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| - The first thing you should know is that I'm one of those people who don't take care of my hair at all. I'm not picky about the shampoo I use - in fact, I buy whichever brands that are on sale - and I don't do the whole leave-in conditioning or the hair oils stuff. As long as it's clean and it's not in my face, I'm 90% OK with it. But since I haven't cut my hair in about 7 months, and I started to call it "gunk of hair", and I had recently discovered a strand with about 5 split ends (on one single strand!), I figured that I need to go all out and find a salon that would actually take their time taking care of me instead of rushing to the next customer.
NC Salon advertised on Facebook, and through Foursquare, I discovered a friend who visits this place, I decided to give this place a try.
I booked for 1:00PM on a Monday, which is the time they open that day. I had to wait for a bit before I was serviced (maybe about 20 minutes?) but considering I rarely get my hair cut, and I had the day off, I didn't really mind the wait. Plus, I hadn't even decided what cut I was going for - I'm super indecisive and super lazy with my hair - so I didn't mind sitting there flipping through hairstyle magazines.
The shampoo person gave me a really nice head massage, and the receptionist lady offered me the hair magazines and a cup of tea - I had brought in Tim Hortons unfortunately - while I waited for my turn.
The stylist I had was named Jeffrey. He was pretty quiet and polite. I say polite because I'm so self-deprecating towards my hair, and knew for a fact my hair was 100% damaged and ugly, I kept asking him if my hair was really damaged, but he would just say, "I think if we thin it out, it'll be better." Such an indirect answer, so polite. :P He was quiet, but because I also want to take better care of my hair, I asked him questions about the hair products he was using. He used some sort of heat protection cream before blow-drying, and then some sort of yellow hair oil at the end of the cut - which, by the way, left my hair ridiculously soft at the end. Hair gunk no more!
Personally, I think it would be advantageous in instructing the stylists here at this location if you can speak Mandarin. Most of the stylists here are Mandarin speakers - but they can understand Cantonese, no worries - but you can probably gain more hair tips that way if you can hold conversations with them.
That said though, I spent a good 5 to 10 minutes after my hair was done asking the receptionist lady (in English) about their ombre+balayage services. She told me their ombre+balayage services are more often done at their Yorkville location, but she was very knowledgeable about the whole hair dyeing process, so that was very helpful.
I also found out that Christmas and Chinese New Year are their busiest times, so I feel quite fortunate I was able to squeeze in an appointment on the last Monday before Christmas.
The overall cost was just under $40 (tax included) for upper waist length hair, for a regular non-senior stylist. It's the same cost as you would get from a downtown Korean salon, so I don't find it a big deal. I would come back to this location again, instead of making the trip downtown!
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