Altonacutz is a hair salon at 4 Saint Leonards Road in Bayswater, a bayside suburb on Auckland's North Shore, and it holds a 5.0 rating on Google. What separates a good neighbourhood salon from a forgettable one is usually the consultation: a stylist who asks how you wear your hair day to day, how much time you will spend on it, and what your hair actually does before picking up the scissors. Photos help, but a stylist who talks you out of a cut that will not suit your hair type is worth more than one who simply copies a picture. Regulars tend to stay with one stylist through years of trims, colour and the occasional drastic change, because that stylist learns how their hair falls, grows and takes colour. For Bayswater locals, having a well-rated salon on Saint Leonards Road makes that kind of ongoing relationship easy to keep up.