About Us

Looking for a great hair and beauty salon in Canterbury?

Our guests love visiting Blakes Hair & Beauty Salon in Canterbury where they enjoy excellent customer service and some of the best haircuts, colours & beauty treatments in Kent.

Established in 1980, Blakes is a friendly, welcoming and professional salon in Dover Street, Canterbury, run by owners Paul Blake and Mike Garrett.   We offer a wide range of hair & beauty treatments, services and professional products, so we can give our clients the best possible experience.

It goes without saying you’ll receive a wonderful hair cut or colour, or a relaxing and rejuvenating beauty experience, but it’s those little touches at Blakes that often make the difference: Forget those tiny plastic-wrapped biscuits with your coffee, at Blakes we’ll treat you to a slice of cake.  Getting married?  Have your bridal hairstyle & make-up done at Blakes where we’ll also pamper you with some fizz and a special ‘surprise’ as you head off to your new life as Mr & Mrs.

We always listen to our clients’ needs and are delighted so many of you tell us you love visiting our salon.  You can read some of our reviews here or check out these videos where our clients tell you why they love Blakes Hair & Beauty.

Visit the hairdressing experts at Blakes Hair Salon in Canterbury

Whether you’re visiting us for a trim or a completely new hairstyle, a colour refresh or a total hair colour transformation, our team of highly skilled professionals offer a superior service that is the result of good, honest advice and the best training.

During a personal consultation, we will assess your hair and listen to you to enable us to create the perfect hairstyle or colour for you.  

We really are experts when it comes to hair.  Owner Mike and Artistic Director Aaron train other stylists to show them what can be achieved when working with the Moroccanoil range of products, even showcasing their talent on stage at London Fashion Week.  

It goes without saying we have a superb understanding of the products we use:  Senior Stylists Laura and Diane are Kerastase consultants, while our Designer Chelsea is becoming a Paul Mitchell ambassador.

We are also happy to give you advice on how to style your hair at home and can recommend the right products for your hair needs.

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Beauty treatments in Canterbury at Blakes Beauty Salon

Our beauty team are waiting to help you with your beauty needs, whether you are looking for help with mature or problem skin, fancy a luxury manicure or pedicure, hair removal or make up services.  We are highly trained with specialist skills in HD Brows, LVL lash treatments, Dermalogica facials, a great range of body treatments and Microdermabrasion.

We offer beauty services for men and women and please feel free to contact the salon to discuss which treatment is right for you.  You can call the salon on 01227 768418.  See you soon!

Five star reviews of Blakes Hair & Beauty Salon in Canterbury

Our clients love visiting our luxury hair & beauty salon in Canterbury and frequently leave us five star reviews.  Check out some of our salon reviews below and we’d love it if you could leave a review too.  Visit our reviews page here – it takes just a moment to give us your feedback.

‘Would 100% recommend Blakes Hair Salon in Canterbury!’

Lucy says:

The staff were so lovely…. Would 100% recommend Blakes! Thank you again

‘Fantastic Salon in Canterbury’

Sue says:

Fantastic salon in Canterbury, full of wonderful staff. I have enjoyed many years of great service!

‘By far the best salon in Canterbury’

Ellie K says:

I’ve tried other hairdressers but I always come back to Blakes. By far the best salon in Canterbury!

‘Best Hairdressers in Canterbury by far’

Sarah S says:

Amazing – best hairdressers in Canterbury by far; I wouldn’t go anywhere else

‘Wonderful Canterbury salon’

Simon C says

This is a wonderful salon in Canterbury, with a great family atmosphere and extremely friendly staff.

48 reviews with an average rating of 5.0

Harvey Muzzelle

Professional stylists.​ Experienced staff.​ Competitive rates. Central location​ Excellent parking nearby.

Paul Carty

A Professional Unisex Hair Dresser

Brenda Wilson

Get morning getting my hair done. Arraon,was very helpful in getting the right cut and was great fun and professional.?

Margaret Mockett

This is a very friendly salon in a very convenient part of the city. My hairdresser has done my hair for more than ten years which is a recommendation in itself.

Frank Booker

I went here today for hair products for a family member. All the staff was really helpful and polite. As I don't know anything about hair products they explained everything they had in great detail. ​ Very knowledgeable people ​ Thanks

Beata Goldin

have been a client at Blake’s Hair and Beauty for many years. The salon is full of lovely, welcoming and friendly staff who will go out of their way to help and to make you feel comfortable. They tolerated my moaning when I was heavily pregnant and at their doorstep asking for a blow dry every other day, they issued a special certificate when my daughter’s hair was cut for the first time, and they never charge for a service if it’s your birthday! There are often cakes on the go as well! I once made a comment on how lovely they were and when I got home I found a recipe sent to me by text. I love my highlights done by the amazing Aaron and I will never go anywhere else!

Lindsay Standen

A lovely hairdressers with even lovelier staff, whenever either myself, my husband or my two children go to Blake’s the level of service is exceptional and all the staff are personable and professional, I always feel comfortable and relaxed and trust their advice, thank you ?

Ismini Charalampous

Very friendly and understanding hairdressers offering a professional service and always a warm welcome. Anyone from the team is happy to step in and help. Mike and Elsie thank you.

Charlett Daly

If you’re looking for professionals who know what they’re doing and have amazing customer service, I cannot recommend Blake’s enough! Everyone there is friendly, and if you’re struggling to find free time to go/ would rather book online YOU CAN! Their online booking is a dream for when you have a really busy week and don’t have time to go back and forth looking for an appointment!! Canterbury has a fair few salons but I have to say Blake’s is the best so far!