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Supercuts
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Barbers
4722 University Way NE
Seattle,
Washington
(206) 524-0126
Make sure you ask for Robert
I was about to give up on Supercuts until I came across Robert Shaffer at the University Ave...
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I was about to give up on Supercuts until I came across Robert Shaffer at the University Ave location. It wasn't just that the haircuts I got were bad (they were), but they were always bad in a different way, so you couldn't even give specific instructions to try to correct for the problem. Anyway, Robert may not inspire confidence at first glance - he's pretty much bald himself - but he's a consummate professional - great results every time, plus he's a genuinely nice guy. If you want a great haircut and you live in north seattle, this is the place to go.
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Rudy's has no-nonsense haircuts cheap, but...
I've not been to Scream, but my wife is a hair stylist who once worked at Rudy's Belltown. Just...
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I've not been to Scream, but my wife is a hair stylist who once worked at Rudy's Belltown. Just like any other salon, your cut depends on who does it. If you liked your barber the first time, you can request them the next time by calling in advance (though you still may have to wait: it's hard to reserve your barber because their clients are predominantly walk-ins). By looking at the styles of the staff, you'd think all they do is punk/rockabilly styles, but they're all trained stylists/barbers, so most can accommodate individual needs.
Here's the rub: they are trained for volume, hence the bad reviews. Some of these stylists are doing 20 cuts in six hours; the more cuts you do, the more tips you get, the more incentives and bennies the company gives you, etc. Rudy's also pushes the staff to move product, so, your barber is a commissioned salesperson, too.
I feel bad for the barbers (though, they can make good pay) but they are given no employer paid benefits (insurance, paid time off, etc.) until much later in their tenure, and have to work very intensively. Some of the more aggressive barbers would also hoard customers, making the atmosphere a bit of a customer quota competition - again, the more cuts, the more pay, etc.
My wife left there because, for someone who just enjoys doing hair and is focused on quality, the assembly line and salesperson approach doesn't work well for her.
I hope that explains a little from the Rudy's perspective.
And, yes, your cut with tip will be around $22.
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Supercuts
Category:
Barbers
1550 E Olive Way
Seattle,
Washington
(206) 325-4855
Give a Monkey a Pair of Scissors
... and it'll do a better job. Maybe they've changed over the years, but I stopped going long ago...
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... and it'll do a better job. Maybe they've changed over the years, but I stopped going long ago when I came out way more than $13 poorer; I looked like some 80's chop shop hair band revivalist. Go somewhere else at all costs!
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Sal's Barber Shop
Category:
Barbers
1520 E Olive Way
Seattle,
Washington
(206) 860-7257
Open real late.. and a real Convenient Hip Hop Barbershop
The hours are amazing at this place! 12Am till 9pm. Yeah.. midnight until 9pm... meaning they...
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The hours are amazing at this place! 12Am till 9pm. Yeah.. midnight until 9pm... meaning they shut down between 9pm and midnight. Crazy, eh?
Even though they call it the "hip hop barbershop" (because of the hip artwork and the music) they cut all kinds of hair, black people, white people, asian people. As a black guy, I hate going to new barbers because they always screw up my hair. The guy I went to was incredible... did a perfect job, I was amazed.
Price was right too.. i think it was less than $20...
Here's a link:
http://www.salsbarbershop.com/index.html
Oh, call for an appointment so you don't have to wait, and make sure you ask for a particular barber. If you don't know one, ask when you call and get to know one over the phone so you don't have to wait.
One problem: I called several times during business hours to make an appointment and no one ever picked up except on the 4th attempt. I even left a message but no one called me back to confirm my appointment time even though the message said they would.
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Studio 904
Category:
Barbers
401 1st Ave S.
Seattle,
Washington
(206) 626-0904
My "weave perm" experience at "no tipping" salon (curly hair girls beware)
**Update as of 7/14 (the original service was rendered 6/29) - they gave me my money back along...
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**Update as of 7/14 (the original service was rendered 6/29) - they gave me my money back along with an apology, so I'm updating my review. It doesn't change my original experience, but they did the right thing. Please see my last comment below.**
When people keep saying “It’s not THAT bad,” you know it’s got to be at least kind of bad. I went to Studio 904 http://www.studio904.com/index.html in Pioneer Square based on other JB’ers' reviews. The idea sounded promising: the Japanese owner promoting the “kaizen” (improving upon oneself) approach to business, team of staff working on salary, no tipping policy but guaranteed good service, and giving back to the community. I wanted to like it so much. I wanted to love it in fact. It hurts me to give it a bad rating. Well here was my experience, so you be the judge.
I should preface my review by saying that I’m a discerning (= picky) customer with special needs – having grown up in Tokyo, arguably one of the world’s most competitive cities when it comes to hair salons and new technique/technology, I have been spoiled. Also I’m an Asian girl with naturally curly/wavy hair (in case you haven't noticed, it's rare). So even if I was lucky to find a Japanese hairstylist who can cut straight hair well, chances of me running into a phantom stylist who can hold up to my standards at a good price AND optimally do a good dry cut on curly/wavy hair (so they cut hair when it’s dry where it falls naturally, not when it’s wet/combed and can’t see the curls/waves) is like finding a unicorn.
So, I wasn’t expecting anything perfect, but even then I was a bit disappointed (understatement). In fact I felt like crying walking out the salon. But I feel like it’s my fault for falling into the latest gimmick (I’m also about the easiest person to market something to) – “weave perm” – so I felt stupid and didn’t feel like complaining (when it’s for a worthy cause/nonprofit or for someone else I complain and fight like heck, but for myself I’m so Japanese and passive!).
"Weave perm" is apparently another way of saying only perming parts/select strands of your hair, so it would blend in with your natural curls/waves and “enhance” them while "retaining natural look" to make styling easier. It sounded perfect for my half-hearted curly/wavy hair.
First, the “team” approach. It would work well if the team actually talked a lot more in a multi-stage process. I was under the impression the first person I was talking to (Miriam; very nice) would cut my hair, so I explained to her with several pictures what I was going for – then we agreed upon what we would and wouldn’t do. Then I had two people putting rods in my hair, after Miriam exchanged just a couple of sentences with the gentleman. I tried to stress my hair perms easily (along with the past horror story) to Miriam and that the hair should be rolled loosely with big rods, so I trusted them. (But I was nervous, because ignoring my natural curls, they rolled my bangs in the completely opposite direction of my curls. And I didn’t have cotton at first around my face, only after the fact, so when they poured the solution it dripped into my eye and mouth. Ouch.)
Then someone else rinsed my hair and did the gloss, which was fine, and then yet another person – Rachael (also very nice) showed up and told me she would cut my hair. All this without warning or explaining of the process. So I kind of assumed Miriam and Rachael talked to each other about what I’d wanted – so when she asked me what I was going for, I was briefer, because I talked in length with Miriam, though I did try to show Rachael the same pictures. (I was also tired of explaining all over again and coming to an agreement – my mistake; I should’ve been more thorough, but why should I have to go through it twice???)
Let’s just say my newly found bangs are fighting my natural curls (because it was rolled in completely opposite direction) it’s winding in weird directions; it got lopped off at a weird spot in the middle of a wave (you girls with curly hair know what I’m talking about), and it’s too short for the amount of curl and in regard to what I discussed with Miriam/Rachael. It looks kind of silly. I’m pinning that up until it grows out.
And despite the fact I pointed to this nice, big wavy hair picture of Molly Sims in the catalog Miriam brought out to pick the size of the wave – and despite the fact I explained multiple times my hair takes perm easily – my hair looked more like Nicole Kidman’s in 80's, when she was actually a redhead with natural curls. (Good look on her with small head, tall statuesque body, longer hair, but not me: short body, big Japanese head and shorter hair.) And although I pointed to pictures with nice cascading layers throughout with longer length in the back, it looks nothing like the pictures, partly due to the kinky curls – it looks mostly like it’s one length except for around my face.
Then they offered, “It looks really cute! And the curls will loosen up some”… Nothing takes away dignity from a PMS-y girl more effectively than a bad haircut complete with poodle perm. So I paid my dues and left. On their website http://www.studio904.com/index.html they advertised they would take 20% off a weave perm with a haircut, but I only realized I didn’t get that 20% off when I got home – by then I was too hurt and tired to complain (a bad haircut makes me act like a dog with the tail between her legs).
They were all nice and perfectly pleasant with chamomile tea and all, but hair is their business, not a cafe, and the “team” process didn’t work for me. Perm technology is much better in Japan, salons having done lots of “body perm” to give bigger, subtle waves to straight or slightly wavy hair, but I guess having a Japanese owner didn’t mean that the salon had it down.
I stress this was just my experience – others with straight/different type hair or doing just a single process may have a perfectly good time with them. And the “no tipping policy” is in fact nice as there are no guessing – but as much as I earn for consistent service without worrying about tip, maybe there’s something to working hard for a good tip.
Good location, they validate $1 of parking, the salon is clean (in a back-to-basics, exposed brick, industrial loft kind of way) and pleasant. They use and sell Aveda products.
For now, I’ll just wash my hair and wait for it to relax and grow out :-( I wish they could reimburse me for the retail therapy and hair clips I bought to get over this period.
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fried my hair, and treated me horrible afterword.
I had been seeing Aimee for over a year. She had done a good job. Until I went in last time. I had...
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I had been seeing Aimee for over a year. She had done a good job. Until I went in last time. I had color, highlights put in (at her recommendation) and when I got home, my hair was frizzy, dull, breaking off, and unmanageable.
I tried product, conditioning etc. nothing worked, I called the salon. No one bothered to tell Aimee, several days passed until we spoke. She didn’t know what happened. I went in, (a 60 mile trip one way). She had to order a product that was going to 'fix' my hair. Another trip. It didn’t help much. She said the lids were switched on the peroxide, burning my hair.
I called again, still having problems, she tried to convince me there wasn’t damage, and she didn’t feel my hair was as damaged as I did (two weeks of broken hair, unmanageable frizz) and I shouldn’t feel bad cus my hair wasnt as damaged as hers. she gave me an almost empty tube of reconstructor and some treatments, which she made sure to mention ( 'I GAVE you') as though taking my 3 trips to Seattle, a tank of gas, and 15 bucks on parking, and her failing to fix her own mess is a favor.
I went to 4 different stylists. Without saying why asked for their opinion. All three spoke to the damage done, the sloppy cut, and the major frizz.
I find it ironic that out of my friends, my husband, and 4 professionals, all notice my fried hair, and Aimee, who made it that way keeps repeating 'your hair isn’t that damaged' as though I just like having all this drama.
*update* my hair keeps breaking. Aimee’s boss said a refund was coming. I called after a week, left messages, had to catch her to ask AGAIN for refund. Refund sent. They kept the tip. Nothing for gas or parking. No apology.
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Rudy's Barber Shop
Category:
Barbers
4738 University Way NE
Seattle,
Washington
(206) 527-5267
Rudy's Barbershop is terrible
I went there for the first time after calling in and getting on the waiting list. I arrived on...
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I went there for the first time after calling in and getting on the waiting list. I arrived on time but was skipped by no less than six people. They passed over me and never called my name - even though there was a star by my name showing that I had called in.
I had no time left on the parking meter, and no time left in the day for such nonsense. I left and will never return. I heard on the Internet that they do this sometimes - so BEWARE!!
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Nice place
I used to be a regular, but the person I had raised her prices every time i went. I went for about...
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I used to be a regular, but the person I had raised her prices every time i went. I went for about 2 years, but as prices continued to rise the quality of the service started to decrease and I painfully moved on. This place is great if you want a basic service, but I would try to get a fixed price on more complex services up front. Worth a try.
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Jim's Barber Shop
Category:
Barbers
407 15th Ave E
Seattle,
Washington
(206) 322-5651
Old School Barber Shop
I wandered into Jim's one afternoon to get a simple hair cut in preparation for a business trip I...
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I wandered into Jim's one afternoon to get a simple hair cut in preparation for a business trip I had the upcoming Thursday. Jim's looked appealing since it had that old style barber shop look and feel (one of the few barber shops with the rotating swirly thing outside the door).
I was helped immediately since there was no one else in the shop. I briefly described the hair cut I wanted and the barber quickly went to work.
Usually when you get your hair cut you are sitting in front of a mirror. Jim's has mirrors but for some odd reason I was facing the other way. I was kind of freaked out by not seeing what he was doing and seeing piles of hair violently dropping to the floor. I then relaxed and enjoyed some idle conversation trusting that this man was a professional and he knew what he was doing. I have straight black hair and most barbers that do not have a skilled hand with the clippers can become overzealous and the results can be very noticeable.
After 10 min of clipping and cutting, I was released from the chair to find out that my hair was cut exactly as I wanted it.
Not a bad deal for a $13 hair cut.
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Am I the only one in Seattle that doesn't like Rudy's?
I'm in the minority. I know this review isn't going to win me any friends but I just am not fond of...
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I'm in the minority. I know this review isn't going to win me any friends but I just am not fond of Rudy's Barber Shop. After hearing so many glowing reviews of Rudy's Barber shop I just had to go. I left feeling like I got scammed. My only requirement of going to get my hair cut someplace new is that the person cutting my hair has to have a better haircut than me. Is that too much to ask? This was not the case at Rudy's. I realize they try to be experiemental but come on! The guy cutting my hair had what looked like chunks taken out of his hair. I may just be getting old but I found them a little too hipster/avant-garde for my tastes. This is definitely not your old school barber shop.
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