Best Hair Salons in Salem, OR

The Lay of the Land

Salem's directory holds 10 hair salons, with listings spread across the 97301 and 97302 zip codes — enough ground to cover most of the city without you needing to check a dozen separate sources. Because the list stays this size, it's realistic to actually compare every salon card rather than skim the first few and stop.

Most of these are full-service operations rather than single-treatment shops, meaning a given salon typically handles more than one kind of appointment — cuts, color, and styling under one roof rather than split across specialists. The service tags on each card show what a given salon has listed, which is useful for narrowing your search, but treat them as a starting point: a tag confirms the work happens there, not that it's the salon's focus.

Booking and Ratings, Straight Up

About 70% of the salons in this directory take bookings online, so for most of the list you can skip the phone tag and reserve a slot directly from the card. The rest still take appointments — you'll just need to call or stop by instead of clicking a booking button.

On ratings: 30% of the salons here have a posted rating and review count, and among those, the average comes out to 4.87 stars. That's a small sample, which matters — a salon with one or two reviews and a high score isn't the same signal as one with a longer track record. Read the review count next to the star rating before you weight it heavily, and don't rule out an unrated salon; it may simply be newer to the platform or not yet built up a review history here.

How to Use This Page

Start with the basics that matter for your visit: does the salon take online booking, and does it list the service you need? From there, an Instagram link on a card is worth a click — for the salons that share one, it's usually the fastest way to see actual finished work before you commit to an appointment.

If a specific service isn't tagged on any salon here, that's a gap in what's been reported to the directory, not necessarily a gap in what Salem stylists can do — it's worth calling to ask directly. And when you're weighing two similarly rated salons, look at the review count as well as the star average: a high rating built on very few reviews carries less certainty than one backed by more.