Hair by Abbie Rose · Logo directions
Abbie — these are starting points, not finished logos. Pick the one that feels closest and we'll refine it properly from there: spacing, weight, the exact letterforms, and the versions you'd actually use day to day.
One recommendation up front. Your name is your brand, so a wordmark — your name, beautifully set — will serve you better than a picture. Scissors, shears and roses are what most salons reach for, which is exactly why they stop meaning anything.
What you do want alongside it is a small monogram for the places a full name won't fit: your Instagram profile picture, the browser tab, a stamp on your photos. Every direction below shows both.
Editorial · confident · matches Concept A
Your name set like the cover of a magazine — Bodoni, all caps, with a fine rule beneath it. This is the most formal of the six and the most timeless; it will look exactly as good in ten years. It's the natural mark if you go with the magazine-style website.
Warm · quiet · matches Concept B
The same idea, softened. Newsreader is a warmer, more bookish serif — set in upper and lower case it feels like a person rather than an institution. This is the friendlier of the two serif options, and the better fit if "everyone is welcome here" is the first thing you want the mark to say.
Compact · versatile · the practical workhorse
Your initials as the hero, with your full name underneath. The advantage is purely practical: this is the one that survives being shrunk. It reads at the size of a browser tab, an app icon, or a foil stamp on a business card — and it gives you something to put on your photos that isn't your whole name.
Most likely this becomes the companion to whichever wordmark you pick, rather than your only mark.
Personal · handwritten feeling, without a script font
Set in a true italic rather than a script. That distinction matters: most "signature" salon logos use script fonts that look dated within a couple of years and turn into mush when small. A well-drawn italic gives you the same personal, hand-signed warmth and stays legible at any size.
A stamp · best-in-class for Instagram and watermarking
A circular lockup. Because it's already round, it fits an Instagram profile picture perfectly with nothing cropped — and it works as a discreet stamp in the corner of your photos, which is genuinely useful when your work gets reposted. This is the most practical mark for how you actually promote yourself.
The one literal option — read the caution
Rose is in your name, so a rose is the obvious mark. Drawn as a single continuous line it stays modern and avoids the florist look. Paired with the wordmark it gives you something recognisable at a glance.
My honest advice: this is the one I'd be most careful with. Botanical marks are everywhere in beauty, so it works hardest to look distinctive and dates fastest. If you love it, we should draw a custom rose rather than anything template-like — and it should stay this restrained. The five above will all age better.
Don't judge these at this size — judge them small. Look at the Instagram and favicon squares under each one. A logo spends most of its life tiny, and that's where the weak ones fall apart.
Two useful questions: which one would you be happy to have embroidered on a cape or painted on a window? And which still looks like you in three years?
You can also mix — most likely outcome is one of the wordmarks (01, 02 or 04) as your main mark, with the monogram or the seal as the small version. That's how most real identities work.