Hairlovers by Gabriel is a hair salon in the Welcome Bay Centre on Welcome Bay Road, Tauranga, built around a simple ambition: to be the salon that dares to be different. It is a place that embraces everyone's natural beauty and uniqueness, and that philosophy runs through every part of the experience — from the way consultations are run to the way each service is tailored to the person in the chair. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, Hairlovers treats every appointment as personal. Consultations take into consideration your ideas and your individuality, and each service is then customised to your needs and personality. The salon is led by senior stylist Gabriel Ferreira, who brings 20 years of experience in cutting-edge colouring and styling techniques. Gabriel enjoys exploring new trends and has a particular love for vibrant hair transformations, making the salon a natural home for anyone curious about colour. Services include master colouring, women's cuts and styling, men's cuts and styling, relaxers, perms and Great Length hair extensions — a range that covers everything from a precise everyday cut to a dramatic change. Appointments can be booked online via the salon's website, or by phone and email for anything you would like to talk through first.
Tucked into the Welcome Bay Centre on Welcome Bay Road, Hairlovers by Gabriel sets out to be the salon that dares to be different. It is a place built on embracing everyone's natural beauty and uniqueness — a philosophy that shapes everything from the way consultations are run to the way each service is tailored. Rather than a one-size-fits-all menu of looks, Hairlovers treats every head of hair as its own project, designed around the person sitting in the chair.
At the centre of it all is Gabriel Ferreira, the salon's senior stylist. Gabriel brings 20 years of experience in cutting-edge colouring and styling techniques to Welcome Bay, along with a genuine enthusiasm for the craft. He enjoys exploring new trends and has a particular love for vibrant hair transformations — the kind of colour work that turns a routine appointment into a real change of pace.
What sets Hairlovers apart is how deliberately personal the process is. Consultations take into consideration your ideas and your individuality, and each service is then customised to your needs and personality. In practice, that means you are not simply ordering a cut or a colour from a list — you are talking through what you want, what suits you and what will work with your hair, and the service is shaped around that conversation.
That approach applies whether you are booking something routine or something dramatic. If you arrive with a clear vision, the consultation is where it gets refined into a workable plan; if you arrive unsure, it is where ideas are explored before any scissors or colour come out.
The salon's service list covers the core of what most people need from a good local salon:
Together, the range means Hairlovers can look after colour, cuts, texture services and extensions under one roof in Welcome Bay.
Hairlovers is deliberately not a production-line salon. The emphasis is on the relationship between stylist and client: understanding your hair, your ideas and your personality, then drawing on two decades of technical experience to deliver a result that works in real life, not just in the chair. Clients who enjoy colour have particular reason to visit — Gabriel's passion for vibrant transformations and his habit of exploring new trends mean the salon stays current while keeping results personal.
Whether you want a precise, low-maintenance cut, a bold new colour, curls from a perm, smoothing from a relaxer or the length that Great Length extensions provide, the starting point is always the same: a conversation about what you actually want.
Hairlovers by Gabriel is located at Shop E, Welcome Bay Centre, 252 Welcome Bay Road — easy to reach for anyone in Welcome Bay and the wider Tauranga area. Appointments can be booked online through the booking link on the salon's website, which makes it simple to lock in a time that suits. If you would rather talk something through first, you can call the salon on (07) 544 9238, email hairloversbygabriel@gmail.com, or send a message through the contact form on the website.
If you have been putting off a change — a colour you have been curious about, a cut you have never quite committed to, or extensions for a special occasion — the welcome at Hairlovers is built for exactly that: bring your ideas, and a stylist with 20 years of experience will help shape them into something that suits you.