The Crush: B:Zar Hair Salon

This Japanese hair salon is a cut above
Perfect haircuts: The B:Zar Hair Salon
12 April 2012

When our elfin crop grows into more of a mop, it’s time for a chop.

In the past we’ve gone high street with Toni & Guy (a brief stint as a hair model during our student days saw us rocking dipped dyed orange around Leeds city centre before a drunk shouted ‘Parrot head’ and we reached straight for the Wella Colour Mousse); we’ve gone high end at John Frieda, where a cut and blow dry meant we couldn’t afford to leave the house for the rest of the month; we’ve even let our partner have a go at trimming our fringe (suffice to say it didn’t end well). But now, finally, we have found the perfect hairdresser.  

B:Zar is a Japanese salon on Berwick Street with a garish lime green frontage you can’t miss amid the fabric shops and Chinese herbalists en route to Oxford Street. We love that the no frills interior is always buzzing with Soho trendies popping in for a quick snip on their lunch break or settling down for a three-hour perm, all to a soundtrack of dub-step, hip hop and Japanese prog rock.

A cut and finish costs £43, there’s a 10 per cent student discount and you get a five-minute head and neck massage. The Japanese stylists are all whizzes with scissors but our favourite is the super cute creative director Ai Uraoka, who always gets our cut just right. 

But what keeps us coming back to B:Zar isn’t the well-thumbed Tokyo fashion magazines, or the staff’s endlessly quirky dress sense –  it’s the fact that there is no mindless ‘going anywhere nice on yer olidays?’ chat. None. They’ll listen politely if you fancy waxing lyrical, but otherwise they just get the heck on with it and then push you out the door with a cheery ‘Arigatou gozaimasu’.

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