Ash Vantreese
Founder · Cutting
LGBTQ+ salon · Plaza District, Oklahoma City
What we leave out matters.
Platinum, precision and genderless cutting in a black-walled studio on 16th Street. Quiet chairs, no small talk unless you want it, and hair that needs nothing added.
The studio
Black walls. White light. Nothing in the way.
Ash trained as a photographer before switching to hair, and built Negative Space the way you'd build a studio for portraits: matte black walls, one wall of north light, and nothing on the counters that doesn't need to be there.
The work follows the same rule. Cuts are shaped for your face and your texture, not your gender. Blondes are lifted slowly to a clean, cool white. And we only add what the hair actually needs.
— Ash Vantreese (they/them), founder
The work
Portraits
Sample client reviews
Notes
Placeholder reviews for this design — your real Google reviews appear here.
Mira took me from box-dye black to platinum over two visits and my hair still feels like hair. Patience is the luxury here.
Ash didn't talk me into anything. They asked three good questions, then cut the best crop of my life in total silence. Perfect.
My first affirming cut, in a private chair, with all the time I needed. I walked out feeling like the person I've always been.
Sasha's gunmetal is unreal. It reads silver in the sun and charcoal at night.
Dorian finally gave my coils a shape that holds without product. I keep touching my hair.
The quietest salon I've been to. I booked silence and got an hour of calm.
The team
The studio
Mira Sol
Platinum specialist
Dorian Price
Cutting & texture
Sasha Ilyin
Color
- 12years on 16th Street
- 6artists, one standard
- 4.9average rating
- 1:1one client per artist, always
Signature services
What we're known for
01
Precision crop
Buzzes, crops, tapers and short shapes.
$60
02
Platinum transformation
To a clean, cool white, sometimes over two visits.
$320+
03
Gloss
$55
Good hair, like good design, is mostly about restraint. Take away what isn't needed and what's left is unmistakably you.
Recognition · sample
- 405 Magazine
- Oklahoma Gazette
- Salon Craft Journal
- The Lost Ogle
The shop
Take the salon home
Online store teaser — products shown are samples.
Negative Space Toning Wash
$32
Platinum Bond Serum
$44
Matte Clay
$26
Silver Gloss Drops
$38
Ebony Wide-Tooth Comb
$22
Visit
On 16th Street
- 1732 NW 16th Street
Oklahoma City, OK
Free street parking on 16th; overflow lot at Blackwelder - (405) 555-0104
- Text us
- [email protected]
- @negativespacesalon
Hours
- Tue – Thu10a – 8p
- Fri – Sat9a – 6p
- Sun – MonClosed
The studio is quiet by default. Ask for music, conversation or silence when you book.
Less, perfectly.
Reserve online, call the studio or send a message. We answer within a day.