Ritual sits in a one-story building on Oberlin Road in Five Points, the kind of space that reads modern-bohemian without leaning hard on either word. It opened in 2020 by Arielle Poll, Joy Powers, and Jen Baldwin: three stylists who had been working together at Marigold Parlour in Seaboard Station and decided to start their own salon when they learned Marigold’s building was being demolished. They built Ritual around a booth-rent model on purpose. Stylists are independent, set their own prices, choose their own product lines, and keep their own books. The founders still take clients alongside the rest of the team.
The reason to know about the salon is the color depth. The roster is deep enough that almost any color situation has a specialist in-house. Audrey is a Goldwell Master Colorist focused on lived-in looks and fashion colors. Devyn and Kayla work primarily in blondes and balayage. Charlene does vivids and extensions. Joy handles creative and editorial color. Robyn (sixteen years in) is the curly-hair specialist, with redheads and grey blending also her named territory. The pattern that comes up repeatedly in reviews is correction work. Clients arriving after a bad appointment somewhere else and leaving with the kind of repair that takes both restraint and patience.
Booking runs through a JotForm intake on the salon’s site or directly with individual stylists, several of whom publish their own phone numbers on the team page. Cuts are quoted at $75 to $100 in published interviews. Color is consultation-based, which is the honest answer for the work they take on. The salon is open Monday through Friday until 7 and Saturdays until 5, slightly longer weekday hours than most independent salons in town. Five Points has tight street parking, but the building has its own dedicated lot.
