Owner Paul Davis bought Salon Symmetry at 3917 Normal Street in mid-2021 and renovated the space into his own cut-and-color studio, running appointments behind an L'Oreal-only color bar of permanent, demi-permanent, and color-glaze formulas. His babylights and hand-painted balayage approach sits alongside the precision-cut focus at BOWIE | Hair for the Modern Enthusiast a few blocks over toward University Avenue. Curly-hair cutting is a stated specialty, handled on dry hair so the natural curl pattern dictates the shape rather than a wet-cut layering plan. Clipper detailing and beard work fall outside the scissor-and-color menu, with fade touch-ups referred to Butch's Barber Shop for the machine-finish side of grooming. His most involved booking is a full single-process-to-dimensional-balayage color correction on curly hair — an all-day session that rebuilds both tone map and grow-out strategy in one chair.