Salon L'eau

The salon at 3240 P Street NW is housed in a renovated three-story row house on Georgetown’s residential P Street corridor, which gives it a scale and physical character that distinguishes it from the strip-mall and single-floor salon configurations that dominate the conventional hair and spa market. LoAnn Lai has been at the front of Georgetown’s salon landscape for more than a decade, building the P Street business into a recognized address in the Washington beauty market. Elle Magazine named Salon L’eau a top hair salon in Washington, which reflects the reputation that Lai and the salon’s team have built across services that span the full range of hair and spa treatments.

The hair services cover the standard professional range: cuts, color, highlights, balayage, blowouts, and the treatments that maintain color and condition between appointments. The stylist roster at Salon L’eau has depth enough that clients can find a specialist whose technique aligns with their specific hair type and desired result, which is the practical argument for a multi-stylist salon over a single-practitioner studio. The salon also offers spa services through the Le Spa component of the business, extending the P Street address into skincare, waxing, and body treatments that complement the hair services.

The three-story row house format distributes different service categories across the building, which gives the space a less clinical character than a single large commercial floor. The architecture is Georgetown residential, adapted for salon use in a way that preserves the proportions and materials of the original building. For clients who find conventional salon environments impersonal or loud, the row house scale offers a different atmosphere.

Georgetown’s P Street is a residential block that attracts neighborhood clients who prefer the quieter approach to the main commercial strips. The surrounding blocks include primarily residential buildings and a cluster of appointment-based service businesses that share the block with Salon L’eau. The foot traffic is predominantly from the surrounding Georgetown neighborhood and from Georgetown University faculty and staff who live nearby.

The phone number for appointments is (202) 625-2220. Bookings are also available online through the salon’s website at salonleau.com, which carries the full service menu and stylist profiles. For a first visit, booking a consultation with one of the color specialists before scheduling a significant color service is the practical approach; the salon’s specialization in color work is the service category that draws clients from across the Washington area specifically for the P Street address. The salon is open Monday through Friday from 9am to 7pm and Saturday from 9am to 6pm. Salon L’eau’s full-service approach, covering haircuts, color, highlights, blowouts, and the Le Spa skincare and body treatment menu, makes it useful for clients who want to consolidate appointments at a single address rather than managing separate relationships across different service providers. The salon is open Monday through Friday from 9am to 7pm, with Saturday hours from 9am to 6pm. Booking is available by phone at (202) 625-2220 or through the website. For color appointments specifically, booking with the same stylist across multiple visits produces more consistent results than rotating through the team, and the salon’s appointment system facilitates establishing that kind of ongoing client relationship.