One Painted Pony is a women-owned private hair studio at 6525 Bisby Lake Ave Suite 42, San Diego 92119, inside the Sola Salon Studios at the Navajo Shopping Center in San Carlos. Stylist and owner Marin Johannah Gilabet brings more than 20 years of industry experience that includes Los Angeles television-production work in the Silverlake and Los Feliz neighborhoods before relocating to San Diego in 2014. The studio specializes in brunette and red hair coloring, wavy and curly texture management, shags, bobs, lobs, razor haircuts, keratin smoothing treatments, gray blending, and gray coverage. The Navajo Shopping Center puts the studio within a mile of the Cowles Mountain trailhead, and the waxing and skin-prep work at Ray of Beauty Waxing in the same San Carlos commercial district complements the hair services. Product selection runs exclusively through Davines and Cult&King lines, both certified cruelty-free and formulated without parabens, sulfates, or synthetic fragrance — an animal-and-earth-conscious sourcing commitment that extends to the studio's recycling program for plastic bottles. The private-suite format at Sola provides a buzz-in entry system, ensuring that each client session runs without walk-in interruption or ambient noise from adjacent stations. The 92119 ZIP's residential market supports appointment-only studios that build long-term client relationships, and Marin's emphasis on brunette and textured-hair work fills a niche in a market dominated by blonde specialists, with fitness-minded clients near Cowles Mountain also rotating through San Carlos Fitness as part of their weekly routine. The studio identifies as LGBTQ+ welcoming and transgender safe-space, with gender-neutral restrooms available in the Sola complex. Each new-client visit opens with a 15-minute consultation that assesses curl pattern, density, porosity, and color history before any chemical or cutting decision is made.