Leeba Salon

By far the worst hair cut experience I have ever had. I went to Leeba since it is close to my office and I was in desperate need of a hair cut and I thought I could trust the reviews of fellow Unilocalers. This place gave me douche chills when I walk in the door and a good sign I shouldn’t have sat down. Many employees were working but no one seemed to want to or bother helping me so I patiently waited. After a record-​setting 20 minute wait I was helped by a «highly-​experienced stylist». He walked me thought some suggestions and I was pleased with what the outcome was suppose to be. For reference I had about 9 inches on top of my head; much to long for Summer weather. I asked for 3 inches to be left on top and clean up the sides. When he got out the hair clippers I said my hair would be too short for what we had looked at or what I had asked for. I was told it was a long guide and my hair would be long. One the first stroke, I knew it was all wrong! My long hair fell all over the floor and I knew there was no going back. I ended up with a $ 30 crew cut which is exactly what I didn’t want. On the sides I had about 1/​8″ left and on top, maybe ¼″ and damn near fucking bald!
I thought I was going to an experience salon that would understand and do what I wanted. If I wanted a $ 30 crew cut I would have gone to Supercuts twice. If you value you hair or wallet don’t bother going to these beauty school undergrad failure drop outs.
I did end up leaving a $ 5 tip for the guy that butchered my hair…
So glad this place closed. Hopefully everyone that once worked here went back to college or are trying to get there GEDs

I have incredibly simple, straight hair. They washed it, cut it (in about 3 minutes) and didn’t blow dry it… and the cut cost me $ 40

DO NOT GET ANY COLOR DONE! I literally have patches of blonde all over my head. There is a streak of white white blonde that starts at my part and ends an inch down. There is another super white blonde patch that she started an inch AWAY from my scalp.
I went in for Balayage (which I was told they do) and she put in 5 foils randomly throughout my head. Balayage is the art of painting the color on the hair to avoid the straight chunky look of foils. I had shown her a pic of what I was hoping to get along with mentioning my roots needed to be fixed. I explained to her that, that is not what I meant or that, that is not what balayage is. So she decided to completely cover my head (only by the roots) in the bleach making the root of my hair a golden yellow and my tips are a dirty blonde.
This place is not worth any deal. And let’s not forget how moody they all were! I felt very unwelcome and as though I was disturbing their Facebooking.
I can’t believe I tipped…

ROYA does the most amazing brow shape! I can’t say enough great things about Roya’s ability to thread my brows into the perfect shape. She is gentle and quick. The price is very reasonable. Since I’ve been seeing her I get comments on how perfectly they have been shaped. Go see her you will be pleased!

I go there to get my eyebrows and Brazilian done. Isabel does a great job! She is the only I see. I recommended her to my coworker who was happy with her.

I made an appt at Leeba earlier today as my go-​to hairdresser was fully booked. I was blessed with Roya. So professional and sweet, gave me a scalp massage that almost made me book her very next appt if she didn’t have one. She blew dry my hair differently than my usual hairdresser and I haven’t stopped getting compliments on how lovely my hair looks. She recommended a Keratin treatment and I am definitely booking with her.

Frizz free, smooth, silky, straight hair
and a Super Shag haircut from Greg!
THE DEAL: It’s ONLY $ 99 for his Keratin Hair Straightening… BUT…
You must ask for Gregory to get this deal. Very difficult hair may be $ 125.
NO…This was not a «Brazilian Blowout.» It was a full, keratin straightening.
(Tell him «Lynn Julian» sent you, and he offered to match this price.)

Just had my first haircut and single-​process here. This location is in a really busy area, so my one critique is that at 5:15pm on a Thursday it was pretty chaotic and my hairdresser looked a little stressed. (Not the feeling you want when someone is about to cut your hair). However, by 6:30pm the place is pretty quiet. I loved my hairstylist — I think her name was Gloria. I went into it not knowing what to do with my hair, but just that I wanted it to be the same color. She did a beautiful job and I was pretty impressed with the cost in the end. A great value and convenient to where I both work and live! I will be back.

I would like to preface this review by saying I am probably the most annoying person to have sitting in your hair salon chair. I have a specific way I like my highlights and an even more specific way that I want my hair cut. I have been to over a hundred places and every hair dresser does what they want or what they think will look best, which is the absolute worse for someone like me.
Which brings me to the day I walked into Leeba Salon on State St. I had been to the Leeba Salon on Washington St and had Charbal do my hair. He was amazing. I made my way over to the State St one because Charbal was no longer working on Washington St. I met Mariella and sat in her chair. She asked me what I like and how I like it and I explained my highlights to her. She is the best hair dresser I have ever been to. She listens to exactly what you want and does a great great job! I was so impressed with my hair that I have been going to her for quite some time now. I don’t even need to tell her each time I go in, she just remembers me and does the best job ever. I love this salon and I will recommend it to anyone and everyone I speak to. Great work, great and good looking team, and awesome location.
If Mariella ever left Leeba to go to another salon, I would follow her.
I am also a very picky person about who touches my eyebrows. I was sitting in Mariella’s chair getting my highlights done and I was really impressed with Roya’s eyebrows, so naturally I asked her how she does them and she told me that she does them herself. I asked her how and she threads them. I have seen the women in the malls doing it and heard about it, but never actually tried it. I asked her if she could take a look at mine and she so confidently said «oh yes». Her confidence alone brought me to asking her to thread my eyebrows, and boy am I happy I did. She did an amazing job and I will never touch my own eyebrows again. I see her once a month, because I have blonde eyebrows so thats the only time it is needed. I have been going back to her for the past two months and I am SO SO happy. Mariella and Roya are extremely talented in what they do, and I highly recommend both.

WORST eyebrow experience of my LIFE. Not only was she 15 minutes late when I was on my half hour lunch break but she was also rude. I wish I could remember/​pronounce her name but I will definitely not be returning to Leeba since more than half of my eyebrow is now completely gone. It was a rushed and painful experience since she was now running late and behind on her appointments. She rushed me in and out of her room so I could top off my amazingly awful experience by paying $ 18 bucks plus her $ 2 tip so $ 20 dollars to look like a freak for atleast three weeks. Thanks so much.
Never again.

I would love to give this place 5 stars but I have to take one off for the price. I got an eyebrow threading, wash, cut & blowdry and it cost me about $ 73 before tip.
That being said, you get what you pay for! This was probably the third time I had gotten my eyebrows threaded from Roya and she does a beautiful job. They look scuplted and natural and I will never go back to waxing. She was also kind and talkative, which I liked.
The reason I went here for a haircut was really because I love her hair and I asked her to cut it like hers. She did and it was the best haircut I’ve ever gotten. The layers were shorter than I ever get them, but they worked with my face and look beautiful flipped out. I walked out of there feeling so confident and sexy that I didn’t even care that it cost $ 100 (with tip).
It is now several weeks later and I’m still in love with it. I get up a little ealier to style and I just feel better about myself. I will definitely be going back.
I also wanted to mention that I saw one or two other hairstylists with long, beautiful hair. I personally am more trusting of a stylist whose style I like/​want.

3 stars because I had never had my eyebrows threaded before but it was paiiiinful!!!
The staff was not all the friendly either, which always knocks off a star or two. But i think the price is pretty standard. although the receptionist failed to tell me that tips are CASH only, which I had none of, so the poor woman didn’t get a tip.

I’ve only been here to get my eyebrows threaded — so this is limited to that service.
The woman was fast and THOROUGH… BUT the price was a little steep… so I knocked off one star for the price.
lip and eyebrow are $ 28, plus a $ 5 tip, total $ 33.
otherwise, it seems like a great salon, it was pretty busy on a weekday morning.

I love this salon! They give great cuts and color… one of the few places that I know I will always go and leave happy.

Dear Leeba,
If there’s one thing I DON’T like, it’s false advertising.
I went on your website and I found a 50% off coupon. The coupon reads as follows:
«50% off any single service for first time customer*
*Straightener extensions not included. You must mention the internet special when you make your appointment and bring this coupon with you to the salon»
So, I went into your salon and made an inquiry into single or double process color. I didn’t want highlights, just an all-​over color. I was quoted $ 85 by a nice man at your salon. I was quite happy with this, so I showed him the 50%coupon I printed off your website and he started going all funny… telling me that he can give me a discount and only charge me $ 65 with cut and blow dry. I told him this is not 50% off the price he gave me, and that I didn’t want a haircut or blowdry, and his retort was that the original $ 85 was already discounted for a first-​time customer. I refuse to believe that a simple, all-​over color costs $ 170. I can go to Vidal Sassoon and get color for less than that.
I told him this was false advertising and that I will take my business elsewhere. He told me that their discounts are normally only $ 25 to $ 35 because anything else «wouldn’t be worth it» for him. Thank you for letting me know that my business is not worthy of your salon, or you as a hair stylist.
So, Leeba, I think you need to get your act together and either take that coupon off your website, make a note that the maximum discount is $ 35, or you need to actually honor your coupon.
Regardless, I’m taking my business elsewhere.
Sincerely,
A very pissed off POTENTIAL client

I tried for a few days to make an appointment to get my eyebrows threaded, finally I got an appointment for the the Leeba on Broad/​State Street. When I went there the woman at the desk didn’t even look up at me for at least 5 minutes, and then told me to take a seat and the eyebrow threader would be with me shortly. When I went into the room, the woman was on her blue tooth the whole time. Once I was done my eye brows looked fine. I went to pay the $ 24 dollars for the threading and the woman told me they weren’t taking credit cards, I wish she had mentioned that during my 10 minute wait. She pointed me to a Bank of America ATM across the street, when I had a Citizens Bank card and that ATM was just around the corner. I almost didn’t want to go back to pay, I did, but will not be back.

Back in 2008 I had a very traumatic and horrific haircut with a razor that was used to cut chucks out and left me crying. It took me this long to grow it out and now I just stepped out of Leeba with Sahara … I am in love with myself again!!! Thank you Thank you… you have no idea how happy I am. I really hope this note gets to the right people to acknowledge her time in listening to me, her attention to detail and the perfect haircut she left me with. Highly recommend (especially for Asian hair) and I am defiantly coming back to see her again.

I only write reviews if something is REALLY good or REALLY bad. Unfortunately, it’s the latter. I’ve only tried this place for eyebrow threading. The woman starts threading my eyebrows for about 2 minutes, and then starts plucking. Ummmmm… if I wanted to pluck my eyebrows and do a half-​a** job, I would have done it myself.
When I ask WTF she’s doing, she says «you Indian people are never happy with the way I do eyebrows.» well, lady, that’s because indian people actually know what good threading is, and you can’t cut it. Not to mention that that is an incredibly insulting comment and you should be fired because you suck and you’re an idiot.
I’m considering contesting he charge on my credit card because it was just THAT shoddy. Skip this place.

I went to Leeba last night for a brazilian wax. For $ 50, I expected better. Roxa did a great job getting every last strand out but left the wax on me. If you are going to do the job, do it right. It was a little annoying and an uncomfortable ride home. It’s not the best but not the worst. For $ 50, she could have done a little more.
My favorite is still Luiz Salon in Allston. For $ 30 and the quality of work, you can’t beat it.

This review is for the stylist I always see and the hygiene and general front of the house.
I made an appointment — was called with a reminder the day of the appointment.
The Salon is kept very clean — including the bathrooms. The service is what it should be not in your face and not too aloof.
The hairstylists must be happy as there is little bitching and gossip.
I only see Greg Byrne who never fails and is quite affordable. i figured out why he is so good — CAUSE HE IS SMAHT!!! I always get compliments on his cut style. really cool and current.
Yahoo!