Service Area
Luxury Hair Salon in Effingham CountySavannah, GA
Roots Southern Salon serves Effingham County and the surrounding area.
Clients across Effingham County rely on Roots Southern Salon for dependable, professional service.
Every service, on your side of town.
Every discipline below is available to Effingham County guests — the same room, the same standards, and notes that follow you between visits.
- BalayageBalayage in Savannah at Roots is lived-in, dimensional color painted for a clean grow-out, so roots do not flash a hard line between visits.
- Custom Hair ColorCustom hair color in Savannah is mixed from Redken after a consultation, with gloss and toner chosen to match your photos instead of leaving you warmer or darker than you asked.
- Hand-Tied Hair ExtensionsHand-tied hair extensions in Savannah start with a consultation on density and lived-in color so the wefts blend. We talk install and move-up before anything is sewn in.
- Blonding & HighlightsBlonding and highlights in Savannah can mean babylights, a face-framing money piece, or a fuller map. We confirm which look—and how ashy or warm—before we foil.
- Gray BlendingGray blending in Savannah is lived-in color that softens new growth instead of a solid dye-out that stripes in a few weeks.
- Color CorrectionColor correction in Savannah starts with a consultation and bond repair when the hair needs it. If a photo match is not safe in one visit, we say so before mixing.
- Precision HaircutsPrecision haircuts in Savannah are planned around face-framing and how you style at home, not a trend you cannot recreate on a Tuesday.
- Brazilian BlowoutA Brazilian blowout in Savannah is appointment preferred so we can time the treatment and a proper blowout. Walk-ins only if the chair can finish.
- Bridal Hair StylingBridal hair styling in Savannah is booked ahead: consultation first, then a blowout and style built for the day you actually reserved.
- MakeupMakeup in Savannah is scheduled with a consultation so the look matches the event, not a rushed trial at the sink.
- Bond Repair TreatmentsBond repair treatments in Savannah use K18 when color or blonding has left hair dry. We recommend it when integrity needs it, not as an automatic add-on.
Other neighbourhoods.
- SavannahRoots Southern Salon serves Savannah and the surrounding area.
- PoolerRoots Southern Salon serves Pooler and the surrounding area.
- Garden CityRoots Southern Salon serves Garden City and the surrounding area.
- Port WentworthRoots Southern Salon serves Port Wentworth and the surrounding area.
- Tybee IslandRoots Southern Salon serves Tybee Island and the surrounding area.
- Wilmington IslandRoots Southern Salon serves Wilmington Island and the surrounding area.
When the salon is a drive, the color has to last. Guests coming from Effingham County — Rincon, Springfield, Guyton, and the rest of the county — book Roots Southern Salon because they want a downtown Savannah Redken Color Salon that plans grow-out on purpose: lived-in color, gray blending, a gloss that holds, and a consult that tells the truth about how many visits a change will take. We are at 310 East Bay Street. A personalized consultation starts every service, and first-time guests can take a virtual consultation so you are not spending the trip on small talk that should have happened already.
If you do not trust online prices, you are not being difficult. Menu floors move with length, density, prior color, and time in the chair, and we say that before color starts. We confirm the exact items on the ticket so a trim does not become a double process. Appointments are preferred; walk-ins are welcome. People stretching the time between visits often need low-maintenance cuts, honest home-care, and a grow-out strategy that does not look messy for months — including when the goal is going back to natural instead of another full cover. We would rather map a multi-appointment lightening plan when it is reasonable than pretend virgin dark hair can go platinum in one sitting.
The women-owned team uses Pureology, Redken, Mizani, K18, and Pulp Riot, with bond repair on the table when color has left hair dry. Guests from Pooler, Port Wentworth, Garden City, Richmond Hill, Tybee Island, Wilmington Island, Hinesville, Bluffton, and Hilton Head Island sit in the same chairs. Street, onsite, and lot parking; wheelchair accessible entrance, parking, and restroom; LGBTQ welcoming. Call (912) 239-5181. Bring the photos and the budget line. We will match lifestyle before we promise a result, and we will refuse an unsafe lift rather than sell a finish your hair cannot hold until the next county-to-city drive.
How we work in Effingham County
Balayage
Balayage is the grow-out tool for Effingham County guests who cannot live at the salon. Lived-in, dimensional color is painted so the part still looks finished weeks later. We talk how often you can actually get to downtown Savannah before we choose a pattern that needs a shadow root on a tight cycle.
Custom Hair Color
Custom hair color is Redken, gloss, and toner, aimed at a tone you can live with under county daylight and office fluorescents. If a box color or an old single process is still in the hair, the consult names what this visit can change. A glaze between bigger appointments is a maintenance choice, not a hidden all-over.
Hand-Tied Hair Extensions
Hand-tied hair extensions need a consultation that covers row count, volume goals, and move-up timing, because a long drive makes a surprise extra row a real problem. Lived-in color on the wefts should track your own grow-out. We also talk protecting natural hair if you have worn beads or wefts for a long stretch.
Blonding & Highlights
Blonding and highlights — babylights, face-framing, or a fuller highlight — get an honest lift plan, including when staging is safer than one marathon. Effingham County guests asking for cool or ashy should hear whether their current fill will allow it. Toner is part of the agreed finish, not an optional afterthought at the bowl.
Gray Blending
Gray blending is how we keep natural, lived-in color from looking neglected when visits are farther apart. Grow-out is designed so you are not striped by the time you are back from Rincon or Springfield. If you want to stop covering, we plan the blend instead of another solid cap.
Color Correction
Color correction from a mismatched result is consultation plus bond repair, with Redken and a timeline that may take more than one trip from Effingham County. We will say when a photo is not this-visit work. Warmer, darker, or more orange than agreed is a correction conversation, not a shrug at checkout.
Precision Haircuts
Precision haircuts are face-framing and consult-led, including the simple maintenance cut when you are stretching color. Effingham County guests who want a welcoming chair without a lecture about drugstore products will get the cut they booked. Tell us if you only have time for the haircut.
Brazilian Blowout
A Brazilian blowout is appointment preferred so the Brazilian treatment and blowout are not packed into a leftover hour after a long drive. If humidity and daily styling are the issue, this is the chemical path; if you need an event blowdry, book that instead. We will not swap them without your say.
Bridal Hair Styling
Bridal hair styling for Effingham County weddings that head into Savannah, or for parties coming from Hinesville, is appointment preferred. Virtual consultation lets the trial talk happen before anyone drives. The blowout and style on the day follow the plan, not a new request at the door.
Makeup
Makeup is consultation and appointment preferred, which matters when the trip from Guyton or Springfield is already on the clock. We pair makeup with the hair color you are leaving in. If you want hair only, we keep makeup off the ticket.
Bond Repair Treatments
K18 bond repair is for hair that feels dry after color or after a long lightening plan, and it is discussed as integrity, not as a premium add-on with no purpose. If a treatment will not change the outcome, we will say so. If the hair cannot take the next lift, we hold the lightener.
Effingham County questions, answered
Is the drive from Rincon, Springfield, or Guyton worth it for a regular cut, or only for color?
Both are on the menu. Precision haircuts and low-maintenance grow-out color are why Effingham County guests keep a downtown Savannah chair. First-time guests can use a virtual consultation so the first trip is already a decided plan.
How do I grow out color or go back to my natural shade without looking messy for months?
We use gray blending, lived-in balayage, root smudge, and an honest gloss schedule instead of a hard line. The personalized consultation maps the sequence. At-home glossing is not a substitute when the history is complicated; we will say when home care can hold you and when it will muddy the tone.
When is a multi-appointment lightening plan reasonable?
When the hair cannot safely take the lift in one visit — especially virgin dark hair chasing platinum or a cool blonde. We would rather stage the work than sell a one-day promise. Bond repair sits in that plan when integrity needs it.
What does the service fee cover versus tipping?
The ticket covers the service you booked. Tipping is optional and not something we pressure after a high-ticket color day. If the total already feels heavy, you can decide without a speech from the chair. Call (912) 239-5181 to book.
Booking from Effingham County? The consultation is complimentary.
Twenty seated minutes, a strand test if colour is involved, and a written quote before you commit to a chair.
Your hair deserves a house style.
Reserve a complimentary consultation — twenty seated minutes, a written plan, and no obligation to book the chair.