach Full Head service ($332 with blow wave, $367 with cut).
Beyond cuts and colour, Salt Hair Newtown offers a Smoothing Treatment (price varies by product usage, hair length and amount, and doesn't include a cut) and a Smoothing Treatment + Cut option at $109. The salon's most popular in-salon treatment is the K18 Peptide Treatment — a leave-in treatment designed to strengthen hair and help regenerate broken hair bonds, priced at $50 and including a 5ml take-home sample of the K18 repair mask. It's worth noting this is strictly an add-on and can't be booked as a standalone service. A Scalp Detox Treatment is also available at $15, though it can only be paired with a standalone haircut or blow wave — not with any colour or chemical service.
For styling alone, a standard Blow Wave is $75, or $64 if it's being done alongside a colour service on the same visit.
Salt Hair Newtown is open Tuesday to Saturday, with hours running 10am to 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am to 5pm on Wednesdays and Fridays, and 9am to 4pm on Saturdays. The salon is located at 10 Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, and can be reached by phone at 04 380 0303. For anyone wanting to see the salon's work before booking, Salt Hair Newtown is active on both Instagram and Facebook — the latter still under its earlier Coop branding.