The studio · est. 2020

Lashes that look like sleep.

Two chairs on the second floor above a bookshop, with a gold W on the door and no sign on the street. Six years of the same idea: map it first, take the time, and text the next morning.

Wisp / About Wisp

The studio Opened 2020

2298 Whitaker St
Suite 2B

Two chairs

Six clients
a day

Two-week
booking

Text to book

Why it is above a bookshop

Iris ran a chair in a busy studio on Broughton Street for three years and the thing she disliked most was not the pace, it was the noise: a room with six artists in it is a room where somebody is always talking, and a lash appointment is two hours with your eyes taped shut.

Whitaker Street was a second-floor office with two windows and a staircase, and it has been two chairs ever since. What you hear from the table is the fan and occasionally the bookshop door downstairs.

What has not changed since 2020

The map before every set. The lash bath before every appointment including fills, which nobody charges for and most studios skip. The photograph on the same wall in the same light. And the text the next morning, which is the thing clients mention most and which takes about six minutes a day.

What has

A second chair, in 2023, which was the hardest decision here and the reason the wait is two weeks rather than five. Devi came from brow work and it changed what this studio is good at.

Mega volume, added in 2024, after eighteen months of Iris practising fourteen-lash fans on a mannequin head and refusing to offer it until they were right.

And the prices, twice, both times by ten dollars, both times announced a month ahead to everybody on the books.

2020Opened on Whitaker Street
above the bookshop

2Chairs, and six
clients a day between them

0Pre-made fans,
ever

The next-day text

Every client gets one the morning after a set, from Iris or Devi, asking how they feel. Not automated, not a review request, and not a marketing message.

It exists because two things go wrong on day one and neither of them is worth ringing about. One is a single lash sitting at a wrong angle and catching, which takes ninety seconds to fix and which people will otherwise put up with for three weeks. The other is a set that feels heavier than expected, which usually means the map wants adjusting next time.

Both come out in a text and neither comes out any other way. It has changed more sets here than any technical thing we have learned.

On saying no

We decline a few things. Lengths that a natural lash will not carry, however good the photograph is. Volume on somebody who has been in a week early three times running, because the underlying problem is retention rather than the set. And a fill onto another studio’s work when the isolation is poor, where the honest answer costs the client more that day and less over a year.

None of that is a filter. It is what happens when the same person does the set, sends the text, and sees the result at the fill.

Wisp Lash Studio·2298 Whitaker St, Savannah·Est. 2020

Six clients a day.

It is why the wait is two weeks and why nobody here is ever the last appointment of a long one.

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