Hawaii Institute of Hair Design - Admissions Office — Local services in Honolulu

NEED AN OUTSTANDING LOOK FOR THE LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE WOOD SNAKE? Get your hair cut and celebrate immediately afterwards in Chinatown. Your date with destiny are activities culminating on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

Do you need a clean, sharp, contemporary "cutting edge" look at a great price for a special occasion? Then, look no further. YOU and your family have a tested and tried strong recommendation from a long-time patron (that would be me).

Calling all men, women, children and grandparents who need to look their very best. And, you urgently need a good, inexpensive haircut? Then, stop your frantic search. Help is literally right around the corner. I personally believe, that the Hawaii Institute Of Hair Design is the barber for YOU for all your needs!!! Come test their limits.

They are at 1128 Nuuanu Street between North Hotel (Makai) and North Pauahi (Mauka) Streets near downtown and Chinatown. Come on down. They'll immediately take care of YOU and your family's haircut needs.

Okay, so please hear me out on this resulting, exciting scenario. This is my personal perspective about this win-win outcome. You walk in for a "cut-rate" customized haircut to your liking. In the process, YOU directly help an aspiring barber or hairdresser become masters of their trade. At the same time, YOU walk out of there with a sharper, clean-cut, cutting edge contemporary look. How is that for a truly winning proposition all the way around. I sincerely think so.

Get a "priceless" look for ONLY around $10. Haircuts start at $10 for a basic going over and "lowering your ears." Give them your business. I believe you'll love their Aloha service and hair cutting, trimming, washing techniques. Check them out.

Now, here are some thoughts for your consideration. Once you are downtown for your haircut on Nuuanu Avenue, there, are a range of places to visit afterwards (all within walking distance) with your family and / or friends. Check out Chinatown. There are GREAT Chinese restaurants nearby. And, of course, you have the Chinatown farmer's markets all within reach. So, consider several activities around your downtown haircut.

Here is an exciting wrinkle along with a twist for your plans. Why not patronize the Original Pancake House in Waiakamilo Shopping Center either BEFORE or AFTER your haircut? You can visit my "Waiakamilo Shopping Center" and "the Original Pancake House" posts for these details. Thank you. Ideas, ideas, ideas.

I've been their loyal customer over the many years. A former adjunct professor in College of Business Administration faculty, at Hawaii Pacific University (HPU), they were conveniently located right around the corner for me. This year is now approximately my 25th year of patronage. I started when they were located on North Hotel Street many years ago. That's for the history books. They've been around.

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Maestro, this is for You. I've been a customer since the place opened, feels like a hundred years. My barber/beauticians has put their clippers down💈. I was advised to go there and see? I found someone who was able to layer my long hair, sadly She graduated and I was with her for a while. But in the meantime I have been noticing this man whose mannerisms suggested that He is..the instructor. Nosie level is at a minimum, you just don't stand around there's something to do! Distance between the students allowing them room.. too? Make adjustments in your posture, arms Up, elbows pointed out, feet adjusted to form, and my favorite? Head slightly tilted, eyes looking though to the next cut, brow in a keen position. I told my girl He has to be the Master of the school...see how He conducts the room. Bravo... bravo Maestro! A few times I will hear negative things about Him and I said " take In the knowledge of the work your trying to achieve. You don't just want to be a barber or stylish but to Own the name that's on the door. Funny when He is Not there, it is quite noisy and the music is a bit loud. He reminds them " this is not an elementary school" as He speaks with the artist within they are those who want to be Him. Whenever I enter or exist I have always addressed Him as Maestro. This one day I came in to let go of the past! He was helping with His students I'm telling the barber to cut it off and reasons why and maybe He could hear? A few students said " your Hula hair" a few declined to cut it. Told the young man " I want a Pixie "! Fairies...he said. I always watch the Master and it seems that barbers don't really do Pixies anymore? Off to the side of my eye He stood straight up and a look 🤨? Took over, lauring it shoulder length. Letting me know that if I still feel the need to cut it completely Out! Come back, as He reaches for a tissue for me. It's been a long while, I walked in. He noticed me in the mirror and assigned someone else to finish. Told the desk that I wanted a Pixie, He hears " a what " ? A Shirley Jones, cut. This is a longer story. Let's end here, I recently went there after a few years and I didn't see him? The room/class was noisy and students were standing around. Told the cutter " I'm shocked to see this"? He would Not stand for it but it didn't take long, He entered. Told this young girl about this man and the quality that is Him! Still per ticking the art of!? It got a lot quieter and it was nice seeing the Master again. As He is...

In reference to the 1 star review : I attended this school 15 years ago. I am extremely successful, and I owe the majority of my success to the teaching I was provided by this great school. To an outsider, it may look hectic, and unorganized, but there is method to the madness. Not every student on the floor is at a level to cut hair, only about half of students you see on the floor can give you the quality of hair style this school strives for, many of the students are observing, reading, getting used to the caos that is in every salon. The student that was eating, they get 1/2 hour of a 9 hour day, which they clock out for, to eat. If she could have taken you, which she is not allowed to clock in any earlier than the 30 minutes, she would have, because learning is better than eating. There is more to learn about the cutting floor, than just hair, for example, appointment making, product knowledge, staff scheduling, and much much more, hence the 6 students at the desk. In my opinion a wait is a good thing. A long wait means the students are busy (gaining the skills to be out in the real world), busy means a lot of clients, lots of clients means workmanship good enough to come back for/tell your loved ones about. You got a referral right? The school might not be as well of an oiled machine that pofesional salons may be, but it's a school. It's the place you make the mistakes that get you to that will oiled machine. Hair styling is a creative craft that doesn't fit inside a...