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Tonic Salon
240 SW Washington St, Albany

Invigorate, Restore, Rejuvenate

Find your stylist once, and stop looking.

Cuts, color, highlights, waxing and lashes on Washington Street in downtown Albany. What people mention about this place is usually not the salon at all, it is whose chair they sit in. Some of them have been coming back for years.

Call (541) 619-5591 Get directions

Downtown, a couple of minutes off the main block.

Note for the owner, not page copy

The call button uses (541) 619-5591, because that is the number on your own Google listing. Check it anyway — it is the one thing on this page that costs you a customer if it is wrong.

There is still a second number out there. The Albany Downtown Association directory and one salon index both publish (541) 908-4942 for you. If that line is dead, anyone who finds you through the Association is calling a number that does not ring. If it is live, that is fine too, I just did not want you to find out from a customer.


The work

This is the part a salon gets judged on.

Inside Tonic Salon on Washington Street: styling stations with black cabinetry and mirrors, product shelves, and a window onto the street.
Slot 02 A finished cut or color
Slot 03 Color work
Note for the owner, not page copy

The first one is your own photo, off your own Google listing. I did not shoot it and it is not a stock picture of somebody else's salon.

The other two are empty because you have only posted three photos to Google, and the other two are your logo and a Christmas ornament. That is the whole set. It is not a criticism, it is just the thing that is easiest to fix and costs the least — you already take pictures of your work, and they are worth more on here than they are on your phone.

Most of these fill themselves from pictures you already own, so this is a short conversation and not a photo shoot. The storefront shot I can take myself on a walk past. Before anything goes live, anybody whose face is in a photo has to be fine with it, and that includes clients in the chair and any kids.


What happens in the chair

Services

Note for the owner, not page copy

This list came out of your own reviews and your directory listings, so it is the short version. Tell me the real one and I will write it in your words. The useful part is usually what you do that nobody expects, and what you get asked for all day and do not do.

No prices anywhere, on purpose. Nothing is published online and this trade quotes per head.


Who is in the chairs

People ask for these three by name.

Portrait

Megan

Portrait

Ashley

Portrait

Peggy

Note for the owner, not page copy

Three names, nothing else next to them, because three names is genuinely all I could establish. All three came out of your reviews, where customers name them without being asked. One reviewer said she had followed Peggy for seven years. Another said Megan is the only person who can cut her son's hair.

I did not write who does what, because I would be guessing in front of the people who work here. Tell me who is currently taking clients, whether anyone is missing off this list, and what each of them is best at. That block is the single biggest thing this page is missing.


What people said

Two of these, word for word.

“From all hair needs coloring, cutting, and waxing. Very friendly very flexible!”
May 2023
“Megan is the only person that can cut my sons hair correctly and make him look so handsome! She’s so professional and very friendly!”
February 2021
Note for the owner, not page copy

Real reviews, both of them, no names attached and nothing invented. I found them on directory sites rather than on Google, so worth a glance before this goes anywhere public.

One thing worth knowing about your listing. Google surfaces three reviews and the three it picks are all seven to nine years old. It sorts by what it thinks is relevant, not by date, so that is Google's choice and not a picture of your business. Newer ones are sitting behind it. These two are the proof.


When

Hours

  • Monday 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
  • Tuesday 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
  • Wednesday 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
  • Thursday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  • Friday 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
  • Saturday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  • Sunday Closed

Where

Downtown Albany

240 SW Washington St
Albany, Oregon 97321 Wheelchair accessible. Cards accepted. Wi-Fi. Bike parking.
Slot 04 The storefront on Washington Street
Note for the owner, not page copy

Check these hours before I put them anywhere real. They are the ones two directories publish, and Google backs up two of the cells independently. Three sources agreeing is good. It still is not you saying so, and hours are the one thing on a page that sends somebody to a locked door.

The amenities line came off the same directories. Cut anything on it that is not true.