Lucía Montoya
Owner · Colorist
Balayage, copper & curls · Kern Place, El Paso
Hair the color of a desert sunset.
Copper melts, caramel balayage and sun-kissed curls from a terracotta studio at the foot of the Franklin Mountains — warm, bright and built for big sky.
¡Hola! Welcome in
Warm color for a warm town.
Lucía grew up on the West Side watching the Franklins turn copper every evening, and she has been chasing that color in hair ever since. Adobe Sun is her love letter to El Paso: terracotta walls, cactus in the window and six colorists who think in caramel, cinnamon and gold.
Desert sun is hard on hair, so every service starts with bond protection and ends with a gloss that's built to stand up to UV, dry air and the pool at your tía's house. Bilingual chairs, big laughs, zero attitude.
— Lucía Montoya, owner & colorist
The work
Sun-kissed, by chapter
Sample client reviews
Reseñas · Reviews
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Lucía made my hair the exact color of the Franklins at seven o'clock. I literally showed her a photo of the mountains.
Gabriel took my jet-black hair to caramel in two sessions. No orange. None.
Dani is the first stylist who has ever cut my curls dry. I cried a little, in a good way.
Sky did my daughter's quince and fourteen girls in the court. All perfect, all on time, all still curly at midnight.
Copper melt plus the UV gloss survived a summer at Elephant Butte. I'm stunned.
Bilingual, funny and the best color in the city. Mi mamá and I book together now.
Iván gave me a bleached crop and a fade in one appointment and I've never felt cooler.
Warm is not a trend here. It's the light, the mountains, the people and the color we were born to wear.
- 6colorists
- 300+sunny days a year
- 5,200+balayages painted
- 2languages in every chair
The team
The sunset crew
Gabriel Ortiz
Senior colorist
Dani Reyes
Curl specialist
Marisol Chávez
Colorist
Signature services
What we're known for
01
Sunset balayage
Caramel-to-honey brightness hand-painted for warm undertones.
$225+
02
Copper melt
Cinnamon and copper melted into your natural root.
$195+
03
Curly balayage
$245+
The shop
Take the salon home
Online store teaser — products shown are samples.
Adobe Sun UV Gloss Mist
$28
Copper Keeper Mask
$32
Prickly Pear Curl Cream
$26
Desert Hydration Oil
$36
Terracotta Wide-Tooth Comb
$16
Silk Sun Scarf
$34
Recognition · sample
- El Paso Inc. · Best Salon
- El Paso Magazine · Best of the Borderland
- Lone Star Living · Salon Short List
- Salon Craft Journal · Warm Color Feature
The experience
Your visit, considered
Every Adobe Sun Color Studio appointment begins before you sit down.
- A drink menu — espresso, tea or something sparkling
- Warm towel and scalp ritual with every wash
- Phone chargers and quiet chairs if you need to work
- A finishing lesson so it looks this good at home
Visit
On Stanton Street in Kern Place
- 2706 N Stanton Street
El Paso, TX
Free lot behind the studio — enter from Kansas Street - (915) 555-0138
- Text us
- [email protected]
- @adobesuncolor
Hours
- Tue – Fri9a – 7p
- Saturday8a – 5p
- Sunday10a – 3p
- MondayClosed
Sunday hours for glosses, cuts and curl services only.
Catch the golden hour.
Book online, call or text — en español o en inglés.