Best Hair Salons in Philadelphia, PA
Compare 106 hair salons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Google ratings, services and online booking. The top-rated spot is Bee Braids with 5.0 stars from 13 Google reviews.
Looking for braids? See braiding salons in Philadelphia (box braids, knotless, cornrows & locs).
Our Philadelphia directory covers 106 salons and barbershops citywide. The strengths here are barbering and textured hair — fades, braids, locs, and protective styles are all easy to find — while color-tagged listings are scarcer. Two-thirds of listings take online booking, so you can often skip the phone tag.
Where Philadelphia runs deep
Barbering leads the count: 23 salons handle men's cuts, 23 offer fades, and 20 do beard trims. If you want a skin fade and a beard lineup in one chair, you have real options across the city.
Textured and protective work is the other strength. Seventeen salons offer braids, 17 handle locs, and 17 do protective styles, with 12 offering weaves and 12 handling extensions. Women's cuts, styling, and blowouts are each available at 17 salons. Color is the thin spot in our data — only 4 listings carry tags for hair color, highlights, or balayage. A missing tag doesn't prove a salon won't do the work, but if color is the whole point of your visit, call and ask before you book.
Booking and ratings, by the numbers
About 67% of Philadelphia listings have an online booking link, which is genuinely useful — you can compare openings across a few salons in the time one phone call takes. For the rest, calling is the move, and how the front desk handles that call tells you something too.
On ratings: 73% of the salons here carry a public rating, and they average 4.64 stars. That's a high baseline, which means the star number alone won't separate one salon from another. Weight review volume and recency instead — a rating built on hundreds of recent reviews means more than a perfect score built on a handful.
How to use this directory
Start with the service filter, not the star sort. Our service tags mean the work happens at that salon — they don't mean the salon is built around it. Once you've shortlisted two or three, check whether your specific service shows up in their recent reviews or on their Instagram, then book a consultation for anything involving chemicals, extensions, or a big change.
Two more habits worth keeping: bring photos of what you want (and of your hair as it is now), and confirm the details when you book — many braiding and extension appointments expect you to arrive with hair washed, blown out, or with your own hair supplied, and the chair is the worst place to find that out.
Frequently asked questions
- Do Philadelphia hair salons take online booking?
- About 67% of the 106 salons in our Philadelphia directory have an online booking link. For the rest, call — it's slower, but you can ask questions a booking form won't answer.
- Which hair services are easiest to find in Philadelphia?
- Barbering is the deepest bench: 23 salons handle men's cuts, 23 offer fades, and 20 do beard trims. Braids, locs, and protective styles follow closely, with 17 salons offering each. Color is the scarcest tag in our data, at 4 listings.
- How should I read salon ratings in this directory?
- 73% of Philadelphia listings carry a public rating, and they average 4.64 stars — a high baseline. Since most salons rate well, pay more attention to how many reviews a salon has, how recent they are, and whether they mention the service you actually want.