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The Aberdeen Centre branch of a Vancouver-area salon group, open seven days a week from late morning to early evening. Cutting, coloring and styling for a mostly Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking clientele, with walk-in timing that suits mall hours.
Being able to describe what you want in the language you actually think in makes a real difference in a salon chair. DOT COM Gold serves a mostly Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking clientele from its Aberdeen Centre location, doing cutting, coloring and styling, and that language range is one of the reasons people cross the bridge to get their hair done in Richmond rather than closer to home.
An in-mall salon solves a scheduling problem too. You can sit for a cut and then finish the rest of a Saturday without moving the car, which sounds like a small thing until you have spent an afternoon driving between three separate errands.
Aberdeen Centre is on Hazelbridge Way in the middle of the Golden Village, with its own Canada Line station outside the door. The building is busiest on weekend afternoons and in the weeks before Lunar New Year, when the concourse fills and the queue to get into the parkade backs up onto Hazelbridge itself. Weekday mornings are the opposite, and anyone with flexibility in their schedule should use it.
Color work is the thing to plan properly. It takes considerably longer than a cut, it is much harder to slot into a gap between other commitments, and the difference between a rushed appointment and an unhurried one shows in the result for weeks afterwards. Ask what a particular service involves and how much of the day to set aside, because the answer varies a great deal depending on what you are asking for.
In the Golden Village neighbourhood of Richmond.
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