Eikon

I have been searching for a hairstylist for a very long time since I moved from Chicago. I could honestly say that after many trials and dissapiontments, I have finally found the place! Stephen took such great care of me !! He was friendly and professional! I had highlights and all over color done. My hair looks great! I will definitly be going back!

I’ve been going go Eikon for five years… wow! This has to be the longest I’ve ever been a client at a hair salon.
Dane is my guy. My color is always perfect and, when I let him cut my hair, it always looks so fresh and polished. I get complements all the time about my color and always recommend they go see Dane! He’s super friendly and professional, but can definitely have a good time!

Before we get into it, there are two things you need to know: First, I actually went to Eikon over the summer, but based on the fact that I’m still suffering from the experience I had there, I decided I should share. Second, I have had my hair bleached ombré before and although there was a little damage, it was nothing even close to this experience I’ve had this time around.
I went in to see Heather. She cut my hair which turned out nicely and a week later I went back for colour. I wanted that lavender/​grey ombré look that was pretty big over the summer. I will say that she did an excellent job PLACING the bleach — it fades really well and so if you are going for a mild bleach job, then maybe this is the place for you. However, I have medium brown hair and to achieve a pastel color, you need to bleach your hair to a platinum white blonde which is a part of the problem.
Since my appointment there, I learned through online research and asking other stylists that you shouldn’t bleach for longer than about 45 minutes in one sitting. If you bleach for 45 minutes and the color still isn’t lifted enough, you’re supposed to send the client home and have them return in two weeks so their hair can recover a bit. Not with Heather. Oh no, she had me in that chair for a full hour and when it still wasn’t light enough, she reapplied the bleach for ANOTHER HOUR. She bleached my hair for two hours straight. And it still wasn’t totally platinum!
I know brown hair is hard to bleach to platinum, but I have spent the past several months wracking my brain to figure out why she didn’t take any measures to preserve the health of my hair as much as possible? Why didn’t she send me home? Or maybe suggest a deep condition before bleaching again? How was I to know 2 hours is a long time to bleach? Other hairdressers have been known to flat out refuse to continue, because the damage is not always worth the look. I trust the hairdresser to be educated enough to make such a judgement, but she made no judgement.
When she finished she gave it a cute blowout so I was happy, but after my first shower, my hair wasn’t just dry. It was ELASTIC. It stretched about an inch and was impossible to run a comb through for months. Immediately after the bleaching I had a rat tail from hair that just burned right off. The rat tail is now significantly bigger — pretty much it’s own short layer now because the hair is so dry it knots up and rips out no matter how much I condition it. My hair is a frizzy, dry, miserable mess and I now have to cut it off. It took 5 months just for the stretching to stop. It still falls out in chunks. I want to cry every time I look at the ends because it used to be so long and wavy and beautiful and now I look like a tortured barbie doll. I know I was asking for an edgy color job, but I just don’t know how it could get this bad.
So that’s my story: after 4 hours in the chair and a whopping $ 240 after tip, my long, beautiful wavy hair has been turned into a frizzy, stretchy, tangly nightmare and now I have to cut it all off. After months of conditioning and babying, I just can’t stand it anymore. As I said before, I know bleach causes damage and I don’t want to be unrealistic, but I have seen others with darker hair than even mine succeed at the color I wanted. I put my trust in Heather as the «expert» and that was clearly a mistake that I’m still paying for.

I have gone back and forth for the past few days about writing this review because I had such great expectations based on other reviewers, even off of Unilocal,and I left extremely disappointed.
I get my hair cut once every 6 months and have yet to find somewhere I am in love with to keep going back. I scheduled an appointment and showed up right on time, I have been going back and forth between cutting about 8 inches of my hair off or keeping it long and cleaning up my layers. When I sat down in the chair, I started discussing my concerns and ideas with Heather. She didn’t have a whole lot of input to offer except that it was my own personal choice. After 10 minutes of discussion, she told me that I did need to make a decision because she had another client coming in.
Now, I understand if I were to make such a drastic change and wanted to chat with a professional about it, I should have scheduled a consultation, but at the same time, as a new client to be coming into this salon, I wish the receptionist would have told me on the phone that this particular stylist books every 30 minutes. 30 minutes is HARDLY enough by the time you wash, cut, dry and style it. (and I even opted not to have her style it because of the time crunch)
I decided not to go through with chopping it because I felt so uncomfortable and rushed. I didn’t feel I could get exactly what I wanted/​the best haircut possible from this stylist in 15 minutes. I asked her to keep my length and trim it. She finished in about 7 minutes and started to dry me. I was never given a hand mirror to see the back of my hair. I asked her to put a couple layers around my face and that was the extent of touchups to the cut once my hair was dry. Luckily, we finished in time for her next client.
I went to the front desk to pay ($ 45 for this minor snipping) and asked the receptionist to wait a second while I checked out their product line. The stylist had no problem accompanying me at the product display, though, for a few minutes, as her next client waited in the chair.
Don’t get me wrong — I like my hair cut. It is fine for what I asked for, but the overall experience and for how much I paid was just less than satisfactory… and my search for a great stylist will continue.

Alexis does an awesome job with Christians hair and is great at doing my eyebrows …

Came in for cut an all over highlight… Gave stylist, Nelson, very little direction and he still made some good choices for me. The main reason this spinster 5 stars is the receptionist (s). When I first called I got a little bit of attitude and when I got there, he was running a little behind, but they didn’t tell me, offer water… Anything. He was very apologetic, but I was starting to get annoyed by the time he was able to get to me.
And that could’ve easily been avoided if someone up front had just told me what was going on.

I had moved to PA a year ago, and was apprehensive about looking for a new salon. I’ve had the same hairdresser for the last 10 years, but Los Angeles is a little far to go for a hair cut.
A few friends recommended that I go to Amber at Eikon. I decided to go, and am really happy that I did. Amber did a great job, she consulted with me about how I wanted my hair cut, and then cut it the way we talked about. I love it, and have received tons of compliments about my hair.
I recently came back to Los Angeles for work, and keep hearing how great it looks. Coast to coast compliments are not a bad thing! Too bad I can’t fly Amber out here.
She also waxed my eyebrows. I’ve gotten compliments on them in LA as well. I think it’s funny that people are checking out my eyebrows, but it’s LA, so I guess it’s not that surprising!
I also like that the salon will send text reminders about appointments. They called to confirm, but it was nice to get the reminder on my phone.
Amber was really fun to talk to, and the rest of the staff at Eikon were friendly as well.
I highly recommend coming here (and seeing Amber) if you’re looking for a new hair dresser.

Update: I’ve had Alexis cut my hair the last 3 times and will continue to do so. She’s awesome and I see no reason to go anywhere else or schedule anyone else.
I just had my hair cut by Dane. He did a great job and was very friendly.
The rest of this is just filler because a review has to be a certain length. I’m not sure how much detail I can go into about a haircut I liked. But I liked the haircut. Dane was friendly. Is this long enough yet?

Ok, so I usually say something snarky and rude about everywhere I go, but this place was pretty nice. The interior is decorated well, but was definitely done by a man. There are bent iron rods everywhere (hehehe), and the sinks are set a little too high for 5 foot 3, me. The staff is also rather masculine, no Eat’n Park kids meals being eaten here folks ;-)
Anyways, none of that is important, because the work that Stephen did was AMAZING. As he put it «this hair looks a little, well, like a canary» Yes, that’s right I was that awful yellowy-​orange hybrid that comes from going dark then light then trying to salvage it somewhere in the middle. Stephen looked long and hard at my hair, informed me he was formulating a «plan of attack», and then saved my hair from canary faux pas h*ll. Well done. I will definitely go back.