I had been going to a local barber for basically all of my college years just for a trim on the…read moresides and a little cut off the top, but my cousin suggested this place because he and I both loved his new haircut, so I tried this place out. My hair and beard were super long, as I hadn't gotten a trim in 3 months. I went to try something new and nice, and the barber was unbelievably nice and willing to talk with me to help me figure out what I wanted. The beard trim was nothing I had ever gotten before, my haircut was short and crisp, and there was an immaculate attention to detail. That haircut lasted for 2 months, and it looked great throughout! The jazz music in the background perfected the ambiance. I left with the best haircut I've ever had, and just like my cousin, I travel from SF to this barbershop just because of how great my experience was. I highly recommend coming here for a great haircut.

One of the freshest cuts I've got to date. Luis is a hella chill barber and took his time. Shit is…read more$60 btw so don't come if ur a brokie.

I came in on a Saturday afternoon without an appointment and Simon invited me to his station. I…read moreasked if I could remain in my mobility scooter and he made space for me. I got a great haircut and Simon kept most of the cut hair off my neck with his blowers. I will come back for sure.

Speechless, I went to the barbershop, clearly showed them a photo of what I wanted, and even…read moreconfirmed in Spanish. The man proceeded to give me a 5-minute cut, essentially a buzz, when I asked for a fringe and a fade. Has the audacity to charge me 52 dollars. Never coming back again. Horrible experience.

I've been looking around for a barbershop today over maps and I was really hesitant about my…read moreoptions n for some reason I went with them. I couldn't have made a better choice ever in my life with Keven, really a 10/10 experience. This is how it feels like to go to a therapy as a man and for a great price KEVEN HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Today I had a hair appointment with a barber named CJ. I usually go to another barbershop, but I…read morefelt I wasn't being taken care of the right way so I gave this barbershop a try. I left impressed after having a lot of anxiety because you never know what you're gonna get when you go to another barbershop but CJ did a great job super professional really nice and I will turn every week to get that haircut again thank you very much. You made my day.

Superb customer service. My hair has never looked so good. You can't go wrong with amplify. There…read moreis no style they can't do! I'll be back soon.

Unprofessional and disrespectful barber. Openly antagonizing to customers. Mid service.read more

I'm always thrilled with my creative cuts and color from Sam, BJ, and Larisa. Prices are fair too.read more

Came here for the first time. I recently moved here to Berkeley, and have been looking for a new…read morespot to get a haircut. I was recommended this place. It was a great experience! Staff was friendly, service was thorough and my barber kept making sure I felt good about the progress. Great place I will be making my regular spot!

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.

If you go to edge hair salon, ask for Anna! She is the most experienced stylist and the only one…read morethere that knows how to perm coarse, short Asian hair. I've been going to Anna for almost two years now and have gone through so many different hairstyles. I feel happy and confident after each time. She is also such a joy and delight to talk with. On top of all this, the price is so affordable for the quality of haircut and experience. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Thank you Anna!

I just saw Anna for a perm (my first perm ever) and had a fantastic experience. Anna was so kind…read moreand communicated well throughout the process. The results were perfect, I will definitely be back.