Mimi & Coco Salon

Cindy does a fabulous job. Had a business meeting and my hair needed a good cut and style. Her talented skills enabled my style to last three critical days with very little effort. Highly recommend her.

Mirela is incredible! She does amazing blow outs! I have a long hair so blow drying my hair takes forever. Mirela is very fast and she always gives me a perfect blow out. Once I had an event on Sunday and she went out of her way to accommodate me. She came to the salon at 8 am on Sunday only for me! That was extremely helpful! She is very friendly and super talented! Thanks Mirela! The salon is clean and convenient for me since it is very close to my house. They have Kérastase products which I love.

Ask for Cynthia!!! I have been seeing her now for years and would follow her anywhere!
I have been soo happy with my color, highlights, and haircuts… would recommend anyone to see her!

Guys fear not. Great place… great haircut. thank you Jennifer

This salon is very unfriendly!
I would have to say «snobby».
Since each stylist works independently there is no friendly greeting unless your stylist is on the premises. The stylist I had, never truly listened to what I wanted done with my hair
Impossible to reach by phone.
Very, VERY noisy.
I will NEVER go back there.

Love IT! My hairdresser is Chelsea and She is Awesome! I’ve had everything… Color, high-​lights, haircuts and styles. I always come out of the Salon looking like a ROCKSTAR!

I have been going to see Jennifer for over a year now and love, love her cuts. She is one of the few stylists that i have been to that actually listens to what I want! She keeps me looking modern and feeling like a million bucks! My confidence level has risen so much since I have been to see her. Really! I have had compliments from complete strangers at the Trader Joe’s and even at the gym! Then, you add on the fact that she is a color genius, I am so stoked to have finally found someone who knows how I like my hair to look. She is so down to earth and wonderful to talk to also! It’s like therapy when I am sitting in her chair. I highly recommend her and have referred several of my friends and co-​workers already. You should call and set the appointment now! You will not be disappointed!

So boring. got tired of sitting next to blue haired ladies so had to move on.

The Stylist here are all really great! I get my haircuts from Mirela and I love it. She really does an amazing job! Also Ana the manicurist is really good. I got my Shellac done by her and I loved it.
FYI: They all work independently so they all have their own different schedules.

The stylist left her hair dryer aimed directly at the skin above the nape of my neck until it burned. I had arrived late and she was mad. OK, I got the point.

Alright… let me just say I would pretty much follow Susie anywhere as she has been my primary stylist since January 2002 when I moved to attend college!
Yeah, she is THAT good!
She was one of the owners of PlumSpa in San Jose, which was a fabulous place and recently made the move to Mimi & Coco in Los Altos. A little bit closer to me but still a bit of a trek.
I seriously rent a ZipCar for 4.5 hours (roughly $ 50 bucks) just to make the trip… or it’s 2.5 hours each way by CalTrain and bus.

It was a Saturday night and I forgot to book and appointment for a blowdry for a shower I have to attend at one on Sunday. So I start Unilocaling places in the Los altos palo alto area that are open on Sundays and come across this place.
On the website it states that they open at 9 on Sundays. So at 830am Sunday morning I leave a message for someone to call me back for a blowdry appointment anytime between 9 and 12. I stated that I had a function at 1pm and if someone could please call me back asap whether or not they had a spot or if they were booked. I wanted a call back either way.
So 10am rolls around and I call, no answer. 11, no answer. I get desperate and go somewhere crappy. I get a call from someone at this salon at 1pm!!! Saying she could do a blowdry at 4pm!!! Umm hello did you not listen to my message?!? What awful customer service they have!!!
I always buy my kerastase products from they and I will never give them my business again if they don’t know how to return a simple phone call. I truly believed they were a high end salon until this experience!

I’ve been going here for years.
Everyone is friendly and professional, while still giving a local salon vibe.
Plus they have Kerastase (my fav) so it is my spot!

Brandishing her sword and magic wand, Jennifer W tames the most unruly hair and makes it anything you want it to be! Got hair like you plugged your finger in a light socket but want it to look like Jennifer Aniston’s? No problem. Jenny W can make it happen. Oh yeh, she also keeps my husband from looking like all the rest of these Silicon Valley dorks with their bowl cuts. She got game with the men too.

Every stylist here works independently. I go to Teddy Wild and i love love love her! One inch? You got it. Half an inch? You got it. Down to the T. She always listens to what i want and gives her advice, but only with your best interest in mind. Never been dissapointed with cuts and color. Plus she gives great head massages and is so fun to talk to. Shes also reasonably priced!

This was my first foray into getting my hair cut by local stylists. On the basis of the strong reviews in Unilocal,I decided to try it out. A few weeks ago, I walk in and the salon is clean, but the stations have homemade jewelry in square cases scattered across the top of the counters.
Neither of the hair stylists have great hairstyles themselves (an «uh oh» for me) and one is approaching her early 50’s or 60’s with a stereotypical, unflattering, short haired, perm job. The only other person being serviced is a middle aged woman having her hair styled in a plain straight cut.
This should have alerted me that the stylists here probably could not do anything cutting edge and if they did, probably not very well. I’m scheduled to see the older lady. She has lots of advice and is extremely friendly and I say, go ahead, cut off 5 or 6 inches and give me some nice layers. I have very straight hair, so the layering has to be especially good, or it just comes off as choppy and ugly. She dislikes my current style and says I need something more trendy. I let her go with her ideas. My hair has been growing out for 3 months and needs an update anyway.
The second bad sign, she comes back after mixing the color and drips the color onto my sleeve, not once, but twice as she waves the brush in the air as she talks. She is simply not paying attention. She drips it onto my face too, but attentively wipes it off right away. She is also painstakingly slow, but I’m going with the flow. Besides, I like her, she’s being very nice.
She sets the timer, pulls up the trays of handmade jewelry by her daughter, pitches them to me, gets me some magazines and walks away. I think to myself, not very professional to pitch me the jewelry, but it’s a small town, that’s probably normal. The timer dings, but no hair stylist. She comes back 15 minutes after the timer is finished. Still, I’m going with the flow, no big deal. Besides, I’m reading an interesting magazine.
Third bad sign, she washes my hair and turns the nozzle right into my ears and floods both of them. Again, not paying attention. I’m still going with the flow, even though I really dislike having my ears flooded like that. I have to pop them on the towel around my neck.
Then comes the hair cut. Fourth bad sign, she opens a drawer full of used brushes and combs, ALL of them unwashed, with hair styling product caked on, and wads of hair from other clients in the bristles. She picks one of them to use on my hair as she cuts! I cringe as she starts combing out my wet hair. What hair stylist in a self proclaimed upscale ‘salon’ does not clean her brushes and combs?
She goes to work, snipping away. She butchers my bangs, saying they need to be thinned, but she doesn’t portion out the hair before cutting, she combs my hair forward, then snips. She snips some of my longest hair from the back of the top of my head to less than an inch. But they aren’t part of my bangs. Bizarre. I’m living with it now and I’m not stressing too much because it’ll grow out, but give me a break! She does a minimal of layering, but that’s okay, the hair doesn’t turn out too choppy.
Then comes the blow dry, at which she is truly awful. And she is bragging to me what a fast stylist she is and how many referrals she gets as she does this. By the time she’s done, half my hair is perfectly straight with sections that have a funky curve at the ends that does not look like a flip but weird, like a kid sister trying to style her older sister’s hair. It’s also at the painstakingly slow pace as everything else. None of the fast, expert styling I’ve had in salons elsewhere.
I’m never, ever going back to this place. The other stylists might be great, however, one bad stylist is enough to spoil it for me. The other reviews must be loyal locals or had a different stylist because I can’t see the value. She was nice. I tipped her well. But I haven’t had a haircutting experience this bad in a long time, nor paid over $ 160 for such «ho hum» abilities. Certainly not worth the money and I typically spend this much for a color, cut, and blow dry!

Great little neighborhood salon with oodles of Keratase products!!!
One gripe: don’t put stickers on the beautiful products, price SIGNS!

I’ve been going to Teddy Wild for my hair needs for awhile now. She’s amazing at what she does and listens carefully to what I want. This is an intimate, clean, and private salon that I love going to. There seems to be a wide age range of customers that come in and out of this salon, and I have only been to Teddy, but everyone seems really nice.
I hesitated giving 5 stars because if you’re looking for an edgier style, you should probably look elsewhere. But if you’re looking for color ($ 60 – 75 for partial highlights) or a trim (around $ 50) this is an awesome place to go to.

Tragically, I want the hair that I can’t have. I am curly wanting straight. Every once in a while when I don’t want to burn my biceps blowing out my own hair, I turn to Jennifer. She shampoo’s it, cuts it, and blows it out within an hour. I walk out of there feeling like I should be part of a MAS SEXY commercial for only 50 bucks. Love that they use Bumble and Bumble and Kerastase! I smell so girly and can’t keep my fingers out of my hair. She has done my color and deep conditioning for over 6 years now. Love that it’s clean, friendly staff, and great location-​I always head to Satura after my haircut!
Note-​Jennifer works independently and only takes cash or check. If you go when it’s busy… might have a hard time finding parking. This placed used to be Panache, btw.

The salon itself is cheery and bright, with a cute little sitting area. The bathroom is very clean. People will offer you tea or water if you have to wait.
I ‘ve tried Teddy for a haircut here. She’s a talented hair stylist. The lack of stars is for her bluntness and lack of discretion. She gave out unwanted advice, and unfortunately, did so in her regular voice when another stylist and customer is sitting right next to us. I thought it was rude to point out someone ‘s physical issue within hearing range of others, especially when I didn’t initiate the topic.