Sophia Hair Salon

Awesome! Super close to H-​Mart, so I stopped by before shopping for some much needed hair love — was not disappointed! Julie cut my hair and took really good care of me! She was awesome! I will definitely be coming again! Thank you!

I came to get my hair dyed and was super satisfied because it looked exactly the way I wanted. Go and get your hair done by Grace. Everyone working was super friendly and they don’t keep you waiting too long! Overall, I would go again to this hair salon!

Usually my boyfriend comes here and the haircut is average. Today when he came there was a stylist named Mia whose hands and head were shaking the entire time she was cutting his hair. My boyfriend did not complain because he thinks she may have a disease. The end result was horrible. She barely cut his hair yet took an hour to do so. The hair that she did manage to cut is all uneven and just looks awful. Do not get your hair cut by Mia.

Got a Brazilian blowout for around $ 300 to have smoother healthier hair lasted less than a week and I’m back to my normal hair. I completely wasted my money for nothing.

Honestly, this place is a hit or a miss.
I came here a year ago for a haircut and actually really liked my hair. So I went back this year to color and cut my hair. I couldn’t remember who did my hair last time, so I just asked for anyone. and I got Grace. She did really well with the color, but the haircut was disastrous. I specifically said «NO layers» multiple times.
Spoiler alert: I had layers and layers upon more layers. My hair was shorter than I had asked for and the layers make my hair flip out. I even showed her a picture of the haircut I wanted, but she did it her own way. Her excuse was, «that’s the best I could do with your hair.» Whoa whoa whoa lady. Don’t blame your mistake on my hair. I had long straight hair down to my mid-​waist and this was the best she could do? I’ll pass on this salon next time.

This salon was the best out of all the salons that I very gone to. I am very sensitive about my hair. This was my first… no second time out of millions of salons that went to. May did my hair and it was perfect.
I saw how she treats to other customers and she is really nice, if you got some questions like I did. She will answer it right away. She looks kinda friendly. She talks but i think she doesn’t like to talk too much, bc she has to concentrate on her work. Like you know how some other ladies talks alot… well this person does not. She only says or asks things, on the things she has to know. She figures out what kind of hair style you want, I mean you don’t even have to be specific, she just knows it. She like goes inside your head and gets to know what you want. I didn’t expect alot of good things bc I never get my hair done like I wanted, well barely. It’s pricy but it’s worth it.

I’ve been coming here for the past year and a half to get my hair cut and colored. I would recommend MAY to do color since she has so much knowledge about hair color, especially Asian hair color. She answers all of my questions and provides recommendations. She also always offers me tea of coffee while I’m waiting for my hair to be done.
All the workers are Korean and speak conversational English. If you’re not Korean, you might feel out of my place but they still have a diverse customer base.
Make an appointment, especially if you’re going on the weekends!!!

Sophia is the place to get stylish and affordable men’s cuts. My husband gets his hair done by May, who is not only great at cuts, but also amazing at styling (she also taught him how to blow dry his hair correctly and use hair wax). We recently moved to the Bay Area, but we still use every opportunity to come to Sophia whenever we drive down to SoCal to get our hairs done. Each time I come, it’s a great experience, and I especially recommend May for male cuts!

Instead of rating 2, I decided to rated 3. I don’t tend to complain or rated any place bad. Since I got nice color of shade from dying this salon, The rating will be 3. However the hair stylist, Michelle is bit new and was rushing. Michelle may look like she is professional hair stylist by her appearance. But don’t let her appearance fool her. She needs more years of experience. Plus I didn’t see her license either. She chomped my hair and it come out look uneven! I was very disappointed. I paid $ 150 bucks which is pricey and a bit rip off.
I went to different hair salon called BBeutti. This salon does not look too fancy or sophicated as Sophia. But don’t let this bldg fool u. The hair stylist, Nicole did a fantastic job. She displayed her license. She fixed the uneven hair and she made sure thar I look great. She took time to even out the hair that the mistakes were made yesterday. The price is decent and I decided to tip her.
I will not definitely go back to this Sophia salon again.

I come here once a month to get my haircut by grace and she does an amazing job everytime. Everyone is so nice and they have recently renovated the place. Love the new shampoo chairs. They are so comfy. Thank you grace for always making me look good :)

Wow!
Great service and a lot of t.l.c.
Totally worth time and $$.
Normally I would go to a barber shop for a regular buzz, but since I wanted to keep the length that I have, I definitely needed to switch over to a stylist.
I love they way she handled my hair and worked her scissors. Not too many people know how to deal with this thick mop that I have, but she did so with ease.
Only had 2 issues… kinda.
1) After she had cut my hair perfectly, she set it funny… as is, it would be something a 20-​something (or a guy in a mid-​life-​crisis) would wear.
2) As I drove away, I realized I forgot to get her name. DOH!

May is now my official hair stylist. I recommended her to my brother, and now he also get his haircut with May.

Me and my 9yr old daughter went here since we live closeby. We came in just before closing but they were nice to fit us in. I read reviews on Unilocal about Grace and she was actually very good like others said. She doesnt say much but who cares. The lady at the front desk spoke english which was a plus! I was very happy with the cut. $ 35 plus tip was worth it. I plan to go back to Grace again.

Got my haircut here by May. Of all the korean hair salons and american haircut places I like coming here the best.
May is very polite and professional cutting my hair. She really takes the time to understand what I really want and gets it perfect every time.
She cuts my hair not super short lime American places and not too long.
I havent had a regular person cutting my hair until now and im glad a friend of mine recommended this place.
I recommend going in the afternoon as the morninhs can get super busy.

Wow if only I knew the workers name. This review does not even deserve ONE star.
They had a Sophias hair salon in Cerritos, and I guess they moved here. When I went to Cerritos, I had my worst perm. I wanted curls but came out with poodle, noodle hair perm.
I went to the Fullerton one (here) and this is officially the worst experience of my life. As a female, we take our hair very seriously when getting anything done to it. My hair length was about 3 inches below my breast. I went in to get loose curls with a trim and I also showed my stylist a photo. Knowing that curls would make my hair shorter, I specifically asked for just a TRIM to keep my overall length.
So first off, the curls, turned again into poodle hair, did not look anything like the loose curls and she cut maybe 3 inches off. So the end result was a traingle head. So imagine Shirley temple tight curls that makes your hair poofy out at the ends with a short chopped hair cut. So it made a triangle shaped hair on my head. I couldn’t believe how wrong this went, I wanted to cry and scream. The stylist, obviously, knew it turned out completely bad yet tried to make me feel better about it. I tried to stay calm yet still firm of my disapproval, so she said to come back and she will fix it.
I come back again, and since the loose curls are now not going to happen, she suggested I have a C-​Curl on the end, which means the ends will just curl in and add a perm on my roots to add volume. So now I have no choice at this point. So she straightened out my poodle perm. She added a perm to add volume to my roots which ended up making bumps stick out, it was not smooth. When she was trying to make the C-​Curl perm, she did something wrong where it burned off my ends. She knew she did something wrong because as she was blow drying my hair, she would not let my hair come forward, and kept blow drying all the hair behind me. Lathered a hand full of oil on my ends to help relieve the frizz disaster. In my head I was furious, like how can worse get to WORSE? But she said to give it couple days of not washing my hair and the frizz will go away.
Two days passed and I took a shower (I posted a photo of my hair) and yes, WORSE. Now that I don’t have the oil, the ends were just completely burnt. So what happened to my loose curls? Gone. What happened to my C-​curl? Burnt frizzy ends. What happened to my long hair? Chopped off. What did she do for my volume? Small bumps on the top of my head. What made it worse? I can’t keep my hair in this state, so I had to spend MORE money to get it fixed and I wouldn’t dare go back to her. So I had to cut my hair length MORE to get rid of that frizzy horse hair and color my hair darker to ease off the tangles. Can’t believe it either.
So now I am stuck with a hair totally unexpected. That lady should not be working there, scary.

Made a reservation for a cut at 330. I get there at 335, and they make me wait an hour. If the place was busy I could understand, but it wasnt. Some guy just walked in and started getting his haircut. Not cool.
They start shampooing my hair, and the woman spills water and shampoo in my eye. She doesnt even say sorry. Throws a towel in my face tells me to wash it off. I sit down to get my haircut, they make me wait 15 more minutes. Finally get my haircut. They do a decent job, but definitely not worth getting treated like crap for.
Also I go and pay with debit, the woman at the register writes the tip and total on my receipt herself! It was the amount I was going to pay, but I am definitely not going back there again.

I hate to write poor reviews; however, everyday since I got my magic straight perm, I have many negative feelings towards this place because of the result of my hair.
On January 2^nd, 2013, I got a magic straight perm, which is $$$. I came here due to many recommends from friends and friends of friends, so I had pretty high expectations. I came in and got my hair done by May. Although I was there for a total of 3 hours (I have short hair), I was a little skeptical of the whole process because they had my hair in the chemicals for only 30 mins. After I did the normal procedure of showering after 3 days, my hair was still fizzy. Everyday after, I kept thinking some how it would get straight, but it didn’t. Even after couple days of getting the perm, I had to use my straighter everyday. My hair now just gets fizzer and fizzer. It’s back to it’s normal prior to the perm… it’s only 2 months after my perm. the magic perm is suppose to last 6 months.
Overall, I do not recommend this place and I do not intend to go ever again.

I always get my haircut from Sophia, the owner. She has been doing my hair for years and I get compliments every time I visit.
I do recommend that you take a picture of the style you want just to make things easier for you and your stylist.

The price is great and they cut hair really well. i bring all the kids here because for the low price you get a great haircut and style. I usually only get my haircut from the owner Sophia but all the other ladies have done a great job for all the girls.
PRO’S
–cheap
–clean environment
–friendly staff
–great stylists
–great for last minute, walk-​ins
CON’s
–rarely answers the phone for reservations
–most of the ladies have limited English
I have been taking my kids to Fantastic Sams and Super Cuts for the last couple years and every single time they screw it up. I only pay a couple bucks more and get a haircut that both my daughter and I are completely satisfied with at Sophia.

I absolutely love this place! I get my hair done form Sophia. She has been my hair stylist ever since I was high school student, which is like 15 years ago…
I became her client when she was working at Kim sun young. And I have been following her since.
She knows what I like and what I don’t! And many time I let her decided what style I should have and it never failed!