Saskia Varga
Founder · Color director
Couture vivid color · Museum District, Houston
The walls are white. You are the color.
A couture color house beside the Menil, where pink, coral, cobalt and silver are mixed one client at a time in a room with nothing else to look at.
The room
We built a gallery, then hung hair in it.
Saskia trained as a painter in Budapest and spent a decade as color director for runway shows in New York and Paris. When she came to Houston she rented a white-box gallery space two blocks from the Menil and left it exactly as it was: white walls, white floor, north light and a single chair.
In a room with no distractions, every shade reads truthfully. We consult for as long as it takes, lighten slowly and saturate fully. Then we photograph the result against the wall, the way a gallery documents a new piece.
— Saskia Varga, founder & color director
The work
The collection
Sample client reviews
Guest notes
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Saskia sketched my color before she mixed it. I left with the most beautiful coral I've ever seen and a print of it on the white wall.
Two sittings to gallery white, and my hair still feels like silk. Ines doesn't rush and it shows.
Teo's cobalt is the deepest blue I've ever worn. It faded to a beautiful denim, never green.
Amara colored my coils pink without a single broken curl. Every curl is perfect.
We commissioned color for an album cover. The white room made it look like a museum piece.
The quietest, most considered salon I've ever been in. Nothing on the walls but light.
Rhys cut my color-block bob so precisely the line still hasn't moved six weeks later.
The team
The colorists
Teo Nakashima
Senior colorist
Amara Diallo
Colorist · Curls
Ines Kowalski
Platinum specialist
- 13years beside the Menil
- 7colorists, one room
- 4.9average rating
- 1:1one guest per colorist
Signature services
What we're known for
01
Couture vivid, single shade
Lightened slowly and saturated fully, root to tip.
$340+
02
Gallery white
A clean, cool white, usually over two sittings.
$380+
03
Vivid refresh
$130
Color is the art. The room is the frame. The rest is quiet.
The experience
The quiet chair
Every guest has the room to themselves, as far as the eye can tell.
- Complimentary valet at the Branard Street door
- Tea, sparkling water or an espresso, served on white porcelain
- A sketched color plan to take home
- A gallery photograph of your finished color
Recognition · sample
- Houston Chronicle
- PaperCity
- Salon Craft Journal
- Lone Star Living
- The Style Ledger Hair
The shop
Take the salon home
Online store teaser — products shown are samples.
White Room Toning Wash
$38
Color-Lock Gloss Drops
$46
Bond Serum
$52
Cold Rinse Conditioner
$36
Porcelain Comb
$28
Visit
Beside the Menil
- 1520 Branard Street, Gallery Level
Houston, TX
Complimentary valet at the Branard Street door, Tuesday to Saturday - (713) 555-0109
- Text us
- [email protected]
- @whiteroomcolor
Hours
- Tue – Thu9a – 7p
- Fri – Sat8a – 5p
- Sun – MonClosed
One guest per colorist at a time. Valet at the Branard Street door, Tuesday to Saturday.
Become the color.
Request an appointment online or call the studio. Every new guest begins with a consultation.