About Bella Moda Salon & Spa
Bella Moda Salon & Spa, located in the Southwest neighborhood of the nation's capital, offers a contemporary atmosphere, warm and friendly staff, and excellent service. Founded in 2013, the luxury and popular salon is known for its great quality services, from haircuts, styling, and coloring to hair and spa treatments, provided by a team of highly sought-after stylists and colorists. The receptionist is very nice and all of the hairdressers are super knowledgeable and friendly. Mehmet is an elite master stylist with skills and creativity. It is the only place in DC to trust for a haircut, offering a very easy online booking system and very reasonable prices for very good price-value. The salon is also praised for amazing services like microblading and Lup blushing.
In just a few words - Mehmet is an elite master stylist - reminded me of work class stylist from NYC or Europe. Mehmet gets it and has the skills and creativity make it happen the first time. 6 Stars! O Nova
I have gone to Bella Moda for years, and was a very happy repeat customer. Stella had been my go-to stylist there for a very long time, and she always did an amazing job. They were also always ready for me when I had an appointment. Last weekend I went in for a basic women's haircut and pedicure, and it took around two hours. Roughly 40 minutes of that was spent waiting for my appointments, even though I was on time and booked days ahead. Apparently my stylist had allowed a customer of hers from a different salon to take my appointment time, even though I had been a customer of "this" salon since early 2018. Karen, my stylist, did not look at my hair before my shampoo, and I sat after my shampoo for an additional 10 minutes before she started on my hair. We talked at length about what length I wanted the cut to be, which was an inch below the shoulder. She even said she might go about a quarter of an inch lower, which I thought was a good idea. She then proceeded to give me a completely different haircut, which wound up sitting just below my neck (3-4 inches shorter than we discussed or I have ever worn my hair), without asking if it was OK to go so much shorter, she just did. She also kept assuring me that I would LOVE my hair this way, and that I had given her a beautiful canvas for which to work. The problem was I didn't say to her "Hey, I have really long hair right now, do what you want and just wow me!" We talked at great length about what I wanted, and I felt like she just decided to give me a different cut without consulting with me. Afterall, she knew better than me, what would look good on me. I wonder how many stylists who think they know better than their clients what will look good on them, consider the actual feelings of thier clients about that? All of this combined with the very long wait times despite the salon not being that busy, and the fact that I had a reservation, means that I will probably seek out a different salon after being a loyal patron of this salon for 6 years. However, it will be a while because my hair has a lot of growing out to do now.
This is the only place in DC I trust to cut my hair. The receptionist is very nice and all of the hairdressers are super knowledgeable and friendly. Erin/Aaron helped me today and I love my haircut!!