Headlines & Company

I was very impressed with Marti. She was amazing! I loved my haircut. She also really listened to concerns I had about my hair. I made the mistake of coloring my hair at home and really damaged it. She did an oil treatment and my hair felt so much better. I look forward to seeing her again:)

I heard about Headlines & Co through a groupon deal and decided to purchase the Keratin Straightening Treatment. I’m SO glad I did! What a great place — it’s convenient, friendly and everyone makes you feel very comfortable. Hairdresser, Caitlin Williams, did a fantastic job and explained each stage of the process. I will definitely be going back for a cut! Thank you Caitlin and Headlines & Company.

I saw Marti for straightening and she was wonderful. From the get go she was all about making me happy. She was friendly, open, attentive and generous. The parking is fine. I am used to going there for yoga and I never have a problem… walking a couple of car lengths isn’t going to hurt anyone… I am stoked as I had a groupon and now I have a great experience.

I heard about Headlines & Co. through a groupon deal and decided to take the risk and have my hair cut by Marti. I’m so glad I did. I showed her a few pins from pinterest and she made it come to fruition. She shampooed and prepared my hair with a moroccan oil mask and then took her time cutting and blow drying afterwards. She is extremely friendly and personable and has been around town for 6 years. The whole experience was great. I will definitely be going back to Marti.

Marti is such a sweetheart and helped me plan a fun girls trip to the salon. I was worried about scheduling and marti went out of her way to make sure everything was perfect for our fun spa day!

I first found Marti through the Axxess card and now I won’t let anyone in town touch my hair besides her!
She does an truly amazing cut and color and is an extremely kind, caring women above all. The color always comes out very natural looking with no streaks, so it’s hard for me to understand the comments below. Also, she makes my highlights blend extremely well so I don’t have to come back every three months!

This is an amazing, wonderful, relaxing salon. Read the reviews before my visit and was a little worried. Then I walked into the place. This is not a salon, it is an Art House where artists ply their craft!
Parking in Santa Barbara is truly a nightmare no matter where you go. It is a 2 – 5 block walk from Parking to where you want to go all over Santa Barbara. So not sure if previous posters are familiar with the hell that is parking in Santa Barbara. If you think parking in SB is easy, you haven’t been to SB. That said, there is limited parking available for the salon, you just have to be brave enough to pull up the drive way and find a spot.
The salon is AMAZING — so welcoming and intimate, never more than 2 clients at once and every stylist on the Team is sincerely pleasant! The rotating art work (from LOCAL artists I may add!) is just soothing and calm and very elegant!
Reaching by phone — there is no central phone so I don’t know what that Reviewer was doing or who they were calling — your appointment is specific to your hairstylist. You communicate directly with the person doing your hair from initial meeting to appointment setting to actual on-​site services.
Lastly, Caitlin rocks! If you are lucky enough to get a very limited appointment with this talented artist, you will be unbelievably happy!

Marti, the owner of this gorgeous salong is THE MOST HUMBLE, PROFESSIONAL & EDUCATED hairstylist I’ve met thus far! Her patience, warmth and understanding has been so welcoming from the moment I entered her gorgeous salon. Losing my longtime and talented hairstylist upon my move from Beverly Hills, CA it has been an easy transition when I stumbled upon Marti’s zen and very relaxing salon. I’m grateful to have had her working and restoring my hair to it’s original natural beauty. Thank you again Marti, not only did I gain a fabulous new hairstylist, but your welcoming arms made me feel at home in Santa Barbara! Your knowledge of hair restoration has been insurmountable to me and I’m already feeling confident again to have my hair looking fabulous! Finding a hairstylist is not an easy task, especially if you’re new in town. I only trust solid friends to refer me to a new hairstylist as being a hairstylist is not just about hair, but it’s about understanding and connecting with your clients and truly understanding your clients from a deeper level as you’re entrusting this person you don’t know very well with your hair and a woman’s hair is everything to their state of confidence and self-​esteem. So it’s a risk to simply to trust & hope a Unilocal review to help you make a decision in picking out a new hairstylist. And this is why I can confidently say that Marti’s expertise and deep level of understanding and importance in listening to her clients is what sets her apart and is a rarity in the business of filtering through good hairstylists vs one of a kind hairstylists! So for your Unilocalers out there, this is one review that is coming from a fashion and celebrity publicist who’s worked in the business for 20 years and I know from countless interactions with hairstylists to makeup artists etc that I wouldn’t steer any Santa Barbara woman wrong and you can hold me to my review that Marti is a diamond in the ruff! A treasure of a hairstylist all of us as woman hope to find on our first attempt to try out a new stylist! Marti, I’m grateful I found such a gem like you! See you this week for the next phase of fun! More highlights!

Warning: stay away from receiving any services from Marti. If I could give this salon a –5 star I would.
My friend went to this salon and asked for highlights from the OWNER of the salon. Her hair was stripped multiple times and processed continuously by this «hair stylist» until her hair was multi-​colored orange. She lost almost half of her hair, as it was falling off in the salon, and even after. The body is completely gone. Any licensed cosmetologist knows that getting a desired highlight look takes time and is a process. My friend knew that it was going to take a few sessions over the course of some time. But did Marti use her intelligence learned from Cosmetology School? Absolutely not. Dear readers, you can get a better hair color for $ 10 at Fantastic Sam’s, or you can just ask your 3-​year old nephew. Please do not ruin your hair and go to this salon.

They are impossible reach by phone. It took a whole week of calling for me to secure an appointment! When I got there, Marti (the hair stylist for the Groupon I had) was not there and had cancelled. She said she did not have my phone #, yet she had called me multiple times before to schedule an appointment.
I rescheduled my appointment for haircut and partial highlights, leaving 2 hours before I had to get to work, which was nearby. That should have been enough time. But Marti called me the same day saying that she would be 30 min late. When I got there, it turned out she had also double-​booked, in addition to being late. I sat under the blowdryer with foils in my hair for 45 min while she did the other customer’s hair. My scalp felt like it was on fire.
I indicated the length I wanted my hair (about 4 inches shorter). Since I got layers, the front looked the right length. Marti did not show me the back of my hair. I was so anxious about being late to work that I did not think to ask about seeing the back of my hair (stylists usually show you without you having to ask). I didn’t realize until I got home from work that she had barely cut the back of my hair, and it was at an annoyingly long length still.
In the end, my hair kept breaking off because I was under the blowdryer with chemicals in my hair for so long (even though my hair is healthy and I NEVER heat style my hair and have only highlighted it once years before). It felt as if she hadn’t even cut my hair, and I ended up being fired for being late.

This place was great! Marti gave me a haircut and talk about a relaxing time! I felt like i was getting a massage. She took her time with me and gave me a wonderful haircut. And we had a great conversation, what an interersting woman. The studio is beautiful and cozy, and you can really tell that shes put herself into it. I’d recommend this place to anyone! :)

Great atmosphere in this salon, more like a zen hangout. Haircut by Marti was great, including our conversation. I will be back for sure.

I can’t review this place because I never got to go. They were impossible to get ahold of on the phone, the parking is a nightmare (I had to circle the block and park a good five blocks away and walk because all the parking is 90 minutes and you’re towed), and they doubled-​booked me and claimed they didn’t get my number to call me back. The kicker is I tried to call them several times on the drive over to double-​check my appointment but no one picked up! On the drive home I decided to cancel — and the line was busy. Really unprofessional.
The only other review says their work is good, so they may be a great salon, but I never got to find out :-(

This place didnt have a review when i signed up for their groupon so i thought i would be the first to start.
My hair turned out amazing. I got a haircut and a deep Moroccan oil treatment and my hair doesn’t feel like the crispy, frazzled crap that it normally is. I am taking away a star merely because they need to work on phone etiquette because it makes them look less badass then they are.