The Cutting Floor
Dry-cutting first, wet refinement second. Every cut is mapped to how your hair actually falls — and how much of it there is. Fine and thinning hair is a specialty here, not an afterthought.
Hair & Scalp Studio · Est. 2014
Density is a craft, not a promise.
A small Portland studio built around two things: cutting hair beautifully, and treating the scalp it grows from. Ten senior stylists, one certified trichologist, no assembly line.
5441 S Macadam Avenue
Six chairs. One floor. No assistants finishing your colour.
10
Senior stylists only
90 min
Standard appointment
1 : 1
Never double-booked
Three rooms, one standard.
Most salons treat hair loss as a retail upsell. We treat it as its own discipline — with its own room, its own specialist, and its own protocol. The cutting floor and the colour bar hold the same line.
The Colour Bar
Low-ammonia dimensional work: balayage, lived-in blonde, grey blending. Formulated to sit gently on a compromised scalp, because pigment and follicle health are not separate problems.
The Density Room
A private room with a certified trichologist. Digital scalp imaging, follicle counts, low-level laser therapy and a twelve-week protocol you can actually measure.
Latest work
Seven from the last month.
Curly Mullet
Dry cut + low taper · Director
Curl Top Taper
Precision short cut · Master
Textured Crop
Precision short cut · Director
Grown-Out Shag
Cut & finish · Senior
Loose Curl, Mid-Length
Cut & finish · Master
Buzz Cut
Clipper cut · Senior
Skin Fade
Precision short cut · Master
The Density Program
Day one and day ninety, at the same magnification.
Four zones, photographed at 60×. The hair either came back or it didn't.
How it runs
A diagnosis, a routine, and someone checking the numbers.
Two-thirds of American men and roughly half of women will notice meaningful thinning in their lifetime. It responds to consistency, not miracles.
Book a scalp analysis- Week 0 — Assessment 60× digital trichoscopy, density mapping across four zones, shedding history and bloodwork review.
- Weeks 1–12 — Protocol Six in-studio sessions — exfoliation, microneedling, laser — plus a home routine of three to four products, no more.
- Week 13 — Re-scan Same four zones, same magnification, side by side. If the numbers haven't moved, we refer you to a dermatologist.
The shelf, kept short.
Ten products. Every one is something our trichologist actually prescribes in the Density Room — actives listed at their real concentrations, no proprietary blends hiding a dusting of peptides.
Actives
Men's Rogaine 5% Minoxidil Foam
The one topical the FDA has cleared for male pattern loss, in the foam that dries fast enough to survive a blow-dry. One can is a month; give it four before you judge it, which is exactly where most people quit.
Minoxidil 5% · Alcohol-free foam
Original price was: $39.99.$29.97Current price is: $29.97.60 g · 1-month supply Add to bag
Actives
Kirkland Signature Minoxidil 5% Solution
The same 5% minoxidil as the branded foam, in a dropper solution at a third of the cost per month. Wetter on the hair, identical on the follicle — the propylene glycol base is the only thing some scalps object to.
Minoxidil 5% · Propylene glycol base
$36.496 × 60 ml · 6-month supply Add to bag
Actives
The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density
A leave-in peptide serum priced so that using it every night is realistic. Caffeine and biotinoyl tripeptide-1 do the work; there is no fragrance in it to provoke a reactive scalp.
Caffeine · Biotinoyl Tripeptide-1 · REDENSYL · Procapil · Capixyl · Baicapil · AnaGain
$24.0060 ml · nightly on a dry scalp Add to bag
Visit
5441 S Macadam Ave, Ste N
Portland, OR 97239
In Johns Landing, on the river side of Macadam, with parking behind the building and the 35 bus at the door. Booking is by appointment only; new density clients start with the consultation.
- Tuesday — Friday 10:00 — 20:00
- Saturday 09:00 — 18:00
- Sunday 11:00 — 17:00
- Monday Closed
- Telephone (503) 555–0142