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Alma G Salon & Spa
Categories: Beauty and Spas Hair Salons Beauty and Spas Skin Care Hair Salons, Skin Care [Edit]
38 E 211st Fl
New York, NY 10010
Neighborhood: Flatiron
(212) 353-0600
- Nearest Transit:
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23 St (4, 6, 6X)
23 St (N, R)
14 St - Union Sq (N, Q, R)
- Hours:
Tue 11 am - 7 pm
Wed, Fri-Sat 10 am - 7 pm
Thu 10 am - 8 pm
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- By Appointment Only:
- Yes
- Hair Types Specialized In:
- Coloring, Extensions
6 reviews for Alma G Salon & Spa
6 reviews in English
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Review from C V.
New York, NY
1/29/2012
I was in the neighborhood and needed a cut so I took advantage of a "Groupon Now." The staff couldn't be more gracious or accommodating about fitting me in at the last minute. The salon experience was friendly and comfortable and Sonila gave me a terrific cut.
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Review from Nikki B.
Manhattan, NY
5/17/2012
The best thing about this salon is YELENA. She is attentive, sweet focused on her client and a far cry from everyone else. It seems as though people here are more self absorbed, than focusing on the client. When your prices are comparatively high, you must offer good service, which only came from one stylist.
Pros: they offer wine as you wait or cut your hair.
Cons: Even when the salon was empty, the owner and other stylist focused more themselves and smoking outside, rather than smiling and being pleasant to the clients that were already there.
If you go, ask for Yelena. She's focused and attentive on what the client wants. Please advise her to open her own studio! -
Review from Lisa S.
New York, NY
12/11/2010
BEWARE the lack of price quoting and the amateur hair skills. Do not fall for her nice and sweet routine, Alma totally pulled a fast one on me with her smooth talking way of sounding like add-on services weren't really services but just part of the haircut/color.
$49 Vitamin Treatment that was cut off. Before cutting my hair, she said it felt dry and told the shampoo girl to give me a treatment before cutting my hair to help with the dry ends. It seemed odd since I came in to have 3 inches cut off. Wouldn't all the dry ends simply be cut away. I assumed it was simply a vitamin enriched shampoo, not a special $49 charge.
Layers - she does not know how to cut layers. She does that amateur high school beauty class move of turning the scissors sideways and then cutting diagonally across my face. And she started so high up, I actually have bangs - completely unwanted.
$75 Conditioning Treatment -
Color -she gave me highlights despite me distinctly telling her I abhor them. She claimed it would not look like it. Due to the low lighting and overcast day, I was not able to see the true extent of them until I looked in my own bathroom mirror. They were randomly, unbalanced pieces of dull brown. I was mortified and had to run out to Duane Reade and buy a bottle of cover up color.
$50 Color Correction x 3 - When I called to complain, she said she would do the color correction for free. My hair was colored and bleached 3 times before she finally was able to fix it and now my hair feels and looks like straw. She claims that because it took so much work to do my hair, she had to charge me $50.
Cut - My hair looks like a mop which is actually hard to do. I'm Asian and have the typical, long sleek shiny low maintenance hair. Somehow, she cut it so it does not lay flat and instead gets thicker and tangled looking at the bottom, just like a used mop. It takes herculean effort and tons of product to make it through the day. -
Review from Teresa G.
8/23/2008
While I cannot deny that I got a good cut and nice color here, I must admit that I left feeling as though I'd been "taken for a ride."
Here are the details:
My waxer recommened Alma to me, they had worked together years ago and I was in the market for a new hair place.
So, I checked out the website and discovered that the prices were reasonable ($75+ cut and $5/foil). I figured that I could easily get out for under $200. Fine, perfect. Or not...
So I show up and check in, and I'm showed to a chair. I wait, and wait and wait some more. Finally, a woman comes over to me and asks me who I'm waiting for. I tell her and she insists that she just *has to* do my hair.
Not knowing any better and wanting to get out of there before tomorrow, I oblige. Well, halfway through the cut she informs me that she is Alma, of the Alma G salon. Well, let me put it this way; $450 later I walked out feeling like a total a$$. Yes, the cut was nice and I enjoyed the color, but for the price...OMG! I really felt like I'd been taken advantage of by Alma.
I will not be back. -
Review from Varghese c.
Brooklyn, NY
10/4/2006
I used work with Alma and she's beautiful as she is talented. The most amazing aspect of the salon is that the work they do is incredible yet the prices are almost half what other salons of their caliber charge.
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Review from Colleen K.
Brooklyn, NY
10/7/2009
I am so neurotic about my hair. Makeup? Who cares? My hair, though - that's another story. I need an artist, someone who knows the craft and can explicitly what I want when I get a wild idea, AND just "give me something beautiful/funky/professional/swanky" when I want to just relax. I have never felt more comfortable. They take care of you the entire time, from the wash and head massage to the cut, and the blow out. And the blow out is the best I've ever gotten. Nina, who's the sweetest woman and the most gifted stylist, has a particular technique for gorgeous, long, loose curls that is unbeatable. Not to mention wine, champagne, or water while you wait (and wash, and cut, and blow out...). It's totally worth the reasonable price. GO (and see Nina!).
