Elite hair cuts is a hair salon on Barrington Street in Spreydon, Christchurch, holding a 4.6 rating on Google, with a Facebook page as its main online presence. A haircut lives or dies on the conversation before the scissors come out: a good salon will ask how you wear your hair day to day, how much time you spend on it, and how much comes off. Regulars usually settle on one stylist once they find them, because hair has its own quirks — cowlicks, growth patterns, how it takes colour — and those only become clear over a visit or two. The other test worth knowing is to judge a cut three or four weeks later, once it grows out, rather than on the day alone. For Spreydon locals and anyone passing through south-west Christchurch, Elite hair cuts makes an easy stop on Barrington Street.