Treusdell Salon & Spa

Stop by and ask for Maria Haq. She has been doing my hair for 30 years. I drive to SA from Ingleside Texas. Such a wonderful soul and phenomenal stylist!

Went in having a bad haircut wanting it to be fixed and was charged $80 and she didn’t suggest any styling or hair suggestions on what she can do . Spanish older lady with no shame . They all think it’s a salon in a big city too .. ridiculous

Steve is great! I went in as a walk-in. I was in SA taking care of family affairs and desperately needed my “pixie” that I’m growing out shaped. Steve refained from the slew of wisecracks I would have said had I’d been him (did not look like a pixie, but more of a bad Dorothy Hamil wanna-be cut). My cut turned out exactly like I wanted, Steve and I laughed…. It was like we had not just met! I highly recommend him. ❤️❤️

Treusdell Salon and Spa is actually several independently owned and operated salons and spas operating in the same building with a common reception area. Due to construction and the awful traffic congestion along the route to my regular stylist, I decided to take advantage of a Groupon special and get my hair done closer to home during the holidays. Betty Bahktiar is an excellent colorist and I'm happy with the cut and color. She's warm and friendly, too. I really like her, but I feel that people deserve an honest review, so I'm going to be as objective and honest as I can. The actual price I paid was more than double the Groupon price, even though I had sent her numerous pictures of my hair and what I wanted done. I had purchased full highlights/lowlights for half-off the regular price. However, when I got there, she said it would be another $65 because of what I needed done. I'm a softie sometimes, and I just said okay and paid, but thinking about it now, I decided to mention it in my review. I also felt pressured to get an expensive keratin treatment that I really don't need. It was a pretty hard sell. My hair has been pretty healthy, even though it is highlighted, because I take very good care of it. I've also been under the care of a master stylist who does excellent work. After she finished the highlights and pulled the foils off, Betty said my hair had a lot of damage. Well, it wasn't badly damaged before, so I was surprised and deeply concerned. However, after I got home and gave it a rest for a week, I deep conditioned it and it's much the same as before - silky and strong overall. Any chemical process is hard on hair. I researched keratin and Brazilian Blowout treatments, and I'm so glad I didn't have it done. It turns out that formaldehyde fumes are released during the process, and it's unavoidable - no matter what the product manufacturers say. The formaldehyde is what binds the protein to the hair shaft. For a person with badly impaired lungs (I'm on oxygen all the time), this could have sent me into an exacerbation if not outright respiratory failure. That is per the MSDS sheet on the Brazilian Blowout products. So I immediately cancelled that appointment! One last thing, and this is strictly a pet peeves of mine: I really wish salons would use care in their music selection. Ask the customer if they have a preference. I have pretty broad taste, but some customers don't like rap or today's pop music. Other than that, I don't care. It's irritating to sit for over two hours listening to music that makes you cringe. For that reason, most spas play soft, relaxing music.

So I went in for a tour and Jennifer, the manager showed me around. Immediately, I complemented her. But felt disrespected by her right when we walked in the 1st "suite". She asked if I had clients and I told her I had a few. And she immediately made the 1st comment that rubbed me off the wrong way. She was like "We automatically withdraw money from your account every Thursday. And if you can't pay then you'll get extra fees on top of what you owe. If you don't have enough clients and cant make rent then we will lock you out". Inside of me I was like wow, she's so negative! And why is she already assuming that I won't have money to pay for it?! That was so rude! I told her that I was going to market a lot and she said "that's what everyone says and they don't do it". And I was like, "Okay but I will!". Then told her that I definitely have the money to make rent EVERY Thursday and she stoof shut! I walked through the door less than 5 mins and she was already giving me bad vibes! Also she made a comment saying that she wont be giving me any walk ins for whatever reason. Kind of felt discriminated by that comment. I recorded two rooms but asked for permission first. And she was like, "Please dont record me". And I told her that I was just recording the room and didnt even get her in the video. Mind you she was out the room and not even in frame lol. She also talked way too fast. I couldn't even understand what she was explaining towards the end. I don't know if she was on drugs or what but it was so weird. I went in there with the intent of renting a suite. And left NOT wanting to go back there EVER again. She seems like she's driving people away from the business with her negativity. She definitely did it with me! I wish I'd of recorded everything. By the way, the suites were overpriced for the condition of the place/rooms "suites". There's better ones out there.