Salon Veritas is a studio inside Trade Salon Studios, a salon-suites complex off Six Forks Road in Midtown Raleigh. Owner Ashley McCauley has roughly twenty years behind the chair and runs the salon from a private appointment suite within the complex. The booking is online through the salon’s own site rather than through a third-party platform, and most services on the menu carry a published starting price. The pricing transparency is the salon’s most-underappreciated feature in a market where many Raleigh salons publish nothing at all.
The color menu is the deepest part of the service offering. All-over color starts at $95, full foils at $155, partial foils at $125, balayage at $185, and partial balayage at $150. Bleach retouch and glaze is a $200 service, and color correction is quoted by consultation, which is the honest answer for that kind of work. Express Grey Coverage Root Touch-up is a named line at $95. Keratin treatments start at $250. Extensions are HotHeads-brand, with the install priced by consultation. The product lines on the back-bar are Milbon, K18, 1922 by J.M. Keune, HotHeads, Zenagen, and Four Reasons.
The wedding side is unusually built out for a smaller-format studio. Two dedicated makeup artists are part of the team, Nicolette Heshley and Priscilla Stolochi, and updo styling starts at $150. The salon also offers spray tans ($45) and event-day packages. Men’s cuts are a named service line starting at $45. Hours run Monday through Saturday with a slow start on Monday and Tuesday (11am and noon respectively) and earlier opens Wednesday through Saturday. Closed Sunday.
