Snipz Hair & Tanning on MacLean Street at Paraparaumu Beach is a working hair salon and a salon-professional hair product outlet rolled into one. In the chair, the team offers hair colour, curls, cuts and hair straightening, and is happy to work from the inspiration photos you bring along. Up front and online, the shop stocks more than thirty professional brands — Schwarzkopf Professional, Joico, Wella, Loreal, Olaplex, Davines, Clever Curl, Fanola and many more — at outlet prices, with clearance items, bundle deals and litre-size duos among the draws. A second outlet store operates in Otaki.
The online store at snipz.co.nz carries the full range, organised both by brand and by hair need: blonde and coloured hair, curly and wavy hair, volume, treatments for repair, moisture and bond building, scalp care, hair loss and thinning, nanoplasty and keratin straightening, vegan and organic options, barber lines, travel sizes and electrical appliances from Cloud 9, Babyliss PRO and Silver Bullet.
Orders over $200 ship free within New Zealand, with click and collect and international shipping also available, Afterpay accepted, and the team reachable by phone, email or Facebook messenger if you need a hand choosing.
Snipz Hair & Tanning sits on MacLean Street at Paraparaumu Beach, and it is genuinely two businesses in one. Step inside and you'll find a working hair salon offering hair colour, curls, cuts and hair straightening. Look around a little longer — or visit snipz.co.nz — and you'll discover a well-stocked outlet for salon-professional hair products, delivered to doors across New Zealand. A second outlet store in Otaki serves locals further up the coast.
That combination is the heart of the place: a salon that knows its products, and a product store run by people who use them every day.
The salon side is refreshingly straightforward. Services cover hair colour, curls, cuts and hair straightening, and the team invites anyone contemplating a change to grab their phone, save some Google images and book in — 'we will work the magic', as they put it. It's an approachable way of saying they're happy to work from your inspiration photos rather than leave you struggling to describe the look you're after.
What makes Snipz a destination, though, is the range. More than thirty professional brands are stocked, from salon staples like Schwarzkopf Professional, Wella, Loreal, Goldwell, Redken, Matrix, Paul Mitchell, Joico and Tigi to cult favourites such as Olaplex, Davines, Pureology, Nioxin, Fanola, Fudge, Clever Curl and Angel En Provence. Tools count too, with electrical appliances from Cloud 9, Babyliss PRO and Silver Bullet.
The store leans into the hard-to-find. Snipz describes its mission as offering salon professional hair products at amazing prices, including 'sometimes hard to find' lines, and the site is updated constantly with clearance items, bundle deals and big litre-size duos for people who have found their holy grail shampoo and want it by the pump. Headline ranges include the newer Schwarzkopf Fibre Clinix line — developed, the brand says, over ten years of research with ten patents and multiple PhD studies behind it — sold as shampoo, treatment mask and booster sets tailored to fine and weak, coarse and frizzy, damaged and over-processed, or coloured hair.
Familiar favourites appear throughout: Joico's K-PAK repair trio and 500ml duos, the Moisture Recovery gift pack of six pieces, Fanola's No Yellow and No Orange toning duos, Fudge's Clean Blonde violet shampoos, TIGI's 970ml Colour Goddess, Serial Blonde and Recovery duos with pumps, 12Reasons value duos, and the botanical Angel En Provence packs for dry, curly or coloured hair. There are ready-made gift packs for gifting and travel sizes for trial runs.
If you would rather search by hair need, the store is organised that way too. There are dedicated sections for blonde hair, coloured hair, curly or wavy hair, fine hair needing volume and straight hair. Treatments are split into protein and strengthening, deep conditioning for moisture, and bond-building repair. You will also find scalp care, hair loss and thinning, nanoplasty and keratin straightening products, vegan and organic options, styling products, barber lines and hair colour.
The online store is built for convenience. Orders over $200 ship free, hair products are delivered to your door, and click and collect is available if you would rather swing by. International shipping is offered, Afterpay sits among the payment options, and there is a clear returns and refunds policy if something is not right. If you are unsure what to choose, the team says it is available by phone, email or Facebook messenger to help you decide.
For Kapiti locals, Snipz is the rare place where you can book a fresh cut or colour and walk out with the exact professional products to maintain the result at home. For everyone else in New Zealand, it is a specialist outlet that treats hard-to-find salon products — and honest savings on them — as the whole point. The specials change often, so it is worth checking back.