Pure Beauty

I’m usually very picky with my hair style and hate it unless i get what i want. After going to Pure beauty, i’m never going to any other place in the
bay.
The Service here is great! When you go in, ask for Joy! She’s amazing! Extremely friendly and very social. She has been styling my hair for quite some time and I have never failed to receive compliments on my hair after going to her.
She was very helpful and gave me some useful tips to better maintain my hair. She recommended me some hair products and wasn’t pushy about purchasing their products which was great! Some people are ridiculous with that and insist you buy their product. She makes you feel very comfortable.
Purebeauty is amazing! My experience is amazing every time I go in. Ask for Joy if you can, she’s the best!

This is kinda confusing, because it looks like these are the Unilocal reviews for the old Haight location that’s now relocated (so to say) to Laurel Heights, but anywho…
I’ve gone here several times to get my hair done by Joy — she is FAB-​U-​LOUS! I had long hair pretty much all my life & Joy was the one who confidently gave me my new short bob that I absolutely adore.
I had an atrocious short haircut over 10 years ago & thought I’d never recover from it. But I love my new ‘do!
Joy is also fantastic to go to for facial waxing. Will definitely be back!

This review is for Jen — such an amazing stylist.
I’ve raved about Jen so much in my PureBeauty reviews, I fear Unilocalers will think I’m a paid shill; I’m not. Jen is simply brilliant and has done things to my hair that no man (or woman) has ever been able to do.
Today, I got a cut and color with some yummy deep caramel highlights to lighten up a bit for summer while still keeping the dark ash brown color of my hair. Think Ghirardelli chocolate/​caramel squares.
(If my hair were chocolate, trust me you’d sample it — it is yummy)
If you have great hair, Jen will make it that much better. If your hair is «less than» Jen will convert you into loving your locks!
You wouldn’t know it from the result but Jen’s prices are also a fraction of what you’d pay in any neighborhood salon and miles away from what you’d pay in the FiDi.
I won’t be going elsewhere, not as long as Jen is stylin’ at PureBeauty!

Wow! What fabulous service!
After my horrible experience trying to get a cut at Bladerunners, I ran with my tail between my legs to my best bud. We chatted over mani-​pedis and she found me an appointment here.
I’m not sure of the name of the stylist. I feel so bad because I asked twice to make sure I knew her name and I still forgot. :(She’s the one with longish blond tousled hair, who is funny and likes 90s music.
Anyways, she was fabulous! She made me feel comfortable right from the get-​go and she was confident that she could pull off my funky hair cut request.
A chop, snip, and jump later, I had an absolutely fabulous hair cut! Punky, yet feminine! Short in the back and long in the front! Half the price of Bladerunners and twice as good! And to top it all off, the lady at the front desk gave me a free hairspray sample. Does life get any better than this?!

Jen at Pure Beauty on Haight is amazing! I just moved to San Francisco and had trouble finding someone to do my blonde highlights. I mistakenly got a single process from a different salon and it ruined my hair. I was horrified and went to Pure Beauty as soon as possible and Jen was able fix it. She made is sooo much better, and gave me a really good price after what I went through. I am deffinatly going to keep on going to her from now on she is super nice and really talented. She knows a lot about doing blonde hair and her hair cuts are really good. You wont be dissapointed with her!

The Pure Beauty on Haight is fantastic. They carry all my Dermalogica products and offer them on sale twice a year.
Lana Tracy has been styling my hair for a year now and does a great job. She’s the best stylist I’ve found in SF and has great skills for reasonable prices. She does a great job with highlights and demi permanent color. She makes great recommendations and tracks all your history in her detailed notes.
Overall, always a great experience at the Haight Street location. The sales people do a great job referring products when you’ve had services done in the salon.

Got my color touched up by Jen last week. I’ve gotten so many compliments on the color and my haircut. I’ve been through so many bad haircuts in this lifetime and so I cannot imagine the rest of my life without Jen. I will follow her wherever she goes!

I absolutely love beauty supply stores and trying out all the new products and lines. Pure beauty sells AWESOME products, very high quality ones too at not too horrific prices. But then again, you aren’t going to get pureology at $ 5 a bottle, in regards to people bitching about how expensive products at beauty stores are. You get what you pay for, it’s worth it!
Now when you buy something at a store, and let’s say later want to return it because you didn’t want it or it was defective, read the receipt! The employees at any retail location should notify customers of their return policy, especially if it is a final sale or something. But as a customer, I will read the fine print on the receipt and even take the initiative to ASK the sales person what their policy is. It really pisses me off when I’m waiting in line at a store and a rude arrogant and nasty customer is yelling at the sales associate screaming about how she wants her money back (looked at some of my previous receipts and oh hey what’s this say? «no cash back») and talking to the sales girl like she is a stupid little child and she personally is holding her money hostage. Come on! I’ve learned through many many years of shopping that a company’s return policy is just that, the company’s. As a customer, I read the fine print, I ask questions, because I’m spending the money and I need to know what will effect my investment.
The employees here are helpful and I’ve never felt like I couldn’t ask them a question either on the products or their return policy. When in doubt, just ask!

I love Love LOVE this salon! Lana Tracy is the best stylist I’ve ever had! She really does a good job cutting and blow drying my hair. She has very good technique and knows what’s trendy and in style. I don’t need to explain too much about what I like. I end up getting exactly the cut I like. She is super cool too! Fun to chat with while I sit back and get the hair cut. The prices here are very affordable as well.
The store is nice and has many high end products and I would shop here again. Bought a unique eyelash curler. They have Jane Iredale mineral makeup, which is not often found in beauty supply shops. Great store at a trendy location!

Shelly is gone now :(
And I’m not sure how to rate them now. Just average, I suppose.

For an earlier version of this, see
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Lana recently moved to this location full-​time, YAY! I don’t have to worry about where she is on a given day. Sadly her schedule has changed to match mine, but I think I can work it out for this chick — she totally gets what I’m going for, even when I forget the perfect pic I meant to bring.
She’s also a super-​cool chick, and I fully intend to stick with her! Oh, and she never pushes product at me. BIG plus.
PS this review is for LANA. I’m totally ambivalent about Pure Beauty.

I LOVE this Pure Beauty! My stylist, Lana, was at the Irving store for a while, the moved permanently over to the Haight location. I am SO pleased with the location, the salon is upstairs and is full of light. I started going to Lana on a whim last year when I needed a haircut and was on the lookout for a new stylist. Lana continues to do a wonderful job, and I always have fun chatting up with her during my cut.
I really like the layout of the store, also. It’s a little smaller than the Irving shop, but it feels more boutiquey and less like a chain. I highly recommend the store and the stylists at this location!

I’ve been buying products at PureBeauty for years. About 10 days ago, my flat iron died, and it had already been replaced/​rebuilt once. So I faced the music, did research, and went to PureBeauty to buy a new one (I figured w/​shipping costs and time, the whole thing would balance out, so why not buy a new flat iron in person).
First, I was told that since I wanted a flat iron with multiple heat settings (and really, who doesn’t?), I had only two options (this was out of about 14 different flat irons). I liked the HAI digital one with an automatic shut off, so I forked over tons of dinero with the promise by the sales girl that if I didn’t like it FOR ANY REASON to just return it with the original packaging withing 60 days. Another huge selling point, as returning a flat iron (or anything, really) via mail can take forever.
A few days later, I’m psyched to try my new iron, but it keeps shutting off. And not the 30-​minute shut off, but the 10 second shut off. I kept trying to use it, but no dice. I thought maybe it was my outlet.
So I tried again a few days later with a different outlet. Same thing. No consistent heat. I packaged everything up and took it back to PureBeauty, where a different salesgirl tried to tell me I couldn’t return it at all. Um. No. And thankfully a manager or more senior chick corrected her. I explained why I was returning it (duh, it doesn’t work) and she said that as long as I had all the packaging, then I could return it. I asked why the packaging and she said, «So we can resell it.» Um. You don’t want to do that. It doesn’t work. Really. But she gave me a smirk. Then she asked me, twice, if I wanted to buy another iron. My response, «Can you guarantee it’ll work?» thinking she’d offer to let me test it right there. But she said, «No.» Well, then, I don’t want to have to deal with all of this crap again, so no, please refund me the $ 191 and let me find a little peace to end my day.
The product line is ok, but prices are whack high, and the staff attitude is really hit or miss.

Went here today as the «Lady K» has been saying she needs shampoo for a few days now and wanted to get something new to match her new hair color!
So… I love this place! So many choices! So many smells! The «Lady K» ended up being help by a great girl (nose piece girl) who not only took her time with us but offered many suggestions including her own favorites and then some. I was so impressed, I purchased some moisturizer with sunblock for myself.
We signed up for their points system so we’ll be back as soon as we get our $ 5 off coupon in the mail! Enjoy!

I have very, very challenging hair– tangled, super thick, curly, dry. After growing my hair out from a terrible cut, I decided to try this place out after reading the reviews.
Christopher is fantastic. He totally knew how to give me a cut that would work if i wore my hair curly or straight, i left with infinitely healthier and prettier hair. He is also completely charming and not the slightest bit pretentious. I was nervous to try a new place (a chain nonetheless) and it was a great experience. After getting overpriced cuts in burlingame for year, this is absolutely my new salon.

Shelley ruined my hair. I wanted highlights and she was in a hurry — no clue why they scheduled my appt. so close to the time she needed to leave, because when I called I told them I had long hair and wanted a cut and highlights. Instead of nice blonde, she weaved a ton of «highlights» (actually yellow, brassy color) really close together throughout my hair. She basically dyed all of it instead of giving me the highlights I’d requested. I think she knew she screwed me because she said over and over «it’s going to look yellow in here, but don’t worry it’s just the lighting». Umm, I think not. I used purple shampoo for weeks on end to try to cut down on the brassiness. Now, approximately a year later, I am still growing my hair out. It basically turned to a cotton candy damaged mess after Shelley got her hands on it.
In addition to killing my poor hair, the entire time I was in the salon she dissed the city where I was born. Umm, duh — this is San Francisco. People come here from all over and if you don’t know for sure where someone is from, maybe you shouldn’t talk so much smack.
Lesson: Don’t come here if you value your hair. It’s worth it to pay more for good service.

When I first moved to the Bay area, I was a young hippy girl that hadn’t had a haircut in over 5 years. I had gone through a number of beyond-​horror, 80’s style perms and haircuts in my youth, and to put it mildly, I had been traumatized by hairdressers…
Luckily for me, a dear friend spent a very patient year, gently coaxing me to give her amazing hairdresser, Christopher, a chance. For a whole YEAR, Christopher, whom I had never met, recommended specific products for my terrible hair problems, which my friend would then give to me. Slowly, as I saw my hair transformed from brittle, dry and snarly into silky, manageable locks, I began to suspect that perhaps all hairdressers weren’t out to get me. Then, one day, I allowed my friend to literally take me by the hand and drag me in to see Christopher… Yes, I admit, I was shaking a little in the chair.
I felt nervous and self-​conscious as I sat down in the chair and talked to Christopher and Shelley about my unkempt and limp locks. To my relief, he was amazingly talented and totally non-​judgemental. He worked quickly, confidently and gently, paying attention to every detail of how my hair fell, and didn’t take off more that an inch or two.
Shelley was warm, interested and helpful too, making suggestions and observations as she worked wonders on a curly-​headed girl next to me. She and Christopher kept a hilarious and dialogue that made me laugh for the first time in ages. I felt like I was hanging out with old friends, listening to cool tunes and talking about our dorky childhoods. And the end result?
I looked amazing.
I’ve been going to see Christopher ever since, and it’s been a little over four years now. I have seen him work miracles more times than I can count, and not just on my hair. I’ve also seen him fit in «accident victims» between color jobs, (people who got drunk the night before and decided to cut their own hair!), who came in looking god-​awful and totally beyond repair. They leave looking like they stepped off the cover of Vogue.
Christopher’s artistic, innovate cuts and fantastic color jobs are inspiring. Even if it’s been six months since my last cut/​color, people rave about my hair and want to know where I get it done.
I love Christopher and Shelley, and if you go to Pure Beauty on Haight, you will too. :-)

Best «Pure Beauty» in San Francisco. I have been to the Embarcadero Store, The Irving Street Location and Stonestown Galleria. I was also a member and fan of «The Beauty Store» which was acquired by Pure Beauty Inc. I only buy face and nail products… Black Girls got different issues with the hair thing… I did like the Sebastian Hair Glosser I tried. I might get it.
So what is up with this company… Company Background
PUREBEAUTY is a beauty lifestyle retailer. They offer a wide variety of professional beauty products and salon services for hair and skin.
Their keys to success are:
Product selection: They offer more than 100 traditional and hard-​to-​find brands in each store and are continuously updating the assortment to set the trends of tomorrow in hair, skin, bath, cosmetics and body and select gift items.
I purchased my much needed DDF Glycolic Toner, Some moisturizer, Some HYLEXIN…(this stuff better work) OPI, and stocking stuffers.
I joined the Pure Beauty Club and got $ 10.00 back. The company is mainly based here in Cali… with a store in VA, Las Vegas, D.C. My products last along time… so I won’t be back anytime soon.
The Stonestown store is pitiful. They are smaller and do not have the newer items. They also have stock issues. The shelves look bare.
My skin is improving… my Adult acne is in remission.
Infodiva reppin beauty for all you Metrosexual Unilocalers and the ladies.

I happened into this store while shoe shopping on Haight St. It was my first time and, as it turns out, they were nearly closing. They let me stay and figure out what I wanted though which was nice (did I mention it was my first time here?)
They sell MOP which makes me a happy camper.
Be sure to get the Pure Beauty card (while I think they are rather silly…). Instead of getting extra savings on marked items you get $ 20 off every $ 120 you spend (or something to that effect)

Shelley rocks! Part of the reason why this review is so delayed (2 months late) is because I was having trouble coming up with the words to describe how awesome of a person Shelley is.
After reading the numerous glowing reviews of Christopher and Shelley on Unilocal,I decided to book an appointment on a whim., for my sister and myself. We were thoroughly impressed by Shelley’s attention to detail, humor, and overall hair finesse. I opted for a pretty conservative cut, which turned out really well, with noticeably more layers. My sister, on the other hand underwent the big chop, gained some bangs, and plenty of volume — and still receives no end of compliments on her new style.
Shelley’s so quick with the scissors and the wit, that before you realize it, you’re surrounded by hair choppings and rockin a new do. Her prices are also very reasonable and for her experience and time, really extraordinary. She even inspired my sister and I to get around to watching Rize, which as you can see on my profile — is now one of my favorite movies. If you’re ready for some krumping, celebrity gossip, and an affordable yet excellent hair cut — Shelley’s got it down.