Lola Hair Studio is a hair salon at 11 Wallath Rd in Westown, New Plymouth, rated 4.7 from 45 Google reviews, with its Facebook page doing the work a website usually would. A good suburban salon lives or dies by repeat visits, so it pays to settle on one stylist and stay: after a couple of cuts they know how your hair actually behaves, not just how it looked fresh from the chair. Expect a short consultation before the scissors come out — a stylist worth returning to asks how you wear your hair day to day, then steers you away from anything your morning routine won't maintain. Photos help, but listen when they talk about hair type: a style that suits fine, straight hair can fall flat on curls, and colour always needs a longer booking than a cut. For Westown locals after a well-reviewed cut close to home, Lola Hair Studio is handy on Wallath Rd.