88 Hair Auckland is a full-service hair salon at 233 Queen Street, in the heart of Auckland's CBD. The menu covers the everyday essentials and the bigger transformations alike: men's and women's haircuts, colour work from root touch-ups to full colour and highlights, perms for men and women, hair treatments, organic keratin smoothing, permanent straightening and standalone styling.
Appointments are made online, where each service shows its standard duration — a twenty-minute slot for a men's haircut, half an hour for a women's cut, an hour for colour, perms, treatments and keratin, and two hours for permanent straightening. Highlights come with styling included, and colour and bleaching are treated as separate services charged separately.
The salon is upfront about pricing: listed prices are starting prices, and both cost and duration can vary with the length, thickness and condition of your hair and the style you want. If your preferred time isn't available online, the team asks you to call the salon directly.
On Queen Street, one of Auckland's busiest thoroughfares, 88 Hair Auckland occupies a spot at number 233, in the middle of the central business district. It is a working salon in the truest sense — a place where locals, students and city workers duck in for a quick trim, settle in for a full colour transformation, or book the long appointment that finally tames frizz for good.
The service menu is deliberately broad. There are haircuts for men and women, colour work ranging from a quick root touch-up to full heads of colour and highlights, perms for both men and women, conditioning treatments, an organic keratin smoothing option, permanent straightening and standalone styling. Whatever the appointment, the approach is the same: the final price and time depend on the hair itself, so longer, thicker or more demanding hair simply gets the extra minutes it needs.
For many clients, the visit is a simple one. Men's haircuts are scheduled at around twenty minutes, making them an easy fit for a lunch break, while women's haircuts get a half-hour slot. Both are treated as starting points — the salon is upfront that the time and price required can change depending on the hair.
Colour is where the appointment book fills up. Women's colour is booked as an hour-long service, with root colour a faster way to refresh regrowth between full sessions. Men have their own colour service too. Highlights are booked for about an hour and come with styling included, so you leave the chair finished rather than half-done. One thing worth noting before you book: colour and bleaching are treated as separate services and charged separately, so if your look needs both, plan for two line items.
Curls and smoothness both get serious attention here. Men's and women's perms are hour-long appointments, with the women's service shaped by the condition of the hair and the type of perm requested. At the other end of the texture spectrum, permanent straightening is the marathon of the menu — a two-hour service, longer if the hair is particularly long or thick, that turns waves and frizz into lasting smoothness.
Between structural services, the salon offers a general hair treatment in a thirty-minute slot and an organic keratin treatment booked for about an hour. The keratin option is a natural fit for anyone who wants smoothness without committing to permanent straightening, and like everything else on the menu, it is tailored to what the hair actually needs.
Appointments at 88 Hair Auckland are managed through an online booking system, where you choose your service and a time with stylist Gina. The calendar shows the standard duration for each service — from the twenty-minute men's cut to the two-hour straightening — so you can plan the rest of your day around it. If the time you want isn't showing as available, the salon asks you to call.
The booking policy is refreshingly honest about how hair works. Prices on the list are starting prices, and both the cost and duration may vary depending on the length and thickness of your hair and the style you are after. That means a fine, short cut is quick and simple, while a long, thick head of hair needing layers takes what it takes.
The Queen Street address makes the salon an easy add-on to a city day. It sits among the shops, cafes and offices of the CBD, so a colour appointment can be bracketed by errands and a men's cut slotted into the gap between meetings. For anyone who lives or works downtown, having a full-service salon — cuts, colour, perms, straightening, keratin and treatments — a short walk away is a genuine convenience.
Whether you are after a fast, well-executed trim or the kind of transformation that needs a two-hour block in your calendar, 88 Hair Auckland keeps the process simple: pick your service, book a time online, and let the salon take it from there. Just remember to call ahead if your ideal slot is taken.