I never leave reviews for places, but this needed to be done.
I have been to Room 53 twice and that is enough for me. The first time I visited after moving to the area trying to find a local hairdresser. I paid over $100 more than I would normally pay to have my hair coloured and cut. The colour was watered down with a spray bottle of water to make the colour go further! The cut was pretty average as well - My hair is long with layers - nothing special about the style. The colour needed to be redone after only a couple of weeks! Very disappointing. This was a while ago and I changed back to my original hairdresser out of the area for my cut and colour.
I then recently visited Room 53, as I had an event on the weekend and figured I would give them another try. I booked in for a wash and blow wave. Shouldn't be hard. The girl "washed" my hair with what felt like watered down shampoo (zero lather as one would expect to feel) and skimmed over it with the tiniest amount of conditioner (if any). It didn't smell like any product was used in my hair, just smelt like wet hair. It took a lifetime to comb through my hair because of the knots created from having wet (still dirty) hair.
I will say that the blow wave was good. The body stayed in my hair and it looked good for 2 days. Normally the body drops out of my clean thin hair - but I'm guessing it helped that my hair was still dirty LOL. Unfortunately it only stayed "clean" for 2 days (I get a week out of clean hair!)
So needless to say, I will not be back. You need to know this and be prepared that you will not get a quality outcome. I will however say that the staff are friendly and service is great - just the methods and outcome that need improvement. read more