First, the guide. We built a thing that does this whole article for you: eleven salons, 484 services, standardised into the 41 things you'd actually book, every published price on one line each.
Now the detail, for people who like to know what they're booking.
Every Salon. One Page.
Standardising is the trick. A manicure at one door isn't a manicure at the next... one includes a hand massage, one is a file and polish, one comes with a skin treatment. The Going Rate keeps every salon's own words and prices underneath, grouped so you can finally compare like with like. Each dot on a line is a salon's from-price. Open the line, read the menus, word for word.
How Beauty Pricing Actually Works
A few things worth knowing before you read any salon menu, ours included.
From-prices are the floor, not the bill. Hair especially. Length changes everything, and colour is almost always "at consultation" because nobody can quote a correction they haven't seen. That's not dodging... that's honesty.
Stylist tiers are a feature, not a trick. The same cut at MPhosis runs from $61 with an academy stylist to $110 with the director. Cut Above and Urban Retreat tier the same way. You're choosing experience level, and the emerging stylist price is one of the best deals on the strip.
The real cost of a set is the cadence. Lash extensions are the classic example. The set is $78 to $100... then it's fills every two to three weeks, $46 to $70 a visit. Budget the rhythm, not the day one price. Same logic for acrylics and their backfills.
Know Your Treatments
A field guide. What things are, in plain words, and what they run on the WestSide right now.
Nails: acrylic vs SNS vs builder gel
Acrylic is the sculpted classic... liquid and powder, strong, any length, maintained with backfills. SNS (dipping powder) skips the liquid, kinder on some nails, similar look. Builder and hard gel add strength to your natural nail or extend with tips. Gel/shellac on its own is polish that cures hard and lasts weeks, not a length treatment. On the strip: full acrylic sets run $64 to $95, backfills $49 to $75, SNS $60 to $95 depending on tips and finish.
Lashes: classic, hybrid, volume, Russian
Classic is one extension per natural lash... the natural look. Volume fans multiple fine lashes onto each one... fuller, more drama. Hybrid sits between. Russian volume is the fullest of all, and Saray runs a Mega Russian for maximalists. Sets on the WestSide go $78 to $125, with The Beauty Spot's premade Russians at $110. A lash lift is a different thing entirely... your own lashes, curled and tinted, no fills required, $70 to $95.
Brows: tint, henna, lamination
Tint is colour on the hair, a few weeks of life. Henna stains the skin beneath too, so the shape reads fuller for longer. Lamination chemically smooths and sets the hairs upward for that brushed, fuller look. Brow tints are the most competitive price on the entire strip... $20 to $25, seven salons, five dollars between them. Lamination is Urban Retreat's alone at $80.
Faces: the facial ladder
An express facial is a 30-minute cleanse and reset, $45 to $65. Classic facials add massage and masks, $60 to $110. Deluxe means devices, longer tables, layered treatments... $120 to $205. Above that sits the advanced tier: peels, dermaplaning, microdermabrasion, and collagen induction (microneedling). These are results-driven treatments, and every salon offering them will assess your skin first. That consultation is the point... your therapist matches the treatment to your skin, not the other way around.
Massage: pick your pressure
Swedish flows, deep tissue works, Thai stretches, hot stone melts. Bliss Thai is the dedicated massage room on the strip with everything from cupping to pregnancy massage. A 60-minute full body runs $85 to $120 across five providers. And the head spa... the scalp facial that arrived from Japan via half of TikTok... runs $65 for Lien Lashes' basic ritual up to $170 for Hello Beautiful's deluxe with the herbal foot bath.
How To Choose A Salon
- Walk-in or book ahead. Lien, Saray, Lavish and Lili take walk-ins. The hair houses and The Beauty Spot run on bookings. Match the salon to how you actually operate.
- Check their Instagram for the exact service you want. Every salon has a signature. Find photos of the thing you're booking, not just their best work.
- The consultation is the tell. A good salon asks questions before quoting. Especially for colour, lashes and anything advanced.
- Ask about maintenance before you commit. Fill prices, backfill prices, how many weeks between. The second appointment is the real price tag.
- Patch tests matter for tints, henna and anything chemical. A salon that offers one unprompted is looking after you.
- Cheapest isn't the metric. Fit is.
The Salons
Every beauty door on the WestSide, accounted for.
For completeness: Shampoo Plus is the strip's haircare product specialist rather than a service salon, and Ambience Hair looks after existing clients only.
Three Numbers That Surprised Us
$5. The entire spread on a brow tint across seven salons. $20 to $25. The most competitive treatment on the WestSide... the market has spoken, and the market says brow tints cost about $22.
$15 to $85. The manicure range. Not because anyone's overcharging... because "manicure" means six different things, from a trim and file to an hour-long ritual with essential oil soaks. This is exactly why the guide groups salons under one line and shows you what each one actually includes.
$95. The gap on collagen induction therapy... $155 at The Beauty Spot, $250 at Urban Retreat. Biggest same-treatment spread on the strip. Different devices, different protocols, both consult first. Worth a conversation with each.
The One-Sentence Version
Brows and waxing cost about the same wherever you go, everything else varies wildly with what's actually included... so check The Going Rate before you book, and read the line, not just the price.
Prices are set by each salon and can change any time... we transcribe them from each salon's own published menu and date-stamp every check. From-prices are starting points, colour and advanced skin treatments are quoted at consultation, and your therapist's assessment always beats a price list. Run a salon we've missed or spot a price that's moved? Tell WestSide.
The WestSide rewards the prepared. Now the prices do too.