Wink Salon

Fantastic salon. Very friendly and professional. I just moved to the area and was looking for a new stylist. Maggie was excellent! She had terrific suggestions, colored my hair perfectly and took the time to show me tips on how to style my hair and use different products. I look forward to my next appointment

New to Virginia Beach, and was recommended by my neighbor to try Wink. Cheryl cut my hair and it’s absolutely the best cut I’ve had in a few years— love it! Returned two months later for color and cut with Cheryl, and, again very pleased! The salon is upbeat, with a fun décor and very clean. I’ll be back!

I have never been so spoiled. This salon has got it going on.
Thank you Sassy Matt! My hair looks and feels amazing.
Going grany grey is a challenge for any stylist. Matt nailed it!

We’ve been coming to Wink for about 8 years now, so I think this review is long overdue! I go to Debbie and my two sons go to her daughter, Tori. We love it here. Can’t say enough good things about the salon. Cool vibe, great service, professional. Highly recommend.

So I had Jordan as my stylist, and I have to say I absolutely loved her and my entire experience! She is such an amazing stylist, she was so nice and friendly! I would def recommend her to anyone who is wanting their hair done and wanting the all around experience of such a great salon, she was so professional and iv never had my hair look better! Thank you Jordan if you ever see this! Awesome salon and people!

Moving from another state is hard especially when you had your «go to places» back home. Finding a hair salon was going to be a tough one for me because I’m so anal about my hair! & that’s the truth. I’m just being honest y’all. Anyway before I tried this salon out I use to go to Regis in Lynnhaven. Most of the hairdressers there aren’t so great I’ve only gotten lucky with two. Anyway I’m not reviewing Regis so back to Wink Salon… So Regis sucked & I stopped going there and decided I wanted to try out something new. I Unilocaled my life away because I was so disappointed with my previous hair cut I still had hope I would find another salon that was up to my standards. So I came across Wink Salon with some good reviews and their atmosphere seemed pretty cool, something of my interest. So once my hair grew out a bit more I drove there & came in as a walk in and they assisted me quickly. My hairdressers name was Matt. Or as they call him «sassy Matt.» His nickname is pretty genius right? Haha He is awesome. He listened & knew exactly what I wanted! I think I’m most anal about my bangs & he always gets the length I exactly want! Not too short & right underneath my eyebrows! Matt makes you feel very comfortable & his personality is hilarious! My experience here was great over all. A little pricey… But hey you pay for what you get. But I totally recommend this place! Definitely coming here until I leave the state! :)

A hair salon is very much based on who you go to within the salon. Not everyone is great. Not everyone is bad. There are plenty of great people in here based on the reviews. This review is for Jordan (a new stylist)
My mens haircut was just bad. Nothing that stood out as horrible. It was just bad all around. Poor wash, everything was rushed. She smelled of cigarettes (no issue with smoking, just don’t want to smell it as much as I did). She hit me (unknowingly I’m sure) with her instruments a few times. She cut my hair WAY too short when my only main request was simply ‘not too short, we can always take more off if need be’. No fade was done properly. No attention to how I style my hair and try to cut it according to that instead of just cut everything the same length. No digs on her at all because she seemed nice.
Overall my haircut was rushed, bad, with no attention to my individual requests. Won’t be going back to Jordan that’s for sure.

I’ve been seeing Maggie the last couple times and she’s amazing! She can balayage ombré like no ones business! She hand paints everything and is just the dream stylist everyone should have. She’s also a hoot to spend a few hours with! If your looking for a new go to gal Maggie at Wink is it!!!

I had the pleasure on a short stay in VA to get my hair done by Jordan! She did an amazing red ombré:) she didn’t even have to bleach my black hair! So it’s nice and healthy and red now!!! The service from the first call to paying the bill was outstanding. The cutest salon with such a variety of clientele. Ask for Jordan! Although I heard the rest are quite amazing too!

I this place! I have been looking for years for a salon that can do funky, short hair cuts for ladies and found it with Wink. Nino is awesome! I like to change up my look all the time and feel totally comfortable asking for any haircut that pops into my head. My most recent trip was for a pretty mohawk and LOVE it!!! The staff is super friendly and awesome! I highly recommend this place to everyone!

I just got my hair done here yesterday by Maggie and she was a dream! Wink Salon has a modern pin-​up girl feel to it. It’s extremely clean and organized. The staff is friendly and accommodating. I like to get my hair done like 2 – 3 times a year typical for a trim at some chain salon however I remember my friend recommending this place to me and I was curious to check them out. I was looking to go lighter with an ash chocolate brown color for the summer. My hair is naturally dark and thick (Asian hair) and I don’t want to spend monthly visits to the salon to get my hair retouched. I’m very low maintenance when it comes to hair. I told Maggie all of this and showed her some pictures of what look I wanted to achieve and she went right to it. The appointment took 2 hours but with Maggie time flew fast, we talked the whole time and offered some delicious peach tea while I waited. I was bit nervous to see the results after she styled my hair it was exactly what I wanted. She even showed me some techniques on how to blow dry a bob and what products to use. Maggie is new to VB, she’s be doing hair for almost a decade and knows how to please her clients. I recommended her and can’t wait to come back.

I’m a monthly repeat customer, and have had a great experience each visit. Andrew is my hair stylist, and he does a great job! I highly recommend this salon for the hair cut, atmosphere, and the overall experience!

Not a pleasant atmosphere, the girl did a terrible job withy color (patches) and didn’t cut it like I wanted despite me telling her to twice. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, but I won’t ever be returning here!

Based on Unilocal reviews, I called and asked for Meghan. Note– she doesn’t work here anymore, lol! Instead they suggested Nino to cut my short pixie hair, and he did an awesome job! I’m very picky about how my hair is cut, but after a few questions he knew exactly what to do (and I’m definitely not well-​versed in hair). I got a very layered and textured ‘do that’s somewhat edgy, depending on how it’s styled.
I will definitely be going back. He also offered to trim bangs in between cuts for free, so that’s an extra bonus :)
Also, salon is very clean and high-​end feeling, but with haircuts from $ 35-​$ 43 you don’t pay the luxury price. Was offered drinks as well.

I’ve been going to Wink for over three years pretty religiously. I was originally recommended by my best friend to try it because I was always complaining about how every time I got a haircut or color I would get a sick feeling to my stomach after getting it done. So I decided to give it a shot, and immediately I was smitten. My hair has lived many lives over the years, from having mid chest long deep red hair, to shoulder length black, to a brown pixie, and to where I am now with short platinum blonde. They always listen to what you want done and input what they think would work best for you. They’re always very polite and kind, and work with what’s best for you to get what you want done to your hair. I’m guilty in that I hardly ever make appointments ahead of time; I usually call the same day and ask who’s available. Andrew is my go to, he’s absolutely wonderful. I’ve also had Matt and Nino and Naan do my hair as well. Every time I’m always very pleased. It’s moderately priced, but let me tell you it’s definitely worth it!

Read the Unilocal reviews and gave this place a try. LOVE my new hair color/​cut. Nino helped me out and did an amazing job. Not super talkative and neither am I so it was perfect. He listened to me and was even careful with my ear (got it pierced about a month ago) and I thought that was really nice.
I went from a two year old ombré to blue/​black and I absolutely love it. Would definitely recommend to other people and I would definitely go back.
This is my first 5 star review. They earned it.

Long hair don’t care…
I recently made an appointment with «Sassy» Matt through a recommendation of an old co-​worker. He took her from bronde to platinum blonde, and made it look natural. Impressive.
I made an appt. and was able to make it in the next week. I explained everything I wanted and he did just that. Lighter and brighter blonde. I am planning on growing my hair longer and previous hairstylist kept cutting it shorter so it seemed that it never grows.
Matt himself listened and was fun to be around during the entire appt. Not to mention he is super efficient with time. Overall, I loved my color and I plan on returning. Two snaps!

Update: I called the salon a wk ago since the owner commented on this and accused me of never coming in (which was strange to me since there’s no way for her to know for sure just knowing my first name) and hoped that maybe I could finally speak to a manager and remove this review. I was told the office mgr would call me back. Never heard from anyone.
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Don’t do it.
Here goes…
I always heard great things about Wink so I was VERY excited when they were able to fit me in last minute. I was about to leave for my honeymoon and since we were going to a tropical island I wanted to change my overall color to a lighter shade (my hair is usually dark brown and naturally black).
The stylist I had (who seemed a VERY spacey) told me that she was afraid to attempt the color I wanted because she wasn’t sure how it would turn out considering I had dyed my hair before with box color. She kept bringing up this fact.
So I decided to change the plan and just refresh the current color I had which was caramel ombré peek-​a-​boos. This color was literally ALREADY in my hair but it had been a while since it had been done so it was fading. She told me that, once again, since my hair was box colored previously she didn’t think it was possible to do it without engaging in this 5 hour process that also included bleaching my hair. Look, I’m not a hair stylist so I don’t know if this is completely true or not, but my previous hair stylist and other ones prior to her have easily dyed my hair without having to bleach it or have me sit in their chair for 5 hours.
Since we had already been discussing my hair and I trusted this salon would do good work, I compromised with her and we decided to go with a full ombré that would fall sorta on the auburn/​caramel side (since I had a lot of red tint in my hair from my previous box color). Writing this now it sounds like an awful compromise… and it was. It came out bad. Orange bad. She curled my hair and made it look all pretty, but the color was something that I just never would have wanted and honestly didn’t look like it had been done by a professional.
I left thinking that maybe because it was such a drastic change in color I just needed sometime to get used to it but after two days I called the salon back wanting to come back in and have it toned down in some way because it was brassy and basically orange.
I got another appointment and the whole time I was sitting in the stylist’s chair (same stylist) she kept reminding me that we agreed to do the ombré. I told her that I wasn’t blaming anyone and that I just wanted to have it toned down because it was a little bit more brassy/​orange than I would have wanted. No blame, just a misunderstanding. She became argumentative and was saying that she didn’t understand what I wanted and continued to repeat the conversation we had in my previous visit («You said you wanted the overall but then we decided on the ombré. You said you wanted this. You agreed to this.») It was almost as if you she wanted to make sure every other stylist in the chairs surrounding her heard this so they would know this situation wasn’t her fault.
I wasn’t blaming her or anyone, I JUST WANTED IT FIXED. She kept telling me she didn’t understand and she looked so utterly confused. It was too brassy/​orange for my taste and I wanted it toned down so it wasn’t so brassy/​orange? I don’t know how that’s hard to understand. Since she couldn’t understand what I wanted and I was leaving for my honeymoon in several days, I decided to just have her dye my hair back to my natural color just to get the orange out of it. She charged me full price. At this point I had paid over $ 200 just to have my hair back to black.
I spoke to my previous hair stylist (we’re cool like that, so she doesn’t care if I bother her with first world problems like this) who basically told me what Wink had said was B.S. and she kindly put the caramel highlights in my hair (no bleach AND no 5 hr process). I love her. Anyway, I digress…
I tried to call Wink to speak to their management about 1) the fact that my stylist had been so rude to me in my second visit trying to place blame on me for absolutely no reason at all and 2) how it didn’t make any sense that I was charged full price when the stylist clearly didn’t know what she was doing both times. The receptionist told me that management at Wink doesn’t speak to customers and that I would need to leave a message. I called again after my honeymoon and was given an attitude by the receptionist who said «Well, I don’t know what to tell you — managers don’t speak to customers. I left a message and they’ll call back when they do.» I never heard from them. What kind of business refuses to listen to customer complaints? Just don’t do it.

I’ve held off on this review for so long because I felt so bad poorly reviewing nice people, but personality doesn’t cut my hair. Scissors and skilled hands do.
I don’t even need to name names because three sets of hands have left me disappointed (read: uneven to shocking proportions) and one was even the proprietor in my final attempt at hair-​salvation to no avail.
One time I went right back in to point out all the spots the hair dresser had missed only to be suggested that I was wrong and adjusted to a sub-​decent status. My wife went to the same hair dresser when I was giving the place a second chance and her left and right sides were left slightly looking like the scales of justice.
On my final phone call after a second hairdresser showed no improvement, I called and asked for my money back and was told to just come back in to meet with the owner. I did so, wasn’t offered reimbursement, and was given a best-​they-​could-​do.
Unilocal Maxx Salon and head there.

For my visit I give ⁵⁄₅ stars, it was awesome! Dana did my hair, and we had it recolored at the roots, a partial highlight and a trim with layering! AWESOME.
However, my sis made an appointment to have her hair cut and styled today. She waited there for 25 minutes and was ignored. She left after that. Ridiculous, and this is in the morning people! I am pissed off that my sis was treated this way so ⁰⁄₅ stars for that visit.