A hair salon at 36 William Pickering Drive in Albany, Auckland, The Collective Hair & Beauty holds a 4.9 Google rating. Owner Kylie Hoskins, a stylist of twenty years, took the salon over in 2017 and runs it as a group of individual stylists working under one roof, stocking Paul Mitchell, Lust, Olaplex and GHD products and offering the Agi One smoothing treatment.
Good salon work starts with a proper consultation: a stylist who asks how you actually wear your hair day to day will give you a cut you can live with, not just one that looks right on the way out the door. Colour deserves the same honesty, so it pays to ask what upkeep it needs before committing. And smoothing treatments are only as lasting as their aftercare, since harsh shampoos can strip them out wash by wash.
For Albany locals, this North Shore salon puts professional hair and beauty care within easy reach on William Pickering Drive.