Curly Cuts
No blowouts, no guesswork. Shape built on unmanipulated curls, finished with a cleanse, condition and curl-specific styling.
See the cutFRINGE
Love your
natural texture.
Curly — Coily — Wavy — Straight
Cuts, colour and treatments designed to work with your texture, not against it. A curl-focused salon and art space inside South Philadelphia's Bok Building.
Fringe Salon Bok Building, Philadelphia
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Philly texture experts
1901 S 9th St, Suite 505
Green Circle Certified
Haircare that works with your texture. Not against it.
Curl-Safe Color
Gentle formulas and personalised placement that add dimension while protecting curl integrity every colour begins with a consultation.
See the colour
Head Spa
Scalp and hair resets, colour prep and custom conditioning hydration, detox and strength for dry, stressed or over-processed texture.
See the treatments
The signature curly cut
01 / The cut
Your curls. As they actually live.
Curls are cut dry and in their natural state. Nothing is stretched, blown out or pulled straight first because a curl that has been manipulated tells you nothing about how it will fall tomorrow morning.
Working curl by curl, our stylists read the pattern, the density and the shrinkage, then build a shape that enhances it. The result is a haircut that behaves the same on day one and day thirty, and a routine that feels effortless rather than managed.
- Includes
- Dry cut, cleanse + condition, curl-specific styling
- Arrive with
- Clean, dry, detangled hair worn down and defined
- Not
- Buns, ponytails or stretched styles
- Also
- Record the styling at the bowl to recreate it at home
Curl-conscious colour
02 / The colour
Dimension without compromise.
Colour at Fringe is built around the curl, not in spite of it. Gentle formulas and personalised placement add depth and brightness while protecting the integrity of the pattern underneath.
Every colour service begins with a consultation and a colour prep service, because accurate results start with a clean canvas. Pricing depends on length, density, the product measured out for you and the number of steps your goal actually takes so you hear the number before anything begins.
- Menu
- Single process · Foils & teasy lights · Double process
- Also
- Fashion colour · Grey coverage · Colour remover
- Refresh
- Demi-permanent gloss · Balayage & pintura highlights
- Before
- 15-minute consultation, $50 deposit applied to your service
03 / The ritual
Head spa,
slowly.
Scalp first. Everything that grows after depends on it. Fringe's head spa menu runs from a full reset to targeted mini treatments, using curl-safe, cruelty-free and eco-conscious brands chosen for your texture Innersense, Kevin.Murphy, DevaCurl, MalibuC and Areté.
Head Lab Scalp & Hair Reset
A deep cleanse that rebalances and strengthens from root to ends.
Canvas Prep Treatment
Removes hard water minerals, metals and buildup to reveal your true tone better coverage, less fading, brighter blondes, more lift with less damage.
Custom Conditioning
Rehydr8, Rehabilit8, Illumin8, Replenish Masque and Miracle Repair matched to dryness, breakage, dullness or fragility.
Mini Rehab Add-Ons
ProBoost, Scalp Therapy, Swimmers, Curl Partner, Malibu Blondes and Hard Water each with UnDoGoo clarifier, a five-minute aromatherapy process and Miracle Repair conditioner.
The full menu
Services.
Everything Fringe offers, organised so you can find your appointment quickly. Colour and Tangle Release both begin with a short consultation the detail is below, so nothing about your booking is a surprise.
Shape for every texture dry cuts for curls, precision wet cuts for smooth and stretched styles, and the big changes in between.
Curly Cut
Curls are cut dry and in their natural state to create shape and definition that reflects daily wear. Includes a dry cut, cleanse + condition and curl-specific styling.
Arrive with clean, dry, detangled hair worn down and defined not in buns, ponytails or stretched styles.
Wet Cut Straight Hair
Also called a precision cut, for smooth, stretched or blow-dried styles. Hair is washed and cut wet, then styled with a paddle or round brush.
Book the Wet Cut Long/Dense option if your hair is very long or dense.
Pixie Cut
A short, fashion-forward cut, softer than a clipper fade. Cut wet or dry depending on your hair type, and includes a full wash and style.
Barber Style Cut
A classic short clipper cut clippers on the sides, scissors on top, for a fade or a clean tapered finish with sharp lines. Includes wash and style.
Transformation Cut
For major changes of eight inches or more a big chop, a hair donation, or a complete new look. Includes consultation, shape selection, precision cutting and styling education.
Required for major length changes, donations or total transformations.
Curl-conscious colour, from a single tone to hand-painted brightness. Pricing varies with length, density, the product measured for you and the number of steps required.
Single Process Color
One solid colour from root to tip.
Foil Highlights / Teasy Lights
Traditional lightening with strategic placement.
Double Process Color
Lighten first, then tone to reach the result you want.
Fashion Color
Vivid brights, pastels or bold tones. Requires lightening prep.
Gray Coverage
Custom shades to blend or fully cover silver.
Color Remover
Safely lifts out old dye for a fresh start.
Demi-Permanent Color / Gloss
Boosts shine, refreshes tone or subtly darkens, without a long-term commitment.
Balayage / Pintura Highlights
Hand-painted, curl-enhancing brightness.
Before you book colour
All colour services require a consultation and a colour prep service before booking. The Color Consultation is a 15-minute appointment covering process options, realistic timelines, maintenance expectations and a price estimate.
A $50 deposit holds the consultation and is applied toward your colour service when you book it. The consultation is a consultation only no colour is performed during that visit.
The head spa menu full resets, colour prep, custom conditioning and mini rehab add-ons included in full service packages.
Head Lab Scalp & Hair Reset
Deeply cleanses, rebalances and strengthens from root to ends.
Canvas Prep Treatment
Removes hard water minerals, metals and buildup to reveal your true hair tone for accurate colour results better coverage, less fading, brighter blondes and higher lift with less damage.
Rehydr8
Deep conditioning for moisture, softness and curl definition. For dryness, brittleness and frizz best for dry, thirsty or heat-stressed hair.
Rehabilit8
A strengthening treatment that rebuilds elasticity and structure. For breakage, weakness and porous strands best for damaged, colour-treated or over-processed hair.
Illumin8
A lightweight shine-enhancing treatment that smooths the cuticle. For dullness and lack of shine best for lacklustre, frizzy or colour-treated hair.
Replenish Masque
A rich, restorative masque that hydrates and smooths frizz. For deep nourishment and moisture retention best for damaged, dehydrated or textured hair.
Miracle Repair
A protein-powered repair treatment targeting damaged areas. For weak, tangled or overworked strands best for fragile, stressed or nutrient-starved hair.
Mini Rehab ProBoost Strengthening
A bond-building treatment that strengthens from within, for weak, stretchy or breakage-prone curls and finer textures. Results last up to 20 washes.
Mini Rehab Scalp Therapy
Immediate relief for scalp concerns when time is short, with take-home care recommendations. Head Lab is recommended for deeper concerns.
Mini Rehab Swimmers
Removes chlorine and buildup, restoring softness and manageability. Ideal for regular swimmers or a post-vacation reset.
Mini Rehab Curl Partner
Removes buildup and restores natural movement for heavy, limp or lifeless curls bounce and shine, back.
Mini Rehab Malibu Blondes
Lifts impurities and refreshes blonde tone, natural or not, for a brighter, cleaner, more vibrant result.
Mini Rehab Hard Water
Up to 80% of tap water contains minerals. This removes the deposits and resets the hair ideal after travel or when hair feels "off". Take-home options available.
Tangle Release Service
Softens and smooths texture to reduce knots, breakage and styling stress while boosting definition and shine.
Begins with a required 15-minute consultation and a $50 deposit. The service itself is scheduled afterwards and includes a customised head spa treatment.
What's in every mini rehab
UnDoGoo clarifier, a five-minute aromatherapy processing with Open Mist, and Miracle Repair conditioner. Mini rehabs are add-ons included in full service packages.
For anyone overwhelmed by their curl routine, new to natural hair, or troubleshooting products and process.
Curly Wash + Style
A curl-safe cleanse and condition, product application suited to your curl type, styling diffused or air-dried and hands-on curl education and tips.
You're welcome to record the process so you can recreate it at home.
Products
Curl-safe, cruelty-free and eco-conscious brands, customised by your stylist to your texture and goals: Innersense, Kevin.Murphy, DevaCurl, MalibuC and Areté.
Photos & recording
Bring visual inspiration photos are encouraged. Recording the wash and styling at the shampoo bowl is welcome, for take-home reference.
Enhance your natural texture with a polished, frizz-free finish that lasts all day.
Bridal + Formal Styling
Half-up / half-down styles, full updos, or soft, defined curls with volume.
Volume & length
For added volume or length we recommend Irresistible Me or Bebonia curly clip-in extensions.
Trials & booking
Trials and consultations are available on request. Book bridal styling on its own, or add it to a colour or cut appointment.
A customisable gift certificate, available through our booking system for birthdays, holidays, bridal parties or any occasion. The recipient books their dream service whenever they're ready.
Buy a gift certificateThe work
Real curls.
Real people.
Every texture, every journey, every curl pattern client transformations photographed at Fringe. Drag to move through them.
More than a salon.
Fringe began as a bold, alternative beauty space a creative refuge for people who wanted something different. It listened, and it evolved. What stayed is the part that was never about hair.
The salon doubles as a rotating gallery of Philadelphia-based artists. Work comes down and goes up every couple of months, and the room fills with people who came for the art and stayed for the conversation.
Art.Culture.Curls.
Inside the room
The Fringe Gallery
- Rotating exhibitions by Philadelphia-based artists
- Multimedia shows by interdisciplinary local artists
- DJ sets by renowned electronic music artists
- Live music, from bluegrass to neo-soul
- Group shows welcome artists can apply
Events & pop-ups
- Curly Girl Workshops a night out learning to wear your natural texture, with one-night product deals
- Product Swap Pop-Ups bring what you don't use, leave with something new
- Gallery events every two months meet the artists, sip wine, meet your neighbours
- Inclusive, body-positive and community-driven. No gatekeeping.
Beyond the chair
- BokWed the building's in-house wedding collective, connecting couples with vendors and creatives
- Working alongside artists, florists, photographers and makers
- Curating local goods in the salon's retail space
- In-house curl education for new and experienced stylists
The building
Inside the Bok.
A historic Art Deco building in South Philadelphia a former vocational school, now home to more than 200 tenants. Artists, florists, photographers, makers and small businesses working behind the same wide corridors and steel windows.
Fringe were early adopters here, and the building is part of the salon's character: the art on our walls often comes from a studio a few floors down, and our clients discover the rest of Bok on the way up.
- Address
- 1901 S 9th St, Suite 505, Philadelphia, PA 19148
- Entrance
- Enter through the 9th Street doors
- Route
- Immediate right to stairs and lift, up to the 5th floor Room 505
The team
Meet the artists.
Curly-trained, texture-savvy stylists who create shape, moisture and movement without compromising your natural pattern. Artists, educators and curl nerds who know that no two heads of hair or stories are the same.
Erin Anderson
Owner · Curl specialist
With a background in the visual arts and musical performance, Erin has infused that energy into the salon space. She has achieved the highest level of certification with Forever Curls Academy, DevaCurl Academy and Rezo Academy, is obsessed with every aspect of the wash-and-go natural hair movement, and builds her team by teaching cutting and colouring to new and existing stylists.
Audrey Traum
Stylist · Texture specialist
A Philly native who started her professional hair career at 18, Audrey has worked on South Street and in Rittenhouse Square, and owned her own salon for seven years. She has always been grateful that she can help people be themselves and give them awesome, healthy hair and becoming a texture specialist at Fringe has taken her work to the next level.
Avery Markarian
Stylist · Wavy & curly texture
A seasoned stylist with over a decade of experience, dedicated to helping people feel confident in their natural texture. Avery studied cosmetology at technical high school, so working in the Bok Building feels like a full-circle moment. A wavy girl herself, she understands the process of embracing your hair and loves guiding others through theirs her chair is a safe space.
Beth Stevcic
Stylist · Colour & precision cutting
Licensed since 2001, Beth built her foundation as a precision stylist with advanced training through Vidal Sassoon, and has completed DevaCurl Level 2 advanced training at the DevaCurl Academy. She currently embraces Kevin Murphy for its colour line and its eco-friendly commitment, and delivers cuts and colour on hair of all textures chic and sophisticated through to edgy and fun.
LeeAnn Moore
Stylist
LeeAnn went from Fringe client to Fringe stylist. Having worked in a few different professions, her seasoned life experience equipped her for salon life. She is passionate about people, what compliments them, and how she can create the hair "crown" of their dreams totally judgment-free, and a listening ear for anything.
Gini Posey
Stylist · they/them
Gini's love for hair began as a teenager, after one too many disappointing haircuts and feeling unheard about personal style. Drawing on 60s mod fashion, Japanese Harajuku street style, punk music and the colourful worlds of John Waters films, Gini sees every haircut as an opportunity to showcase personality. The goal is simple: listen first, create second, and send every guest home feeling seen.
Bug Small
Apprentice stylist · they/them
Bug studied cosmetology in the heart of Philly and is over the moon to be in the Bok Building learning from this bunch of artists. They learned to love their natural texture from a big family who all share curly hair, and find hair an ideal medium to express themself and build community committed to making a safe space for people to discover more about their own identity through powerful cuts and colour.
Colette Laughlin
Salon manager · Coordinator
Colette has been in the industry for many years starting as a nail tech, then as a receptionist and salon manager. A true veteran and a positive force on the team, she's who you'll see at the sales desk, checking you in.
Also on staff
Vidal & Sassoon.
Litter mates and brothers from West Philly, found on Delancey Street and rescued by Project Meow, the boys have been part of the Fringe family since June 2022 Fringe is their home. Vidal is the introvert who loves his feather toys; Sassoon is the extrovert who will snuggle on your lap beneath the cutting cape. Both, unsurprisingly, are named after the most famous hairstylist there has ever been.
The founder
The person behind Fringe.
Erin Anderson came to hair from the visual arts and musical performance, and never left either behind. That's the reason Fringe doesn't read like a typical salon: the walls change, the music matters, and the room is built for expression rather than efficiency.
She believes in her team, and gives them the creative room to express their own vision while constantly providing exposure and education on what's happening in hair care technology with natural texture at the centre of all of it. She is obsessed with every part of the wash-and-go natural hair movement, and grows the team by teaching cutting and colouring to new and existing stylists.
Outside the chair: she wrote the catwalk song for Jay McCarroll's show Stereotype at Bryant Park . He won the very first season of Project Runway and she once drove from Philadelphia to the Arctic Circle, and back.
- Certified Forever Curls certified curl specialist
- Certified DevaCurl Academy Level 3 Master Texture Specialist
- Certified Rezo Curl Academy Master Class certified
Self-acceptance
Embracing your natural texture is powerful. The work is about making you feel seen, heard and celebrated just as you are.
Sustainability always
Green Circle Certified: up to 95% of salon waste is diverted from landfill, from foils and colour tubes to hair clippings.
Education first
We don't gatekeep knowledge. From curl routines to product guidance, you leave knowing how to love your texture at home.
Community-fuelled
Rooted in South Philly's eclectic, diverse energy early adopters at the Bok Building, giving back through art shows and curl gatherings.
In their words
“I have had years of bad experiences of having my curly hair cut by people who didn't understand curly hair. I trust Erin at Fringe to cut my hair dry and with respect to the curls.”
“I was looking for a stylist more experienced with textured hair, and she did not disappoint. She took the time to teach me how to style my hair for the best results.”
“Customer service was great from check-in to check-out. Erin was very knowledgeable and really listened. I love my cut.”
“Beth does such a wonderful job. All my curls were lifted and she left the length exactly as I asked.”
“Great haircut by LeeAnn and great advice on keeping my curls healthy and looking their best.”
@fringesalonsouthphilly
Looking for hair texture
like yours?
Booking
Ready to love your texture?
Book online in a couple of minutes with real-time availability and your preferred stylist, or call and talk it through. Appointments fill up fast with the curl specialist team, so don't wait.
Getting here
Enter through the 9th Street doors. Take an immediate right to find the stairs and lift, then head up to the 5th floor we're in Room 505.
Public transit
Snyder Station on the Broad Street Line is the closest stop. Bus routes 45, 47, 47M and 79.
Biking
Bok has an Indego bike share station at 8th & Mifflin, and bike racks next to the 9th Street entrance.
Parking & access
Limited on-street parking give yourself at least 15 extra minutes. ADA-accessible entrances at 900 Mifflin Street and 821 Dudley Street.
- LocationThe Bok Building
1901 S 9th St, Suite 505
Philadelphia, PA 19148 - Phone(215) 339-1778
- Emailinfo@fringesalonsouthphilly.com
- Instagram@fringesalonsouthphilly
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