How to Choose the Best Hair Salon in Salt Lake City
Looking for the best hair salon in Salt Lake City? Here's how to judge a studio on consultation, craft and comfort — and what to expect at Lucero on State Street.
Searching for the best hair salon in Salt Lake City is really a search for one thing: a place where you feel understood before the first section is ever parted. Great hair is the outcome. The real difference between a good salon and a great one is everything that happens around the cut — the consultation, the questions, the comfort of the chair. Here's how we'd tell you to judge any Salt Lake City salon, whether or not it's ours.
Start with the consultation, not the haircut
A thoughtful salon slows down before it speeds up. Your stylist should ask what you actually want — how you live, how much time you spend on your hair, what you've loved and hated about past cuts — and then plan the work with you. If a salon rushes you into the chair without that conversation, that tells you how the rest of the appointment will go.
At our Salt Lake City studio on State Street, every service can start with a consultation. It's where we figure out texture, history and goals together, so the plan fits your real life and not a photo.
Look for range, not just a specialty
Salt Lake City hair is wonderfully varied — fine and straight, thick and wavy, coily, locked, long, buzzed and everything between. The best salons can genuinely work across all of it rather than defaulting to one look. When you book, ask whether the team cuts your texture every day. A studio that handles cuts, color, barbering, extensions and hair systems under one roof has seen more, which usually means it can solve more.
A space that feels like yours
The best hair salon in Salt Lake City is also simply the one you feel comfortable walking into. We built Lucero as a queer-owned, gender-free studio for exactly that reason: you book by what you want done, never by a gender attached to a service or a price. No one has to explain themselves at the door.
A haircut should never begin with a question about who you are. — Joshua Lucero, founder
Quick answer: what makes a hair salon "the best"?
- Consultation first — they plan with you before they cut.
- Real range — they cut your texture and offer color, barbering and more in-house.
- Honest advice — they'll tell you what will and won't work for your hair.
- Comfort — you feel welcome and unhurried.
- Consistency — the result is repeatable visit after visit.
Visit us in Salt Lake City
Lucero Hair & Wellness is at 1095 S State Street, with street parking right out front and a TRAX stop a short walk away. We offer cuts, organic and vegan color, barbering, hair systems, extensions and wellness treatments — every service open to every client.
Ready to see the difference a real consultation makes? Book an appointment or read more about our studio.