Hair salon · Austin, TX

Best hair salons in Austin, TX ranked by Google reviews.

We pulled the top-ranked hair salons in Austin, TX from Google’s own listings. Here’s the leaderboard, what the leaders share in common, and how a branded biglove.to link helps yours close the gap. Data refreshed from Google Places.

Leaderboard · top 10

Who’s winning the review race in Austin.

  1. 01 Strange Bird Salon — hair salon in Austin

    Strange Bird Salon

    2400 E Cesar Chavez St Suite 100, Austin, TX 78702

    5.0 ★ · 1,105 reviews

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  2. 02 Nova Hair Collective — hair salon in Austin

    Nova Hair Collective

    2124 E 6th St UNIT 108, Austin, TX 78702

    5.0 ★ · 498 reviews

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  3. 03 Wild Desert Beauty — hair salon in Austin

    Wild Desert Beauty

    2832 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Suite 122, Austin, TX 78702

    5.0 ★ · 147 reviews

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  4. 04 Garbo A Salon and Spa Northcross — hair salon in Austin

    Garbo A Salon and Spa Northcross

    7739 Northcross Dr K, Austin, TX 78757

    4.9 ★ · 691 reviews

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  5. 05 Smooshine — hair salon in Austin

    Smooshine

    3016 Guadalupe St B-100, Austin, TX 78705

    4.9 ★ · 673 reviews

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  6. 06 Hair House ATX — hair salon in Austin

    Hair House ATX

    805 West Ave #1, Austin, TX 78701

    4.9 ★ · 476 reviews

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  7. 07 Holy Wild — hair salon in Austin

    Holy Wild

    1000 E 5th St. Ste. 114, Austin, TX 78702

    4.9 ★ · 277 reviews

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  8. 08 Method Hair — hair salon in Austin

    Method Hair

    1800 E 4th St #103, Austin, TX 78702

    4.8 ★ · 368 reviews

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  9. 09 Red Stella Salon — hair salon in Austin

    Red Stella Salon

    5117 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78751

    4.7 ★ · 1,441 reviews

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  10. 10 Bella Salon — hair salon in Austin

    Bella Salon

    1221 W 6th St a, Austin, TX 78703

    4.7 ★ · 636 reviews

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What the leaders share

Patterns from the top of the leaderboard.

Hair salons run on referrals and Google reviews. The leaderboard below shows what asking customers consistently does to a review count over a few years.

  1. They ask every customer, every visit. Not just the obvious fans. The compounded effect of asking 100% of customers — even shyly, even with friction — beats asking 10% of customers enthusiastically.
  2. They make the link short enough to say out loud. The hair salons at the top of the Austin leaderboard print a memorable URL on receipts, table tents, or cards. Long Google review URLs don’t survive the trip from till to phone.
  3. They don’t gate. No "rate us 5 stars first" forms. No satisfaction filters that route happy customers one way and frustrated customers another. Google’s 2026 review policy and the FTC’s 2024 Consumer Reviews Rule both prohibit gating, and the leaderboard reflects it — the top Austin hair salons are clean.
  4. They follow up once, never twice. The polite single ask converts. The pushy second ask annoys.

How to climb the Austin hair salon leaderboard

Five steps that move the needle in 90 days.

  1. 01

    Claim a memorable review URL.

    Pick a slug that customers can read off your receipt. biglove.to/your-hair salon beats the long Google URL on every printed surface. Free preview at biglove.to/check — no signup needed to see your slug + QR.

  2. 02

    Print the QR somewhere your customers see it twice.

    Receipt and door sticker is the highest-conversion combo. The customer sees the QR when they pay, again when they leave, and again at home if they keep the receipt. Three impressions beats one impression by a wide margin.

  3. 03

    Make the ask part of the script.

    Train staff to mention the QR card during natural pauses ("If you enjoyed this, our Google review code is right here on the receipt"). Don’t script a 5-star pitch — that’s gating. Just point at the QR.

  4. 04

    Reply to every review within 48 hours.

    Public replies signal an active, accountable hair salon — both to future customers reading the reviews AND to Google’s ranking signals. A short, sincere thanks is enough; engagement matters more than length.

  5. 05

    Track which ask path works.

    Pro tier on biglove.to gives you click analytics — country, hour, device, referrer — so you can tell whether the receipt QR or the email signature is actually driving the reviews. Optimize what you can measure.

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