Hair Salons
Third-floor Aberdeen Square salon run in the Japanese style, where the same shop does your haircut and your lashes. Women's cuts start around $68 and men's around $63, with keratin lash lifts and flat lash extension sets also on the menu.
Booking ahead is the whole game with small Japanese-style salons, because a shop with two or three chairs cannot absorb walk-ins the way a chain can. Phone before you go. That single habit is the difference between an appointment and a wasted trip into a building where nothing at all is visible from street level.
The Japanese salon model differs from most Canadian ones in ways worth understanding. Cutting is treated as a precision job, often done dry, with a lot of checking as it goes. Shops are small by design. Services that would sit in two separate businesses elsewhere often share one roof, and hair combined with lash work in a single appointment is the clearest example of that.
Aberdeen Square is the newer tower across from Aberdeen Centre on the No. 3 Road side, and its upper floors are a warren of small independent businesses. Salons, studios, clinics, tutoring, a great deal you would never find from the street. This is one of the genuinely useful features of the Golden Village. Small strata units let specialists operate at a scale a street-front lease would never support, which is why this part of Richmond supports so many of them.
Aberdeen station connects into that block, which makes the Canada Line the easier approach on a weekend when the parkades around the district fill. Anyone unfamiliar with the building should allow a few extra minutes for the lifts and the corridors, since unit numbers rather than shopfronts are how you navigate up there. It is a different kind of retail geography and it takes exactly one visit to learn.
In the Golden Village neighbourhood of Richmond.
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Korean salon on the third floor of Aberdeen Square, open daily from late morning to early evening. Go here for Korean perms, magic straightening and cut-and-color work; staff speak Korean, and the mall parking makes it painless.
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Busy second-floor salon inside Aberdeen Centre with thousands of reviews behind it. Strong on Asian hair texture, precision cuts and bleach work, and easy to pair with a mall trip since you are already parked underneath.
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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.
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Japanese-style salon in the newer Capstan Way towers, best known locally for its head spa treatments alongside standard cut, color and straightening packages. Expect long combined appointments rather than a quick in-and-out trim.
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A small No. 3 Road salon built around color work, from single-process tints to correction jobs people bring in from elsewhere. Appointments also include scalp massage and deep conditioning, so a color visit runs long rather than rushed.
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Tucked into the McKim Way plaza off Cambie Road, this is a phone-to-book salon rather than a walk-in shop. Cut, color and perm work for a largely Chinese-speaking local clientele, with plenty of surface parking out front.
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