Best Hair Salons in Long Beach, CA

The services Long Beach covers well

Barbering is the deepest category here: 20 shops handle men's cuts, and the same number offer fades and beard trims. The women's side nearly matches it — 19 salons offer women's cuts and styling, and 19 list blowouts.

The number worth noticing is textured hair. Seventeen Long Beach salons handle braids, 17 work with locs, and 17 offer protective styles. Plenty of city directories thin out fast on natural hair; this one doesn't. Color is the tighter market — 5 salons list hair color, balayage, or highlights, and 6 handle extensions or weaves — so for those services you're choosing from a shorter list.

Booking and ratings, by the numbers

Just over half of Long Beach listings — 56% — take online booking. Where you see the option, use it; it's the fastest way to check real availability. For the rest, a phone call or an Instagram message works, and braiders and loc stylists in particular often prefer a quick consultation before scheduling a long appointment.

On ratings: 85% of the salons here are rated, and the average is 4.79 stars. When nearly every option sits close to five stars, the star number stops being the differentiator. Look at review count instead — a 4.7 built on hundreds of reviews tells you more about consistency than a 5.0 built on a dozen.

How to use this directory

Start with the service filter, but read the tags for what they are: a tag means the salon does that work, not that it's the shop's main focus. Before booking anything transformative — balayage, a loc retwist from someone new, a major chop — confirm the specifics by phone or through the salon's recent photos.

Then let the reviews narrow it. Sort your shortlist by review volume, skim recent ones for mentions of your service, and book a consultation for anything involving color or a texture change. Fifteen minutes of checking beats months of growing out a cut you didn't want.