Awesome experience as always. Arianna is master designer and stylist and always fun to catch up with her too. She's helped me through many hair stages! I am grateful. The tea and mimosas are always appreciated. And the ambiance of this salon is calm and peaceful, while also upbeat. I have been coming here for years. read more

Kory is always the best! I've been coming to him for color and cuts for a few years and I'm always taken care of. The salon is lovely and everyone is really nice. read more

A year ago I started my journey of going blonde with my very skilled Stylist named Monica who I HIGHLY recommend, her work speaks for itself go check out her page Instagram page : hair_wm When I started I was a virgin brunette and I told Monica that I wanted to be red without having to use bleach. I was super afraid of bleach. Seeing how Monica was super skilled and kept my hair extremely healthy I was convinced to do a big change and decided to do a brown to blonde ombre. Of course playing around with a ombré turned into going more and more blonde. But this did not happen over night. She was super careful and knowledgeable with the process of getting me lighter every session. about 6months into my journey Monica was no longer with AYA and I went to her outside of the salon. The time and money I spent getting my hair from a deep red to a beautiful blonde was all totally worth it because every-time I sat in Monica's chair and left her I felt so fucking fabulous and my hair was just stunning and healthy. I could not believe how healthy my hair was being so blonde! It was shiny, bouncy, sleek and oh so smooth. As I mentioned My maintenance with Monica was pricey but worth every fucking dollar and I highly recommend going to her studio if you can get a spot in her busy books. fast forward to the day I fcking regret with all my heart. I could not get into Monica's chair because her books are always busy and I needed my hair done ASAP for work shots I decided to go back to AYA because they are a "Elegant Salon devoted to innovation and blah blah blah" The MAIN thing I told the stylist Arianna was my goal is to be more blonde than what I am now. I told Arianna, that I have been at this for a year getting lighter and lighter every session. I understand that going blonde is a process and I have been super patient and was finally at a blonde I was super happy with. But as I told Arianna, the goal is blonder. As soon as Arianna took the towel off my head I knew something was wrong, but my hair was wet so I tried not to look in the mirror as she continued to blow dry my hair. As soon as my hair was dry I wanted to fcking break down and cry. "This is brown", I told Arianna and she kept telling me it was a ashy blonde. I kept looking in the mirror like WTF ???Does this girl think I'm a fucking idiot or something? I told her over and over that my hair was brown. She kept trying to convince me it was not. I told her I'm not happy and she said it would lighten. Like one thing I can't stand is someone who feeds you complete BS. If you do something wrong take accountability for it. Feeding someone BS is a bad look on you, your work and the place you represent. I emailed the salon owner immediately She was completely unsympathetic, did not apologize or ask any question. She just sent me a message saying if I can come in Tomorrow at 2:30. The next day I come back in and they make me see Arianna again for a "color cleanse" Arianna takes me to the sink and starts the "color cleanse" she's washing my hair for about 15 mins adding whatever let's me sit and comes back to rinse my hair and than tells me their is a second part to the color cleanse. At this point I'm texting my step mother who is a stylist in Hollywood to ask WTF a color cleanse is. Arianna come back and starts applying the second part to the color cleanse and tells me she's going to let it sit. My head and scalp start to tingle and I realize she's basically giving my head a bleach wash (as my step mother explained to me). I ask Arianna what she's doing and what's she's using and she tells me again it's a color cleanse and that it's a alternative to bleach but it's not bleach. I'm sitting there cooking for another 15 mins and than Arianna washes the bleach out of my hair and tells me someone else is going to condition my hair because she had another client coming in. I told her are we even going to tone my hair because I'm pretty sure my hair was going to be super yellow after letting my hair sit in bleach. She says she's not going to apply a toner because my hair has been through alot of processing and the shampoo she used had a little bit of toner in it. The minute the towel came off my head I was Fcking pissed off. My hair was yellow, dry, shorter and felt super sticky. My hair is totally Fcked up now. The color is awful, there is a bunch of random yellow, orange, brassy stripes all around my head. The fcking texture is horrible now, even when I wash my hair in the shower with conditioner it is hard to get my fingers through. I been having trouble this entire week styling my hair because it is just so sticky and brittle and dry. I've lost inches, my hair is breaking off. My hair is uneven. This Salon and Stylist completely ruined my life. Making the transition to go blonde was such a big life decision. Not to mention the financial commitment you make to maintain the color! read more

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Love my hair and so happy with the services by Ariana! My hair looks so healthy, Definitely recommend!!

Highly recommend!! I have been getting pampered by Elon and Arianna for the last 7 years and my hair has never been so healthy.

It's a welcoming place, comforting experience, and Kylie is amazing! My old stylist left pre-pandemic and for a while I went somewhere else. Glad to be back over the past 18 months! read more

I loved my experience at Aya. Super easy to book, and flawless experience from arrival to wash, cut, dry, and back out the door. The space is very clean and has a great environment wit friendly hair dressers and overall lovely people. Book Pascale, she did a great job! read more

I always have a great experience at AYA Salon, from the front desk to my stylist Ariana. Ariana always makes me look fabulous when I walk out the door with a fresh coloring and a blowout. read more

I had a horrendous experience with a botched highlight session from another salon. I called AYA Salon to set up a color consultation to see how it could be fixed. They set me up with their senior color specialist-- Danielle. She was so empathetic and AMAZING. She gave me her recommendations, but asked what I wanted to do ultimately. We went with her game plan and just after the first session, my hair looked 150% better. read more

Hilary is a magician at hair. I always leave the salon with the shiniest most perfect color. Highlights, balayage, or just my roots, you name it. Always perfection. My haircuts are always exactly how I expect them also. She takes the time to really listen. She's the best! read more

I have been with AYA ( formerly Art Beat ) for 15 years. Great setting , services and products. Candice has well taken care of my needs both hair cut and hair coloring. : )) read more

Arianna is always such a pleasure! She is skilled with the scissors and always makes me feel so comfortable. She works with me to get the style I'm going for but doesn't hesitate to share what she thinks would work and what wouldn't based on my hair type and texture. She was the first stylist to show me how to wear my naturally wavy hair!!! read more

Had a great first visit at the salon getting my color refreshed with Sarah. Whole process, from booking through appointment was seamless and easy. Sarah did a fantastic job getting my color just right and was a ton of fun to visit with in the chair. Beautiful salon, great people! read more

From the moment I walked into AYA I was greeted with a smile and felt pampered. The salon itself is well maintained, clean, smells good, and has great decor. This was my first time at AYA. My hairstylist was Candice. She was absolutely amazing. She is extremely knowledgeable, professionally, genuine, and funny! Candice has great customer service and is impeccable at her craft. I highly recommend Candice for your next hair appointment! read more

first time back in a while and Carly did an amazing job in my hair - personable, good listener, great all around stylist!

I was struggling to get the color I wanted at another salon, so I called Aya in a panic after a rather green toned color was applied at this other place. They asked for pics and details and when I arrived two days later to for a free consultation with Hillary, she had already spent time planning on how to fix my color and had pictures to show me. I loved that she took the time before I even was there! Then she squeezed me into her calendar a week later and my hair color has never been prettier!! She listened, she nailed it, she was fun, kind, and very talented. The salon is gorgeous, clean, and aveda products are so so nice. I'm thrilled and feel so taken care of at Aya! read more

Candice is amazing! She understood exactly what I wanted to do with my hair and she was excellent at doing it. I will definitely come back and get my hair done by her again! read more

Have moved on. Had a great cutter/ stylist but she moved and l have tried 3-4 other stylists and received terrible haircuts. I have short hair but plenty of hair so perhaps it's difficult to cut. read more

Been going to aya for years. See below I've given excellent review in past. Had an appt booked with my usual stylist Elon, then noticed aya had removed the appt without notifying me. I reached out via email to enquire why and got no response. Called the salon and they said Elon moved away. No apology for canceling my appt without a notification. They recommended Michelle so I made an appt. Also made an appt for my daughter at same time with another stylist. Well last minute they told daughter she needed to come 15 mins early. I called and explained we were coming together and wanted appts at same time. They assured me it basically would be the same time. Nope. I had to wait 30 mins past my appt time by which time daughter was nearly done. Someone took me for shampoo because stylist was running so late , but that meant stylist who I'd never met never got to look at my hair dry or go over what I wanted. Gal washing hair was lovely (sorry don't recall name) then Michelle comes over doesn't even introduce self, or apologize for being late, pours cold water on my head and is kinda rough. I then explain what I'm looking for, keeping the length with a bit of face framing and soft layers and a bang trim. Well good grief, she cut my bangs way back into the side of my head in a way I didn't even know was possible. I have layers several inches apart. I look like I have a toupe on top of my head or something. The whole thing is a complete mess. I came out looking like a 70s male rock star. It will take me a full year or more to grow out some of these insane "layers". Wtf. And my daughter had to sit and wait for ages for me. During the cut Michelle made multiple unnecessarily bitchy comments. We talked about the weather and I mentioned being in the uk this summer and she said twice something like "no need to brag". She kept calling herself an "old lady" when I'm clearly significantly older than her. She made zero attempt to get to know me or my hair and seemed to have zero interest in building a new client relationship. This place is NOT cheap and I would have had an experience ten times better at supercuts. Not sure wtf I was paying for. Oh and the gal who did the shampoo was so nice to ask if I'm sensitive to scents and I told her I am. Michelle then went and not only used products without asking me but came spraying something very strong all over my hair and face at the end for "texture" without asking giving me a full on asthma attack. I had to go straight home and wash everything out of my hair. I honestly left that salon wondering what I've done to piss them off so badly that they set me up for the worst haircut I ever had. I've been going there for years, given literally thousands of $ to them, bought their products, tipped decently, brought my daughter, didn't complain when they canceled my appt or were super late, and I get treated like absolute shit. Oh and the icing on the cake!!! Despite waiting 45 mins for appt all they offered was tea and water and my daughter says after, did you notice everyone else was being given mimosas?! wtf aya. Never again . ETA the owner emailed me to offer to have another stylist adjust my cut , no offer of a refund. Given that Michelle cut my hair from shoulder length to literally a 3 inch bowl around the top of my head I'm not letting anyone else there touch it. No apology for her lateness. Interesting that there were no reviews of Michelle here but 2 have popped up since my review a few days ago raving about her. My hair would beg to differ. read more

Have been using Aveda hair care products for years now. Aya salon makes the experience even better. The location so convenient and parking is so easy Everyone is so friendly especially Pascal who does magic covering my gray hair Thank you so much Pascal read more

Cecilia is great and she always makes my hair pretty. I go there for color and cut. The salon is good vibes, great music read more

Candice is an amazing stylist! She listens carefully to what I want and is able to add an artistic touch!

I've been going to Aya for about 6 years now and seeing Hilary for my cut and color. I've always been a fan of Aveda and transitioned to Berkeley after going to a few different salons in San Francisco where I always hit traffic and parking was expensive. Aya is a lovely, inviting salon that smells delightfully like Aveda and Hilary feels like a friend I'm catching up with at each appointment. I leave my appointments with a bounce in my step, feeling better about life than when I first walked in. Anyone looking for an elevated salon experience with quality stylists, I highly recommend Aya. read more

Got my hair cut and blow dried by Elon and she was great. She's a master stylist and was very good at listening to what I wanted and figuring out how to achieve it. I will be coming back to Elon and Aya. read more

Two appointments and $670 for a "full head" touch up of my usually platinum blonde. The picture should speak for itself the majority of my hair was untouched. Literally got one foil on each side of my face, I'm basically a brunette. When I emailed the owner regarding the issue she deflected and blamed me for being late instead of apologizing and acknowledging that they had messed up. I've perused other bad reviews and this seems to be a common theme. read more

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QUALITY FADE i previously loved getting my hair done at aya, i went to pamela who was an absolute gem and did my hair beautifully. However, she seems to have moved on. So, i booked a different hair stylist to do a blowout for my prom. she was the sweetest ever but she did an absolute horrendous job on my hair. first of all, did not do what i asked for, she claimed to know what she was doing but unfortunately she didn't. secondly, she took an hour and 50 minutes to do curls that fell by the time i arrived at home. (for reference my hair is pretty thick and usually holds very well) i paid her 60 dollars to do hair that i could have done better myself. the staff at aya is super friendly but when booking beware of amateur hair stylists. read more

I have been getting my haircut and styled by Hilary for years now and come back because she does a fantastic job and is also very personable and fun to talk to. I appreciate that she consistently knows how to enhance my curls and recommends changes to my style when needed which I'm always happy with. Thank you Hilary! read more

I love Sarah! I've been going to her for about a year now and just got another amazing haircut from her. She really knows how to take care of my curls! read more

I've been coming here for a long time, maybe 10 years and have seen numerous people. I always have a great experience with haircuts and coloring. Elon is the best, she knows what to do and is very helpful. read more

I have been coming to Aya for over a decade now, but today will definitely be my last day. I made an appointment at 2:30 only for the stylist to tell me that she only has 2 hands and still blow drying her previous clients hair. She said I can either wait or make another appointment, the audacity of the stylist to not be apologetic for having me wait, but to tell me to just make another appointment. I had to wait an entire hour! This establishment has definitely gone down, I will be taking my service elsewhere. Edit: I am appalled by the response from management. To feel completely disrespected as though I don't belong here, to have wasted my time to leave feeling defeated, and to blame me for writing a review is crazy. This company is not the only business that needs to feed their family, why is it ok to have their customer wait and waste their time, when I may of had to rush back to work as well? read more

It was an amazing experience! Staff were friendly and the environment felt very welcoming. Highly recommend if you want to style your hair and have a good time :) read more

Jenny is amazing- her understanding of hair and individual needs and preferences is unparalleled. Lucky to have found this goddess!

I am thrilled with Ariana. She has great ideas for my hair and listens to me. I have receive many complements now on my style. Chic salon as well read more

Ariana is THE BEST! Her color skills are on point. I always leave the salon feeling gorgeous and fresh.

Cecilia has colored my hair twice now and each time has been perfect! Great service and great results

Love this place! Go see Arianna and she will take care of you--kind, competent, and just the right amount of chat. Also they give you giant mugs of Aveda tea, which I love. read more

I love this salon, and I love my stylist, Hilary! Everyone here is both professional and warm, and I always appreciate being served the special tea here. Hilary has been working with me to transition first my color approach and more recently try a whole new style that I am so happy with. She also helps me keep my hair healthy, even though I am in a pool several times weekly. The Aveda products are great so I use them as well. read more

They charge a fortune, they're not that good at what they do, they nickel and dime you for every little thing, and they don't care much about customer service. If that sounds good to you, help yourself. I won't be going back. read more

Kory is a great stylist! Great guy too. So lucky to have found him and enjoy his services. Aya is lucky to have him on his team!

Kory has been fantastic. He does the best color and cut I've had. He takes the time to get to know you and going to Aya is like visiting a friend. read more