Simple Scissors Hair Studio

Salons in Chilliwack have followed the houses, and the houses have gone south. The greatest number now sit along the Vedder Road corridor through Sardis and Vedder, in the strip plazas serving subdivisions that filled in over the last fifteen years, with an older group downtown around Five Corners where some rooms have been operating for decades. Promontory and the Eastern Hillsides above have almost no commercial space at all, so stylists working for those streets generally rent a chair down on the flat or run a home studio. An address at 6640 Vedder Road puts this one firmly in the first group.

Both a phone number and a Facebook page are published, which is the standard pairing in this trade and more useful than it looks: the page tends to carry current work, the phone gets a booking. What the listing does not say is who cuts, what anything costs, or whether walk-ins are taken at all. Hairdressing is a personal service and those things are worth a short conversation before a first appointment rather than after one. The address at least is on the main road rather than behind it.