Curly hair can be tricky! We are your very best curly hair salon NYC. At Seagull Hair Salon in the West Village, we are adept at all things curly! You want to book an appointment with one of our stylists who has beyond specialty training in cutting and coloring curly hair. Our former stylist—Laura—who was featured in a New York Times article, “Curls Get Their Groove Back” by Marissa Meltzer generously provides ongoing education to two of our talented haircutters and colorists Katie and Maggie… Even though she has retired from hair, Laura remains Seagull Hair Salon’s secret weapon and regularly shares her wealth of know-how. Katie—who is a Wella-trained educator in NYC—has focused intensively on the management and—more importantly—emancipation of curly hair so our clients are certain they’re in great hands. 

If you have curly hair yourself you already know… Finding a curly hair salon can be like digging through a haystack not even knowing what the needle you’re trying to find looks like. At Seagull Hair Salon, your journey is simplified. Feel free to check out their Instagrams and see for yourself. If you’re looking for your very best curly hair salon NYC, you’ve found it!

In The New York Times:

Like Ms. Mazur, other women are increasingly spurning blowout salons and the promise of a temporary straight-hair fix in favor of a curly look that is both natural and modern. Harper’s Bazaar recently declared that “air drying is the new blowout” in an article in praise of tousled hair, adding that “perfect blowouts with round-brushed ends and swingy bounciness have been falling out of favor with fashion girls for a while now.”

And the signs were there. Highly visible musicians like Lorde, St. Vincent, and Rita Ora have made curly manes part of their look. Art-world darlings like the young photographers Olivia Bee and Petra Collins are also skipping the blowout. The look is styled but a little messy, even embracing a certain amount of … yes, frizz. And with a new interest in curly hair has come a demand for salons accomplished in dealing with it.

“People want too much control over their hair, but anything you try to control too much loses its magic,” said Laura Connors, a stylist at Seagull, a salon in the West Village that specializes in curly hair. “I’m trying to get my clients to accept not a halo of puff but some frizz. It’s realistic and a sexy look.”

Yet even if curls are now cool, it’s hard to shake lingering stereotypes, like the assumption that curly-haired women are “loopy and zany and can’t be taken seriously,” in the words of Kim France, the founding editor of Lucky and author of the Girls of a Certain Age blog. “There is a total cultural bias against women with curly hair,” said Ms. France, who has gone through phases of wearing her hair curly and straight. “And hair stylists are really snobby, very uncreative with curly hair.”