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Above First Salon

Above First Salon

Hair salon in San Jose, CA

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Formerly known as Cut & Color Collective, the salon now operates from 40A S 1st St in Downtown San Jose. It describes itself as an LGBTQ+ safe space with a private, green-room-style feel. According to the salon, Metro Magazine named it best salon in 2023 and 2024.

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About

Formerly known as Cut & Color Collective, the salon now operates from 40A S 1st St in Downtown San Jose. It describes itself as an LGBTQ+ safe space with a private, green-room-style feel. According to the salon, Metro Magazine named it best salon in 2023 and 2024.

Hair extensions are central to the business. Custom-tailored luxury extensions begin with a private consultation, followed by custom color, installation and a reveal, then maintenance visits every four to five weeks. Touchups and removal are available, and the Hair X membership plans cover extension move-ups, washes and styling on that same four-to-five-week rhythm, with the LUX plan adding a root touch-up.

Color and cut services include lived-in color, highlights and balayage, glosses and toners, precision haircuts and keratin treatments. Full head highlights include an Olaplex treatment, a toner or glaze, and K18 deep conditioning. New guests interested in color or extensions need a consultation first, while those wanting only a haircut, blowout, makeup or another service without color or chemical treatment can book without one.

Group styling and makeup for weddings, special events and corporate bookings begins with a free 30-minute consultation and may include a trial.

Ballroom services offer hair styling, makeup, or both for kids, collegiate and adult competitors. Appointments are booked first come, first served, subject to availability, and are confirmed by the salon before they are scheduled. Men's grooming includes a haircut, a clean up and a relaxing service with a hot towel facial and a massage. The salon also rents styling space to stylists, with a fully equipped station, backbar products, towels, laundry, utilities and WiFi in a gated shared area.

Work is tailored to each guest, with consultations before color and extensions and personalized quotes for premium glow-ups.

A private, green-room-style setting that the salon describes as an LGBTQ+ safe space.

Specials & promotions

  • Monthly extension maintenance membership

    $199

    Appointments every 4-5 weeks; priority access to personalized care

    On their website as of Nov 1, 2026 · Where we saw it

Services

Final prices may vary.

Hair styling, makeup, or both for kids, collegiate and adult competitors, with separate pricing for each.

  • Ballroom Kids/Collegiate Hair Styling $100
  • Ballroom Kids/Collegiate Makeup $100
  • Ballroom Adult Hair Styling $150
  • Ballroom Adult Makeup $150
  • Ballroom Kids/Collegiate Hair + Makeup $200
  • Ballroom Adult Hair + Makeup $250

Color paired with a haircut, such as a gloss or root touchup with a cut, or a highlight with a cut.

  • Gloss & Haircut $285
  • Root Touchup & Haircut $285
  • Short Partial Highlight & Haircut $475
  • Long Partial Highlight & Haircut $575
  • Full Head Highlight or Balayage and Haircut $775

New guest, virtual and hair extension consultations, each priced and timed separately.

  • New Guest Consultation $50
  • Virtual Consultation $75
  • Hair Extension Consultation $100

Vivid and creative color, priced as a range.

  • Vivid and Creative Color $385

A six-week course of two-hour sessions that includes a weekly blowout or a styling and makeup lesson.

  • Got Style? 6-week course $1,800
  • Got Style? $1,800

Glosses, tones and root color touchups.

  • Gloss or Tone $195
  • Root Color Touchup $195
  • Root Color Touchup and Gloss $285

Short, shag, bob, midlength and long cuts, plus a longer haircut that includes detangling.

  • Short Haircut or Short Pixie & Style $125
  • Shags, Bobs & Lobs $150
  • Midlength or Long Haircut $175
  • Looong Haircut $275
  • Looong $275

Extension application, touchups and removal.

  • Extension Removal $100
  • Extension Touchup $285
  • Extension Application $450

Express, partial and full head highlights and balayage.

  • Express Highlight $275
  • Short Partial Highlight $375
  • Long Partial Highlight $475
  • Full Head Highlight or Balayage $675

Blowouts, braids, updos and makeup, offered in the salon and on location within 25 miles of downtown San Jose.

  • Weekday Blowout, Braid, Style or Updo $175
  • Weekday Makeup $175
  • Weekend Blowout, Braid, Style or Updo $175
  • Weekend Makeup $200
  • On-Location Blowout, Braid, Style or Updo (Weekday) $300
  • On-Location Makeup (Weekday) $300
  • On-Location Blowout, Braid, Style or Updo (Weekend) $500
  • On-Location Makeup (Weekend) $500

Monthly Hair X plans for ongoing extension care.

  • Hair X1 $249
  • Hair X1 membership (monthly) $249
  • Hair X2 $289
  • Hair X2 membership (monthly) $289
  • Hair X LUX $349
  • Hair X LUX membership (monthly) $349

A men's haircut, a clean up and a relaxing hot towel and massage service.

  • Clean Up $35
  • Men's Taylor $125

A three-hour makeover with an in-depth consultation, customized haircut, styling and makeup.

  • Makeover $575

The Restoration Ritual, a short hot towel facial and massage.

  • The Restoration Ritual $75

Group styling and makeup for events, Let Us Host private parties, and Time For Your Solo.

  • Group Styling and Makeup (Wedding/Special Event/Corporate) Price at booking
  • Let Us Host Price at booking
  • Time For Your Solo Price at booking

The Like a Diamond gloss treatment and keratin treatments, alone or paired with a haircut.

  • Like a Diamond $250
  • Keratin Treatment $375
  • Keratin Treatment & Haircut $475
  • Lux Keratin Treatment $700
  • Lux Keratin Treatment & Haircut $800

Photos

  • Before photo of a client's ombre hair before extensions
  • Side view of a client's long wavy extensions after styling
  • Client with red curly hair posing outdoors on a street
  • Selfie of a client with a smiling stylist in an apron at the storefront
  • Stylist applying eyeliner to a client with red curly hair
  • Client with red curly hair against a peach wall after styling
  • Three-panel black and white portrait of a woman with a curly bob
  • Salon interior with black styling chairs, wood floors and street-facing windows
  • Client with blonde lived-in color highlights outdoors
  • Staged photoshoot of two models in cowboy hat, denim vest and American flag, showing makeup work
  • Woman with voluminous blonde hair and bold makeup in a home setting, with a stylist behind her

Meet the team

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Highlights
  • Hair extension process from private consultation through maintenance visits every four to five weeks
  • Signature Transformation with before and after photos
  • Ballroom hair and makeup for kids, collegiate and adult competitors
  • Keratin treatments, including a Lux version that can be paired with a haircut
  • Time For Your Solo and Let Us Host group experiences
  • Hair X memberships for ongoing extension care
Good for
  • first-time extension guests
  • ballroom competitors
  • bridal parties
  • wedding and special event groups
  • corporate groups
  • guests living outside the area who can consult virtually
  • guests wanting a full transformation
  • lived-in color lovers
Treats
  • hair extensions
  • frizz
  • root regrowth
  • color maintenance
  • fading color
  • bridal and event looks
  • competition styling
  • hair length and fullness
Techniques
  • hair extensions
  • single-row and double-row extensions
  • balayage
  • partial and full head highlights
  • lived-in color
  • gloss and toner
  • glaze
  • keratin treatment
  • blowouts
  • braids

Products & treatments

  • K18
  • Olaplex
  • Obliphica
  • HED Keratin

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