The Do (formerly Emily J salon) — Local services in Decatur

I have been going to this salon (The Do), formerly known as Emily J Aveda, for more than a year now. The service here has been consistently excellent and the staff always friendly, respectful, and courteous. My hair stylist Cyrus is not only talented, skilled, and knowledgeable about color and style, she is so very personable, sensitive to my particular hair needs, understanding, and empathic as a human being. It’s a pleasure to see her and work with her. Before this salon, I came from another Aveda salon in town, but I had not been getting great care there lately, kind of always being passed down to the newer stylists, so that my hair had been over-treated and over-highlighted in an attempt to fix it. Sometime it was treated with semi-permanent hair color (my choice), but sometimes mistakenly treated with permanent hair color. When I came to Cyrus, she slowly set about to correct the different parts and non-uniform shades of my hair. And in a couple of months, Cyrus got it to where I am totally satisfied with color and the extent of highlights. On top of it, she is very respectful and doesn’t force or provide extra services I don’t need at the time. One time I also had the pleasure of having my hair done by Paul, when Cyrus was out of town, and I came back totally satisfied with his service, pleasing personality, and skill set as well. I highly recommend this salon and the stylists here to anyone looking for excellent hair color, cut, and...

I came here to get a service by a wonderful stylist who no longer works here. The white manager is extremely rude and prejudiced towards black people. I believe her name is Kristen. I spent the majority of my stay listening to her nitpick at the only black stylist. I’ve heard her make extremely inappropriate comments about her clothing as well as accuse her of making a mistake that was actually made by another white “gentlemen”, who of course, was not spoken to with HALF as much accusation and unkindness as she had spoken to my stylist. Kristen radiates white, classist, racist, and judgmental energy. My stylist was awesome though! Shame they had to lose such great talent over their own lack of respect and integrity. EDIT: I find it extremely telling that you only have passive aggressive comments to make about Christina, while also not acknowledging the many discriminatory acts you’ve made against her, stylist or not. She may not have been licensed, but she was your employee and gave wonderful service (more than just a blow out so i’m not sure why you insist on reducing her to that when she most certainly offered more services??) , unlike you. not sure how she wasn’t a stylist when she’s performed multiple services for many different people that was beyond a blowdry. is this some type of loop hole to get free labor?? anyways, i’ve never had a conversation with you, actually. i’m sure you usually save those for your...

I've been going here now for about 1.5 years. I see Paul, who is a really gifted color artist, managing to salvage my hair after several terrible dye jobs at a different salon. He makes my boring brunette hair look healthy and sunkissed, never streaky, and he's super nice. I will agree with other comments about some of the reception staff who can be kind of hit or miss. Some sound knowledgeable and organized, others sound super young, confused, and clueless. After they had to reschedule my appointment, I called a few days later to confirm. Glad I did: the confused sounded receptionist had gotten the make-up appointment wrong by two weeks. That would have been a huge bummer before a trip. I think the prices are very reasonable and the staff well trained. When in doubt though, call and double check that everything is what you want it to be. BTW, they have a great $50 keretin "light" treatment that doesn't take forever, doesn't smell, and makes your hair feel...