Best Hair Salons in San Francisco, CA

What's easy to find here

The service mix is fairly even. Women's cuts, styling, men's cuts, fades, and blowouts each show up at 19 salons, so a standard cut, a dry style, or a wash-and-blow is not hard to book. Beard trims are close behind at 17 shops.

Textured and natural hair has real coverage too: 11 salons handle protective styles, 11 offer locs, and 11 do braids, with weaves at 7. On the color side, highlights, hair color, balayage, and extensions each appear at 7 salons. Keep in mind these tags show that the work happens at a shop, not that it's a shop's headline service — confirm the specific look you want when you book.

The booking and rating picture

About 71% of the 90 listings take online booking, so for most shops you can hold a time without calling. The rest still work the old way, by phone or walk-in.

Ratings are solid where they exist: roughly 80% of these salons carry a star rating, and those average 4.72. A high score on a handful of reviews tells you less than a slightly lower one built on hundreds, so glance at the review count on each card, not just the number of stars.

How to use this directory

Start with the service you actually need. The listings are tagged, so you can narrow to braids, balayage, fades, or a blowout instead of scrolling the whole city. From there, sort by whatever matters more to you — a strong rating with a deep review count, or the convenience of online booking.

Before a first visit, come with a reference photo and a plain-language version of what you want ('grown-out root touch-up,' 'skin fade,' 'knotless braids'). It gives the stylist or barber something concrete to work from and makes the consultation faster.