Ocean Hairstyles Design Center

Highly recommend! Great place for a new look! The boss and helper did a fantastic job for my hair — permanent perm and hair cut. So stylish beyond my expectation! Worth every penny! Thank you again for your kind help ;) What a wonderful place with nice boss, cashier and staff there!

Ever since I moved away from Queens I’ve been looking for a new go-​to salon that’s affordable and knows how to cut Asian hair. I really lucked out with Ocean!
I’ve been to Spoke and Wheal, Mian Ting… none of them knew how to cut my hair in a way that didn’t make it poof or curl unnecessarily. My hair is thick and grows quickly so it has to be thinned out and shaped. Ocean had consistently gone above and beyond.
I’ve walked in on Tuesdays and Saturdays and never had to wait.
I go to David for my pixie cut fix ups. He’s fast, no BS, and always takes my preferences into consideration. He’s off Wednesday and Thursday!
$ 15 for a cut and style is definitely not bad!

I’ve been coming to this place for blowouts since I was 12 years old when the price was $ 8. I’m now 25 and continue to come due to the stylists, price, and convenience. Who can beat a wash cut and blowout for $ 26? It doesn’t get better. In addition, i love how the same people still run it after all these years.

A very no frills no nonsense place to get your hair blown out. I was a little worried when my friend recommended this place because I have very thick curly ethnic hair. They were friendly and I only had to wait about 10 minutes before 8 was next. The lady shampooed my hair and chatted with me and asked me if I’d ever been there before because she doesn’t remember seeing my face. Then I was ushered to another lady who is going to blow dry my hair. This one was much less chatty lol She blew dry my hair and it was still kind of frizzy but then she flat ironed it and ended it by putting a little oil in my hair. And quite frankly it turned out just as nice as when I pay three times that much at another salon.
But warning this place is not for the squeamish. It was relatively clean it was no hair there anything gross on the floor but they obviously do not sanitize their brushes between customers. So keep in mind you are taking a chance with lice or something like that. Which I think it would probably be rare but there’s always a chance.
At the end of the visit I paid 17 for my blow dry a $ 2 of charge because I have long hair. I tipped $ 3 to the shampoo girl and $ 5 to the blow dryer. Grand total of $ 25. Great deal and I will definitely be back.

If you have thick curly hair DO NOT GO HERE. Sweet people but they don’t have a clue what to do. I went in for a blow dry and left two hours later with a frizzy, poofy mess. I have to redo it when I get home. They used cheap product and cheap equipment. Definitely not coming back and and really upset I wasted the time and money.
The addendum to this is that I have very curly hair. I’m sure it’s a different story entirely for wavy or straight hair or even curly fine hair with minimal volume. They were very nice! I wish they had done a better job. I left feeling bad for the poor woman toiling away at my locks to know avail and badly for me having spend the money on a useless blowout.

Simply put, this place is good. It’s unassuming and unpretentious. It’s not a fancy, spa-​like salon. What you’ll get instead is little to no wait-​time, fast and no-​fuss service, and reasonable prices. I was in a rush and needed a quick wash, trim, and blow-​dry. That’s exactly what I got for much less than I expected, so I was happy!

I have think wavy hair and go here regularly for a blow out. I don’t care for their shampoo so I go with wet hair. Stephanie gives me great blowouts and it costs $ 17! I always tip extra because I am in shock that is all it costs. Cash Only.

This place rocks!!! Michelle is my fave stylist But theyre all good here especially for the price of under 20.00 for a blowout. No appt neccessary but it may be a 5 – 30 min wait. Ive never waited 30 but who knows after this bangin review.

I have fine, thin hair and I wanted a complicated short hair cut. I went armed with a photo of what I wanted since many of the stylists in Chinatown aren’t very fluent in English. I don’t know the name of the person who cut my hair but he took his time and cut my hair to look exactly like in the photograph that I had got along.

I’ve been getting Dominican blowouts my whole life. I pay usually around 40 for them. I feel bad for my hairdresser but I think I found a new place…
My hairdresser was AMAZING. I thought he was just going to straighten it but instead he blew it out for me and gave me really nice volume :) the best part? This was all under half hour and I didn’t have to wait for anything!
I’m definitely going back and the only way I’ll go back to my other salon is for my haircuts. I kind of want to keep this place a secret :)

This place is amazing for a cheap, quick blowout. Been here a couple times and never been disappointed. These guys know what they’re doing. I have thick, wavy/​curly hair and they do a great job blowing it out straight or wavy with volume. Not sure what the deal with their products is but don’t really care, for $ 17 you can’t go wrong. Usually lasts 2 – 3 days. Nice people too, I’ve been going to Char and he always has a smile on his face.
Only peeve is the places closes early (7pm).

Went in for a blowout on a Sunday afternoon at around 3 pm and had a great experience! The whole process of shampoo, drying and styling took about a half hour in total.
I have straight hair and the cost of the blowout was $ 16 (a blowout itself is $ 15 but there is an extra $ 1 charge for a curling add-​on). My style lasted for 3 days without me being too careful with it, which is impressive. My stylist’s name was Char and I would recommend him/​the salon to friends.

Shampoo, cut, and blowdry for $ 22– simply can’t be beat! I went in with my long unruly curly hair and they took me immediately. I came out less than an hour later with my hair clean, healthy, and styled for less than most places charge for a blowdry. I don’t think I’ll ever go anywhere else ever again! Also, as far as cleanliness, I’m a complete germophobe and saw no problems with this place.

Since I moved to NYC 13 years ago I’ve been going here to get my haircut. I usually just get a cut and no wash/​blow dry but I do recommend getting the wash because the scalp massage is worth it.
When I first started coming here the Men’s cut was $ 8 and now it’s $ 15 (still a bargain).
I’ve only had haircuts from either Michael or David but I prefer getting cuts from David.
I don’t know how much they charge for women’s cuts and services but it must be reasonable because there are a lot of women (Asian & non) that get their hair done.
This place is not fancy by any stretch of the imagination but for the price it’s well worth it.

I didn’t want to write a review for one of my secret spots, but I felt compelled to defend this place against the reviewers who complained about this place being ‘dirty.’ You know what else is dirty?
— Sitting on the subway.
— Standing on the subway.
— The subway, period.
— Making out with that dude that you met at Lit that night.
And you know what, none of those completely unavoidable aspects of NYC life end with a fly-​ass blowout, so I’ll take my chances. The staff are all very capable and efficient beauticians, and they understand English just fine. Also, it’s not true that they only give you straight-​straight blowouts, if you ask for «volume,» they’ll give you the Kate Middleton locks of your dreams.

My stylist was Michelle although she seemed under the weather she performed above and beyond :) at first I was very nervous about cutting my hair especially if the person was sick but she stuck it through and was umber precise I was extremely happy at the end result. I got a a-​line (aka swinger bob) cut. Total $ 22 included wash/​style (she blew out and straightened my hair) the wash is to die for, great massage on the head and then a quick one when the was is over :) I really needed that lol. Love my hair and i definitely recommend. Can not wait to go back.

Ok.
I’m cheap/​love blowouts I wanted to love this, like so much, I work in soho come on.
So I have a lot of hair, so it was $ 15, still cheap… but it wasnt that good. So there were 3 of us getting blowouts in the place. One girls looked awesome, mine and the other girls, meh. With things like lifebooker etc you can find deals, 20 or 25 at a legit place, where the end result wont be so blah.
The salon is also pretty dirty/​smokey/​obviously no english. Plus I had to wait like ³⁰⁄₄₅ minutes between the wash/​blowdry.
The head massage was good, but they literally use bottom of the line shampoo…
So all in all, if you have a ton of free time, short on cash, go and hope you get the one guy who knows whats up.

Unilocal you led me astray. I saw the good reviews and low prices. I know that for a $ 13 haircut I can’t expect much. But this was pretty awful. None of the hair cutting tools seemed to be sanitized between uses. It disgusting. This was the most uncomfortable hair cut of my life.
I came in with a photo of what I wanted. It was a pretty basic short hair cut. The guy eyeballed it for a second and starting cutting my hair. I sat anxiously the whole time worried about what my hair would look like. Turns out I was right to worry as he did a haircut comparable to what I could have done myself for free. By that I mean something that did not resemble my photo at all. And of corse he took off too much length so it will be a couple of months before I can get it fixed somewhere.

— recommend: Michael
— $ 17 for a wash and blow, Ah-​mazing.. .for $ 10 more you get a haircut too
— for someone who doesn’t brush her hair or own a blow dryer.. . I appreciate that he can do my hair without mucking it up with a bunch of hairspray and product: love love love:

Haha, I’m kinda with Vanessa C. on this one in that I want this place to stay secret… is that selfish of me? Anyway, I recommended it to a friend today so I figured I might as well write a review here on Unilocal.
I’ve been going here since I moved back to NYC three and a half years ago on a recommendation from one of my cousins. I like to keep my hair looking fresh to death so I go every 2 – 3 weeks to get it tightened up. It ain’t easy to look good, but I do get a lot of comments on my hair!
The stylists here do a great job and the lady who does the shampoo and conditioning is worth the price of the visit from her scalp massage alone!
As far as I can tell it’s walk-in’s only.
I agree with Denise, it doesn’t look like much from outside or inside, but it’s clean and I’m not there for the scenery anyway.