Kiss Kiss Salon

Thank you Kym! The days of having a ‘tent’ for hair are over! First time ever I didn’t put my hair up after a cut. You are truly the curl whisperer! If you have curly hair and want to love it again or for the first time like me — go see Kym at Kiss Kiss. AWESOME!

Decided to go here based on other Unilocal reviews, and definitely would recommend this salon to any other curly girls out there! I immediately felt welcomed by the super friendly and personable staff, and got a great cut as well. Will definitely be back as soon as my hair’s long enough for another cut! I’ve had a few other Deva cuts in other cities, but this one was the best and also the most reasonably priced… plus the place is easy to get to. Thank you Kiss Kiss Salon!

Kym – who’s a goddess– has been cutting my hair for over 20 years.
It always looks phenomenal after she’s cut it. The hallmark of a superb
haircut is how it looks as it’s growing. Her haircuts pass the test – every time.

Thank you, Kym and Sarah for providing the opportunity for me to LOVE my curly hair again! You both took your time consulting with me and each other about the cut and the color. I felt like I was in capable hands the whole time.

I’ve been searching for a great curly hairstylist in Portland since I moved here and this place just put an end to my search. Kym is amazing! Get you’re hair cut here if you’ve got bouncy curls!

Eeep! So thrilled with my new cut and color by Sarah Stevens!
As fellow Curly Girls know, its difficult to find a stylist who knows their stuff, and truly understands how to cut and style curly hair. Its a rare salon visit that has me liking my hair right out of the chair. I always have to fuss with it at home and use my own tried and true methods. Not the case this time around. Sarah totally schooled me on how to wash and style my curls, and I love the results immediately!
The salon is quaint and clean in a converted 100 year old house, and the staff is friendly, knowledgeable and unpretentious. So happy with my Kiss Kiss experience!

Came in for a Deva Cut and was very happy with the results. This was my second Deva Cut, and it came out different from the first, but very well.
The space is nice. They’re wash sink is pretty comfortable. Parking was easy when I was in.
It’s a drive for me, but worth it. I’ll be back.

Kym is the best! I have thick curly unruly hair that I never get along with. I usually leave salons in tears because no one knows how to cut it so I avoid going. I went to Kym with the idea of chopping it so it was easier to wash and put in a pony. I left with a new found love for my hair. I have never been happier and almost never hide it in a pony. And the compliments! I will never go anywhere else.

I have naturally curly hair and like many girls with curly hair I have a hard time finding someone to cut it properly. I follow the Curly Girl/​Deva Curl system and when I found this place did Deva Cut, I’m ashamed to say I took longer than I should have to make an appointment.
Today I had my appointment with Kym, and I was nervous, but excited. Kym sat me down and talked about what she’d do with my hair, but when I told her that I wanted something different from her vision, she was totally ok with doing what I wanted. She cut my hair dry, like you should for curls, and took the time to make sure everything was perfect. While my hair dried she brought me complimentary tea and I just relaxed.
After all was said and done, and she had my hair styled, I was floored. It was amazing. We hugged and I thanked her for everything. It was well worth the $ 55 bucks for a cut and I’ll be back when I need my hair cut again.

Love, love, LOVE Kym and what she does for my hair! My hair has recently begun to change texture (thanks to gray hair) and is much more wavy/​curly than before, but also tends toward the frizzy on «bad hair» days. I’ve had my hair cut by Kym many times over the years at other places (I don’t live in town, but if I know I’ll be in P-​town I’m willing to wait for Kym to do it!), but not with this new texture. In the meanwhile, she’s now at Kiss Kiss Salon with Sarah — and they now emphasize products & techniques for working with curly hair — what a perfect synchronicity for me!
I went in with the idea that I just needed a trim to help as I grow out my hair, and Kym was perfectly willing to honor that (despite seeing that it was frizzy/​curly/​wavy) without trying to talk me into something else other than to say she could help me bring out the curl in a whole new way. The way she goes about cutting hair is amazing — like a sculptor who can already «see» the end result buried inside the material being worked with! She also doesn’t ever give a sense of being rushed or trying to hustle you through to get to her next appointment — she just snips away until we are both satisfied with what we see. She did not disappoint — and I emerged from under the dryer with the most incredible mane of curls ever! I couldn’t believe it, and of course wasn’t sure if I’d ever be able to re-​create it at home. But Kym patiently explained the process until I felt I confident enough to try it at home (and I have a lousy success rate of re-​creating salon styles at home).
When I did finally try it again two days later, I decided (with the input of some friends) that I could use a less conservative grow-​out look, as well as a review of the steps I needed to do to bring out the curls as perfectly as she had. I called Kym and she was great about reviewing the steps again with me by phone, and was even willing for me to come in for a touch up on my bangs and back. She added some sass to it & it looked even BETTER, and I’m so ready for summer with my new look!
Bonus fact is the high-​quality, all-​natural products they use/​sell, which is an important detail for me. The salon is light, bright, funky and conveniently located off of Interstate, with no parking issues the two times I went — another plus!
I haven’t worked with Sarah but hear she’s a hair-​color master. Overall I’d say it was one of my most satisfying salon experiences and Kym is an incredible stylist — get thee in to Kiss Kiss Salon for the New You!

Hands down the best hair-​cut for these gorgeous curls I’ve EVER had in Portland. After five different stylists at various «curl-​certified» salons Kym is the best. She’s an artist!
Within minutes of chatting with her and showing her pictures I could tell she completely understood my vision and she confidently started trimming away. Her technique/​approach was brilliant and I immediately settled into my chair and let her do her magic.
The true test of a great curly hair cut is after the wash, goop, dry and style. To my absolute delight I was even more thrilled! I can’t speak highly enough about Kym as a stylist and my overall delight to flaunt my new do.
PS: For curly girls who know… my curl is wavy/​curly, fine and 3B but I have a cut and style that makes it look like I have huge volume, thick curls and definition.

Sarah Stevens is an angel from heaven.
Kiss Kiss Salon feels like home.
After 32 years of blow-​dried brushings, relaxers, braids with extensions, «loose» perms, shave-​offs, and finally 11 yrs of dreadlocks, I finally decided to see what my real curly hair was like. It had been YEARS since I had been to an actual salon and had never been to one that felt perfect.
I went to a couple of salons and it was a scary world out there! Not everyone truly understands curly hair. Sarah cuts curl by curl, dry. She takes all of the time that she needs and I never feel rushed or incomplete. She knows.
Several of the stylists at Kiss Kiss salon work with curly hair and Sarah follows the DevaCurl/​DevaChan doctrine. Speaking of DevaCurl, they sell the whole product line there and I have NEVER found a hair product line so perfect. So perfect that I threw away that stack of half-​assed hair crap that I had collecting in my cabinet. Curly girls — you know you know what I’m talking about!
Go to her. If not her, someone else there. It’s a truly magical place.
*One thing — expect a wait to get in with Sarah. But trust me, it’s worth it.

Kiss Kiss Salon and Kym are the very best in curly hair styling and care. Look no further if you have struggled to shape and care for your curls — Kiss Kiss will sort you out! The Diva Cut/​dry cut is so precise that now all I have to do is let my hair dry and grow for the next three mons. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.
Since moving to Portland last year I have experienced three horrible hair cuts and so had taken to trimming my own super curly hair out of desperation. In one hair cut Kym was able to reshape my hair and show me how to quickly and easily set my curls each morning so I am out-​the-​door in a few mins. I look forward to my next appointment (in three months!).

Lee gave me partial honey/​carmel highlights on my curly brown hair to cover my gray. I finally got a look I love!

I have been seeing Lyn at Kiss Kiss for 6 years now and she has totally changed the way that I feel about my hair. She specializes in cutting and styling curly hair and uses non-​toxic all natural hair products that I absolutely love. I have recommended many friends to her and I would definitely recommend anyone to her who has curly or frizzy, hard to manage hair. She takes the time to explain how the structure of curls are different and require special treatment and specific products, all of which I had no clue about before coming to her. For my entire life I had straightened, shampooed and brushed out my thick and frizzy, wavy hair, not knowing that there were lovely soft curls hiding underneath all that mistreatment. Now I get tons of compliments on my hair all of the time. Lyn does things differently which is why she is so good. I love Lyn and would not trust anyone else with my hair!

Kym is a true artist. She has an uncanny ability to recognize a persons true style and suggest how to express it in a hair style. And then she creates that style with great skill. I can’t say enough good things about her, go check it out for yourself.

Lynn at Kiss Kiss changed my life; she showed me how to really take care of my curly hair without a fuss. After all these years of cutting my own hair and getting perms and curling irons, I have never been satisfied with my hair until now. Lynn has also worked with me over the past 3 years to figure out the best color for my hair and brows, which took some time and discussion; more brown? More red? Last summer she also helped me choose a wacky shade for a vaudeville show I sang in. Even though Kiss Kiss sells hair gels and conditioners, Lynn showed me I could just use Dollar Store products and get nearly the same results (which I sometimes do, but I think the salon’s products are better so I tend to bring those home too). Lynn changed my life for the better by teaching me about my own hair’s ways; nobody has ever done that for me.

OK, I wasn’t going to write a bad review, but my experience was handled so terribly I can’t imagine doing nothing. Also, there is no contact email for the owner of Kiss Kiss Salon so I had to resort to Unilocal for some self-​redemption. Firstly, I would like to say, I was referred to Lynn at Kiss Kiss Salon by a really good friend-​so this is awkward. I was explaining what kind of hair I have (wavy/​curly) and she claims to be a curly hair expert. But when I came in, I still gave her ample description and brought in photos of exactly what I wanted. I didn’t feel listened to. After the oddest cutting technique I have ever seen in my life, she disappeared with a bottle of color-​without any conversation of what color!!! I mentioned I wanted all-​over color over the phone when booking my appointment-​but why just assume? I sat for a short time with color on, until her friend showed up and she quickly rinsed the color off. After getting pounds of product in my hair and sitting under a dryer with product in forever, I was already thinking to myself, if this is how I have to do my hair every morning? If so, there is no way this will work! The «bangs» I wanted… didn’t translate at all. It wasn’t at all what I had asked for. Basically my hair looked like hers, which is not what I asked for. Still I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. I kept thinking I will go home and wash it and try styling myself. After a day, I washed my hair. My husband asked if I colored my hair… It didn’t look colored. I messed with my hair for over an HOUR and called Lynn saying I was disappointed, Lynn said, «It was because I didn’t have the right product.» She said she thought I was happy when I left and reluctantly said to come back in and she would fix it and give me free product. I made another appointment for a week later. After consulting friends, they all said– get my money back and don’t go back! They were all shocked by the cut-​its bad folks! Then when I mentioned color they all said «You don’t even look like your hair was colored!!» So I cancelled my appointment with Lynn. I couldn’t handle going back and walking out with something worse. After much thought and prompting by friends, I called her, yet again and left a message to discuss reimbursement for my hair, even a partial refund. I spent over $ 100 and it was a b-​day gift from my mom. I am a small business owner and right now I don’t have $ 100s of dollars to get my hair RE-​done. She never called me back. There is no contact email for the owner of the salon… So, I am obviously being blown off. I own a business and I am shocked about the way this has been handled. I would never write a review like this for a small business if it wasn’t this bad.
Obviously, after I wrote this review, Lynn had some of her friends write positive reviews for her today, instead of calling an unhappy client to discuss my experience.

I hate getting my hair cut, and Kym really listened to what I had to say before she picked up the scissors.
That’s worth a lot to me.

Love it! Sarah’s the best!