Good hairdressers in Vancouver?

January 29, 2008 11:57 AM

Please recommend a good, affordable hair salon for ladies in Vancouver.

I have lived in Vancouver for over a year, but I lack a hair stylist! I need to remedy this. The max I'd like to spend for a cut is around $50. I am a young woman (24), so I'm looking for somewhere that caters to same. Location isn't a huge deal, but somewhere easily bus-able in Vancouver proper is preferred.

posted by SoftRain to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (7 answers total)

Definitely close to the max you were looking for (with tax + tip, might be more like $55), but I've had a pair of female friends say good things about Spa Utopia in the Pan Pacific.
posted by Nelsormensch at 12:00 PM on January 29, 2008

I get my hair cut at 'On the Fringe' salon in the student union building at UBC. It looks like the women's cuts range from $35-$46. Personally, I think the $25 guys haircut I get is a great deal and it always looks great as you can see from my lovely profile picture. The chief stylist has won some kind of national competition or something -- I think they charge a lot less than they could in order to cater to students.

p.s. they used to have a decent website and now it's horrible, I don't know what happened.
posted by PercussivePaul at 12:19 PM on January 29, 2008

$50? Ask for Amy at Suki's on Granville. She cut my hair two Sundays ago, took great care to do good work.
posted by seawallrunner at 12:54 PM on January 29, 2008

Sue and her two cats run their own salon on 33rd just off Knight. Her address is paperwaspsalon at shaw dot ca She cuts my partner and my daughter, and I think they look beautiful. (They both read AskMe)
posted by Neiltupper at 1:55 PM on January 29, 2008

I had good luck at Statik just off of Granville and Broadway. Amber was my stylist, and to be honest, I didn't give her a lot to work with (I have hair issues), but she still managed to do really good job. I paid $100, but that included $50 of product. You don't get the hard sell though - i actually asked for recommendations, and ended going crazy on the products without any prompting from them.
posted by cgg at 2:10 PM on January 29, 2008

I'm a dude, but Shai at Pome Studio does my hair and that of women. She's in a little studio at the top of the Seymour Building between Pender and Dunsmuir (major transit hub for the trolleys heading North). She's got a portfolio and she blogs about style and fashion on the front page. $55 for women.
posted by sillygwailo at 2:11 PM on January 29, 2008

Check out Rain near Granville Island. Tanis at Rain is quite popular on the Vancouver community page on Livejournal.
posted by metaname at 5:02 PM on January 29, 2008