A website for hair salons.
The book button is already there.
The price usually is not.
Most of the front pages we read already let a client book. Far fewer say what the work costs. A hair salon website should answer, before the chair is booked: who will do the hair, what a cut or a colour costs, or how and when that price is agreed, whether you test first, what you will refuse, and what happens to a deposit. We design and build the site around those answers, then host it and help you keep the menu current.
From £15/mo, plus a one-off build pack from £29.
Five lines to fill in before they book.
- Who
- The person who does the hair
- Price
- By length, or by who
- Test
- What you test, and when
- Refusal
- What you will not do
- Deposit
- How much, and if they cancel
The book button is on the first screen. The price is not.
This is a live example of our work, not a customer business.Of the sites we read
Eighteen priced the work.
We read the front page of 135 UK hair-salon websites between 25 and 27 August 2026 and recorded what each one said and offered. Other pages were not read. The figures describe those sites, not every salon in the UK. Where a figure comes from page text, it includes reviews and footers. The set is hairdressing, colour and curl salons, plus six extension studios whose front page is a salon. Barbering was left out, because that search is separate. Beauty salons led by nails and facials were left out. A few kept salons also sell products or offer some beauty beside the hair.
18 of 135. front pages priced the work.
Eighteen had a price for the work itself: a cut, a blow-dry, a colour, a braid or a weave. That is 13.3%. 98 of the 135 (72.6%) had no pound sign anywhere on the front page, and no extracted price. A pound sign appears somewhere in the page text of 37 (27.4%).
- 92 have an email (68.1%).
- 24 have a contact form (17.8%).
- 9 have a WhatsApp route (6.7%). The word WhatsApp is in the page text of 8 (5.9%).
- 88 use the words book online, book now or online booking (65.2%). That is not the same count as the booking route.
- 3 name Fresha (2.2%) and 3 name Treatwell (2.2%).
- Phorest, Shortcuts and Booksy are on none. Any of Fresha, Treatwell, Phorest or Booksy is on 6 (4.4%).
- Walk-in is on 6 (4.4%). Appointment only, or by appointment, is on 11 (8.1%).
- The emergency-availability field is empty on all 135. This is not a call-out trade.
They name the people more often than they price the hair. Do not read 76.3% as Fresha.
Next to the book button
Five lines, filled in before the chair is booked.
A book button is the easy part. These are the lines a client is missing when the button is the whole answer.
Who
113 of the 135 (83.7%) say team, stylists or our stylist. The scan calls 78 a small team (57.8%), leaves the size blank on 52 (38.5%), and records a sole trader on 3 (2.2%) and a larger firm on 2 (1.5%). Naming the room is not naming the chair. If a senior and a stylist charge different prices, say which chair is being booked. An area is on 133 (98.5%). On the priced pages, that area is the salon's own town.
Price
18 (13.3%) put a pound figure on a cut, a blow-dry, a colour, a braid or a weave. Any extracted price was on 30 (22.2%). The rest of those 30 are mostly retail, a voucher, a room hire, a membership credit, or a fee that is not a haircut. Do not read 22.2% as a price for the work. The words price list, pricelist or our prices are on 39 (28.9%), and 24 of those (17.8% of the 135) show no pound sign on the page. From £ is on 15 (11.1%). A from-price has to be a price someone can be charged, and the page should say whether length, thickness or the person changes it. One price field says plus VAT or excluding VAT (0.7%). None says including VAT. Say which figure the client pays. Colour is already on the service list of 96 (71.1%) and a cut on 92 (68.1%). The list is not the gap.
Test
Any of patch test, skin test, strand test or allergy test is on 15 (11.1%). The phrases overlap, so they are not four groups: patch test 9 (6.7%), skin test 6 (4.4%), strand test 1 (0.7%), allergy test 1 (0.7%). Consultation is a different word, on 54 (40.0%). A consultation is not a test. Write the test you do beside the colour. None of the official pages checked for this turned a 48-hour client skin test into a legal duty. One salon in Oldham prints 48 hours as its own rule.
Refusal
Something in the guarantees field is on 4 (3.0%). A promise about the result is a hard sentence to mean. The useful sentence is what you will not do in one sitting. The example further down says what it will refuse, and it is the part worth keeping.
Deposit
Deposit is in the page text of 12 (8.9%) and in the payment-options field of 5 (3.7%). Cancel is on 20 (14.8%). If the booking is taken online or at a distance, the price or how it is calculated, and the conditions on any deposit, have to be given before the client orders. Say the amount, when you take it, and what happens if they cancel or if you cancel. The Oldham menu does. A menu in Grays says there is an initial deposit and then stops. Do not invent the amount.
Four menus
Four front pages price the work by length, by person, or both.
These are real UK front pages from the same read, described by region only. Their prices belong to those businesses. They are not ThemeSmith customers, and they are not fees to copy. Men, gents or barber is on the service list of 86 (63.7%). This set is salons, not barbershops. If you also cut men's hair, price that line, as these menus do. Extensions are on the service list of 49 (36.3%). A braid and weave list is a price list too.
A test rule next to the colour price is rare even among the pages that publish prices. The three cut-and-finish prices in Oldham still have to be told apart from the further line at £35.
One we built
Fifth Floor writes the refusal, and leaves the price off.
Fifth Floor is an example build for a fictional colour studio in Leeds, not a customer, and nothing on it is a testimonial for ThemeSmith. In the fiction it was established in 2021, it is appointment only, and it works five floors up in a converted mill, with north light and a lift. The address line is the mill, fifth floor, Leeds. There is no street. The site is a home page and a privacy page.
Consultation. They said no.
Eighteen months of box dye, three layers. A strand at the window struggled. The lift asked for that day was refused. The plan was three sessions.
Colour remover, not bleach.
Session one. Twenty-five minutes, watched. She left darker than she had hoped.
Six weeks of rest.
Session two. Then fine foils, low volume, checked every ten minutes.
Level 8, a cool gloss.
Session three. Fourteen weeks from the March strand.
Four things this fictional studio says it will not do.
Fifth Floor, Leeds. Example build, not a customer. The invented rating is not shown.The first line on the example is Fifth Floor, colour correction, Leeds, appointment only. It says the studio is direct about what hair can take, and that sometimes the answer is no, and a reschedule. The buttons are book a consultation, and read one correction from start to finish. A line under them says strand and patch test before any lightening, and prices quoted at the consultation and held for that booking. No pound amount is on that line. The photograph on the first screen is captioned level 4 to 8, two sessions, six weeks apart.
The diary is a colour correction. Arrived: box dye three times, level 4, banded. Target: level 8, cool. The strand test is at the window, and the fibre sets the pace. The diary intro on that site calls it a real case from this spring, and says that if a salon promises the same result in an afternoon, the reader should keep walking. It is not a real case. The four before-and-after pairs on the site are part of the same fiction. They are not results to promise, and they are not quoted here.
Three colourists, five years up here
In the fiction they are numbered, not named. The page says the client is booked with the right person, not whoever is free.
Correction and blonde repair. Vivid colour is referred to 02.
Vivid and pastel work. Curl cutting is referred to 03.
Cuts curl dry, and colours curl by curl. The texture range is 2A to 4C, with no thinning scissors.
What the page leaves off
- Booking
- Three steps. A consultation and a strand test, always. The consultation is paid and deducted from the service. The page does not say the amount. Then a plan written in the chair: what the hair can take, how many sessions, and roughly what it costs, held for that booking. Then the work, spaced as the fibre needs, with a patch test 48 hours ahead. Corrections are rarely one visit. The 48 hours, the strand test and the refusal list are the fictional salon's own rules. They are not a legal duty.
- The form
- A name, an email, a phone if the client wants to give one, and what is in the hair. Replies come within the working day.
- Hours
- Wednesday and Thursday 10:00 to 20:00, Friday 10:00 to 19:00, Saturday 09:00 to 18:00, closed Sunday to Tuesday. No walk-ins.
- No price
- No service has a pound price, and no deposit amount is printed. The paid consultation is the right idea and an incomplete menu, set next to the Oldham page that put a test time and a deposit on the same list.
- The rating
- The example prints an invented star rating and four named quotes. They are not repeated here, and they are not a review of ThemeSmith.
- Privacy
- The enquiry goes to Fifth Floor. ThemeSmith hosts the form and stores the submission, and does not use it to market to the sender. Enquiries are kept 180 days and then deleted. Attached files are deleted after 90 days. The person can ask Fifth Floor for a copy, a correction or deletion, and can complain to the ICO. In the fiction, Fifth Floor is the controller.
Your own rule
A rule you print is yours. Say so.
Checked against the official pages on 6 October 2026. Where a fee or a commencement date is not on those pages, it is not here either.
Anyone may cut hair.
The Hairdressers (Registration) Act 1964 is the Act. The Hair Council says anyone can currently practise as a hairdresser or barber without qualifications or training. State registration is voluntary. The body is the Hair Council, also called the Hair and Barber Council, not a Hair and Beauty Council. Members have to show qualifications. The council says state-registered hairdressers have trained to at least NVQ Level 2 or equivalent. That is a membership condition, not a licence to work. The letters it uses are SRH and SRB. The register it asks people to join is the UK Register of Qualified Hairdressers and Barbers. An unhappy client can contact the council for advice. That is not a power to order a refund. Write state registered only if the person is on that register.
- Any accreditation
- 11 of the 135 (8.1%).
- NHBF
- None, in that field and in the page text.
- Habia
- None.
- State registered
- The words state registered, Hair Council or hair and barber council are in the page text of none of the 135.
- The UK register
- One accreditation field contains the words UK Register Of Qualified Hairdressers.
- Green Salon Collective
- 4 (3.0%). Not a licence.
- Good Salon Guide
- 2 (1.5%). Not a licence.
- An NVQ
- Mentioned on 2 (1.5%). A membership condition, not a licence to work.
- A colour brand
- In the accreditation field of 2 (1.5%). Not a licence.
Not on the licence list.
GOV.UK lists tattooing, semi-permanent skin colouring, cosmetic piercing, electrolysis and acupuncture for England and Wales. The person and the premises both register with the local council. A haircut, a blow-dry and a colour are not on that list. A treatment that is on the list needs the licence that applies where you work. In Greater London, except the City of London, a special treatments licence is required instead, and it also covers massages, manicures, chiropody and saunas. Fees are set by the council and vary. Do not quote one. Do not tell an owner that hairdressing itself is licensed by the council.
Not in force yet.
England's consultation on licensing non-surgical cosmetic procedures was published on 2 September 2023 and last updated on 7 August 2025, when the government response was added. The consultation ran from 2 September to 28 October 2023 and received over 11,800 responses. The response describes restrictions for the highest-risk procedures, local-authority licensing for lower-risk procedures, and age restrictions. It needs secondary legislation and Parliament before restrictions or licensing can be introduced. A phrase on that update, to be launched early next year, is not a date. This page does not say the scheme has started, and it does not say whether hair colour is inside it.
Music usually needs one.
GOV.UK says recorded or live music in public usually needs a licence, and it lists hairdressers and beauty salons. The licence is TheMusicLicence, from PPL PRS, one licence rather than two. Royalty-free music does not need one. The cost varies with the venue and how the music is used. It is not quoted here. Playing without a licence infringes copyright.
The test is your rule.
No manufacturer instruction was found that turns a 48-hour client skin test into a legal duty, so it is not stated here as law. The HSE page on COSHH and hairdressers, footer date 3 July 2025, is about staff. It says water and shampoo can irritate skin, some products can cause dermatitis and skin allergies, persulphate and henna dust can cause asthma, and some sprays can make asthma worse. It tells salons to ventilate, to wear disposable non-latex gloves for shampooing, colouring and bleaching, to change gloves between clients, to dry and moisturise hands, and to check skin. That can sit on a staff page. It is not a sentence about the client's patch test. If you test, print your own rule next to the colour, the way the Oldham menu does.
Say the price first.
The online selling and distance selling pages say that, before an order, the business gives the total price or how it will be calculated, and the conditions on any deposit. A pay-now button has to be clear. The information has to be easy to understand and in a form the customer can save. Those pages also describe a general 14-day cancellation right, with exceptions. A hair appointment on a date is not decided here. Do not tell a client they can, or cannot, cancel a dated appointment for 14 days. Do tell them the price, or how you will calculate it, and what happens to the deposit, before they book.
The menu
A template can hold a book button. It will not write the menu.
Suggestions for a hair salon website run to a template, a free download, a song and a game. Suggestions for a salon website do the same, and add India and the United States. Suggestions for a website for hair salons run to templates, design, a stylist's site and a builder, and then to the questions a client asks. A template will not choose the length bands, the stylist levels, or the thing you will not do. Of these front pages, 63 (46.7%) already credit a website builder. The average service list has 11.1 items.
We write a brief with you, design and build the site, then look after updates, fixes and ongoing improvements for a monthly fee. You check the work before it goes live.
The build is a one-off cost. Hosting and ongoing work are monthly.
A home page can carry who does the hair, a price, and how to book. Add a prices page when length, stylist level and colour need their own lines.
Monthly plans
Edits with your assistant use credits. You can buy more, and bought credits do not expire. Monthly billing has no annual contract, no setup fee and no minimum term.
One-off build packs
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Each pack includes a custom domain, 30 days of Forge edits, global hosting, SSL and backups, and is paired with your first month of whichever plan keeps the site live. Add pages any time, priced per page. You see the price before you pay.
Cancellation takes two clicks from Settings, then Cancel. There is no call and no form. The site keeps running until the end of the billing period. There is no exit fee. Your domain stays yours, and if you leave we send a static snapshot you can put on another host. Failed builds are not charged, and a person follows up the next working day. There is no introductory rate. We give at least 30 days' notice before a price change. Moving up or down shows the exact amount first: up is charged straight away for the rest of the month, and down credits what you have not used against the next bill.
Get startedCommon questions
Before you have the site built.
What should a hair salon website show before someone books?
Who will do the hair, the price or how and when it is agreed, the test you actually do, what you will refuse, and the deposit. A phone number is already on 125 of the 135, and an online booking route on 103.
Do I have to be state registered to cut hair?
No. The Hair Council says anyone can currently practise as a hairdresser or barber without qualifications or training. State registration is voluntary. Members show qualifications, and the council says state-registered hairdressers have trained to at least NVQ Level 2 or equivalent. That is a membership condition, not a licence. Write it only if the person is on the UK Register of Qualified Hairdressers and Barbers.
Does a salon need a council licence?
A haircut, a blow-dry and a colour are not on the England and Wales list for tattooing, semi-permanent skin colouring, cosmetic piercing, electrolysis and acupuncture. A treatment that is on the list has to be registered, person and premises, with the local council. In Greater London, except the City of London, a special treatments licence applies instead, and it also covers massages, manicures, chiropody and saunas. Fees are set by the council. None is quoted here.
Has England's cosmetic-procedure licence started?
No. The consultation ran from 2 September to 28 October 2023 and drew over 11,800 responses. The government response was added on 7 August 2025. The scheme is not in force. It needs secondary legislation and Parliament. A line about launching early next year is not a date. This page does not say whether hair colour is inside the scheme.
Is a 48-hour skin test the law?
Not on any official page checked for this. The HSE hairdressing page is about staff, not that client test. One salon in Oldham tells clients they need a skin test 48 hours before colour. That is their rule. If it is yours, print it next to the colour price.
What has to be said about a deposit?
If the booking is taken online or at a distance, the price or how it is calculated, and the conditions on any deposit, have to be given before the client orders. This page does not decide the 14-day cancellation right for a dated appointment. Say the amount. One of the four priced pages names £10 for a first haircut and £20 for colour. Another says there is an initial deposit, and the amount is not on the page we read.
Can the site show reviews the salon does not have?
No. The example build prints an invented star rating and four named quotes. They are not repeated here, and they are not a review of ThemeSmith. Publish reviews you actually have. Do not invent a count.
Do I need a music licence if the radio is on?
Recorded or live music in public usually needs TheMusicLicence from PPL PRS. GOV.UK lists hairdressers and beauty salons. Royalty-free music does not need one. The cost varies, and it is not quoted here.
What does a ThemeSmith site cost, and can I add a prices page later?
Starter is £15/mo for one live site and 150 credits a month. Business is £39/mo for three live sites and 500 credits a month. Build packs are £29, £59 and £89 for one, three and five pages, each with 30 days of Forge edits and paired with the first month of a plan. You can add a prices page later, priced per page, and you see the price before you pay. Cancellation is two clicks from Settings, then Cancel. The domain stays yours.