Joey cuts hair fantastically. I'm very pleased. Antoine and Aris were great, too! I get…read morecompliments constantly!

I have lost count of the number of compliments on my haircut form Kelsey!…read moreI have been coming to her for several years now and she always takes the time to understand the cut I want and executes it flawlessly. She is also great at setting you at ease in her chair. I can't giver her high enough praise.

Joy styles my hair does an amazing hair cut. I show her a pic and she does it even better than the…read morepic. Alexa colors my hair also does an amazing job. Really talks to you about the color she is going to do. I also show her a pic and does it even better.

I love my parents, I love my dog, I love the house that I grew up in - but none of those things…read morewill get me on the train from NYC back to Philly like Jojo will. First read about Jojo Clapson 2 years ago in Allure magazine, as they'd named her best hair cut in the city - well that was it, I had to go. I fell in love. She's amazing - she spent twenty minutes just playing with my hair and talking with me about it for even discussing what we'd do with it, and even then she was able to gauge my comfort level but push just enough for me to try something new. I left never having felt sexier and more beautiful, and I never knew I had such great hair! I also remember feeling like she didn't push me to buy any of the salon's products (they carry bumble and bumble) which was a nice change from previous salons. I saw Jojo for the rest of the year that I moved to Philly - she does complimentary bang trims, but she is VERY busy so make appointments as far in advance as possible. The receptionists and hair washers (can't be the correct term!) are also so cool and friendly. I always felt like I was stepping into a newyork city salon in Philly. When I actually DID move to newyork, Jojo recomended a previous colleague (at Cutler) who I now see most of the time - but sometimes I still need a HeadAreA fix!

Bobby did my hair and he did an AMAZING job!! I got a sun-kissed Bronde balayage and it's…read moreseamlessly blended and exactly what I wanted!!

I've been a client of the salon (particularly Anh) for about 2 years. The salon is easily…read moreaccessible, clean and staff are always professional. Anh is talented! She listens to her clients needs and applies her expertise- the results do not disappoint. I've always been satisfied with my services. Prices are on the higher end but services and pricing are explained on the website. End results are worth the pricing.

What a great salon! Rossi greeted me with a smile right from the door! Bossanova music just…read moresetting the mood for a wonderful experience. Celest, my hairstylist, was so nice and personable I felt like I've been going there for years. I loved the steam machine for my hair. It really moisturized hair. By the end of my experience I got that I got the haircut I wanted and my gray/silver natural hair color was popping from steam machine and the special shampoo that take the yellow tint out of gray/silver hair! My neice referred me to salon and she left with a fresh bob cut! Only heard great things about Salon Tenshi and I now I know they are great! Cheers! Gina

It was the worst salon experience my daughters and I had yesterday. If you have naturally curly or…read morecoily hair, this is NOT the place for you. I was very diligent when I went inside the salon the week prior to make my appointment to ask if they did natural hair. The receptionist assured me they did which I can assure you is not accurate. We started off with a scalp treatment which when she was parting the hair was very painful. (my hair was just unbraided from 8 plats the day prior so it was not tangled. Then the hair was steamed with the scalp treatment and then we went to the wash bowl. The scrubbing was so ROUGH, one of my daughters asked to check her scalp for nail marks. (never use nails to wash a scalp) In addition, when she was washing my daughter's hair, there was no caution taken to make sure the hair didn't get tangled and she over manipulated the ends with unnecessary rubbing. After the wash, there was a conditionner put on the hair, and that was promptly rinsed out. (NO comb or finger detangling done with the conditionner) At that point, I thought perhaps she would detangle with a leave-in. The hair was then wrapped in a towel and we each waited for almost 1hr while she worked on the other person. Finally we went to the styling chair during which time she roughly separated out the hair into 5 big chunks and then used her paddle brush and DETANGLED FROM ROOT TO TIP. I unfortunately had an appointment that evening and resisted leaving with wet tangled hair. Several times, I had to tell her that the hair was being pulled and that my scalp was hurting. At some point, I would take the hair and actually remove the shed and ripped hair pieces that were getting caught in the hair in order to preserve the rest of my hair and scalp. It was the most excruciating blowdrying experience for all three of us. (there needs to be some training on proper detangling methods) You can't detangle afro-textured or curly hair the same way you would processed or straight hair. The hair needs to be detangled first and either clipped away or twisted away in sections before you start blowdrying one section at a time. Also, you should ALWAYS detangle FROM TIP TO ROOT. With the amount of access to information nowadays, everyone knows that basic concept: Youtube, Google. It was a horrible experience and they should really not take on clients whose hair they are not trained to take care of. I appreciate the salons that have turned me away as this shows they know their capacities and care about the experience of their patrons and aren't just out to make a buck. A hair salon experience should not cause excruciating pain to the scalp nor should it result in unnecessary hair being ripped out. When you tell your stylist that you are experiencing pain, she should change how she's proceeding not tell you to push through. Telling me and my daughters that our hair is dry when she was styling the hair is illogical. Afro-textured hair is naturally porous therefore you need to deep condition after a clarifying wash and also add a leave-in before blow drying. None of those things happened! Most importantly you can't detangle un-moisturized, towel dry afro-textured hair with a blowdryer. This place is great if you have a relaxer, a Japanese treatment, a Brazilian Keratin treatment or straight hair. The entire time she kept telling us that if we got a Keratin treatment (which she insists isn't a chemical or relaxer???) that it would help with the tangles. I actually had to tell her that the tangles that we're experiencing are because the hair is not parted, it was not detangled properly and there is no moisturizing product on the hair. Worst of all, this entire process cost me $575. $160 for a scalp treatment, wash, flat iron and a trim. They charge $40 for a trim which is considered a cut? When I went to pay, the lady told me we received a "free steam" this time since that was our first time. How else was the $30 restorative treatment (never informed of this treatment) and $45 oil treatment going to penetrate the hair strands? It would be like charging someone hooded dryer time for a Rod set. EVERYTHING in the salon service is a separate cost and their prices aren't advertised. Never again!

It's scary to try a new hair salon, but Salon JKU put all my fears to rest with a very positive,…read morerelaxing, competent, and friendly haircut experience. After trying another high-rated salon in Philly and having a hairdresser try and fail to thin out my very thick hair for two hours, I did some research and came across Salon JKU. Even though they don't don't have an online booking platform, it was fairly easy to make an email inquiry, then book a time within the week over the phone. I booked with Amelia, and was really glad I did. She asked a lot of good questions about what I was looking for, then talked me through what she was going for. I get my hair cut every 6 months, so I was really just looking for someone to take out weight and give my hair some shape. Amelia gave me a wonderful short haircut with a lot of movement and texture. Her cut was meticulous and she took out an incredible amount of weight, yet maintained volume and body. After our discussions about my typical haircare routine, she gave me a cut that looks good without any styling. I really appreciated that, because sometimes the cut looks amazing after it's all blown out, but it's not a look that I can ever recreate at home. A few days after my appointment, someone asked me how I styled my hair, and I told them I didn't style it at all. They couldn't believe it because it visually had so much volume! The pricing is higher than other places that I have been in Philly (I paid $100 + tip), but in my opinion, it was totally worth it for one of the best haircuts I've received.

As an adopted Asian American female I never really had guidance on how to style and color Asian…read morehair. I suddenly realized that maybe I was missing out on something for the last 27 years. So I went on the phila queens Facebook group and posted for Asian hair stylist recommendations for both cut and color and someone kindly recommended salon JKU to me and after looking at their Instagram and their stylist personal Instagram's I decided that this was the best salon for Asian hair given a lot of the stylist are of Asian descent. I got a full head balayage done by Memmi (@coloristmemmi) and haircut done by Chris Sotos. I cannot express enough how pleased I am with the results. PLEASE note this does not mean the salon is specialized in Asian hair only. I was the only Asian client in the salon yesterday. You definitely don't HAVE to be Asian to come here lol I just really really wanted my hair done by someone of Asian descent since I've never tried that before. Anyway, Memmi did such a good job and was so pleasant to talk to while she was doing my hair she really is an interesting person with such a cool backstory. Same goes for Chris, who I had many things in common with. I cannot wait to return to the salon for my next cut and or color. PLEASE take the time to see the huge transformation my hair underwent in the photos attached to this review. And also please check out their Instagram @salonjku because you will instantly want to go there too, like me. And wow I'm glad I did. they do outstanding work here thank you so much team for making my hair look amazing for the first time in my life.

Amazing salon. Staff are friendly, I had a great experience. It's always nerve-racking finding a…read morenew stylist. The salon itself is beautiful and in a great area. Eric is great, this is one of the best cuts I've ever gotten. I have a lot of very straight hair and wear it in a chin-length bob so when its not perfect its so easy to spot mistakes and cuts don't always wear well out of the salon. We talked about it and he texturized the bottom of my hair so its very easy to re-style and dries great.

New Year, new hair. Or so I hoped…read more.. After a thoroughly lackluster but nauseatingly expensive ($225) 'curly cut' by She Who Will Not Be Named the end of last September, come January 2022 I was dismayed at how frowsy I looked but I was also feeling very distrustful of letting any more curl "experts" get near my head. My choices were to cut it myself (been there, done that), fly back to San Francisco to let Rafiki at Pastel Salon do the deed (not really practical for any number of reasons) or find someone closer to home (Center City). That is how I found myself and my curls at the Andre Richard Salon. I was early for my appointment with Ava Darling but she greeted me warmly, took my coat, got me draped and seated and chatted briefly about what I was looking for. She was finishing up with another client and gave me a timeline when she would get started with me. Since I always travel with something to read and the salon's atmosphere was calm and relaxed, it was no sacrifice to sit and zone for awhile with the latest New Yorker magazine. There was music playing but it was so unobtrusive (which is always great), it simply added to the 'ah, now let's just slow down and take a breath' ambiance. Ava is a lovely, courteous, softspoken Scorpio who works very hard at stellar customer satisfaction. She is an excellent listener and best of all (to me), very visual. When I told her what I was looking for in a cut, she immediately got out her phone to show me pictures of what she felt I wanted. She explained that it was important to her that both she and her 'guest' were on the same page and pictures were the best way to assure that. Absolutely! My confidence in the outcome of this cut instantly went to 100%. As she did the dry cut, she explained everything she was doing, answered my questions and asked good questions regarding my likes, dislikes, and lifestyle-as in-how much time and effort did I want to put into a style. It was reassuring to me that I was being treated with so much intentional, individual care and not just getting a cut/style that she wanted to do. After the dry cut, where I exclaimed that I looked 1,000 times better already as well as 10 years younger, I was shampooed, given 2 separate treatments, one to brighten up my color, the other a deep conditioning. Both were part of the cost of the cut but they made me feel like I had booked a spa day as I relaxed under the dryer. Again, with every product she used, Ava explained what she was putting on my hair, why she was doing it and what the outcome would be. At no time did she push me to buy any product she was using or invest in a particular product line. Ava is not 'just' a DevaCurl stylist. She provides full service, so if you are looking for color, any kind of cut for any kind of hair or anything else that can be done to your tresses, she's the woman for you. She constantly checked in with me throughout the 2 hours I was there and I felt very much seen, heard and cared about. When blowout/diffuser time came, Ava again took her time to make sure all the lines of the cut were in accord with each other and that I was satisfied with her work. I was astounded at what she had been able to get my hair to do in what seemed to be an effortless way. I asked about the DevaCut 3 month rule for the next appointment, and she said to see how my hair was growing out, what and where I wanted to go next with it (my first thought was curly mohawk) and asured me that it was fine to wait until Spring before I came in again. In the 7 years that I have been back in Philly, this entire hair affair, from making the appointment and pre-paying online to having Ava help me into my coat as I was preparing to depart, was, without a doubt, the easiest, nicest and most satisfying haircut/salon experience I've enjoyed. I can say with a big grin that I will be most definitely back again!

If you're looking for a place where you can get a reliably expert haircut, her name is Crystal, and…read moreshe's now at Crimson Salon. Sit down in Crystal's chair and within five minutes you'll know, your hair is one less thing you have to worry about. Whether you want classic and easy or hipster and fun, after one cut, you'll book your appointments for the next two months. I've been coming to Crystal for about seven years now, and I'm so happy she's now also in center city. The staff at Crimson are wonderful! They are friendly, make it easy to book appointments, and have taken great care to make clients safe during Covid. Crystal is not only brilliant in her craft, she's a blast to know and talk to. There are two things every guy needs to have a dependable pro for, a tailor and a haircut. Mark this one off your list.

The plus side is this place is really cute and the staff and hairdressers there are really nice and…read morefriendly. The negative is that my friend and I went there and they were getting their hair done, and no matter WHAT they did, they could not communicate to the stylist what they wanted. It was a request for a pretty basic braid down the back of the head and a beard trim...and it just ended up looking messy bordering on bad. The stylist just didn't seem to understand the request and my friend left feeling like they had thrown money down the toilet. It's unfortunate because again, they are a really nice group of people.

First off, Alma is fantastic. She has a great story, a great personality and she's extremely…read moretalented at cutting hair. One of her best qualities is that she really listens to what her clients are trying to accomplish. If you just want a little bit taken off, that's exactly what she'll do. If you want a completely new style, she can create a great new look. I called her towards the end of the day as I was in town on business and needed my hair trimmed. She kindly offered me an appointment at the end of her day allowing me to get in the same evening. The interior of the salon could use a refreshing but I'm sure that will be part of her future plans. All in all, an outstanding experience. I will definitely be back when I'm in town.

Alma is an artist! I've been going here for 3+ years for the most perfect bob / long bob haircut…read moreand maintenance. She knows how to do a bob- perfect every time. Alma is also extremely talented at balayage. I'm obsessed with my cut as always. Couldn't ask for better service. Thank you!!