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Exchange cut
Consultation by the windows, cut and finish.
$80
Chapter 01 — Broad Street, Texarkana, TX
Hair house · Downtown Texarkana
A hundred years of light, now on your hair.
Cuts, color and blowouts under sixteen-foot ceilings and the tall windows of a restored 1910 cotton exchange.
Chapter one · The building
Where cotton was traded, we trade in light.
In 1910 this room was full of brokers shouting prices across the floor. In 2017 Mara found it full of pigeons, plaster and the most beautiful north-facing windows in East Texas.
Three years of restoration later, the old trading floor holds eight chairs, a wash room in the former vault and the truest color light in town.
— Mara Whitlow, founder
The work
Work in natural light
Signature services
What we're known for
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Daylight balayage
Hand-painted for how color looks in real sunlight.
$240+
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Vault blowout
Wash in the old bank vault, round-brush finish.
$55- 1910year the exchange opened
- 16 ftceilings of north light
- 8chairs on the old trading floor
- 1bank vault turned wash room
The team
The house
Mara Whitlow
Founder · Colorist
Mara restored the building with her father and still mixes color by the east window every morning.
Jonah Pierce
Senior Stylist
Jonah cuts with a tailor’s precision — clean lines, soft movement and great men’s cuts.
Alexis Tran
Stylist
Alexis is our long-hair specialist and the reason the vault blowout books out on Fridays.
Keisha Lawson
Stylist
Keisha does silk presses, curls and the softest color melts in the house.
Sample client reviews
Sample guest notes
Placeholder reviews for this design — your real Google reviews appear here.
Mara walked me to the window to look at my color before she mixed a thing. My blonde has never looked this natural outside.
Getting my hair washed in a 1910 bank vault is the most Texarkana thing I’ve ever done, and I love it.
Jonah’s cut grew out perfectly for ten weeks. Ten!
The room is so beautiful I forgot I was getting a color correction. It turned out perfect, too.
Recognition · sample
- Texarkana Gazette · Best Salon
- Preservation Texas · Adaptive Reuse Honor
- Four States Living · Style Issue
- Piney Woods Living · Featured
- Main Street Texas · Business of the Year
Visit
Find the exchange
- 302 W Broad Street
Texarkana, TX
Free lot across Broad Street - (903) 555-0109
- Text us
- [email protected]
- @cottonexchangehair
Hours
- Tue – Thu9a – 7p
- Fri9a – 6p
- Sat8a – 3p
- Sun – MonClosed
The front door is on Broad Street; the wash room is through the old bank vault.
Come sit in the good light.
Call, text or book online — we'll take it from there.