Welcome!
The mini salon by hairstylist, James Wilson, is an intimate yet private neighborhood salon studio inspired by quiet luxury, where effortless style meets mindful care. Come in, relax and together we’ll create hair that moves with your life leaving you refreshed, confident and elevated.
Your hair, your story.
A curated salon experience, designed around you.
Empowering Women To Find Their Identity
At the mini salon, every appointment is more than just hair… it’s a space to be seen, heard and cared for. I created this studio for women who’ve spent years pouring into everyone else and are finally ready to come back to themselves. Here, you don’t need to explain, you just arrive.
The one-on-one experience is designed around you: your lifestyle, your texture, your identity as it is today. Through precision hair cutting and soft-focused silhouettes, I create shapes that move with you ~ effortless, refined and always rooted in health.
This is not about chasing trends or looking like someone else. It’s about rediscovering your own confidence and stepping into the style that feels authentically yours.
Here, the salon experience becomes more than maintenance. It’s a personal connection, a creative collaboration and a reminder that you deserve to feel elevated, confident and completely yourself.
Hair Services
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Precision Haircut + Shaping $160
A haircut designed for long hair, designed around your hair’s texture, growth pattern, and personal style. Carefully curated from a one-on-one consultation, it highlights your hair’s natural movement, maintains softness and manageability, and ensures effortless, organic grow-out, creating a look that feels intentional and effortless. This service comes with a luxury cleanse, blowout, and personalized styling. -
Precision Haircut + Shaping $95
A refined short haircut designed for pixies, cropped styles, and “men’s cuts.” This service is curated from a one-on-one consultation and crafted with expert texturizing to enhance natural movement, shape, and dimension. The result is a cut that feels light, sophisticated, and easy to style, with a grow-out that stays soft and effortless. This service comes with a luxury cleanse, blowout, and personalized styling. -
Bang Shaping + Fluff $25
A focused service for maintaining or transforming your fringe—whether soft curtain bangs, a bold statement fringe, or a subtle refresh. Carefully shaped to frame your features and grow out seamlessly. This service comes with dry styling. -
Revive + Shine $65
A luxurious blowout designed to enhance your hair’s natural texture and movement. Hair is cleansed and nourished for a smooth, effortless finish. This service comes with a luxury cleanse and personalized styling. -
Detox + Rebalance with Bentonite Clay $125
This purifying treatment draws out buildup, toxins, and excess oils while infusing your hair and scalp with essential minerals. Blended with rosemary and cedar oils to stimulate the scalp, encourage healthy growth, and calm inflammation. Perfect for reviving dull, congested strands and restoring natural curl pattern, shine, and softness. Ideal before a fresh color or when your hair needs a deep reset. This service comes with a complimentary blowout. -
Moisturize + Natural oils $45
Indulge your hair with this luxurious treatment enriched with antioxidant-rich roucou oil, jojoba oil, and rice bran wax. This deeply moisturizing formula restores softness, enhances shine, and tames frizz, leaving your hair silky and manageable. Ideal for dry, stressed, or color-treated hair in need of revitalization. This treatment is designed as an add-on and pairs best with a service that already includes a blowout.
Schedule the Hair Discovery
At the mini salon, your first visit is all about you. Together, we’ll talk through your hair goals, answer any questions, and make sure the experience feels tailored from the very beginning. My focus is one-on-one attention so you leave not only confident in your upcoming appointment, but also at ease knowing your hair is in the right hands.
To begin, all new clients are encouraged to complete the New Client Form before scheduling. This allows me to understand your hair history, needs and vision so that our consultation feels thoughtful and personalized.
The complimentary consultation is a collaboration, ensuring we’re the right fit and your vision feels understood.
My Private Studio
Tucked into West Hollywood, the mini salon is an intimate private one chair studio hidden above the buzz of Santa Monica Blvd… a little escape, a lot of style.
8550 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA
Get to know Me
I grew up chasing the sun along the East Coast, drawn to the arts, fashion and design. Acting and TV roles gave me a love for storytelling, but my focus has always been helping people express themselves with confidence and style.
A pivotal moment with my longtime friend and mentor, Kristen Shaw, inspired me to pursue training at Paul Mitchell. I also had the privilege of learning from many industry and celebrity hairstylists, gaining expertise in the art of creating authentic, personalized haircutting and styling.
In 2025, I left the world of big salons to open my own private studio in the heart of West Hollywood called the mini salon. Here, I specialize in soft focused, intuitive shaping for effortless, organic grow-out and long-term hair health.
Client Love
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Girl! The amount of compliments on this hair is unreal. Also, I showered and then let my hair dry with just detangeler and Moroccan oil and nothing else. Slept on it. Got up. And it looked amazing. Nothing short of a miracle. You truly KILLED it with this cut and color!! Just wanted to tell you bc I'm actually obsessed with this hair in every single way a gal can be. Thank you once again!!!!
MEGAN
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James is pure magic. From the moment I sat in her chair, I felt completely seen, heard, and pampered. James didn't just give me a cut--she gave me main character energy. I walked out feeling like an absolute goddess! Her attention to detail, creative vision, and warm energy made the whole experience next level. I'm never going anywhere else.
GRACE
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After years of searching for a hairstylist I love in LA, I'm so happy to have finally found James! She really listened to everything I wanted and worked with me to achieve it. She explained everything as she went and is clearly incredibly knowledgeable about her craft. I have fine hair that really needs a thoughtful cut and she made it look full and bouncy. She also gave my dark blonde hair the most beautiful creamy blonde highlights. And as a plus, she was so much fun to chat with!
PAIGE