Kinship Salon & Barber

I love Ayliza! She gave me the most beautiful balayage highlight today. Very happy! I’ll be back :)

Jasmine is fantastic! I had been going to the same hair dresser back home since I was 16… I’ve lived in SF for 3 years and still hadn’t found someone local that I trusted, until I found Jasmine! She gave me the exact cut I was looking for, listened to everything I was looking for and was super helpful with her knowledge on how my hair would react to certain cuts/​styles. I’m so happy to have found her — I told her she’s never going to get rid of me now! :)

Renee is one of the most talented and creative hair stylists I’ve met. I greatly appreciated the time that she took to make sure that my hair came out exactly how I wanted.
She colored my hair to perfection and I got a ton of compliments. I LOVED how she cut my hair and how instantly knew what kind of cut would flatter my face/​bone structure. The hair cut lasted ages too and as it grew out, it kept its shape. To top it off, she is super personable to talk to during the appointment.
I would give Renee 10 stars if I could!

My husband just received a terrible haircut from this place. He asked the stylist (Jasmine) to leave most of the length so that it could blend in with his beard but to clean it up. She unfortunately used clippers and shaved his hair down to roughly a millimeter at the bottom. She also tapered the crown of his hair in so the shape of his hair from the front looks cone-​headed. From the side, there’s a big lump sticking out the back.
I’ll do my best to fix it, but she didn’t leave me much to work with. I’m frustrated that my polite husband even paid for this. Also, she started late. I guess people have to learn how to cut hair on someone, but I’m still very disappointed.

I was very disappointed w/​my cut yesterday. Never coming back again!!!
And Dont get color done here!

My hair needed so much love and maintenance, I had been neglecting it for months. I called Kinship, made an appointment and met Jasmine for the first time today. Let me tell you, that was the best decision I think I’ve ever made for my hair because she is absolutely fabulous!
She is friendly, personable, and very good at what she does. Not only did she listen to what I wanted, she was able to deliver! My hair turned out better than I expected, and I am definitely looking forward to coming back again and letting her work her magic on my hair. I love what she did, and really appreciate the time that she took to make sure that my hair came out exactly like I had asked. I am in love with my hair! My hair and I have you to thank, Jasmine! :)

Josh is the best! I will only go here. All of my visits have been great. He is very nice and excellent at his craft. Great with beards too!

Rachel is now at Salon Village in Russian Hill. Hooray! It’s so nice to have a stylist who keeps you posted as to her whereabouts.

Jasmine is the most amazing hair dresser I’ve ever had. She’s given me both a blond balyage and a rose gold color melt, and each time it turned out perfectly. She has a great sense of how to give her clients the color and cut they are looking sure and make sure you leave totally satisfied with your hair. To top it off, she is super pleasant to talk to during the appointment. Thanks jasmine!

So my regular stylist at my downtown salon had the nerve to get pregnant and go on maternity leave. Since I get my hair colored once a month I figured I’d check out Kinship since it is closest to my house that looked cute when I walked by. I made an appointment with Jasmine and she was great. She totally gets what I want and the color looks perfect. I did highlights for the first time in years because I was so afraid that my hair would get damaged and it feels super healthy.
My mom who is the most critical person ever even said that my color looked great! And Jasmine just cut my hair for the first time and it looks perfect, and exactly what I wanted.
She is also a pleasure to chat with, which of course is always important!
I also feel great about supporting the awesome new places in the neighborhood and saving the hour driving to and from downtown and paying a fortune for parking.
(I have been going to her for several months and am obviously in a crisis about what I’m going to tell my «old» stylist.)

Kinship is such a great neighborhood salon. Beautiful lighting and atmosphere, and friendly staff. Ayliza has given me my favorite haircut even and I can’t imagine going anywhere else in the city after seeing her at Kinship. She listens to exactly what you want and is communicative through the whole cut.
Overall great experience. Thanks Ayliza and Kinship!

Ayliza is my girl! I’m so lucky that I was introduced to her by a former roommate. She’s been doing my hair for almost two years even before she started working at kinship. I love Kinship Salon! Everyone is so welcoming and kind. They’re quick to offer you something to drink and make you feel really comfortable. You can tell that everyone loves what they do and they strive to make their business as strong as ever!
Ayliza pays attentions to details. She knows exactly what I want even before I open my mouth up and she’s there if I have questions or I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my hair. She just did balayage on my hair and I love it so much!

I’ve never written a review on Unilocal,but my experience was so bad that I feel I have to warn everyone. Giving this place 1 star is very generous.
I went for a simple men’s haircut to Jasmine and she was terrible. She started to cut my hair without washing it even though I had texture putty on it. After She cut half of it, she decided to wash my it. While Jasmine was drying my hair with a hair dryer, she burned the skin on my head, even though I told her that it’s too warm 2 times. I believe once is enough. She doesn’t pay attention to details what resulted in a huge, uneven mess on my head. Every strand of hair has different length. The sides are very chipped and uneven.
Avoid Jasmine. She’s a total amateur, who’s very slovenly and doesn’t have the skills required to cut men’s hair.

Had appointment with Ayliza for first time yesterday — definitely trust her with a pair of scissors. Cut off about 4 or 5 inches and have been on receiving end of nothing other than positive comments. She absolutely killed it — in the best way possible. I’ll definitely back as long as I’m in San Francisco.
Really warm and friendly staff. Only 100% praise here.

Ayliza just gave me such a wonderful cut and experience. I think maybe the negative reviews on this page are outdated or possibly those customers don’t communicate enough with their stylist? I dunno. Hard to say. But my experience was perfect and lovely.
I asked for a very non traditional odd cut. A DRASTICALLY asymmetrical bob. Like. One side is chin length and one side is shoulder length. Ayliza was totally supportive and didn’t make me feel weird for asking for odd stuff. Plus she took her time and made sure it was awesome. She really put a lot of care into it. She answered my questions about product and styling and she was an absolute joy to chat with. I’d recommend her in a heart beat to anyone.
Everyone was so nice. I loved it.

I came to Rachel months ago (almost a year!!) to begin the process of removing years of layering black boxed hair dye. I can honestly say I don’t trust anyone else with my hair anymore. Rachel is an artist and she knows what she is doing. She warned me that this is a long process and I will not go home that day with the box dye completely removed from my hair, which I understood. Rachel explained to me the chemical processes as we went along and the differences between the damaging box dyes that I used for years versus the restorative colors Aveda supplies Kinship with. I will never take a box dye shortcut again in my life.
Once we were able to get past the color removing phase we began playing with fun colors in my hair. Rachel gets excited by adding the dyes and toners together to get custom colors, and uses the balayage technique that the stylists at Kinship do so well, leaving me with color that is unique to my complexion and personal style. I can’t believe my once jet black hair was able to reach the loveliest shades of coral and pink, to teal, to the most recent shades of aqua and light blue. If you’re looking for playful ways of expressing your style through color, I recommend Rachel.
It takes a lot of trust to give a stylist free reign and I am happy to let Rachel do her thing whenever I go in for something new. I often don’t even have a plan when I sit down in her chair and I don’t want to look in the mirror until she’s done with the blowdryer. I have never left disappointed.
I use the color treatment shampoo and conditioner by Aveda that Kinship sells on the shelves along with Aveda’s damage therapy treatment so that my hair doesn’t get dry and brittle that Ashley and Lauren recommended to me. It all smells so good and leaves my hair so soft and shiny. I’m so happy with the state of my hair for the first time in a very long time. Understand that these stylists have gone through years of training to approach every unique head of hair differently and you will never be disappointed.

I tried Kinship for my first time yesterday and I love the results of my highlights done by Ayliza. I appreciate the time she took to really listening to what I wanted which was to blend in new highlights, calm down the old highlights, and keep me looking as natural as possible.
I am pretty picky when it comes to my hair, so for me to give 5 stars says a lot! I also enjoyed the beauty of the open space and feel of nature in the salon.
Great experience!
p. s. updated my profile picture with new hair color to show off work by Ayliza

I got my haircut with Rachel and unfortunately did not have a good experience. I had been to Kinship before and cut my hair with Aylizia and LOVED it and her.
I went in with pictures of what I wanted and Rachel DID NOT give me that. I have a short haircut so its not something I can easily hide. She also did not style the cut properly and it looked like I had gotten a bad keratin treatment. My hair was completely flat. So much so that after my haircut, I ran home and jumped in the shower then blow-​dried it myself. This is very upsetting especially since I had such a good experience the first time I visited Kinship.

Just when I thought I couldn’t like this place enough — today I went in for a bang trim and they said since I’ve already been in before that it was on the house! WHAT! I don’t think that’s ever happened to me in SF?
Also another thing I forgot to say before was that I really like that they cut your hair while its dry so you actually KNOW what it will look like instead of being surprised attached once it’s dried.
I will definitely be coming in again. Tell your friends!

I have never written a negative review on Unilocal but I feel obliged to let other potential customers know about the substandard/​unprofessional business practices of this salon.
The stylist are young and enthusiastic, but they are only compensated through a 40% commission on the services they bring in, and the more experienced stylists (of which there are few) don’t step in to do color correction when they make mistakes.
Although the back of my hair looked nice the sides and front were horrible. The young stylist admitted that the color had not come out at all as she had planned (or as I had requested). I was scheduled to return a week later for color correction. I wore my hair in a braid that week to conceal the botched color job.
After a full day of re-​coloring (from 10am to 4:30) which only created new color problems (a rust colored streak on the side of my head, a dark splotch at the top of my head, and white tips). The salon charged me $ 100 for so called «product costs» attempting to fix the color problem they had created. I should have refused to pay this cost at the time, and asked for a refund of the entire amount, but I was tired and just wanted to escape the salon and the unending hair color disaster they put me through.
I knew I would have to pursue help in a more professional salon where hopefully they could solve the problem. An Aveda salon in a different neighborhood did fit me in a couple days later. When I informed them that they had charged me $ 100 for products used in a failed color correction — they told me that that it was unheard of for a salon to charge for anything for trying to fix a color mistake made at their own salon. My total Charges at Kinship came to over $ 450 and I had to go to another Aveda Salon to fix the Kinship «color correction» This cost me an additional $ 350 with tip.
In summary, because I chose to go to a salon, misnamed Kinship, I wound up wasting a day and a half, and paying $ 800 rather than around $ 350 for hair color and tip. In addition, I will now have to wear a much darker color than I wanted for a very long time in order to conceal the Kinship Salon errors.
I have included documentation. The first is a picture I took of a style I saw in a hairstyle magazine — it was to be the example. The second set of photos is the initial hair color job which you can see in no way approximates the example photo, and the third set is the so called color correction.