Blo Blow Dry Bar

Awesome service! Fit me in and I got to get to my appointment on time and be done within the hour! I had Tanya she was AMAZING! Wish we had her in Vancouver, she would be my go to girl once a week! I was mad that the airline threw out my shampoos but, if they hadn’t I wouldn’t have met her, and had an as wrong start to my day here in toronto! Great work Tanya!

I was not happy at all with my experience at his location. I have really curly hair and they had no idea how to deal with it or knew what they were doing. My stylist and another girl who decided to help were working on my hair at the same time and the blow drying part was very poor, until a third person who isn’t even a stylist came and joined. So three different people tugging at my hair in three different directions. Luckily the third person who was not a stylist did an AMAZING job. She kinda came and took over. She knew exactly what I wanted and how to do it. I was trying my best not over react, but I did say that it was not working with three people tugging on my hair. My hair kept being referred to as ‘ethnic’ and it’s not, it’s just curly. I think they did they’re best however I do not think that it was enough nor professionally knowledgeable nor equipped to deal with various types of hair. If the third person did my hair from the start I would’ve been more than satisfied. I would come back for her ONLY, any day.

I am finally getting around to expanding my tip on blo bloor west! I am obviously obsessed with blo and have been to many locations across North America! This particular location is my go-​to when I come back home to Toronto to visit the fam. I haven’t washed/​blown my own hair in ages, and I don’t have to be without my little luxury because they have great hours and availability. The receptionist is so friendly and sweet, and the stylists are all so nice. You can tell they all get along really well and treat each other like a family. I have had my hair done by a few different stylists, and each time I ask for «big, ‘i’m not afraid of texas-​sized’ hair» and they manage to nail it! I love that my hair lasts for days, so if I am home for the weekend, I just need to stop in once and it’s perfect until I leave the city!
I also purchased their Aerogel product, which is like a hairspray can of misty gel. I can’t live without it! It’s not sticky or drying!
Can’t wait for my next home coming to see the fam at Bloor West!

Had to get all fancied up for a wedding yesterday, and decided to let Blo Bloor West take care of the hair for me. The Blo location on King Street is really busy apparently, so I was super happy to find that they have a new location in Bloor West Village — easy to find, and easy parking. Harleena (sp?) was my stylist, and she did an amazing job on my hair do — I got the «Hollywould» style with extra teasing at the crown, it was Mad Men all the way, and went perfect with my cocktail attire. Harleena really took her time getting every curl perfect, and I was able to text and do my nails while I was getting my hair did — yeeeaaahhhh multitasking! The whole experience was easy, stress-​free, and well worth the time and money. It made my day run much smoother not having to worry about doing my hair myself! Highly recommended!

I decided last minute to get my hair did for the company holiday party (which I lovingly refer to as ‘adult prom’. So glad that Cathy from accounting didn’t deliver a baby in the bathroom and ditch it in a dumpster… again).
I made reservations the day before through the Blo website. I was happy that there was availability since it was the height of holiday party season.
I arrived a bit early for my appointment but my stylist, Khadeja, was right on time. I chose the «High Society» do from the menu which was the only updo on the list.
Khadeja swept my hair back in a French twist style with a small Snooki bump, secured with it was a tonne of bobbi pins and shellac-​ed it down with hair spray. I would have preferred to put on a salon bib while the hairspray was being used as it kinda went everywhere. Khadeja worked fast and we were done within the 30 min. promised.
My usually slippery and disobedient hair actually stayed up all night and I got many compliments. When I took my hair down at the end of the night, I noticed that the styling products used didn’t make my hair crunchy or crusty.
I don’t think I could have achieved the same look by doing it myself and believe me, I tried. I looked up a bunch of YouTube videos but I just didn’t want to be fooling with banana clips and Bump-​its so it was worth the $ 35 to have a pro do it.
I rate Blo 3.5 Snooki bumps, I mean stars.

I used Blo Dry Bar on Bloor for my wedding last month. My Mom, 4 bridesmaids, and I all had our hair done on the day of the wedding.
For myself, I ended up being very happy with the results. Luckily, as a bride, you are able to book a consultation/​trial, and you then get the same stylist on the day of your actual wedding. The location I went to has a dedicated bridal stylist (I’m not sure if all locations do?). The result on the day of my wedding was not exactly what I expected — and not identical to the trial (but is it ever, really?). But after hmm-​ing and hah-​ing over it for awhile, I finally admitted I wasn’t in love with it, and they adjusted it, no questions asked.
Unfortunately though, I wasn’t thrilled with the bridesmaids’ hair. Two turned out great, and two turned out less than spectacular. Three of the four girls chose to wear their hair down (I encouraged this, I wanted them to look like themselves). Unfortunately, two of those girls ended up having to curl pieces a few times throughout the wedding day (bringing a curling iron everywhere we went). I think it was a combination of factors — the drizzly, humid weather didn’t help. One girl felt her hair had not been dried adequately before they began to style. And of the three girls who wore their hair down, only one had not had her hair washed — the one whose hair held up nicely all day. So I feel that if Blo Bar knew what they were doing, they maybe would have chosen not to wash the hair of the other two, since that was likely a factor in the styles not holding.
As I understand it, the stylists who worked on the bridesmaids were not trained stylists, but rather part-​timers taught to do the job. Luckily, as the bride, this was not the case. It’s also interesting that the one bridesmaid whose hair held up all day, had hers done by the same stylist as the bride (the one that I feel was most experienced).
The girls still looked great, but in the photos they definitely don’t look as «polished» as they might have. Just something to be aware of! (And the two that looked good, looked very good!)
One other note — on the day of my consultation, I arrived to find out that the stylist had called in sick. If you get sick, you get sick, I understand that. But I did not receive a call telling me that my appointment would have to be rescheduled. Instead, when I arrived there, they offered me the options of postponing, or having a consultation with another girl, who was not even going to be working on the day of my wedding. Seems like poor customer service to me. Additionally, I had planned other things for that day (like veil shopping) that depended on the hair being styled. So I opted to keep the appointment (with the stylist who wouldn’t be there on the wedding day), so that I would have at least a rough idea of the style. Since I was visibly upset about the broken appointment, Blo Bar offered for me to come back later in the week to meet with the true stylist. So that made it up to me a bit. But the part that really puzzled me, was that on my wedding day — the other stylist was there after all?
I think Blo Dry Bar has the potential to be a GREAT place to go for hair styles… but hopefully they can use the constructive criticisms of the reviews to wow their customers!

Feeling lazy and wanting perfectly straight hair, even in the back of my head where I usually can’t really reach, I made an appointment at Blo. Their promise of $ 30 in 30 minutes was bang-​on, but I left feeling… just, okay. Perhaps I am used to the quality of my regular salon, whose hair styling leaves my hair in a state of perfection for days and days, but the Blo straightening irons just didn’t seem to be as hot, or as effective as my old stand-​by. The hairstyle was nice enough, and the Blo-​er was pleasant. All said, I will go back for an affordable blow-​out, but will not expect pampering or flawless coiffing.

I like the atmosphere of the place, the staff are really nice, however, they are quite clueless… perhaps the lack of training?
I went there twice, first time I was so excited, I spent over $ 300 including a set of hair extension (don’t get it. quality is really bad.) I got it because I had a photo shoot that day. However, she did a horrible job, my hair looked so flat, it made me look like I’ve been wearing a hat all day!
I gave it another try, went to a different store, and same thing happened, she burnt my scalp several times, and my hair was completely fried! never mind the style, I could have done it better myself!
NOT going back again!

I’m giving Blo Hair dry bar two stars b/​c it was a fun, cool place to get a wee bit of pampering. HOWEVER, both times my hairstyle looked at best… tragic. Two different stylists, different ‘styles’.
My hair is incredibly fine, plenty of it, but fine and it seemed to me that neither ladies had a vast amount of experience styling or drying my ‘type’ of hair. Now I get my hair cut at a place in Yorkville and had it styled exquisitely many times so it CAN be done.
Having seen photos of Blo’s work I don’t know why my experiences both ended so terribly :(In their defence I was asked a few times if I liked what was being done but I didn’t have the heart (nor the time) to ask for a complete re-​do.