Platinum Salon — Local services in Tampa

I wanted to share my story and experiences about Allen Coleman and his Salon...Platinum Salon. I moved back to FL 3 years ago on this Friday. I had been going to the same "High End" salon for many years. I was very disappointed to find out there were no similar salons that had the same vibe and culture that I had become accustomed to for many years. I always had the best. I could not find one salon that I liked in the area that was close and work with my very crazy schedule and life.

I went to many different stylist and salon based on the referrals of others. I was told that they had experience, and it would be great. Not only was it not great, but it was also horrible. I am Greek and I have very long, dark, thick and curse hair. I have to get my grays touched up almost every other week because of how fast my hair grows. I would go home every time with color all over my face, or they didn't get all the little stubborn grays. They never thought...I just sent my client out into the world with color on her face and it has my name on it. It was so frustrating. I am in my 50's and in sales. Looking good is important to my image and professional success.

Fast forward. I had just moved to Wesley Chapel. I joined the Wesley Chapel FB group. I went on the group and asked who the best stylist and salon in the area was. I received over 30 response and over half of them said contact Allen Coleman at Platinum Salon. I believe even Allen reached out. I reached out to him on FB, called the next day and got in the same day. That was the day my life changed forever. I can't even put in words how much Allen and his team mean to me. I am actually getting emotional while writing. You cannot put a price on how someone makes you feel. Over the last year I have gotten to know Alan very well. He is one the most important people in my life. Recently, I went in to have express straightener. While sitting in the chair waiting for my hair to process. As always, I was watching Alan do his magic. I normally would say...Allen can't you find a way to make gray and not have to cover the gray anymore. And of course he would tell me not with you very dark hair. This day was different. He had a blond in his chair, with beautiful highlights. But that wasn't what caught my eye and interest. It was her cut. I complimented both of them. it was my turn to get back in his chair. I said in a very bold & confident tone. Alan are you ready to cut all my hair off? We talked about it a few times. That day I was ready to make a drastic change. I am so glad I did. I have not been this happy with my hair since I do not know when. A week later I went back for a Magic Sleek straightener treatment. I was once again overwhelmed with emotion. I cannot say enough about Alan, Jancy, Johnny, Tammy, Savannah and the entire team. I might be my oldest, but I feel my youngest. I absolutely love my Platinum Salon Family. We can forget the man behind the scenes that keeps everything running. that would be Michael. How can you not be in a good mood when Michael is around. Thank you, Allen for literally changing my life! I love you and your team to the moon and back. If you want to feel & look great! Go see Allen. He is a Master of his craft!

Rebecca Ann...

Im typically not someone who leaves bad reviews and it takes a lot for us to do so. My daughter is a social media influencer with a combined 100K followers throughout all social media platforms, she does modelling for high end jewelry, and is pursuing an acting career where she is with a talent agency. It goes without saying that we have been to many hair dressers because of our travels and having decent hair at least is very important to her career. We have had some amazing experiences and some experiences that weren't the best but still were passive and we worked with the results of the hair she got at the salon. Platinum Salon was by far the absolute WORST experience we have had. When I called to book an appointment, I made sure to ask for the most experienced hairdresser who knows what they are doing. Allen (the owner) said he was the most experienced and had 30+ years of experience and that he would do my daughters hair. We arrived at Platinum Salon with reference pictures of the hair colour and style we wanted and Allen quickly glanced at the pictures and ultimately proceeded to do whatever he wanted to my daughters hair. The highlights were not the colour and style we asked for and neither was her hair cut. Her hair is chemically damaged from the bleach Allen added to her hair from him over processing it and has blotches of bleach and uncoloured hair throughout her head to the point she cant even part her hair in certain sections because it just looks so horrible ( please see pictures that i've added for your reference). I do NOT understand how this Salon is still in business. I was in tears with the outcome of my daughters hair and we both cried when we got home. Please do NOT go off of looks, this salon looks high end and we thought we were getting a high end service and it was the absolutely worst hair salon experience we have ever had. I told Allen her hair looked terrible and to top it off he had a snarky arrogant remark trying to excuse this horrible work. They asked us not to leave a google review because they were well aware of the terrible job they did. They agreed that we didn't have to pay them for the terrible job done and wanted us to go back to "fix" it. We left. I'm leaving an honest review because I do NOT want someone else's little girl crying every time they look in the mirror because of the damage and horrible colour and blotches all over her head. As a mom, it's heartbreaking to watch your daughter feel she looks ugly because her hair is totally damaged around her head and hairline. I do not trust them to go back and have them fix her hair, they should pay a REAL professional Salon to somehow fix the damage they have done to my daughters hair....

I don't even know where to begin with this review honestly, I will say that I am a 31 year old woman who had never been inside of a salon and to say I was nervous to have someone touching my hair or even being in this kinda place is an understatement. As you'll see in the first set of photos my head was a mess and as a SAHM I can never find time to do anything and even if I could I decided to butcher it out if pure boredom 😂 We've all been there. I've dealt with breakage,clumps and clumps of major fallout since I got sick back in 2021 and needless to say I've been very much down on myself so as a birthday surprise my best friend did all the research on the best salons out here and booked me an appointment where she spoke with Mike who listened to all of concerns,and to be real my best friend is EXTRA and she knows it and will not settle for anything less than the best,he said he was booking us with their best stylist and they were NOT lying! I walked in a nervous wreck and within less than 20 mins if talking to the AMAZINGLY talented Miss Tammy I felt as ease. She made me feel so welcomed and listened and preformed more than what I thought was even possible. She was very honest and wasn't just out to make money but to take care of her customers to ensure they leave with healthy hair and that alone is big. She was very sweet and sent me home with nothing more but nothing less than what I actually needed to start healing my hairs. I never thought I'd be able to go blonde after literally torturing my hair since I was 16,but she made it clear that if she feels like doing something certain to someones hair that they want and she knows it could mess up and ruin their hair that she won't do it and that made me respect her for her work and passion so much more!And lastly but definitely what we all came for,she gave me my dream hair and I'm so happy to now have her as my regular stylist and to be going on this new hair journey with her! Thank you so much Tammy you're such an incredibly beautiful person...