Jean Louis David

This business is now closed at the 1180 Ave. of the Americas location.
I will miss Maria she was always the best! Hopefully she was placed in the other locations they have.

I have been coming here for many years to see Nvard my stylist. She has never let me down!
Overall the salon is very large and staff appear friendly. Receptionist is nice. Prices are affordable and location is great.
I have very long thick curly hair and Nvard has done a great job with blow drying it completely straight. She does a great massage when washing your hair. She is also a great colorist. I came to her this week to do the ombré style and I love it!!!
I see some negative reviews about this place and that sucks. Ask for Nvard I never had an issue and will continue to come back!

I went 3 weeks ago wanted a haircut for my daughter and myself,
First the price was little high knowing that my daughter (3years old) had 1inch to cut and I only had a couple off.
Anyway the receptionist told me that they were the best and best price in town.
So one hairdresser started to shampoo my daughter hair when she was done my daughter was soaking wet I had to remove her clothes completely and put a towel around her while her clothes were in the dryer… The hairdresser did not apologies age was tough,
My turn she wet me also! But not as bad then she started to cut my hair and told me rudely not to cross my legs (that’s fine with me just ask in a nice way) she did not offer water or cofee (I did not come for it but you can always ask your client)
Overall shampoo was not acceptable, service was not acceptable haircut was ok we only wanted shorter same length so nothing complicated.
I would never come back there!

Let me just start off by saying I showed up at around 6:30pm. I wanted a simple blow out and I figured a $ 27 dollar? Can’t go wrong there! I was so wrong.
Firstly, noone wanted to take me. Finally, an older lady gets told to do my hair and she proceeds to start my wash and set. I feel like im somewhat burdening her but I just brush it off.
Before she even starts my blow out, one of her regular clients must have come in because the stylist tells her «I didn’t even know you called for me, I would not have started her if I knew — don’t worry I will be done in 15 minutes.» That should have been my red flag to get the hell out of there !
I have very curly hair so I am used to being at the salon for at least an hour so the 15 minute thing caught me off guard. I just let her do her thing tho — I was already in the chair so I figured no turning back.
She finished in about 12 minutes — my roots were still wavy, my ends were frizzy. She threw some oil in my hair and told me, I was finished. I literally had to go home and redo everything she had done with my flatiron — which is something I was trying to avoid initally.
Definately not worth the $ 30.
My search for a salon continues…

My four stars are for Griselda. Great blow-​out! Great use of Redken products. She had me in and out of her chair with enough time to spare for me to do some window shopping before getting back to the office. I always get the «you have a lot of hair» talk and normally have to sit on the chair for 45 minutes. Not her, I told her what I wanted, she got to work and gave it great volume and shape. I looked fabulous walking back to work! Ha!
I used to go to visit this JLD salon often about 2 years ago but then stopped after they tried to charge me an extra $ 10 for having a lot of hair. Management and hairdressers started arguing and bickering on the open floor over who was going to blow it out and what to charge me. I ended up walking out that day, but since I needed a blowout today I took my chances and luckily Griselda was there to greet me.
I’ll make it a point to visit her more often.

Horrible, just went there today for blowout. The stylists are unprofessional and there was a lot of socializing going on amongst the stylists as I was getting my hair done, along with other clients were sitting wondering what they were talking about since it was in spanish. One other stylists I saw was doing her makeup before she started and was yelling across the way to other stylists. The location is great but the staff and management really need to improve their customer service. The entire time my stylist was socializing while her neighbor stylist was gossiping, drinking her coffee and showing others some pictures on her phone. Never come here it’s not worth it at all even if it was for free.

I wish I read these reviews before I stepped in to get a haircut. The stylist was okay (no major screw-​ups although when she was done she deliberately did not hold up a mirror so I couldn’t inspect my haircut) but what I didn’t appreciate was her telling me **twice** that tip was not included in the pricing. I was going to give her a tip anyway despite her rudeness (17% in fact because I can’t not give anyone a tip unless they really screw up a haircut which she did not as I later inspected my haircut in the ladies’s room) but it’s just rude to demand a tip from a client before and after a cut. This is the first time I had a stylist ever **demand** a tip. Rude, rude, RUDE.

Terrible. I’ve been twice, thinking maybe I just had a bad stylist the first time and should give them a second chance. Haircut took ten minutes since they only used clippers, not scissors, and was so terrible both times. Only time in my life I’ve ever stopped the stylist and requested someone else. When I told the stylist how upset I was, he told me it was a good haircut and I was wrong. Never again!

No appointment necessary what a joke. They put your name down but when the hairstylist (if you want to call them that) see their own customers are there they take them first. Treat customers like they are non paying customers. Salon is dirty. In the back of the salon they have an eyebrow waxing station the cover of the wax is covered in hair and it does not appear that any one cleans it. No one is friendly and they could care less if you walk out without being serviced. Too bad I was once a weekly customer but not anymore. Owners should take notice of the dirt in the salon and the bad attitudes.

I am not normally a fussy person and I don’t expect much from your day-​to-​day customer service experience. As long as you’re not spitting on me or any item coming into my purview you’re generally okay in my book. However, everyone has a line and today that line was crossed by a giant roach crawling out from behind the hair supplies that were touching my head. Granted, it’s not like this place is a restaurant, and we are in Midtown. The odd roach is to be expected, and I’m not denying that fact.
However it’s not so much the appearance of vermin that gets my goat. It’s more the way that the vermin was acknowledged for about five seconds and then subsequently ignored, like a bobby pin falling to the ground. It’s more the way that the stylist, using a rag, accidentally brushed the roach onto my shoe before it jumped off and scuttled under a nearby chest of drawers. It’s more the way that, after presumably grazing the roach, said rag was placed back onto the stylist’s counter leaving me wondering what else it might have touched on the journey.
But mostly the thing that gets my goat was the stylist’s air of nonchalance about the matter. You don’t have to commission the Olsen twins before dinner time to deduce that this sort of thing has happened before.
This salon is very conveniently located, but I think from now on I’m going to scurry off elsewhere.

Big mistake coming here.
I went in for a walk-​in for very evident reasons; a haircut is $ 26 which is very affordable for midtown new york. I was greeted immediately at the reception and introduced to my stylist.
I sat down to get my hair cut and gave her specific instructions about what i wanted; 2 – 3 inches off and lots of layers. When the haircut was done i noticed immediately that it was one of the worst i’d gotten; first there were no layers. second, i had random strands of hair that were longer than the others.
I pointed out where i wanted changes to be made, but clearly she wasnt in the mood for it. She gave me some lame excuse about the layers ‘being right there’ by lifting up random strands of hair. I get annoyed very easily but I will never be rude, so i simply got up and walked out. This was a very basic haircut, one that nobody in my opinion should screw up. but she did just that.
Overall: efficiency at the reception was appreciated, but that doesn’t mean im ok with a sloppy haircut. i’d rather pay that extra bit and get one that i’m excited about.

You’ll get a decent hair cut here. The staff are very good at taking direction, but I wouldn’t go in thinking you can just let them style your hair. They cut hair. They aren’t hair stylists. I think Bella is the best here.
To parody one of my favorite recurring characters on Seinfeld, Jackie Childs…
«They’re efficient, proficient, but far from magnificent.»

I was in NYC for a wedding and forgot my styling products = hair looking horrific. I just happened to walk past it when I saw that this place offers quick blow outs. YES YES YES! Came in, was seated right away. My stylist (Rose) gave me a killer scalp massage and proceeded to blow out my hair in record time. My only complain is that I wish they used some heat products before. Price was reasonable. MY BF got his haircut cleaned up for…$ 5!

I never give bad reviews, but this place is a dump!
I went in and asked for a cut, shampoo, and style.
Not only did the stylist have NO idea what I was asking for, I left during the drying process, hair still wet, and I was disgusted! They had the nerve to ask me to pay!
NEVER NEVER go there!

Pretty shitty place! the barber was a moron and racist to say the least. I walked out after he told me that they don’t use scissors at the salon??? WTF!

The worst experience ever! I made an appointment for myself and 2 girlfriends to get our hair done yesterday at 11am. I was very specific on the phone with what we wanted and was assured that they would be able to help us. We walked in to an empty salon and it took about 5 minutes for someone to come to the front and greet us. The woman barely spoke any English and said that there were no appointments booked, even though I had called last Tuesday to confirm. I said, «OK, so you lost our appointment, but the salon is completely empty, so you can help us». She said no, because they don’t do updos. My friends and I were furious as we only had 1.5 hours before we had to get our make-​up done. Horrible salon and horrible staff! Do not go here.

After trying to fix my hair on my own, and doing a catastrophic job at it, I went to get a quick fixer-​upper at J-​L D. As usual, the price was the most inviting aspect of this salon.
When I got there the receptionists made me wait a long time before they spoke to me. Then, even though I had made a reservation, there seemed to be confusion about which hair dresser was supposed to see me. I finally had to pressure them a little and tell them I was just on my lunch break and had only 40 minutes.
My hairdresser spoke choppy English in a very heavy Russian accent. I tried to explain to her that my hair is uneven and I need to fix the front bottoms BUT NOT to touch the back (which was cut very well) and to add some layers so that it doesn’t poof out like crazy when it dries.
She RUINED the back — taking off about 3 inches! which now reached above the hairline on the back of my neck :(- and made some sort of horrendous ‘on ramp’ on the sides of my head that now looked too sharp and steep. It would have been a decent cut on someone with straight, limp hair… but when it dried on me it looked like Cleopatra had come out of a drying machine!
I was so bummed and wanted to die from embrassment for about a month and a half until I finally grew a little hair and could get it under control again.
I don’t think I’m ever going back there again.