Sixteen adornments.
One woman, whole.
Solah Shringhaar is the bridal and ritual house of Refresh Skin Esthetics — where a woman is dressed, adorned, and cared for by one pair of hands. We are healers, not doctors: we maintain, we enhance, and we give you the experience you are paying for.
The wheel of sixteen, held in two hands.
The sixteen adornments are not decoration. Each one carries a memory, a blessing, an identity — the feeling of becoming a bride. Emotion is what brings people to this house; the wheel is where it lives.
Around the gold RS of Refresh Skin Esthetics turn all sixteen — bindi to kumkum — held by hennaed hands signed Antim, beneath the peacock and the lotus. This is the house's seal, and its promise: nothing here is only placed on you. Everything here means something.
Ritual is where the power lives.
Our philosophy does not change as we grow. Dermatologists diagnose; clinics treat. We maintain and enhance — through traditional rituals and new customs created in this house, through touch, pacing, scent, and calm. Every product we will ever sell is built around that philosophy — never the other way around.
Founded by Antim Bansal — makeup artist, cosmetologist, instructor, and henna artist with over twenty years in beauty — Solah Shringhaar is the House of Energy, the Academy, and the Future of Touch, held in one private Woodinville studio.
Each house carries its own line.
Refresh Skin Esthetics
The professional studio and academy — and the shop for all Refresh-labelled skin care and cosmetics.
Solah Shringhaar
Services, lesson films, and rental jewellery presented here — dressing and rentals always in person, by her hands.
16 Shringhaar
The clothing line — bridal, glam, and festival dresses — with brass & jade décor from India.
Built on the Sixteen Adornments.
Solah Shringhaar means the sixteen adornments with which a bride is traditionally completed. No one nearby bundles what we bundle: dressing, rental jewellery, and adornment placed by the same hands that did your hair, makeup, and henna.
Every medallion on the wheel is one of the sixteen — and every one below is placed on a real bride, by hand, in this house. These are not ornaments on a chart. They are memory, blessing, and identity, worn.
The Solah Bride
- Bridal trial — hair & makeup (fully credited toward the day)
- Day-of hair and makeup, unhurried
- Full dressing — drape, pin, and place, by Antim herself
- Rental jewellery set placed in person
- Touch-up kit to keep
Royal Solah Bride
- Everything in The Solah Bride
- Classic bridal henna ($350 value) included
- Premium rental jewellery tier + hair jewellery
- Pre-wedding Signature Facial in the week before
- Mother-of-the-bride mini ritual on the morning
Attendants & Family
- Hair styling and makeup together
- Saree / lehenga draping assistance
- Rental jewellery from $75 per set, placed in person
- Booked alongside any bridal package
Rental jewellery is presented online and rented only in person, as part of your dressing service — it is never shipped and never sold through a checkout. That is deliberate: the piece is chosen on you, for your outfit, by the hands dressing you.
The Ever-After Bride
Bought piece by piece, the full journey costs $3,460. As one promise, it is $3,000: the Royal Solah Bride, a pre-wedding series of treatments, heirloom henna with gem work — and a bank of treatments after the wedding that never expires while this house is operating. Unused pre-wedding treatments roll into your bank automatically. Your day ends; your care does not.
The house's courtesy: no lender, no credit check, no fees. A $750 retainer reserves your date, then gentle interest-free steps, complete one month before your day.
Presented now so you can plan; sold from our opening, after its terms receive a final legal review — a promise this size is worded precisely enough to keep.
Rental jewellery, placed by hand.
Browse the library here; wear it in person. Every set is tried with your outfit during your dressing appointment at the studio — or in the bridal dressing suite on your morning — cleaned, blessed, and placed by Antim.
Necklace, jhumke, maang tikkafrom $75
Statement necklace, earrings, hathphoolfrom $125
For Western and Indo-western bridesfrom $95
Full sixteen-piece adornment, incl. hair jewelleryfrom $195
A refundable care deposit is held at the appointment — no online payment, no shipping, no exceptions. New sets arrive as our makers deliver them.
Learn the art, at your own vanity.
Filmed lessons from Antim's twenty years — buy once, watch for life. The basket below is the store in preview: it shows the exact prices and the exact Shopify checkout flow that switches on when each film is released. Reserve your place in the basket now; purchasing opens at release.
Choose your lessons here — prices are final, tax shown at checkout, no surprises.
When a film releases, its payment runs through Shopify's hosted checkout — the same engine behind our product shops — card, Shop Pay, Apple Pay.
When a film releases, your viewing link arrives by email the moment payment clears. Yours for life, on any device.
Films from the studio floor.
Short films from our Instagram — every film ends at the ritual or lesson it teaches, so watching becomes doing. Our YouTube channel is in preparation; its place is held below, ready for opening day.
Walk the booking, exactly as it will run.
The full flow is built — choose a ritual, a day, a time, your details, and your written total. Only the final door is closed until opening day. Walk it now:
Studio days: Wednesday to Monday · Closed Tuesdays · One guest at a time · Weekends included.
Booking opens December 15, 2026
Everything above is live and working — only the final confirmation is paused while the studio is finished and our makers deliver. When the diary opens, waitlist guests book first — at the written totals you see today.
Why this booking engine, and not another.
We studied what efficient, easy houses actually run on before placing anything. Here is the comparison, in the open:
| Engine | Cost | What it does best | The catch for us |
|---|---|---|---|
| GlossGenius ★ | Gold plan · $48/mo billed annually · 2.4% + 15¢ in person · 3.4% + 15¢ online, deposits & card-on-file (exact rate confirmed on screen at signup) | The most beautiful booking page in the industry; 30-second booking; built-in email & text marketing; free mini-website | Before the first treatment bank ever sells, it must pass our no-expiry bank test — if it fails, we switch to Vagaro before a single dollar moves |
| Fresha | ~$19.95/mo · 2.29% + 20¢ | Lowest processing; a marketplace that can send new clients | Ruled out: its gift cards expire at 12 months — unlawful under Washington's RCW 19.240 — and it charges 20% of a first booking for marketplace-discovered clients |
| Square Appointments | Free solo tier · 2.6% + 15¢ | Free to start; one family with Square payments & payroll | Ruled out as our package & bank backup: Square caps package expiration at one year, so it cannot hold our no-expiry treatment bank. Booking page also feels generic beside luxury brands |
| Vagaro — runner-up | ~$24–30/mo | Deep features for 1–10 staff; strong marketplace; its own documentation confirms non-expiring packages and never-expiring gift cards | Add-on fees accumulate; heavier to learn |
Our choice: GlossGenius for the diary · Shopify for the shops · Stripe for the courtesy
A luxury house is judged at the booking page — GlossGenius is the one clients describe as effortless, on its Gold plan at $48 a month billed annually, with processing at 2.4% + 15¢ in person and 3.4% + 15¢ for online, deposit, and card-on-file payments (the exact rate is confirmed on screen at signup). Products and lessons sell through Shopify: its Buy Button embeds a secure checkout into any page, inventory stays synced, and one admin runs all three houses' shops. The Ever-After installments run on Stripe Invoicing scheduled prepayments — the house's own interest-free courtesy, no lender anywhere near it; GlossGenius holds the diary, not the courtesy. Setup path, already mapped: GlossGenius account → services loaded from this menu → booking link placed behind the button above → diary switched on December 15. Shopify store → Buy Buttons generated per lesson/product → pasted where the basket buttons sit today. Nothing for clients to relearn when we open — only the paused door swings.
The company we keep.
Some artists we do not hire, and we do not become — we choose them. A partner in this corner keeps her own small house — a wedding photographer, a florist, an artisan whose work sits beautifully beside ours on a bride's day — and she is presented here, under our roof, because Antim chose her. Every arrangement runs through this house; our own service rooms stay ours alone — one pair of hands, always.
Our first chosen partners will be announced here.
Each one will arrive with her own page, her own work, and a door that opens when she and Antim say so — never before.
Partners · Coming Soon
