Best Salon or Stylist in Victoria?

Where is a good place to get a great haircut here? Even the local TV personalities have terrible haircuts. Do I have to go to Vancouver?

arq on douglas is a good place for a haircut

I will try them... do you recommend a particular stylist?

SwampWitch wrote:

I will try them... do you recommend a particular stylist?

If you're still looking for a stylist. You should try Erin Fitzpatrick @ Features Spa & Salon. She moved here from California where she went to school at the Vidal Sassoon Academy for hair.

She's really good and is hoping to open her own salon soon, here in Victoria.

Hello! WHAZ UP!!!!!!!!!!

First, watch out in BC barbers/hair cutters are NO LONGER monitored by any association or regulation, I have met with many that have really bad cleanliness standards...
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

also arq are a really bad and expensive place to get a haircut.(waste of money)
I went there and had to go to someone else after I was butchered to do damage control...

It must have been an arq employee that posted that post because as far as I am concerned there are not too many (if any decent) hairdressers in Victoria!

Note: Ever noticed why they do not call themselves "HAIRDRESSERS" in Canada, because there are none. I guess you have to be able to dress someones hair to carry that title.

Atmoshphaire is a great spot!!! Located on the Selkirk waterway, next to Glo pub. Trendy little place with experience stylists:)

I also would like to know the good hair salon for haircut, and hair straightening cos' i am new here. Any Korean or Chinese shop to remcommend in Victoria? I heard they used to cheap and good at hair.

Alfie wrote:

Come to my house for a cut. I can't cut hair but I would sure love to trim your bush ;)~

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Go to Ferreira Now Salon @ the spa @ the hotel grand Pacific on Belleville st. everyone there, goes through intense training, they educate internationlly, and compete all the time. They re great

there's a new place on Johnson.
it used to be called the blue fix but now it's called LAB and it seems like everyone i know goes there.
they all have really great hair and i've always been really happy with mine too!
also they have the MOST adorable bull dog there :)

I had the same really bad experience as Sheila by one of the owners at Arq on Douglas St. He completely fried my hair, the blonde highlights turned an awful pink and orange. He told me I had wait a week to have it re-bleached which I lasted about a day before saying forget it, dying it all dark. Then he tried to blame it on me telling me it was my fault that I didn't know what I wanted --- hello, blonde highlights is what I wanted... how is that not knowing what I wanted??? Of course he had to say something in front of the other clients and stylists so he didn't look like a complete idiot who obviously had no clue what he was doing.
Since then I've gone to Fish and the Fix. Both have good.

Sheila wrote:

also arq are a really bad and expensive place to get a haircut.(waste of money)
I went there and had to go to someone else after I was butchered to do damage control...

Ironically Vancouver doesn't boast the same amount of talent or exports as the local stylist cache. Victoria has more exported stylists that work in the upper end of the hair industry than any other city in canada.

I realize that people are hopping to get a great cut for cheap prices, but hair stylists spend a fortune on education and equipment. Salon space is not cheap and stylists charge for their time.

An average cut and color in Vancouver salons will run you $225, Toronto $250, Victoria $150.

"it must have been an arq employee that posted that post because as far as I am concerned there are not too many (if any decent) hairdressers in Victoria!

Note: Ever noticed why they do not call themselves "HAIRDRESSERS" in Canada, because there are none. I guess you have to be able to dress someones hair to carry that title."

FYI the reason we don't say hairdresser is because most stylists find it a durogatory term. When was the last time you saw someone wearing a hair dress? It's the same reason we don't say stewardess, we say flight attendant. Stylists style hair.......... Hair dresser isn't a title, it's an insult

bobby wrote:

there's a new place on Johnson.
it used to be called the blue fix but now it's called LAB and it seems like everyone i know goes there.
they all have really great hair and i've always been really happy with mine too!
also they have the MOST adorable bull dog there :)

I agree with Bobby. It seems like everyone I know goes there, and I really like the website! It made it easy to pick a stylist that I liked. And booking online! It's about time someone figured that out.

Oh and I love my hair

I think asking people over the net where to get your hair done in a city is extreamly hard to do .. everyone is going to be particular with there own STYLIST .... hope u noticed i used the term right ... hairdress is a term used LONG time ago
ARQ salon has been an amazing salon in victoria for i think 14 years there owners have trained some of the best stylst in victoria...
lab is also an awsome shop the owner there matty is a great guy !
the fix is also another great shop gerard and jay and the rest of the staff highly qualified
fish is another awsome shop with some awsome reveiws from alot of people i know i beleave mischa is there now awsome stylist
licorice for hair .. owner rhino is a redken educater .. he is amazing small little shop but they all do awsome hair !
so for someone to say bad things about anyone from victoria it is hard .... there is some AMAZING talent here in victoria .. no matter where you go

I agree! There are some really great stylists in Victoria. I especially like the bumble salons. They send their stylists to New York for training. Alchemy's great. Like the staff there. Shampoo is good too. Fish also. Lots of great talent in vic!

There are heaps of great styists in Victoria.

One of my absolute favorites is Ashley @ LAB

She is truly amazing

SwampWitch wrote:

Where is a good place to get a great haircut here? Even the local TV personalities have terrible haircuts. Do I have to go to Vancouver?

try Nomi at Fiori at the Empress, he is awesome & the colorist is amazing there too

try Nomi at Fiorio at the Empress, you will be amazed at how good he is, and the color tech is awesome too

So far as I can tell Lab Salon on Johnson st is the best salon in Victoria. I have been to lots since i moved here for university a few years ago. Lab is the first place where I feel like the people actually care about what they do and aren't snotty or pretentious. I really like Jane there.