Kess Hair & Beauty Shirley is a hair and beauty salon in Shop Q at 199-201 Marshland Road, Shirley, Christchurch, and it is open seven days a week. Its services include precision cuts, blow-dries, full colour, balayage, foils, ombré and highlights, along with keratin smoothing and straightening, full-body waxing, brow threading and tinting, eyelash tinting, facials and massage. The website says the senior stylists are experienced and trained, and that the salon uses salon-grade hair products that it also sells. Prices are shown on the booking page before a visit. Bookings can be made online or by phone on (03) 930 0098. Gift cards are sold online and in the salon.
Customers quoted on the website praise the stylists for listening first and for the results of their cuts and keratin treatments, and say the staff are friendly and professional. One says the eyebrow threading was perfect and the price good for the quality. The website says locals rate the salon as good value. Within a kilometre there are four other beauty salons in our figures. Lux Nail Bar Homebase, 0.2 km away, is rated 4.9 from 262 reviews, and Natural Lines Beauty Therapy, 0.5 km away, is rated 4.9 from 14 reviews. Our pick in Shirley for a keratin treatment and a cut.