Hair Salons
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.
Finding a stylist who understands coarse, straight, dark hair should not be hard in Richmond, and somehow it still is. Plenty of salons will cut it competently. Fewer will lift and color it without wrecking the condition, and that gap is where reputations in this city get made. Mophead states a focus on Asian hair texture, precision cutting and color work that involves bleach.
Being inside Aberdeen Centre changes the logistics of a long appointment. Color runs long by nature, and a mall is a far better place to spend two or three hours than a standalone storefront on a strip with nothing around it. Groceries, lunch and whatever else was on the list are all under the same roof. If somebody is dropping you off, Aberdeen station sits directly across Hazelbridge Way.
Two things are worth knowing before booking anything technical. Busy salons fill their calendars early and the sought-after stylists fill theirs earlier, so a same-week appointment involving bleach is optimistic in this part of Richmond. Technical color is also slow work everywhere. A rushed version of it looks worse than none. Weekend afternoons are the busiest window in the whole Golden Village, so a weekday slot buys you a calmer walk in and a calmer walk out. That is not a small consideration when the appointment itself already takes half a day.
In the Golden Village neighbourhood of Richmond.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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