Space Salon

Maryn was wonderful. She is a skilled listener and is very good at explaining every step of the process. I never felt rushed, misunderstood or forgotten during my appointment. I am very happy with the result and look forward to returning again!
The salon itself is very nice and clean. However, they ran out of Olaplex and the shampoo I was going to buy at the same time. Hopefully just my bad luck and not an issue of under-​stocking.
Overall a great experience though and would recommend it!

I moved to Vancouver a year ago and have really struggled to find a hairstylist to match mine in the UK. Wow to Maryn at Space! She did a perfect job and is totally adorable and bubbly with it, as was everyone else I spoke to there. I’m so happy, she is now my Vancouver hairdresser for life :)

First of all, the salon itself is clean, modern and has a nice positive vibe. I’ve now been there three times and would highly recommend anyone to see Jaelyn! I walked in months ago with a million colors in my hair including black box dye. I had seen so many different hair stylists in the past who just didn’t understand what I wanted. I explained to Jaelyn that I wanted to go grey but keep my roots dark. What I LOVED about her response was the honesty and transparency. She didn’t just say yeah let’s do this… she explained that the way my hair is now, it will take time patience and money. My first appointment was color correction, second was lightening and by the third appointment I had a dream grey. My hair should have been FRIED after this process but it wasn’t at all. She used a new ish product called olaplex which kept the damage as minimal as possible. She asked me to trust her and I did and it was so worth it. It’s not a cheap salon by no means; but I can tell you it’s worth it. If you want to trust someone with your color, have it done right and have fun while you do it, go see Jaelyn!

Been there for a simple cut and considering the price it was not at all impressive!

I booked in with Beaux last minute yesterday and I could not be happier with my hair. He did exactly what I asked for and really listened to what I wanted. He made sure that I was looked after between waiting times and the scalp massage was amazing.

My appointment was at 1pm and I was about 5 – 10 minutes early. Stef was able to approach me at around 1:25pm from what I remember. I had already finished drinking my latte and I’ve completed the form. I believe she was just finishing with her previous client and was just taking result photos outside.
My hair before was a medium to deep brown, and I basically wanted my base color to be a shade lighter and have some brown to blonde ombré. I showed her a lot of hair photos, and I thought we were on the same page when she said «you got it!»… but I was wrong.
Stef, along with another stylist, both worked on my hair as they used a lightener. They were literally scrubbing harshly on my hair and fine bits of powder (or at least it looks like powder) were floating in the air from all the scrubbing. The fumes were getting in my eyes and my left eye was getting a bit teary-​eyed. She did give me a damp towel to wipe it off, but I think my eyes were reacting because of the harsh chemical fumes and smell, so there wasn’t really anything to wipe off. Since there were two of them, my hair kept getting tugged from left to right, kinda like tug-​of-​war.
I don’t think it was at all necessary to go through all that, as I only wanted A SHADE LIGHTER, not to have a full bleach-​out on my hair from roots to ends.
I was left alone on the chair a lot, she only comes back to peek if my hair has lifted, and there were barely any conversations with my stylist. We did have a short chat about my upcoming vacation, but it felt awkward and a bit like forced small talk.
A lot of times throughout my 6 ½ hour session, I probably was passed on to three different people while she went off somewhere else. The scalp massage that the other girl gave me was barely a massage at all. Stef gave me a scalp massage too which was a lot better, but it was too quick.
Because she didn’t explain what she was doing to my hair (sometimes I asked), I was shocked when she mentioned that she did a color correction on my hair!
After a long process, when she was blow drying my hair and styling it, I noticed that my hair was EXTREMELY light! She claimed that it was what we discussed, which I was too shy to argue, but I mentioned that it was indeed too light and just asked if she could darken it a bit.
My hair was really light yellow/​orange all the way up to my roots, and it looks more like an overall orangey blonde, rather than a brown to blonde ombré that I wanted. You can barely see any brown at all. She then just went back to mixing some more dark dye for my roots.
She also darkened my fringe that frames my face, because she said that that’s what I wanted, so I trusted her. It looked really weird and harsh because my fringe were dark while the rest were really light mustard yellow.
I saw her talking to the other stylists behind the color bar while the others have smirks on their faces and looking at my hair. I was a bit uncomfortable with the other stylists having glances on my hair from afar, but whatever.
I think she became tired and annoyed that she probably didn’t really care about what my hair would look like in the end anymore. When she was combing and blow drying my hair, she «accidentally» hit me in the face with a paddle brush. I sure hope she didn’t do it intentionally just because she was getting pissed. But it did hurt, even though she said sorry.
In the meantime, I just have to put my hair up in a ponytail and hide from the sun since I look like a mustard lemon head with some brown areas on top.
Really long story short, I ended up with an empty wallet and a head full of YELLOWish-​orange hair with dark roots, as well as smudges of hair dye on my neck and hair line.

I am so in love with my hair. Its everything, a beautiful cut that grows out nicely, very classy but with a slight twist. I don’t have bad hair days anymore — it always somehow just works. I also get compliments on it all the time.
How is my hair so awesome? Ryan at Space Salon. He took my sad hair life and totally changed it. He has been my hairstylist for just under a year now and it has been the best hair life I’ve had yet. He always has suggestions on how he could do things better for my hair, etc — which is nice as it is his craft! yet is somehow a rare quality found in a stylist. Not only that, whenever I am there I feel like all of his attention is on my hair — not on the person across the salon — also a nice (rare) quality in a stylist.
I highly recommend him. I haven’t tried anyone else at the salon (and probably never will — sorry!) but they all seem very in touch with quality work and their craft.
so much hair happiness. :)

I found after researching via the internet and booked with Ryan. The Space website had a coupon online that gave me 50% off first cut or free cut with colour and so I was sold! I had a cut and colour with him and he was professional and did a great job. i loved how the colour turned out and have been getting compliments on my hair. I will definitely be back to see Ryan.

I’m very uptight and paranoid when people cut my asian hair. My requests are usually pretty simple, but for some reason stylists always decide to take out the thinning shears, even though i said not to, and completely ruin my layers, razor my hair, and make me look like a mushroom.
After moving from Toronto to Vancouver, I needed to find a stylist & salon as good as my previous one at Donato’s.
After a few horrible hair cuts from other salons, I finally found space. I read all of the staff profiles and decided to go with Devon.
I absolutely LOVE how Devon listened to what I wanted, did what I requested, and I love my hair. I even followed him from Caramel salon (I like to stay with the same stylist when I find an awesome one). If I were to sit in his chair right now I would not say a word and know/​trust that he will do an excellent job.
Only issue is I’ve moved to the Seattle area and Devon is always fully booked on weekends! I will have to find time to drive up and see him.
I feel like a stalker, but that’s what happens when you’re awesome at what you do :)

I really really really love coming here!!!
Just so you know, until the end of 2012, I hated and feared all salons. I’d never had a haircut I really liked — I just tolerated them, or hated them. Also, since sometime in 2006 I had been dealing with my hair by myself. After growing it out from a very short cut, I needed some extra «zazz»… I saw that Space was a new salon and that there was a promotion coupon thing if you booked with Marc in a certain month. I happened to be going to Vancouver during that month, so I called and asked for Marc…
I AM SO HAPPY I DID. I’ve gone back for an additional two haircuts and they were both amazing. I have never been so pleased in all of my life. Great personalities, great service, great style, great communication. I also feel like the prices are VERy reasonable for the quality you get. I have always gone with Level 2 stylists — Marc and Salema — and they did such an amazing job.
The first time, I went with Marc and we hit it off immediately. I felt really at ease with him — usually I feel like hair stylists are kind of fake-​friendly and trying to push products at you, and I didn’t get that at all. He treated my (very damaged) hair very gently — I didn’t think he could make much improvement since it was so busted, but it looked 200% better. He also did EXACTLY what I asked him to, no unpleasant surprises. I have since seen Marc a second time and the experience was just as good, he had me laughing the whole time. It was actually fun!
I also saw Salema once when Marc wasn’t available. She has great style so I was a bit intimidated! But there was no need to be, she was really sweet and did a great job fixing layers that a stylist at another salon had botched.
It’s clear from looking at the other stylists and customers that the people working here have excellent taste and skill. Anyone else I’ve dealt with at the salon has been nothing but pleasant and accommodating. And visually, the space is amazing.

I have been meaning to add a new review for my latest experience at Space. My previous stylist at Space moved back to NY, so I booked in with Amberleigh to get a cut and colour.
I have been once again trying to grow my hair out, and finally am at the point where i needed to get rid of the dreaded mullet and finally move into the short bob stage.
Amberleigh transformed my hideous do into a hair style I absolutely adored. She also told me I have naturally curly hair which I never knew! I left feeling fabulous and excited about my new look.
I can’t wait to go back for my next styling with her.

Love love love Space! I’ve been going here for years (although I wish I could make it in on a more regular basis) and not once have I left without being absolutely in love with my hair! I’ve done dark brown to platinum blonde and now a little more my natural color with highlights and it’s always turned out flawless.
Most recently I had Erin as my stylist and although I’ve only seen her once I’m happy to have her as my go-​to going forward. Very talented lady!
I would never hesitate to recommend Space to my friends, family or random strangers on the street ;)

As a child, I underwent repeated hair trauma (1987 will forever haunt me – thanks grandma), and thus as a teen and adult, rarely went to get my hair cut. But I was fed up looking like crap, and decided to try and overcome my fear of haircuts, and went on a decade-​long quest to find a stylist who I trusted, and was willing to see more than once.
By some miracle, I found Amberleigh a couple of years ago, and she’s amazing. I now completely trust her, and for my last haircut (which I am very pleased with), when she asked me what I wanted, I said, «Do whatever you want.» She then READ MY MIND and did my hair the way I wanted.
Not only do I trust her, but she doesn’t make me cry (I usually end up crying after haircuts because they are so awful). In fact, she’s the opposite: she stops my crying. (Last time, I was very upset about something horrible going on in my life and was sobbing when I came in for my appoinment, but Amberleigh made me feel better and I was smiling after my cut.)
In summary: Amberleigh is awesome and doesn’t make me cry.

Alina is awesome! She always has great ideas for my hair and is very accommodating with schedules. Totally recommend this great salon.

Well, love the salon! Atmosphere is fun, tendy and Amberleigh is superb! My cut looks great and I always get compliments on it. That says more than anything…

My wife has never looked so good!
Personally, I rock the bald head, so I can’t exactly write this review from a position of personal experience. However, I can say with authority, when I picked my wife up she glided out the door with a smile a mile wide. She looked incredible, and quite clearly had a fantastic afternoon at the salon.
Her only words were, «Everyone in there are sooo nice!»
If you’re hunting down a new salon — give Space a try.

After my horrible experience at another salon, I decided that it was time to find a new stylist. I had been putting the experience off for a long time, and had been cutting and dying my own hair. (Only a trim of course)!
I had been to Space once before and had enjoyed the experience so I decided to give it another chance. I phoned once and their computer system was down, but I was working early mornings that day and so phoned 10 minutes after they opened. They were super apologetic and I phoned them back half an hour later and was able to book an appointment with Celina.
After I booked my appointment 2 days later I realized that I had booked it far too late in the day and phoned back to see if I could start at an earlier time. They were totally okay with this which was really helpful for me and my busy life.
I got there on a Saturday at 12 am and they immediately put me in a chair and asked what I wanted to do with my hair. I have SUPER long hair and so I asked to get around 5 inches off. It had simply become unmanageable. We agreed on a length and then she shampooed my hair and gave me an excellent scalp massage, which is actually the best thing in the world!
Because I was getting so much off I was a little bit anxious, my hair was down to my belly button and now its at bust level and looks great. Celina did a great job calming my nerves and was super chatty to me. I hate it when stylists are awkward or act like they’re having bad days so I was happy that she was chatty and interesting to talk too. She had an assistant curl my hair and even taught me how to do it, because I have no idea how to do my hair… I just brush it through like twice a day and leave it. Anyways she showed me how to curl my hair and I have been doing her technique and it has been working very well! Celina is a great hair stylist!
The entire experience only came to 63 dollars, I always try to tip well so it came to a little more, but I have spent way way more on hair cuts that were not nearly as good.

I have been going to the same stylist since Tao Salon… aside from having one haircut back in the beginning where all the hair on one side of my head was cut… my cuts were pretty good, even that cut was good just not what I asked for.
It took me three years to completely grow that cut out. I had one colour mishap; I asked the stylist when mixing the colour «that’s not going to be warm right?» because it looked orange. I was told no. Needless to say when the colour was finished my hair was saffron coloured… warm… I wanted cool blonde.
Then recently I wanted to go from blonde to ombré; a caramel brown fading into my blonde. Seemed like the easy way to say goodbye to blonde. The first colour was streaky, chunky, and the dark was spotted all over my blonde. So I went back to get it fixed, when I came out of that my hair was almost black/​auburn on top — it’ll fade right? (it didn’t) I had booked two hours for that correction appointment, an hour and a half in my stylist had another appointment. So an apprentice was assigned to finish styling my hair. She offered to curl my hair with a flat iron… I said sure.
When I washed my hair out the next day I quickly realized the last two inches of my hair was so burnt I didn’t even know what to do. I battled with it for about a week before cutting it off in a moment of rage, rather hacking it off. I then had someone else tidy the ends up.
The last thing I wanted to do before an upcoming wedding I was to be part of was to cut 2.5 inches off my hair and have it be a colour that is no where close to the PICTURE I brought in.
Maybe ombré isn’t that easy?

After moving back to the mainland from Victoria, I have been on a never-​ending quest to find a place that understands my «hair philosophy». I had a favourite salon I used to frequent as an undergrad in Vancouver, but unfortunately, it has a high turnover rate, and I can never manage to have the same hairstylist twice. I did a lot of online searching, and have had my hair cut at numerous salons, but I was most impressed by Erin’s cut at Space.
The salon itself is visually quite cool. They’ve made a creative use of the space and for someone with a disability, the entire salon is wheelchair friendly. Although I transferred to the salon chairs, the option was made available to move the chairs if I preferred to stay in my chair.
The most important part, however, is the hair cut and colour I received. I have had my hair dyed at other salons, only to come home and realize that simply half of my hair actually picked up the dye. Erin talked me through the different options after I explained my issue, and she even explained the science behind the dying process. Thanks to her, I was able to make an informed decision, and got exactly what I was looking for.
This cut is probably one of the coolest I’ve had in awhile! It’s nearly impossible to find pictures of cool bobs, as it seems like all you ever come across is graduated, inverted, run of the mill bobs. I told her what I was looking for, she gave me a realistic consultation about what my hair could do and what product could do without pushing any products on me unnecessarily. By the time she was done, she had completely transformed my head of hair. I wish I would have taken a before and after shot. This stylist knows what she’s doing! Not only that, she’s easy to talk to and no awkward moments. Perfect balance of conversation and comfortable silence. My fingers are crossed that she’ll be there when I return later this summer.

Every visit costs over $ 200. Every visit I feel like I’ve received the best hair cut ever! Sometimes i wonder if it is worth paying so much for a cut but I’ve never regretted. My stylist Alina is the best! Whether I want a bob cut, grow out my hair and get highlights she always has the best suggestions.
Every visit here is very personal. They never rush you and always offers you coffee especially now that they have their fancy coffee machine. You will find the ‘office’ dog roaming around … he reminds me of Brain from Pinky and the Brain =)
If you check in with Unilocal you get 30% off Statik Hair Products! So don’t forget! Also don’t forget to make an appointment, things book up fast especially during the holidays!