The Best 9 Hair Salons in Oak Harbor, Island (part 2)

Marez Lucy I know getting your hair done is expensive anywhere you go but having to pay so much $ for a service that is nothing like what you had asked for it’s just not fair. Then getting told to go back and they will fix it and get it to look more like what you had asked for initially but you have to pay more $ is ridiculous. Needless to say, we’re never going back there.

Rob H Absolutely not going back. Never felt like a transaction more than today. Brought my 4 year old in, granted he was not in a great mood, but when he needed to be asked to get into the seat the third time, the hairdresser stressed we needed to hurry up and we didn’t have much time. We had an appointment and were on time... quick haircut. Son was kicking legs a little as I supervised which wasn’t too big of an issue until the neck. I personally helped keeping my son’s head steady so she could trim the back of his neck. (Very quickly with little attention to detail.) while I was assisting she cut my son’s neck multiple times and drew blood… Had to ask him to sit still during all this and not bring his hand to his neck, which I feel terrible about. Second time with this hair dresser but two times too many. The whole experience was rushed, she was very impatient and frustrated when a four year old didn’t keep his head exactly where it needed to be, and pretty forceful with the small corrections needed. Pictures of my son’s neck attached. UNSAT. If my son wasn’t begging me for a bandaid while I was also holding my daughter and trying to pay, I would have bypassed the standard tipping options but I was willing to do whatever it took to get out of there. We were on the road home in 17 minutes flat from start of haircut to driving. Guess time was tight.

Lauren Becker I didnt know appointments were preferred, so I was a walk in customer. I only had a short wait before I was taken, and once I showed the a photo of the cut I wanted, and told her the last person that cut my hair said she wouldnt do it because my hair was too thin, this new girl said that was ridiculous, and shed be happy to cut my hair the way I wanted! So we discussed a few points and I got my hair cut the way I wanted! Best ever! Thank you!♡

meghan broadwater Stephanie an amazing hairstylist colored my hair. It was my first time. She was very knowledgeable and helpful in making a decision that was perfect for me. The team there was very accommodating and helpful to make sure I had a great experience.

Mark Williamson Might be the worst haircut Ive ever had. At least as an adult. How hard is it to screw up "Just shorten it and clean it up."? Apparently, not hard at all! I ended up with patches of hair that were more than an inch longer than others, and with no rhyme or reason. Some in the front. Some in the back. Some in the middle. Cuz, why not. Sure it looked good when I walked out, but after a shower? SURPRISE!! I looked like the baby face spider toy from Sids bedroom in Toy Story. Ya, save your money, use your kids scissor to cut your own hair. Itll hurt more, but youll get the same result. Or...OR...go somewhere else.

CM We called to make an appointment for my son to get his hair cut before his first game and they told us to come in at 4:15. Upon arrival she didn’t remember the appointment and I said he just needs a trim to get the hair out of his eyes and wants to keep the same look. She asked 3-different times about the cut and confirming the same style. Big mistake, my son was so upset he didn’t even know what to say. Not only did she take too much hair off, the cut is completely wrong, and worst of all not even! None of us will be coming back here for our haircuts. So disappointing and hoping it’s not going to look so bad for Christmas.

Misty Downard Booked online before they opened on a Sunday. Arrived early and received a call from the manager that the stylist was running late but would be no later than 10 minutes. There was only one stylist on duty and another customer had arrived by the time the salon was opened. Racheal was nothing but professional and accommodating. She listened to what I was looking for and achieved a cut I was happy with.

Genevra Brown I arrived as a walk-in appointment late in the day, but Rachel didnt hesitate to help. She completely understood the cut and style I was looking for, and the result was everything I wanted and more. Very friendly, kind, and efficient. Thank you so much!

Jill Jackson One of the BEST haircuts I have ever had! My stylist knew what I wanted and took the less is more approach. I needed shape back in my head and it looks so good! The curl is so pretty for a change

Kiara Bagasan Everything came out great! This salon has apprentices working along with professionals, so be ware that you’ll be working with potential beginners/not as experienced practitioners. I went in for a full dye and worked with an apprentice, Kylie, she was very helpful and friendly - helped me pick a color out nicely! I’d recommend being thorough with discussing what you want, make sure to be detailed. The only complaint I’d give has to do with the attentiveness to clients, from a customer service perspective, things could’ve been more personable as that applies to customer - service provider relationship. During busy hours things feel a lot more rushed, whether that has to do with my stylist or not, I personally felt slightly rushed. But once everything died down, that’s when I felt that more detail was applied to the job. Overall, though, I’m happy I went! It’s a beautiful salon with lots of choices and options, a variety of stylists there and I felt the passion for beauty these ladies had. Thank you, Kylie :)

Rebecca Metts I always ask for Desirey! Every time I have been to the Allure she always exceeds my expectations! From brightening my blonde hair or adding some fierce copper. The store owners Wendi and Jess and so sweet and I’ve never had scheduling issues. Amazing salon!

Cristie Wendi is the most genuine, thoughtful hairdresser and person you could ask for. I have very challenging hair and she always listens and suggests what is best, even if I dont realize that more isnt more! (Less is more in my case!). - I had surgery recently and was afraid to wash my hair (and the blood in it) out, she had me come in early morning and very gently washed my hair, then blow dried it with ZERO pain - what a special, lovely lady!

Danielle Pruiett I had literally the best experience at Allure, not only is the place beautiful, and super clean. But my hairdresser Desirey did so much more for me than I imagined was possible, her work is amazing and you can just tell she pays close attention to every detail, not only is she an amazing artist but she’s so friendly and makes you feel like you’ve known her forever! Also Megan cut my brothers hair, he’s a picky 17 year old and he truly loved his cut( which never happens), the entire staff just was so very inviting! To top this all off my brother left my car running and but I wasn’t sure if he ran the battery dead or if I ran out of gas, so they all jumped in to help, Desirey had her awesome husband bring me gas and then Megan(other stylist) got her car and jumper cables and the proceeded to jump my car and got it back up and running. Truly amazing experience and I will definitely be going back and recommending y’all to everyone! Thanks again!

Jayda Turner My wife and I just moved here from Atlanta. There are plently of great salons there. By far DRock is --- Absolutely the worst place we have ever visited. My wife just came back from this location to get her hair flat ironed. They charged her an extra $10 because she had "to much hair" how crazy is that?! Ok, she grows her hair long and maintains it very well on her own. She just wanted a break from doing herself. They acted like they have never styled an African-Americans hair before. Told her over and over she should cut(and get extensions) or get dreads or just do braids (we both found that racist). DRock completely rushed the job. Her hair was not fully blow dried before the started to flat iron is. Do you guys want to damage her hair. By the end it "looked" ok from the outside but it was not flattened to the scalp. We will not be coming back. If they felt so uncomfortable doing my wifes hair, they should have just said so and not waste our money on a horrific and embarrassing experience. Just case closed, these people are garbage and do not deserve to be in business. Customer services is awful and the stylists are rude.

Nadine Joy Jeff is an artist. Listed to me and did just what I asked for. Very professional. I appreciate his expertise.

Katrina Papé Super great cut and color!! So hard to find a really good stylist-thanks Jeff!

Savannah Morse I normally never write reviews but this haircut experience was awful. I asked for an inch off the bottom, face framing pieces and a ton of layering. With extra emphasis on that I really needed a lot of layers for my curly hair. I fully understand that they’re understaffed and being rushed but I purposefully came in the early afternoon on a weekday to try and avoid it as much as possible and not cause more stress. I should have left the moment they ran a comb through my dry curly hair. It caused everything to frizz and they cut it that way, they didn’t dampen it to the point it would’ve made sense to even run a comb through it. The person who cut my hair rushed through it so poorly that I had to point out my hair cut was an uneven length in the front when they asked if I wanted anything else. There was little to no layering done, especially in the back. And I had to repeatedly ask for more layers. There was no true layering done anywhere I didn’t specifically point out and instead chunks of my hair were held up to the side and bluntly cut. Nothing was done to try and feather it out to look more natural. This hair cut somehow both makes my hair look like nothing was done and yet also worse? I now have large choppy layers in the front and very flat, with almost no layering, hair in the back. While they were cutting my hair they were talking to a coworker about how ready they were to leave and while I don’t want to be callous about that, it did feel as though my hair cut was extremely rushed due to that. When they finished my haircut, they sprayed it down with water and applied a huge gob of curl crème to my slightly damp hair. My hair was crunchy and sticky in patches for the rest of the day until I was able to wash it out. I would not recommend people with curly hair come here until the basics of cutting curly hair are communicated with the staff. I don’t know if this was their first time or if they were exhausted from a long shift but I’m unemployed and was so happy to be able to afford a hair cut with my coupon just to feel absolutely screwed over with a haircut worse than what I went in with. Please speak with the individual who has a pixie cut, as this seems out of character for a hair stylist.

M Wallace Been here four times each time with someone different and only once was I happy with my haircut. Today I received the worst butchering of my life. My haircut is very simple and I explained very clearly what I wanted which was also available in my clip notes…I did not want bald patches and uneven lines. If you’re feeling brave you might get lucky and get the one stylist who knows what they’re doing but it’s not worth the risk! Go anywhere else. I hear the haircuts in prison are decent-definitely can’t be worse than what you would get here.

katie tucker Only go here if you want to support the abuse of good dedicated workers. Management is abusive and atrocious. And dont think they care about the customers any more than they care about the workers. Their entire business model is to nickel and dime you until your 13 dollar haircut is 40 dollars. Shady business, even shadier owners and a sad excuse for management.

Lulu Raavel So disappointed to learn my favorite stylist. Amy- is gone. I only went to this shop because of how awesome a stylist she was. No one else there could ever cut my hair just right. I know several others who are upset about her being gone as well! I also recently was charged $22 for my grandsons haircut. He’s five and should have been charged for a child’s cut. I didn’t speak up and I should have. If I find out where Amy has gone that’s where I’ll be going too! No more Great Clips for me. (From what I hear now it’s more like NOT SO GREAT Clips….)

Armanda Kwiatkoski Worst cut ever!!! I wish I knew her name December 29 2024 I showed her what I wanted and got what she chose to do!!! Along with the sides, back and top are all too long and uneven!!!

Catherine Wicker I got a last minute appointment here as a first time client. Jenny was nice, made me so comfortable and her massage was 10/10. I got a 60 min deep tissue massage with cupping added on. In the future I’ll get the 90 min with cupping :) highly recommend Jenny.

Robin Chiang In town for weekend and every massage appointment at traditional spas were booked for Mother’s Day so tried this out despite reviews. Fantastic - Jenny did a terrific job with hot stones, deep tissue and worked all my travel tightness out of neck and back. I will be back. Nah, you don’t get cucumber water but it was clean, convenient and a great value with an excellent therapist (Chinese massage style). Will be back. (I didn’t have any issues with tipping. Paid at end with generous tip, so no issues)

Bobbi Vesco My sister in law is visiting from out of town and she wanted to go for a massage. We were a bit “leary” because of the reviews. Let me just say, “ this was one of the best massages I’ve ever had! My sister in law agreed! We paid in advance and tipped afterwards. I will be going back!

Brittany Z This place is amazing. It is totally worth the money and the tipping. They use their fingers, knuckles, palms, forearm, and elbows for the massage. Hot stones are included. If you look looking for a soft high end essential oil frilly foo foo not good massage.. this is not the place. However, if you want a good massage and your muscles Worked, THIS IS THE PLACE! Every time I have gone, I have always love satisfied, and very happy to tip them

Arielle Morgan If you’re going to run a business in a country that is not your first, it would behoove you to learn the native language at least enough to converse with customers. Secondly, in America we NEVER tip BEFORE the service nor would we EVER ask or demand for a higher tip. I would have tipped more but I had not received the massage yet and did not know what the quality would be. Classless people working here. Music for my massage was provided by YouTube with ads. Same song the whole time, on repeat. Song sounded like a rip off of a Christmas song. Yelling to other person in the spa during my massage. Genuinely felt at times like she was trying to hurt me. Draping was excessively sloppy. At one point the therapist threw the entire towel up in the air and then lowered it onto my lower half instead of walking to the bottom of the table and pulling down. If I were a more private person I would have been mortified. Just a bath towel for draping and no neck cradle so my face was smashed into the table the whole time and by the time it was over my eyes took 30 mins to stop being foggy from the pressure. Someone should also notify this woman that you don’t massage armpits while laying facedown. I’ve been to a lot of massage establishments and some outside of this country, so I have a very open mind. Despite the total lack of professionalism or proper technique, it was the way I was treated at the end that made me completely embittered toward it. I won’t recommend to anyone going forward. This was my second time trying this place. The first time I had a male therapist who was a lot kinder and more professional. Because of the way I was made to feel on the way out the door this last time by the young woman, I will not be going back again. And lastly, if you keep getting seedy folks coming in to your establishment, then maybe you should make it look less like a place that gives more than just massages. Fully covered windows is not a great look for a professional massage business. But they aren’t professional, so don’t bother going.