Anna's Hair Studio is a small hair salon on the Kaipara Coast Highway at Kaukapakapa in Rodney, holding a 4.9 rating from 26 Google reviews. Customers praise Anna as a lovely, chatty hairdresser working in a calm, welcoming space, and one reviewer is a monthly regular.
A good village salon lives or dies on the repeat visit. Anyone can manage one decent cut; the test is whether your stylist remembers how your hair grows, where it misbehaves and how much to take off so the shape still looks right six weeks later. Regular trims beat occasional overhauls for most people, and a stylist who knows your hair can predict what it will do without being told. In small townships the appointment tends to double as a catch-up, which is half the reason people stay loyal.
On the highway at Kaukapakapa, it sounds like exactly the kind of place where the haircut and the catch-up come as one.