Lavish Salon

This is my fav salon in Victoria. My stylist is awesome (she's the owner and only hires excellent people so I'm sure the other stylists are great too...she's a former Aveda instructor). I always feel like I get great value compared to other salons. I also love it because they don't have extremely loud annoying music playing in the background. I can actually have a conversation with my stylist (who does the best up-do ever!). It's clean with a nice feminine French modern ambience. But it's not pretentious or overly trendy or intimidating. They don't up-sell their products or push the sales but they have nice organic products. It's a very comfortable caring experience and my hair has never looked better!

I really have no complaints.

It's right beside Jam cafe snd close to Chinatown so you can go for a bite too!

i am in LOVE with this salon not only is it cheap but it's very nice with the design and everything thank you!!

I feel slightly bad for writing this review because I feel that lavish is a very nice salon but that my hair experience there could have been better.

I went there yesterday morning on the hunt for a professional to fix my disastrous highlights that were Orange yellow and Brown. I decided to not damage my hair any more than I had to but to let someone fix it so I could repair it from then on.

I was greeted by a really nice receptionist who said there was a stylist availible right then. I met Angela who was very bubbly and pleasant. I discussed how I got into the hair predicament I was in and what I wanted to be done. She seemed to be on the same page of what I wanted, lighter ends darker base. I expressed that I didn't want really dark hair because my boyfriend doesn't find dark hair attractive and I want to be comfortable going from brassy strawberry blonde to a brown colour. She said what I needed was a Victoria Secret look and I was sold.

She proceeded to apply a dark brown colour on my roots , but then surprised me when she began to apply it all over my hair. I thought she might leave my already light ends and focal highlights alone instead of dying and then bleaching them again. I felt that this would damage my hair considerably more, but she promised it wouldn't. As she applied the bleach she would pull apart my colour coated strands of hair and I knew then my hair was ripping. After waiting another hour or so , she rinsed me out and began to cut and style. The hair cut went well, she only cut my severely damaged ends and gave me more layers for volume. Then came the part that I felt was completely unnecessary.

When styling someone, most hairdressers might consider that if your clients hair is clearly over processed and ripping because of excessive damage that they may have to be very gentle and light handed when brushing. I found Angela to be aggressive in her techniques and she seemed to be rushing because of an appointment she had arriving soon. I felt awkward and uncomfortable as she was yanking my hair so hard that my head was literally being pulled toward her. oddly enough as she was ripping my hair she mentioned that I may need to "baby" my hair which made me think why isn't she taking this into consideration?

She dropped her brushes multiple times and even hit me in the head with the blowdryer. Needless to say my hair looked frizzy, dry and off. She tried to make my hair look less damaged by curling it half handedly, but it came out as a slight wave. The apron came off and I felt my hair. it felt almost worse than when I came in , and when I was shown the back of my head I noticed the bad placement of a lone light brown highlight.

I paid the 168$ and did not tip as a way of saying I did not enjoy more than half of my experience, and when I got home I made sure to deep condition and promised from then on to always fix my hair disasters at home .

I been here twice now as Vanessa has been only hairdresser of all ones I tried over nine years here to cut my hair the way I keep telling hairdresser! Liz is sweet as well always smiling and greeting people. I was recommended by someone to Vanessa and I can only be grateful I don't even have to worry about my eyebrow ring in when she coming and cutting and the hair washing is so epic and relaxing! Great job!

I had Olivia today and I'm not the most knowledgable with hair or how to explain what I wanted... Olivia took the time to understand what I wanted and exceeded my expectations!
She was patient and meticulous with my hair and it turned out amazing.
I will definitely be headed back!

I recently got a haircut at Lavish and it was a really good experience. I found the salon because I was looking for a place with environmentally friendly / cruelty-free products, which they use. I had Kelsey and she was very friendly and down-to-earth. She listened to what I wanted and did a really good job of executing it even though I'm not the best at explaining what I want with haircuts. She even went over and above for me and styled my hair because I was her last appointment of the day! Here is a rundown of my experience:

-Friendly greeting, was brought a glass of water.
-Stylist was running just a little behind, but I'd rather have someone who takes their time with each client anyways.
-She sat down with me and talked about what I wanted for a few minutes before getting rolling with the shampooing/washing.
-Was friendly and talkative throughout, but in a natural way.
-As I mentioned, she took the time to style my hair even though I was only getting charged for the cut.
-I am very happy with the cut - it's just the amount of change I wanted.
-Price was very reasonable (47 before tip I think).

I will definitely be going back next time I need a cut! I really don't have any complaints about my experience.