Gato Loco is a modern hair salon at 15 Wharf Street in the Tauranga city centre. It works on organic curls, precision cuts, grey blending and freehand balayage, and it uses organic O&M colours and treatments. Treatments such as O&M and Clever Curls are added to a cut or colour to tame frizz, bring back shine or boost volume. The salon offers a free 15-minute consultation, and the website says it is part of a sustainable salon group. Its stylists are a mix of specialists, including Décio, who trained in high-end salons overseas.
Reviewers say the stylists listen carefully and get the result they wanted, and one praised the lay-down basin chair. Clients travel from across the Bay of Plenty and from Auckland for the salon's approach to styling.