The Salon Story
Learn how Carter & Co fits into the book world and why the salon was built around real business decisions.
Ashcombe, Norwich • Salon Story • Pricing Tools
Carter & Co
Hair & Beauty
A fictional salon world built around real salon problems.
Welcome to Carter & Co Hair & Beauty, the salon world at the heart of Rebecca Ashford's Six Chairs and a Five-Year Clause and Seven Chairs and the Weight of Expansion. The salon is fictional, but the pressure behind it is very real, from pricing and rent to staff costs, client expectations and profit.
This site connects the novels, the salon world and practical pricing tools for UK hair and beauty professionals.
Salon Pricing UK
Most salons are busy, but not all are profitable. If your prices do not cover your time, costs and profit, everything else becomes harder.
Salon Business Tools
Explore practical pricing and profit planners designed to help salon owners understand their numbers more clearly.
Rebecca Ashford
Discover The Salon Business Series. Books One and Two are available now in paperback and on Kindle, including the rewritten Second Edition of Book One.
Why pricing matters
A full appointment book does not automatically mean strong profit. Salon pricing needs to cover rent, products, wages, tax, time, training and the future of the business.
That is why the site has a focused Salon Pricing UK guide, a Salon Profit Calculator UK page, and a practical guide on how much a hairdresser should charge in the UK.
From the salon to the series
Follow Emily Carter from the early pressure of running her first salon into the greater responsibility and harder choices that come with expansion.
Books One and Two are available now in paperback at £11.99 each and on Kindle at £3.99 each. Book Three, Eight Chairs and the Shape of Control, is in development.