New hair salon opens in Rosalia

ROSALIA - A Salon and Barber is open in Rosalia right across from the Welcome to Rosalia town sign on 317 North Whitman Avenue.

Owner Lisa Hill, 56, Spokane, has been a hairdresser for 38 years. She explained that she feels there's a need for a salon in Rosalia, and many community members had approached her saying they were tired of driving so far to get a haircut, "and just how expensive gas was," she said.

Hill's husband, a Rosalia native since he was a high school junior, has been the Rosalia Community Church pastor for two years, filling in for almost a year before that, "so we've been there almost three years," Hill said.

The Hills started looking around for a place to start a Salon about two years ago, Mrs. Hill explained, "right after COVID-19 was ending, and we couldn't find a place in Rosalia," she said.

Mrs. Hill explained that a local had the current location, offering it to them for a salon. "We've been pursuing it off and on for two years, so God opened a door, and here we are," she said.

So far, Mrs. Hill has about 6 or 8 customers a week and comes down around Tuesday night to open the salon on Wednesdays and Thursdays and then on the first Saturday of the month for Barber Day.

She offers manicures, pedicures, and gel nail polish, but not gel nails, "I don't do acrylics, I know how to do them, but I choose not to," she said.

Other services include perms, color, color correction, foils, frost, barber cuts, military cuts, businessman cuts, and children's haircuts. She also offers wedding styles, prom styles, roller sets for older and younger ladies who are interested, as well as blow-dry curling iron styles.

Though Mrs. Hill has a lot of things she still plans to do with the Salon and Barber, such as more painting, and a room that she and her husband plan to make a store and waiting room area, she is excited to have her business up and running.

The store will feature Paparazzi Jewelry and Avon, which Mrs. Hill sells, as well as her husband's and her crafts. "I sew, a little bit of painting, signs, my husband is getting into woodworking, so we'll have all kinds of stuff," she said.

Starting a business has been challenging, Mrs. Hill said, explaining that her husband was in the Coast Guard, so they did a lot of traveling, but she is ready to get started, "I'm generally pretty busy, I love it," she said.

The community is excited to have a salon and barber in town, even bringing in a couple of teenage girls to check it out, "They're excited they don't have to go to Spokane to do prom stuff," Mrs. Hill said.

The Rosalia Salon and Barber take appointments and walk-ins when there are no appointments.