Our story
ABOUT Aurora Beauty Studio
Where beauty meets calm.
The idea
A PAUSE, NOT AN ERRAND
Aurora Beauty Studio is a boutique salon in Portland built around one idea: your appointment should feel like a pause, not an errand. Our small team of stylists and therapists takes time to listen first, then works with quality products chosen for your hair and skin.
The lookbook
RECENT FROM THE CHAIR
Colour, cutting and skin work from the last few weeks. Every plate is somebody who walked back out into Portland.
THE ROOM
Light
Warm, low and level, and a mirror you will recognise yourself in.
Sound
Quiet enough to talk, or not to.
Scent
Clean and barely there.
The chairs
WHO YOU WILL SIT WITH
Book the person, not the slot. Every stylist here keeps their own column in the diary.
Maya Ellison
Colour director
Fourteen years behind the chair and most of them spent on colour correction. Ask her about lived-in blonde.
Rae Okonkwo
Senior stylist
Precision cutting and curl work. Trained in London, and will happily talk you out of a fringe.
Sofia Marchetti
Skin therapist
Facials, peels and a very direct opinion about what your skin actually needs versus what you have been sold.
In their words
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ON THE WAY OUT
Printed as written, with no score attached. A star average is a number about a website; these are sentences about an afternoon.
“The consultation is free and it is not a sales pitch — I was talked out of the expensive thing twice.”
Erin M. · Colour, twice a year
“Quiet enough to talk or not to talk, which is the entire reason I book here rather than anywhere closer.”
Tom H. · Cut & finish
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
The room is quieter than it looks in a photograph. Book a time and find out.