Nicole Walden

Nicole Walden owns and founded Salon 304, and she also works as a stylist there. She moved to Columbus, Ohio, where she worked at Atelier Salon and trained in Martin Parsons haircutting and updo styling under a master educator. In 2008 she moved to the Pittsburgh area and worked at a Goldwell salon.

She was hired by Goldwell USA in July 2010 and became a nationally certified educator, and she now travels to salons across the tri-state area to teach Goldwell color, haircare and techniques. Her training includes extensive work with a Goldwell USA color educator and the Master Colorist Specialist program at Goldwell Academy in New York, completed in 2022.

Her specialties are custom color, corrective color, blonding and balayage. She is certified through The Business of Balayage in balayage essentials and advanced, and in blonding advanced, and she has been certified in hand-tied hair extensions since April 2019. Her haircuts start at $70 and her color services range from $100 to $250, and she is available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.