Arcadia Hair Stylist is a boutique hair salon in Shop 1 of The Arcade, an elegant historic arcade on Victoria Road in the heart of Devonport, just near the pier and across the shore from central Auckland. The salon was formally reopened on 10 July 2019 by June Sun, a creative hair artist with more than ten years of New Zealand hairdressing experience and training, and a former Servilles stylist and colourist.
The service menu centres on two crafts: professional cutting and colouring. The salon's gallery shows what it loves to create — blonde balayage (often paired with a low bob haircut), highlights and lowlights, school-ball hair-up styles and waterfall braids, with makeup featured alongside. June works with professional brands Nak and Wella, named under the salon's 'Products We Love', and has committed to keeping quality services and products at competitive prices for loyal clients.
Expect a personal, one-to-one experience: notices are written and signed by June herself, from New Year thank-yous to advance warning of any temporary closures. The salon opens Tuesday to Saturday, 9:30am to 6pm (closed Sunday and Monday), and takes bookings online through Fresha as well as by phone and email. The motto says it all: Look Great. Feel Amazing.
Tucked under the elegant arches of The Arcade on Devonport's Victoria Road, Arcadia Hair Stylist is a small boutique salon that runs on two things: genuinely skilled hairdressing and a personal touch you rarely find in bigger city chairs. The shop sits in the heart of Devonport, just near the pier, in a historic arcade the salon itself describes as having 'the ambiance of history — just across the shore' from Auckland. The homepage makes a confident promise: 'Ask anyone in town' and you'll hear about the best experience and service in the area, with every appointment framed as a VIP treatment.
Arcadia Hair Stylist was formally reopened on 10 July 2019 by June Sun, a creative master hair artist with more than ten years of hairdressing experience in New Zealand, where she also trained. June arrived from Servilles, where she worked as a stylist and colourist, and that background shapes the two services at the core of the Arcadia menu: cutting and colouring.
On the cutting side, the salon promises 'a professional Cutting that will leave you looking and feeling phenomenal' and asks for only an hour of your time. On colour, the offer is just as direct: a team that knows exactly what you're looking for in your next colouring appointment and will send you home happy, en route to what the salon calls 'a ravishing new look.'
There's a telling detail about how this salon is run: whenever anything changes, the news comes straight from June, signed with a heart. Her New Year message thanked loyal clients for their support since the reopening and promised to keep delivering the best services and products at competitive prices. When she travelled home to visit her parents, she posted the closure dates well in advance — 15 September to 6 October — so no one would arrive at a shut door. One stylist, one standard, and clients kept firmly in the loop.
Want to know what Arcadia does best? The online gallery answers quickly. Blonde balayage appears again and again, often paired with a low bob haircut — a combination that looks like something of a house signature. Highlights and lowlights earn their own showcase, worked into dimensional colour for clients who want depth and brightness without going fully blonde. Recent balayage-and-bob transformations and sets of highlight-and-lowlight work give new clients plenty to point at when they sit down.
Occasion work is another strength. The salon's 'Hair up School Ball' collection shows structured upstyles and intricate waterfall braids created for ball season, and a makeup look sits alongside them in the gallery — a hint that hair and makeup can be handled in a single visit when a big event calls.
Products matter here too. Under the heading 'Products We Love', the salon names two brands — Nak and Wella — the professional lines behind its colour work and home-care advice.
Part of the appeal is simply where you'll be sitting. The Arcade is an elegant, historic shopping passage on Victoria Road, a short stroll from Devonport's pier and the waterfront that faces Auckland across the water. The salon leans into its setting, inviting visitors to 'come and enjoy the ambiance of history just across the shore' for 'an unforgettable experience'. Its motto — Look Great. Feel Amazing. — is paired with a favourite philosophy quote: 'What we think, we become.'
Arcadia opens Tuesday through Saturday from 9:30am to 6pm and closes Sundays and Mondays. Appointments can be booked online through Fresha, by phone, or by email at arcadiahairstylists@gmail.com. If you're travelling from central Auckland, the salon's framing makes it an occasion: cross the water, wander the village, take your hour in the chair and step back out into one of Auckland's most characterful seaside neighbourhoods.
Whether you're due a tidy-up, chasing blonde balayage before summer, planning highlights or scrambling for school-ball hair, Arcadia offers something increasingly rare: a decade of craft, delivered one client at a time, under the arches of a historic Devonport arcade.