Why KOSIT
Thirty-five years of judgement.
Anyone can follow a technique. Knowing when not to — and what a particular head of hair can take today — is what three decades of Afro hair expertise actually buys you.
What sets the salon apart
Six reasons clients keep coming back.
Specialists, for every hair type
We welcome all hair types, and Afro hair is where our expertise runs deepest. Every technique in this salon has been refined on textured hair, by someone who works on it every day.
Experience you can feel in the chair
Over 35 years means very little walks through the door unrecognised: chemical history, heat damage, tension damage, hair that looks healthy but is about to break.
Condition comes first
Scalp, tension and moisture are assessed before a style is agreed. Hair in good condition holds a style longer and grows the way it should — the look follows from the health.
Honest answers
If a style will damage your hair, we tell you, explain why, and offer something that will work. You get information, not a sales pitch, and the decision stays yours.
Time to do it properly
Appointments are given the time the work actually needs. Rushed chemical treatments, rushed extension removal and rushed colour are where most avoidable damage comes from.
Clients who stay
People who first came in the nineties still come now, several bringing their own children. Over three decades in one place is its own kind of reference.
In practice
What the difference looks like.
A style chosen from a menu before anyone has looked at your hair
A recommendation made after assessing your texture, density and condition
Tension that "settles down after a few days"
Tension your scalp can tolerate from the first hour
Added hair fitted regardless of what your own hair can carry
A foundation planned for your density, or an honest no
Damage noticed at take-down
Scalp and edges checked before the work starts
None of this is exotic. It is simply what over three decades of looking closely at hair teaches you.
Is KOSIT right for you?
Who we are a good fit for.
If you want someone to look at your hair properly before touching it, and to tell you the truth about its condition, you will get on well here.
If your hair has been through a difficult period — breakage, thinning edges, colour that did not go to plan, a style that damaged more than it protected — this is the kind of work the salon has spent decades on.
And if you simply want a shape that suits you and holds for weeks, that is the everyday business of the chair.
What we are not is a salon that will fit whatever you ask for regardless of consequence. If that is what you are after, we are probably not the right fit — and we would rather say so now.
KOSIT Hair Designs
Bring us your hair.
Whatever state it is in, you will get an honest assessment and a plan you can follow.
Enrich your hair, enhance your confidence.