Best Hair Salons in Honolulu, HI
Compare 53 hair salons in Honolulu, Hawaii with Google ratings, services and online booking. The top-rated spot is MiO's Designs Barbershop - Waikiki with 5.0 stars from 393 Google reviews.
This directory covers 53 salons and barbershops across Honolulu. The ratings data is nearly complete — 96% of listings carry one, averaging 4.6 stars — and 66% of the shops take online booking. Barbering and everyday styling are the best-covered services, with real depth in braids, locs, and protective styles too.
Which Services Are Easy to Find
Barbering has the deepest bench here: 16 of the 53 shops offer men's cuts, 16 handle fades, and 15 do beard trims. Coverage on the women's side nearly matches — 15 salons offer women's cuts, 15 handle styling, and 15 do blowouts — so a same-week appointment for a cut or blow-dry is a realistic ask.
Textured and protective work is solidly represented: 10 salons handle braids, 10 do locs, and 10 offer protective styles, with 7 taking on weaves and 7 doing extensions. Color is the thinnest category — just 4 salons list hair color, highlights, or balayage — so if a color appointment is the goal, expect fewer options and book further out.
Booking and Ratings at a Glance
About two-thirds of Honolulu's listings — 66% — take online booking, which makes comparing availability straightforward. For the rest, the phone still works; call at an off-peak hour and you'll usually get a straight answer about wait times.
Ratings run strong across the board: 96% of the salons here carry customer ratings, and the average is 4.6 stars. With scores that uniformly high, the star number alone won't separate one shop from another. Look at how many reviews sit behind the rating, and what recent reviewers say about the specific service you're booking.
How to Use This Directory
Start with the service filter, not the star sort. A service tag means the work happens at that salon — it doesn't mean the shop is built around it — so once you've narrowed the list, confirm the specifics before you book. Bring a photo, name the technique, and ask who on staff does that work regularly. For braids, locs, and color especially, ask how long the appointment runs; the answer tells you a lot about how carefully the shop scopes the job.
Where a listing shows a booking link, use it — you'll see real availability instead of trading voicemails. And if a salon lists an Instagram, a quick scroll through recent posts is the fastest reality check on the work they actually turn out.
Frequently asked questions
- How many salons are in the Honolulu directory?
- 53 salons and barbershops are listed for Honolulu, spanning barbering, women's cuts and styling, blowouts, braids, locs, protective styles, weaves, extensions, and color. 96% of them carry customer ratings, and the average rating is 4.6 stars.
- Can I book a Honolulu salon online?
- 66% of the salons listed here take online booking, so most of the time you can check availability without a call. For shops without a booking link, phone or Instagram is the way in — and a call is also the best way to confirm a specific service before you commit.
- Where can I get braids, locs, or protective styles in Honolulu?
- 10 of the 53 listed salons handle braids, 10 do locs, and 10 offer protective styles, with 7 taking weaves and 7 doing extensions. Use the service filter to pull them up, then confirm your specific style when booking — a service tag confirms the work is offered, not that it's the shop's main focus.