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    4.3 (66 reviews)
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    (I ruffled my hair before this photo) Kaitlyn help my hair "look full", In LOVE is an understatement :)
    Anie May B.

    I asked Kaitlyn for a haircut that would help make my hair "look full" and specifically not a V cut but more of a straight/"U". I also wanted a combination of curtain bangs and see through bangs. I went to a different salon in South Bay that cut my bangs unevenly and too short. Kaitlyn was transparent and let me know that because some sections were short it would be difficult to achieve a type of curtain bangs I wanted from a photo I showed her. (Spoiler, she did absolutely amazing and saved my bangs!) Kaitlyn took my ambiguous words and wonky bangs and delivered exactly what I wanted! Saying that I am in LOVE is an understatement. Every penny was worth it. The price was more than fair, especially considering the time, transparency, and attention to detail Kaitlyn put into fixing my previous haircut. Love how my hair looks from the back in this photo :) (Disclaimer: I ruffled my hair before this photo because I like the messier layer look)

    Sierra T.

    I went in to get a haircut, bleach, and color yesterday and am extremely happy with the results. Gigi is amazing! She was able to look at my reference photos and execute perfectly! My hair is very dark and she did a great job with the bleach so that there was minimal damage to my hair. Prices are reasonable. This is my go-to place for haircuts and now will be for getting my hair dyed as well.

    Kaitlyn did really nice bleaching for me, very careful since my hair is pretty fragile (bleach and dye to black multiple times), no hair break, and the product she suggested is pretty useful. I've try bleaching my hair as light as possible in US, Japan, and China, but for this level damaged hair history, would really recommend Kaitlyn for the result and its price. The first time I visit we bleach for 12 hours straight to remove the black dye and make it bleach clean. Thanks to Kaitlyn and Gigi I really appreciate that. Afterward Kaitlyn also helps me get a really ugly brownish dye off from a careless hairdresser, and gives me back the even light blonde just like the first time, she saves my life.

    Fresh cut for the new year
    Dominic V.

    This is my go to spot for a haircut. It's a block away from where I work and I just pop in to see if they have time for me real fast. My girl Kaitlynne is always consistent no matter what kind of haircut I want. (I've been experimenting with different hairstyles. All I have to do is show her a picture and she'll cut it in a way that also fits my face shape, looking sharp every time. She's incredibly attentive as to what I'm looking for and what I like. She's also really good at telling me if she's too busy and to either come back later or a different day. I'm a pretty regular customer here and stop by about once a month, on a few occasions, Kaitlynne gave me a call to let me know that she's free for a haircut when she saw I stopped by earlier that day. She is incredibly sweet and the prices here are low compare to other places. Highly recommend.

    My hair in the wild

    This salon has been wonderful. I can speak for Kaitlyn's work - and as for someone who had previously never dyed and/or bleached their hair (I have thick Asian hair), I was put at ease enough to go through with the whim, having answered all my many questions clearly. I'm really happy that I did. I was able to go from virgin black to silver blonde with a small man bun in one session. She used gentle levels of chemicals and was extremely patient, detail oriented. It was clear she enjoyed the quality and process of her work as well as connection with her clients! Kaitlyn is great :) highly recommend her for any coloring needs.

    I'm really happy with Kaitlyn's work! She listened so well to what I wanted, and made sure I was happy with the results. Would recommend!
    Destiny N.

    I came to this hair salon for hair color. I was surprised that my hair color came out better than I expected because it had a permanent dark brown before. I'm very happy with the color and with their professional customer service. Kaitlyn is awesome, talented and professional.

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    Did a great job on cutting my hair to the specific hair cut I wanted, I would really recommend going here, Thank you!

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    Love these guys! Very reasonable prices, easy to get in, great color and very friendly!

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    Very good stylists and nice, friendly shop. A very good addition to a great neighborhood.

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    I asked Kaitlyn for a haircut that would help make my hair "look full" and specifically not a V cut but more of a straight/"U".

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    Maru Hair Salon

    4.7
    (394 reviews)
    1.9 mi
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    Locally owned & operated
    20 years in business

    TL;DR: This place is great! Book with Mark--he's an *artist*!…read more Longer version: My hair stylist quit the biz a few years ago to pursue a career as a therapist (so fitting, right?!) I was stoked for her! But since then, I've been adrift and searching for my hair match, trying out a new stylist for each cut. (My hair is fine but wavy with a weird cowlick, so it needs just the right layers. I had some great cuts and some so-so cuts, but never the right combo of close enough, a decent amount of availability that I'm not waiting months or driving across the bay, AND a great cut.) I tried Mark at Maru on a random rec from a friend whose daughter works at the salon--and after one cut, I feel like my search is over! The salon is very well-run and had an opening within a couple weeks. I arrived on time, was offered herbal tea, and waited under five minutes. It's in a nice spot in Berkeley with plenty of street parking with pretty cheap meters--$4. Mark asked me what I was looking for, got it right away, and was of course fun to chat with. I walked out with a cut I love for a reasonable price. I will definitely be back!

    I was nervous about getting my hair done since it was such a spur of the moment thing to get a…read moretrim. My stylist, Shawn, led me through to the second area of their salon which was cool and was so detailed about doing my hair. I've never had a stylist so precise and who really took great care in making sure everything was even and cut in exactly the way I wanted. I showed him one photo, and my hair looked exactly like it after. It was definitely the longest haircut I've had and pricey as I'm not used to Bay Area prices just yet, but honestly, so worth it.

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    La Petite Hair Salon

    La Petite Hair Salon

    4.5
    (223 reviews)
    1.4 mi
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    I'd been in Berkeley for three weeks straight, about two weeks past my last haircut, and the…read moresituation was becoming untenable. I was not scheduled to return to LA for several more weeks. We were having an 87-degree day in West Berkeley, which -- for those unfamiliar -- is hot for West Berkeley, a neighborhood where the default setting is breezy and cloudy and lovely and sixty-three degrees, the kind of microclimate that lets you own one jacket and never think about it. Eighty-seven degrees in West Berkeley is an event. Eighty-seven degrees with hair that's two weeks past due is a crisis. I have Asian hair. I've written about this before. It is coarse and thick and grows outward like a porcupine asserting its personal space, and my coping mechanism in Los Angeles was to throw $85 at a hipster barbershop every three weeks to make it stop. This worked in the way that all expensive coping mechanisms work -- reliably, but at a cost that quietly compounds until one day you do the annual math and feel ill. 2026 being what it is, and a dollar these days being asked to do about a dollar forty's worth of work, I needed a new tack. I asked an AI assistant for a good cheap haircut in Berkeley and got several suggestions, which I then searched on Yelp -- yes, the very Yelp you are looking at, imagine that -- for reviews. One thing I noticed about La Petite was that people mentioned Asian women cutting hair there, and the photos confirmed it. I had a thought, the kind of thought that sounds reductive when you say it out loud but is grounded in lived experience: Asian women probably know how to deal with hair like mine. This is not a stereotype. This is pattern recognition developed over decades of watching non-Asian barbers stare at my head with the quiet bewilderment of someone asked to solve a math problem in a language they don't speak. No shade intended, just facts. So I gave La Petite a go. You watch closely when someone new is cutting your hair. You can't help it. You're tracking every snip in the mirror, reading their hands the way you'd read a stranger's driving in the first five minutes of a road trip -- are we safe here, does this person know what they're doing, should I have said something three turns ago. About halfway through, I watched her take volume out of my hair in a way that hadn't been done in years -- not just trimming the length but actually understanding the architecture of thick Asian hair, where the bulk lives, how it falls, how it will eventually grow out, where it needs to be thinned so it lies flat instead of projecting horizontally from your skull like it's staging a protest. She knew. I knew she knew. I had my new stylist. Twenty-eight dollars. Twenty-eight dollars, and I walked out with the best haircut I've had in longer than I'd like to admit. That's $57 left over from what I was paying in LA -- enough to buy groceries, or three martinis at happy hour, or a pizza at June's, or whatever you buy when you realize you've been dramatically overpaying for a basic human service because you confused a cool neighborhood and exposed brick with competence. La Petite has neither exposed brick nor a cocktail menu. What it has is someone who looked at my difficult hair and knew exactly what to do with it, which is the only thing that has ever mattered and the only thing I'm paying for from now on.

    I went to get a haircut Friday afternoon for a special occasion and showed them exactly what I…read morewanted: a classic Ben Affleck Bruce Wayne-style haircut with regular-sized sideburns, just like the character. They asked me if I was graduating, and I said no, I was meeting my fiancée's mom the next day. Five minutes before the haircut was finished, the stylist took a big chunk off my right sideburn. She cut it too high, which ruined the whole haircut, especially since my face shape doesn't suit short sideburns. I told her I didn't like it. I didn't overreact or yell, I was just uncomfortable. The hairdresser said, "Too bad!" and tried to dismiss the issue. I told her again that she should have asked me about the length. She then took it personally and told her boss that I was making things up so I wouldn't pay, saying, "They do this so they don't pay." What do you mean by "they"? Not only did I feel dismissed and treated unprofessionally, but also disrespected. I was upset after the whole situation, but even then I was willing to pay and didn't want to leave without paying because I didn't want to prove her point. Plus, it's not that expensive. At the end, the stylist said she had 40 years of experience. Well, after this, it feels like you wasted 40 years and somehow skipped the basics of customer service. Not coming back, even after being offered a free haircut. I would rather pay three times what I paid today for a standard service where you're treated with basic courtesy.

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    Quick trim with long layers and slight face framing
    Quick trim with long layers and slight face framing
    A photo of me later on in the day after I got a haircut at La Petite in 2016. I show this photo to all the stylists I go to as a reference.

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    A photo of me later on in the day after I got a haircut at La Petite in 2016. I show this photo to all the stylists I go to as a reference.
    Vika Beauty Salon

    Vika Beauty Salon

    4.6
    (227 reviews)
    1.6 mi
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    I walked in this week with very healthy hair and left with extreme heat damage, fried ends and…read morechunky uneven yellow highlights. When I stand in the sun, my hair is actually transparent. Virginia, you refunded my payment (thank you) and I wasn't sure whether to write this. I loved the haircuts I got from you before. But you cannot experiment on people's hair like this. And after this I do not think you should be coloring people's hair at all. I asked you directly before we started if you had knowledge and experience with blonde highlights and you said multiple times yes, and that you definitely could make it happen. But it turned out you had no idea how to do blonde bleach, let alone balayage. Once you rinsed out the bleach and saw how bad it looked, you didn't stop what you were doing to share what had happened. Instead of showing me the results, you applied a super-hot curling wand to give me a big hairstyle so I wouldn't notice the highlights. The wand on the new bleach left it with intense heat damage. The hair is falling out as I write this and my whole head stinks of burnt hair. This did not need to happen - you could have simply told me the truth, that you have no idea what you're doing with blonde highlights, and I would have been able to find someone who does, and my hair would still be healthy right now. Please let me be the last person this happens to.

    I came to Vika Beauty Salon to get the haircut that I didn't get at the last place I went to…read more Virginia referenced my inspo pic a few times and asked questions along the way to ensure she was getting me exactly what I asked for. I have paid far more for lesser quality cuts. She is friendly, detailed, and efficient. I mentioned to her the other reviews that suggest booking far in advance but she said that it only gets busy around the holidays. I was able to get a booking within a week in mid-January. Leave a voicemail and she will get back to you in a timely manner.

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    Virginia is a master stylist.
    Virginia is a master stylist.
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