Sarra

JoJo it’s simply amazing. She understood exactly what I wanted and worked magic. Legit magic, after years of bad experiences I finally made peace with my eyebrows haha! I traveled far to find this place and it was so worth it. The staff provides outstanding service. Make sure you make your appointment with plenty of time because they’re usually booked. Sara was kind enough to find a time that did not interfered with my schedule and I left more than satisfied. I’ll definitely be back.

I don’t think I could live without Jen, Lauren and the amazing services Sarra provides! Well, okay, I could live… but my brows would look just plain awful!
I found Sarra about six years ago and have been a loyal, happy customer since for regular eyebrow shaping. They’ve since grown tremendously but the quality of service remains top-​notch.
Everyone here is talented and professional and they are the absolute best of the best at what they do.
Whether it’s makeup application for a wedding or event, brow shaping, or custom makeover/​makeup lessons, the knowledge, expertise and talent of Lauren and her team is second to none.

Lauren is amazing!!! My results were exquisite. Lauren is very honest and truly listened to me. My brows are THICK yet still have a shape (which I love). Sarra has such a different approach and technique to brow shaping than anyone else. I have been everywhere! Definitely worth the price to see amazing results. Brows are the most important part of ones face! So happy I found Lauren.

Sarra is my favourite place to go for eyebrow shaping in Boston. Lauren is amazing. I love how she keeps the shape of the eyebrow and does not turn it into a single thin line. I also took make up lessons with Lauren and that was also great. She gave me a refresher the next time I went because I forgot some of the stuff she taught me. She is very patient, listens to all my concerns and always explains what she is doing if it is something new.

The gals at Sarra are amazing! Very friendly, very knowledgable and most importantly (to me) very honest! They know how to look at your face and your structure and tell you what shape will suit you best.
Their goal is to create YOUR prefect brow and build a relationship with you as a client and friend.
I read the reviews, took into account my own personal hang-​ups about previous brow traumas, and decided to give them a try… and I’m so glad I did!
I would say, if you’re skeptical about «brow experts»…don’t be here, these ladies are the real deal!

JoJo is a goddess! She did the makeup for my sisters wedding last month. We went in for an incredibly informative consultation the week before the wedding. My sister has very sensitive skin and JoJo didn’t even blink an eye. She had all the answers. She also gives you space to be yourself — never pushing a style on you that might not fit your personality or mute your natural beauty. She kept herself accessible the entire week of the wedding. Not only is she a makeup wizard but we each got our eyebrows done as well. I haven’t touched mine since she did them a month ago and to this day I still get compliments on them. Jojo is amazing — she gives you space to express your own unique look without covering it up — only enhancing it (and giving you genius secret beauty tips along the way). I’d recommend her to anyone!

I can not say enough good things about Sara. I read about Sarra in a magazine when JoJo won «best of Boston.» Sarra is a beautiful space in Southie, it’s almost like an old brick loft with floor to ceiling windows. They offer makeup lessons, facials and brow shaping. I have been waxing my brows my whole life but was never happy with the shape or symmetry. Over the last 9 months JoJo has completely re-​shaped my unruly brows. I have also gotten a makeup lesson and purchased skin care products. If you live in the city, it’s definitely worth a visit.

Sarra is where it’s at. Cassandra did an amazing job shaping my amorphous brows – I get compliments everywhere I go! Highly recommend both her and the salon. Great place and great staff!

I had my eyebrows shaped by Jen, and the result is amazing. I moved to Cambridge almost three years ago and hadn’t found anyone talented enough to be satisfied. I’m glad I found Sarra and Jen. She explained EVERYTHING with a mirror on my hand: what she was going to do, what was good and odd about my brows, what was my natural shape. The best part: she actually ended up doing what she said she would and didn’t remove a substantial part. I can tell she’s good because she did more trimming than tweezing and accomplished an amazing shape. The point is she does whatever is good for your face and brows. I would totally recommend her and will definitely go back. The trip is worth it.

I love the girls that work here. I love the makeup and eyebrow shaping they do. I don’t however like how impossible it is to get an appointment. They are closed all day on New Years Eve. I would think this would be one of the busiest days of the year?! I guess I will have to look elsewhere and find another place that I can more consistently get into without having to make an appointment 4 weeks in advance for a 20 min eyebrow appointment.

I found Sarra through Unilocal and decided to grow out my eyebrows for 5 months! (My hair doesn’t grow too fast).
I’ve done threading for the past 8 years! My eyebrows have gotten thinner as a result and I wasn’t too pleased with the shape.
So I made my appointment at Sarra with Cassandra. She plucked each individual hair that was not needed and she reshaped my eyebrows to fuller perfect looking eyebrows. My eyebrows did need to be filled in because they were not thick enough. She showed me where my eyebrows needed to grow and showed me how to fill in my eyebrows.
I ended up buying the eyebrow marker that is from their own product line. It was $ 24.
I scheduled a follow up appointment in 8 weeks to allow them to grow more. Cassandra also recommended to buy castor oil and rub on my eyebrows to encourage hair growth.
Parking is street parking and sometimes south end residents only depending on the time & day.

Not my favorite! I did have high expectations from this place after reading all the reviews but it didn’t even come close to my expectations. what’s the fuss all about? Not worth $ 40+tip not even in a million years.
The salon is beautiful though and the 3 stars are for the salon only.

Went for a make-​up lesson and even though I know surprising little about make-​up and I rarely wear it work, they showing me nothing new. No information on contouring/​highlighting, concealing or tricks on how to do smoky eyes or pouty lips. I’m only giving them a couple of stars as I liked the make-​up they recommended but they were also out of stock of a lot of the items they recommended for me so I had to wait for them to be shipped. Overall, I’ve learned more from youtube.

Sarra is the best-​! They’ve been helping me through the process of overcoming years of over-​plucking and as thin brows went out and thick became in, I couldn’t have asked for a better place to help me get there :) I’m too scared to go anywhere else in case they over-​pluck and Sarra really gets the nice/​thick look I’m going for (the staff all have perfectly gorgeous brows).
I love, love, love the look and feel of this place. And whenever I go, everyone’s always very nice and they take their time and care with you.
I did a makeup lesson here after being so pleased with their brow services and personally didn’t really like it. I was hoping to learn more about contouring but didn’t really take away what I was hoping, and the overall look of the makeup at the end wasn’t really my taste. Nevertheless I think if you’re someone with limited makeup knowledge, I’d still recommend you try a lesson b/​c the girls here are so nice and will help you out.
I will just stick with brows here but easily recommend across the board.

Beautiful salon!
JoJo was phenomenal
Best brows in Boston
Give yourself 10 extra minutes just in case to find a parking spot. Street parking is available and there is plenty of parking around (look around the residential area).
I was a first-​timer. I called to schedule an appointment and I gave myself about month and a half to grow back my eyebrows (I can’t trust myself with tweezers, eeek!). I had my appointment with JoJo who has gorgeous eyebrows herself. JoJo took the time to make my eyebrows come back to life.
Hands down the best experience I’ve ever had at any beauty salon. I paid $ 40 for the brows and I’m considering scheduling a make up lesson with JoJo (for $ 190 they do the brows, make up lesson, and $ 100 of the price goes towards purchasing make up cosmetics).

If I could give Sarra less then 1 star, I would.
I typically do not review much, but I felt a bit puzzled and almost «crazy» when I saw all these amazing reviews when my experience was SO bad. I visited Sarra right after moving to Boston and was very excited to come to the salon after reading the rave reviews. I made an appointment and requested one of their more experienced artists since I am very cautious when it comes to my eyebrows (they are VERY full and dark, with a natural arch). Luckily, I got an appointment fairly quickly — which was nice. After finally locating the salon in the building I was pleasantly surprised when the salon itself was actually very nice inside (I had to call quite a few times to actually figure out where it was located). My appointment ended up being with Lauren, the owner, which I was excited about at first… She was extremely nice while taking care of me and she definitely sounded knowledgeable; it was not until after I left the salon and really took a look at myself that I realized how unsatisfied I was with my eyebrows. I wanted to believe that they were going to come out amazing — like everyone has mentioned on Unilocal — but to be honest I did not even see a difference in my eyebrows from before I came in to after my appointment (~$ 72 later).
Lauren seemingly plucked about 3 hairs off each of my brows and SHAVED my upper brow slightly (?!) and then proceeded to «fill in» the rest of my brow with a brow marker and another product. I tried telling her that my brows were at their full thickness (they had not been touched in months) and that they would not grow anymore, but she insisted they would… and I tried to believe her seen as though she seemed to know what she was talking about. She essentially doubled my eyebrow thickness with the marker/​makeup which looked ridiculous so once I got home I decided to take all the makeup off my brows to see what they actually looked like (thinking I would perhaps like them better with no makeup since I NEVER fill my brows in because they are already so thick.)
After scrubbing my double brow off… I was LIVID to say the least. My eyebrows looked NO different than when I left my house that morning. I sat there trying to reason how this could have possibly happened when I just paid nearly as much for my eyebrows as some people do their whole head… but in the end could not even justify the amount I paid or the service in general when it was something I could have done myself with a pair of tweezers and a mirror. There was absolutely NO shape to them AT ALL and literally MAYBE 3 hairs missing off each brow.
Although I understand it was my first appointment and she wanted to «get her signature» on them as she told me, it just seemed ridiculous that I just got my eyebrows done and felt as though I needed another appointment?! It’s odd because I have nothing bad to say about Lauren herself, as she was more than nice during our appointment but I was just truly disappointed in the services I received.
Anyhow, it gets better. Before leaving the salon (and really looking at my brows) they had booked me a next appointment, which I obviously did not want to go to once I saw what was underneath all that makeup! After deliberating on what to do for literally hours, I decided to give them a call and cancel my appoint and perhaps I could maybe talk to someone about my experience. I was hoping to maybe rectify my problem, since I wanted to like Sarra so badly. I called to cancel and the girl who answered the phone was slightly rude and when I told her I wanted to cancel she asked if I would like to reschedule… I replied that unfortunately I would not ever be returning. Usually, when someone gets a response like this from a customer it would prompt them to ask why or if there was any specific reason (i.e. how can we get you to come back and remedy your problem?) but she said NOTHING but «ok, have a nice day» or something of the sort and that was the end of the conversation. I was kind of stunned at the point and definitely even angrier than before. For a salon to not even care when they’re losing a customer is a big red flag, at least for me…
It took me a while to even go to another eyebrow salon because this experience jaded me so much (my appointment was a few months back in July and just this month I found a salon that catered to my needs). I can’t understand how these ratings are so high, but perhaps this was an off experience. All I know is that I would not recommend the salon to anyone I know nor would I ever ever return.

I have been a client of Sadie’s at Sarra for over 2 years now. Not only is she an amazing artist, she’s truly an amazing person. So sweet and genuinely caring. Though it is not the most convenient location to get to, look forward to my appts because I love chatting w her and Jen. I always leave looking great and feeling confident. I have never felt pressured to buy any of their products either, though I have purchased a blush upon asking for a recommendation and it is great!
I’ve also had Jen do my brows and she’s equally as amazing.

There is NO ONE ELSE in Boston I would trust my brows to.
Lauren, Jen are the best. Unlike other reviews, I have never felt like I was pressured into buying any of their cosmetics. Everyone at Sarra is considerate and they never make me feel guilty about letting my brows go wild for a few months (though maybe I should). Their space is beautiful and makes the trek out to Southie feel not so bad.

I wish I could rate this place more than 5 stars, as the cosmeticians went way out of their way to make sure I looked the way I wanted on my wedding day.
I went to Sarra for my makeup application after having a pretty awful experience at a nearby hair salon. After doing a perfect application, two of the makeup artists helped me fix my hair. They knew that my next stop was the aisle, and that I didn’t have much time, so were diligent in helping me. They didn’t charge me extra for the time spent on my hair, and I walked out feeling beautiful.
Prior to settling on Sarra, I had several consultations with other cosmeticians where the makeup was caked on, and where I felt made up and not like myself. I’m so glad that I chose Sarra. I felt like myself after the application but with a perfect, natural-​looking glow.
Thank you Sarra!

This is the first 5-​star rating I’ve given on Unilocal.Sarra truly is as good as it gets as far as eyebrow shaping goes.
I tried to schedule an appointment last Saturday, but they were completely booked so I was able to get one in this morning. My appointment was with Shalyn.
The salon is in South Boston in a kind of sketchy, rundown neighborhood. I came to the Boston area from Baltimore, so I’m used to sketchy neighborhoods and it didn’t really faze me. It’s on the second floor of a warehouse-​like building (in the same building as Shag, apparently a really great hair salon).
Despite the grungy neighborhood, once I walked into Sarra I was floored. The space is beautiful! One large loft-​like room with high ceilings, floor to ceiling windows with tons of light, with mirrors and lights set up all around. Very tastefully decorated as well.
I got there at 10:40 (my appointment was at 10:45) and upon checking in with the receptionist (who had really great eyebrows, by the way), Shalyn immediately greeted me.
Shalyn is so pretty and cute! She has great style and great eyebrows and makeup (of course).
She immediately complimented me on my full eyebrows. My eyebrows are very thick and have kind of been a thorn in my side my entire life. I’ve never really been able to tame them, and whenever I went to get them waxed, they would turn out way too thin and arched. I explained to Shalyn my troubles, and she assured me that I have great eyebrows and she seemed really excited to work with them/​me.
For the next FORTY minutes, Shalyn tweezed/​cut/​shaped my brows. Literally, she took forty minutes. I felt like my eyebrows were the clay and she was the sculptor. While she was working she got to know me and my background, and she’s very easy to talk to. She explained what she was doing as she was working, and I really felt at ease in her chair.
After she was done, she literally giggled and exclaimed, «Yes!» It was great to see how proud she was of her own work. She handed me the mirror and I was ecstatic. My eyebrows have never looked so good. She kept them full, but they also looked so clean and bold. She had used an eyebrow stain marker, which I ended up buying as well.
Shalyn’s brow services were $ 40, the eyebrow marker was $ 22, and I tipped $ 10. I also made an appointment again in six weeks.
Definitely found my eyebrow place for lifeeee…