Hair Salon Serving Ocean Township, NJ

Ocean Township covers a lot of ground and goes by several names depending on who you ask. Oakhurst and Wanamassa are both part of it, and plenty of people give us one of those rather than the township name when they book. Either is fine.

A township made out of another township

Ocean Township was created on February 21, 1849, out of parts of Shrewsbury Township. Oakhurst was the first of its villages, growing up along Monmouth Road, then called the Mechanicsville-Oceanville Turnpike, and it filled with the tradesmen and craftsmen who worked on the big resort mansions along the shore. That is a useful piece of context for a salon to know, because this town was built by people who did skilled work for other people's houses.

Joe Palaia Park was an AT&T research site

This is the fact worth knowing. Joe Palaia Park started as Foxburst Farm, a 63-acre tract bought by Western Electric, part of AT&T and later Lucent, in 1919, with another 145 acres added in 1927. It was the Deal Test Site, used for radio research. Today it holds a disc golf course, a playground, and the township's Fourth of July celebration.

The Eden Woolley House sits in the park now and houses the Township of Ocean Historical Museum. It was saved from demolition in 2005 and physically moved eleven hundred feet east to get there.

Wanamassa is the other named community inside the township, and between it and Oakhurst the housing stock spans well over a century. That range is the reason the service mix here is so broad: a 1920s bungalow and a 1990s development often sit within a mile of each other, and their water, their households and their hair are not the same.

Deal Lake

Deal Lake runs about 158 acres and was originally an estuary of the Atlantic. From 1890 the inlet was closed off and the water reshaped into the lake and connected ponds that are there now. It is fresh water, which matters if you are swimming or paddling in it regularly rather than in the ocean, because fresh water and salt water do different things to color.

What tends to come up here

A wide range, because the township itself is wide. Family cuts, single-process color, grey blending, balayage, extensions for density, and nails. Hair and nails in the same visit works well here, and we can do both in our building rather than sending you elsewhere.

Two things we will always tell you straight

  • If a service is not right for your hair, we will say so. That includes turning down extension methods that are too heavy for fine hair and postponing a smoothing treatment on hair that has been lightened too recently. A service that damages your hair costs us the client eventually, so there is no version of this where lying helps us.
  • We will tell you what you can skip. Not everyone needs a full highlight every visit. Alternating a full appointment with a gloss and a trim keeps the look and cuts the cost and the chair time roughly in half for a lot of people.

About the salon

Rogue opened in 2016. Sharon and Brittani, a mother and daughter, own it and both still take clients. There are eleven stylists and each one has a page on this site, so you can read about someone and ask for them by name instead of being assigned whoever is free. Hair and nails are done in the same building, so a manicure can happen while color processes. We also run an apprentice program, where apprentices take real clients at a reduced rate under supervision.

Getting here

Route 35 south to Route 36, then Oceanport Ave. Or Monmouth Road down through Eatontown. We are at 700 Oceanport Ave, Suite 712, in the RiverWalk Center at Fort Monmouth. Parking is a free surface lot.

Services Ocean Township clients book

Book

Consultations for extensions, color correction and smoothing are free. We would rather look at your hair for fifteen minutes than guess at it.

Book an appointment

Or call (732) 389-1999. Hours and directions are on our contact page.