Hair salon · Richmond, BC
Best hair salons in Richmond, BC ranked by Google reviews.
We pulled the top-ranked hair salons in Richmond, BC from Google’s own
listings. Here’s the leaderboard, what the leaders share in common, and how
a branded biglove.to link helps yours close the gap.
Data refreshed from Google Places.
The 10 leaders here average 4.7 ★ across 3,644 cumulative Google reviews. The top three (House of Colour (HoC) by L'Oréal Professionnel Hair Salon, CuE Hair & Head Spa Richmond, Collective Beauty Studio) account for roughly 17% of that total — a typical signature of how Google review momentum concentrates among the best-known names in Richmond.
Leaderboard · top 10
Who’s winning the review race in Richmond.
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House of Colour (HoC) by L'Oréal Professionnel Hair Salon
4940 Number 3 Rd #126, Richmond, BC V6X 2C7
4.9 ★ · 246 reviews
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CuE Hair & Head Spa Richmond
8155 Capstan Wy #140, Richmond, BC V6X 0V3
4.9 ★ · 192 reviews
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Collective Beauty Studio
3900 Moncton St Unit 110, Richmond, BC V7E 3A7
4.9 ★ · 173 reviews
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Mophead
4151 Hazelbridge Wy Unit 2580, Richmond, BC V6X 4J7
4.8 ★ · 1,386 reviews
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SALON TREFLE
6533 Buswell St Unit105, Richmond, BC V6Y 0J6
4.8 ★ · 219 reviews
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Design Tech Hair Studio
at Francis, 8980 Number 3 Rd #150, Richmond, BC V6Y 2E8
4.8 ★ · 92 reviews
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So'o Salon
7688 Alderbridge Wy #130, Richmond, BC V6X 0P7
4.7 ★ · 267 reviews
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TOKYO ALLURE HAIR STUDIO
7771 Westminster Hwy Unit135, Richmond, BC V6X 1A4
4.6 ★ · 409 reviews
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Alpha D Hair Salon Richmond
8010 Saba Rd #125, Richmond, BC V6Y 0J3
4.5 ★ · 212 reviews
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Air Plus Richmond Hair Salon (in Richmond Centre)
6060 Minoru Blvd Unit 1778, Richmond, BC V6Y 2V7
4.4 ★ · 448 reviews
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What the leaders share
Patterns from the top of the leaderboard.
Hair salons run on referrals and Google reviews. The leaderboard below shows what asking customers consistently does to a review count over a few years.
- They ask every customer, every visit. Not just the obvious fans. The compounded effect of asking 100% of customers — even shyly, even with friction — beats asking 10% of customers enthusiastically.
- They make the link short enough to say out loud. The hair salons at the top of the Richmond leaderboard print a memorable URL on receipts, table tents, or cards. Long Google review URLs don’t survive the trip from till to phone.
- They don’t gate. No "rate us 5 stars first" forms. No satisfaction filters that route happy customers one way and frustrated customers another. Google’s 2026 review policy and the FTC’s 2024 Consumer Reviews Rule both prohibit gating, and the leaderboard reflects it — the top Richmond hair salons are clean.
- They follow up once, never twice. The polite single ask converts. The pushy second ask annoys.
How to climb the Richmond hair salon leaderboard
Five steps that move the needle in 90 days.
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Claim a memorable review URL.
Pick a slug that customers can read off your receipt.
biglove.to/your-hair-salonbeats the long Google URL on every printed surface. Free preview at biglove.to/check — no signup needed to see your slug + QR. - 02
Print the QR somewhere your customers see it twice.
Receipt and door sticker is the highest-conversion combo. The customer sees the QR when they pay, again when they leave, and again at home if they keep the receipt. Three impressions beats one impression by a wide margin.
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Make the ask part of the script.
Train staff to mention the QR card during natural pauses ("If you enjoyed this, our Google review code is right here on the receipt"). Don’t script a 5-star pitch — that’s gating. Just point at the QR.
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Reply to every review within 48 hours.
Public replies signal an active, accountable hair salon — both to future customers reading the reviews AND to Google’s ranking signals. A short, sincere thanks is enough; engagement matters more than length.
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Track which ask path works.
Pro tier on biglove.to gives you click analytics — country, hour, device, referrer — so you can tell whether the receipt QR or the email signature is actually driving the reviews. Optimize what you can measure.
Common questions
About the Richmond hair salon leaderboard.
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How are hair salons in Richmond ranked on this leaderboard?
We pull the top hair salons for Richmond from Google Places using a "top hair salons in Richmond" text search biased to the city centroid, keep the top 10 results, then sort by Google star rating (descending) with a tie-break of total review count (descending). Entries without a numeric rating sort last. The full dataset is also published as open data under CC-BY-4.0 at biglove.to/hyperlocal-summary.json.
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How often is this leaderboard updated?
We refresh the underlying Google Places data quarterly. Significant changes in a business's review count or average rating usually appear here within roughly three months. For real-time data, the public Google Maps listing of each business is always the canonical source — the leaderboard is a snapshot, not a live feed.
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What can my hair salon do to climb the Richmond leaderboard?
Ask every customer for a Google review, not just the obvious fans. Make the link short enough to print on a receipt or say out loud — a branded biglove.to short link works for that. Never ask for "5 stars first" — that's review gating, prohibited by Google's review policy (Help article 9273900) and the FTC Consumer Reviews Rule (16 CFR Part 465, max penalty $53,088). Reply publicly to every review within 48 hours. Track which ask path actually converts. The five-step playbook on this page goes deeper.
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Why isn't a particular hair salon I expected on this list?
This list shows only the top 10 results Google Places returned for "top hair salons in Richmond" at the time of the scrape. Google's relevance ranking weighs review count, average rating, distance from the city centroid, and a number of private signals — so a well-loved spot with fewer reviews can rank lower than a high-volume one nearby. If a business you'd expect is missing, it usually means it lives in a different Google category, has fewer reviews than the visible top 10, or sits outside Google's city-centroid bias for Richmond.
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Does this include reviews from Trustpilot, Yelp, or Facebook?
No. The star rating and review count shown here come exclusively from Google reviews — the primary "find a place" signal in Canada. BigLove supports branded short links for Google Reviews and Trustpilot, but this particular leaderboard is Google-only because Google has by far the highest local-business review volume across our target markets (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
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