Marcelo & Co Hair Design is a vegan hair salon on Upper Queen Street in Eden Terrace, Auckland, rated 4.9 on Google. Its stylists offer balayage, foils, highlights, haircuts and gents' haircuts, perms, permanent straightening, global colour, toner, Wellaplex and Keratin Nanoplasty, with complimentary on-site parking and barista coffee rounding out the visit.
Colour is often the real test of a hair salon. A careful colourist will ask about your hair's history — old box dye, how it lifts — before committing to a plan, since lightening over previous colour is where mishaps happen. Balayage and highlights bring upkeep as well: toners to manage brassiness, bond-building treatments for condition, and return visits every couple of months. A consultation first, and honesty about how much maintenance you'll genuinely keep up, beats arriving with a photo alone.
Find it on Upper Queen Street in Eden Terrace, close to the CBD and easy to reach from any direction.