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Our Team

Welcome to your new hair home!

Chroma is an appointment-only studio focused on creating a personalized experience built around your comfort and needs. We are a registered safer space with The Dresscode Project and Strands for Trans, a global alliance of salons committed to providing positive, gender affirming services to LGBTQ2S+ clients. We also create a “neuro spicy” friendly environment by offering fidgets, quiet appointments and anything else you may need to be more comfortable. Our culture is one of support, collaboration and respect. Our stylists will communicate with you directly about your appointments, have a variety of specialties and educational backgrounds and work together as a team to ensure you find your best fit.

Chroma is committed to a healthy, inclusive and fair work environment for our staff, which you will see reflected in all of our policies. Our pricing is a simple time based, all- inclusive, tip-free system, so no surprises at checkout.

Cruelty free products, gender-free services and fun included. 

Wondering who to book with? Check out our specialties and bios below! It’s very important to us that you are paired with the best stylist fit for your needs.

 


Maddy Reingold 

$100 per hour, accepting new clients

Natural Texture Specialist / Natural Color, Clipper Designs, Braids

She/Her

I’ve had a lifelong passion for hair, specifically curls. My love for hair began at a young age, and my focus and skill has developed over time. I chose to become a curl specialist when I realized how much knowledge on how to properly work with and care for curly hair the industry lacked. I studied 1-on-1 with Melissa for about 6 months before beginning to see my own clients. Now, 4 years later, I have a quickly growing business behind the chair and countless happy clients who are living their best curly lives!

What I love most about what I do is the opportunity to teach my clients how to manage their curls using simple techniques and products. My goal is to someday offer hands-on workshops for curlies in the community.

 

Meg Mahoney

$80 per hour, accepting new clients

Color Specialist / Haircuts

She/Her

 I'm a Hudson Valley Native. I've been licensed for over 10 years and I specialize in color. Art has always been my passion and I feel blessed to create wearable art everytime I'm behind the chair. I also enjoy expressing my creativity through illustration and ongoing D & D campaigns.

I want to use my professional knowledge to make you look and feel your best, so let's make something beautiful together!

 

Scotia Hanss

$80 per hour, accepting new clients

Gender Affirming Cuts / Vivid Colors

She/ Her

I’m a lifelong Hudson Valley resident with a passion for hair. I’m constantly leveling up my skills to help my clients look their best. I specialize in gender affirming styles, but I also love doing creative cuts, short hair and vivid colors.

It’s my belief that going to the salon should always be a fabulous experience. I will take the time to listen to your needs and goals, and then work with you to make it happen. You’re not just a head of hair, you’re a whole person and I take everything from your personality to your lifestyle in to account when we work together. It’s always my goal as a stylist to help every client express who they truly are.

I’ve been in the beauty industry for 7 years. I’m a linguistics nerd, a dog mom and a musical theater fan.

 

Adriana Martin

$65 per hour, accepting new clients

Locs / Natural Hair Braiding / Blowouts

She/Her

I started learning to do hair at 11 years old. In the beginning, I would just do my own hair, then I started also doing family members’ hair as well. I’ve always loved doing hair but never imagined it as a career, so I worked in the health field for 12 years. It wasn’t until I reached the young age of 32 that I chose to pursue a career doing what I love, every day.

I’m a Capri graduate and I specialize in locs and natural hair braiding and styling. Becoming a stylist was the best decision I’ve ever made. I believe that hair carries energy and I strive to make sure you have the best, most peaceful experience in my chair. I vow to care for my clients’ hair the way that I care for my own.

Melissa Megan

$120 per hour

Not taking new curly clients

Natural Texture Specialist/ Low Maintenance Color/ Owner

She/ Her

I specialize in natural texture management and natural coloring techniques, for the most practical, low maintenance path to your best version of ‘you’ every day. My work is based on a combination of problem solving, education and artistic vision. I’m certified in the Rezo Cut discipline and have a background in education from Vidal Sassoon Academy, Aveda, Goldwell and many others.

After 20 years in the industry, I founded Chroma to create a unique salon environment that I had not found before. I am as passionate about my clients enjoying a space that invites them to be themselves as I am about extending this safer space to my staff. As Chroma grows, I am committing more time to being the best leader and mentor to my team as I can be, which means I must spend less time behind the chair. I am accepting limited new clients right now.

I’m queer and ‘neurospicy’ . I care for my neurospicy family and a house full of rescue animals. In my free time I love dog training, video games and finding creative ways to make the world a kinder place.

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