Get Your Fro Busted
Could even bloggers be beautiful? SFist doesn't look like Jude Law or Keira Knightley, but that doesn't mean we're not willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money trying. Okay, maybe there isn't enough money at Microsoft to afford a make-over THAT extensive, but one easy way to improve upon whatever the good lord gave you is a quality haircut.
SFist has ventured to a number of hair salons and would like to offer our thoughts on but a few of the many, many places in the city one can find a great chop. Remember -- haircuts are subjective, so if you disagree with what we like or you've already found a place that's giving you the hair you've always hoped for, be sure to post a comment and spread the gospel.
Some places we like after the jump!
Cowboys and Angelsis inconspiculously located atop a nondescript building near Union Square, and is the place to go for The Hipster Haircut. Bring your handbook and point to what you'd like as the stylist nods knowingly. Also, bring your spleen, cause you're gonna have to sell it to pay for the cut.
Then there's Hair Play. Whether you want to look like a Stroke or a stock broker, Fritz Clay's team of stylists have both talent and range to boot. Best part - they offer quality, taste and style for a price that's right. With salons in Noe Valley and Church & Market (Brooke Z. rules!), they even have hipster-friendly locations!
Grasshopper most definitely gets points for naming their
business after 70's TV Classic Kung Fu, even if the whole "Zen Salon" thing is a bit tired. A bit more on the conservative side, this a competent, consistent salon whose work seems best applied to female customers. Also, it's always nice to get over to South Park and have yourself a time.
Supercuts is sort of like drinking Pabst, in that it's cheap, impersonal and will help you show people that you don't care what they think. Where else can one go to be made to feel like a robot while being made to look like a high-school principal from Iowa?
A few honorable mentions are: Blade Runners on Haight, Oxenrose in Hayes Valley and Willow down by SBC Park.
While these salons (excluding the Cuts de Super) are all fancy-pants and have the pricetags to prove it, there are plenty of hair options for the fabulous but frugal. Most of the high end salons need Hair Models on whose head they allow their Padawan Apprentices to ply their trade. You'll save a ton AND get your haircut under the watchful gaze of a stylist you could never afford. Sign up here, check Craigslist or just ask your favorite salon if they need any Hair Supermodels.
SFist Alex, contributing