Color Tess Hair Salon

(212) 888-0439

1237 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10065 40.764287 -73.961662

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Neighborhoods: Upper East Side, Midtown, Lenox Hill

COLORTESS.COM

Years in business

Established in 2004

Hours:

Monday - Friday 10am-8pm

Saturday 10am-7pm

Sunday 10:30am-6pm

Last updated 8.30.11

Category:

Beauty Salons, Barbers

Payment Methods:

American Express, Cash, Visa, MasterCard

What People Are Saying About Color Tess Hair Salon

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Full-service salon featuring cuts, color, Japanese straightening, manicures and more, plus wedding services and products from Redken, Wella and other companies.

ambiance
100.0% positive
  1. The salon has a friendly atmosphere.
  2. The atmosphere is warm and inviting and there is consistently sincere and caring attitude displayed by all who work there!
service
75.0% positive
  1. She is the best at full service whether it is color, cut or even shampoo.
  2. The salon has a friendly atmosphere.
  3. The entire staff at Color Tess is very friendly and helpful.
  4. Rude owner, bad service
  5. The staff was cold and the salon was too hot.
  6. The staff is extremely attentive and without attitude - I always feel valued.
  7. The rest of the staff is also attentive and the shampoo is accompanied by a great scalp massage.
  8. My hair is incredible and the place is clean and the service is friendly.
  9. Great hair and wonderful service.
  10. It is easy to get an appointment at Color Tess, and the staff (besides my favorite Ben) is always pleasant and helpful.
  11. The place is clean and the employees are friendly.
  12. Terrible service and terrible experience
  13. Great service!
  14. The service is very nice and friendly
  15. Its a great salon, they were very friendly and timely.
  16. Everyone in the salon was friendly, warm and welcoming.
value
50.0% positive
  1. two bad highlights, don't go, save your money
  2. used to went to very expensive salons like Frederick Fekkai or Oscar Blandi.
  3. For full head of highlights (Almost all my hair highlighted) It cost me 200 dollars.
  4. highly recommend her and her prices are reasonable too.
  5. All this at a reasonable price with no attitude.
  6. found this place to be a huge rip-off and Rodney has an attitude problem.
wait time
100.0% positive
  1. My color is always perfect, and it lasts a very long time.
4 Star Rating: Recommended

03/11/12

Thanks Rodney!

by emilyfrisch

My look has always been classic and natural, so it was a complete shock when I walked out from my trusted salon of ten years with a crown of orange/bronzy hair.

Not wanting to return to the scene of the crime, I walked into Tess Hair Salon a day later and was directed to Rodney who immediately put me at ease. He has more than earned my trust and my business as he managed to not only remedy my hair, but somehow tweaked it into the best cut/color I have ever had.

1 Star Rating: Poor

02/04/12

Awful Experience!

by Joa1015

I'm going to start this by saying I have NEVER written a BAD review. EVER!

I stopped in this place today for a blow out. I have curly hair & figured I'd just have it diffused not to waste to much time. I told the stylist I usually use a leave in conditioner & curl creme. She used mousse. Very drying. I didn't say anything because she's the professional & didn't want to seem to picky. She diffused it, the whole time touching it and running her fingers through it. EVERYONE who has or works with curly hair knows that is a HUGE mistake. Needless to say my hair looked horrible. It felt dry and was one huge knot. You could not see a defined curl anywhere on my head. I didn't complain or mention my dissapointment while I was there. But when I got home & looked in the mirror I was so dissapointed that I spent money this awful blowout.....What I am the MOST angry about is when I called the salon to tell them how I felt the guy behind the desk didn't even give an apology, "It looked fine to me when you left here. I dont know what you did to it when you got home but we dont give refunds. You can come in & have it redone." he said. Seriously, dude???? I work the front desk at a salon (If it were closer I would have went there today but didn't have the time as it's in BK) and I would NEVER say that to a client! And if I did say that, I wouldn't have my job still. I have had better experiences at the Lemon Tree!

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

01/21/12

Rodney to the rescue!

by RF21

After going to the same stylist for 8 years for highlights, I decided to try another salon given my stylist only works very limited hours these days. Unfortunately it was a disaster and my hair looked awful. It wasn’t natural and it was very dark in certain areas and barely lighter in others. Basically money thrown down the drain. I heard great things about Rodney and after he saw what was done to my hair, he worked me into his busy schedule and came to the rescue. He spent two hours redoing everything from stripping the bad color out and putting different tones of colors to different areas to make it look very natural. I am so thankful for his brilliance and attention to detail. He is truly an expert in his field and I am glad to say I found my new stylist! Thanks again Rodney.

1 Star Rating: Poor

09/11/11

Too expensive!!!!!!!

by Ab11

I went for the first time to ask for the price of hair treatment since my hair is very dry because of all the hair colors. So the girl who answers the phone called Rodney. He was very nice but he told me that my hair color was too brassy so he would give me some highlight and glossy on top of the hair color that I have.When I asked for the price he did not want to tell me but after he told me $210,00 for a highlight. I was in shock how he was so expensive. My hair is very short so I don't understand the reason for the over price. Also he was so pushing to make me book an appointment with him in the same day. I did not like that because everyone in that salon was watching me. . What can I say about this salon is too expensive and I don't care how good you are but I would not pay so much money for the first time. Come on be reasonable!!!

4 Star Rating: Recommended

03/25/11

Rita Great for Cut and Color

by uesjm

Rita is a great colorist-my hair looks great it looks natural with the right combo of color-never to light, red, brassy or chunky she actually corrected a number of those problems that I had from various other hair stylists when I started going to her! She really listens to what you want, does a great hair cut and is really nice!

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