New · The Coil Studio
We photograph it at 200×, steam the buildup loose, wash it out, and photograph it again. You see both.
Book The Reset from $225 Or from $145 for the treatment on its own.
That pair above is one scalp, one session. Sixty-eight minutes between the two frames.
A scalp camera at 200×, before anything gets wet. You see your own scalp on a screen — most people never have.
Heat melts the wax that water can’t move. The step everyone skips, and the one that makes the wash actually work.
Same magnification, same light, end of the session. The pictures go to your phone. No filters, no angles.
What’s actually in there
Seattle water is soft — about 26 ppm — so what’s sitting in your hair isn’t mineral scale. It’s sebum, product wax and dead skin, pressed between the fibres in layers, one wash at a time.
Wax doesn’t rinse. It melts. That’s why we steam before we wash — and why we never use conditioner, which is a film by design, and the film is what buildup is made of.
Before you book
Nothing here grows hair, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. A clean scalp stops working against you. Worth doing. Not a miracle.
Sometimes one visit, sometimes three. The camera tells us which, and we’ll say so on the first visit.
That’s a loc breaking down from the inside, and no wash fixes it. We’ll show you, and be honest if it’s time to cut.
A short intake form at the start — allergies, asthma, pregnancy, anything medical going on with your scalp, and whether you’re happy for us to keep your photographs. All of it changes what we use on you, and the photographs are never shared without your written yes.
Tender, flaking or dry — a hard wash makes it worse, so we dial it down. And if it looks medical rather than cosmetic we’ll say that too. We’re loc specialists, not dermatologists.