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I am 22 year old guy who likes to take his hair seriously. Alex is truly a professional with a breadth of knowledge and experience. This level of service at his student pricing is completely worth every penny you spend. Would recommend.

Went for a haircut, treatment and styling in the salon today. The shop has a special promotion for new customers. Alex was attentive, very focussed on the task and explained my hair and blow-drying tips. He is also patient and recommended keratin smoothing for my next appointment. I found a new hairdresser in town today. Thank you, Alex!

Alex is an amazing hair stylist! The care and precision he provided when cutting my long hair to a shorter style was incredible. I’d recommend his services to anyone, and I will definitely be coming back- thank you again Alex!

I had a great experience with Ilium Salon! Alex was friendly and explained things to me, then left me to read my book while he worked. He was extremely efficient when cutting. I got a digital perm which I love (had long straight fine hair) and when one section didn’t hold as well as the rest, he happily had me come back to fix it up. I will definitely come again.

I am Indonesian with a frizzy hair, neither straight nor wavy. Just messy and tricky to style without irons. I’ve lived in Auckland for less 4 years and have tried 4 different hair stylists for cuts, and i can finally say that Alex gets my hair. He is very thorough in examining my hair and assessing what I want with my hair. I had a haircut with him and he brings out the wave that I just need to blow dry it. Will come back for next services.

I do not recommend this salon if you have curly hair. Besides charging more for curly hair the hairdresser clearly has little knowledge and understanding about curly hair. He definitely advocates for straighter hair being better and as someone who loves my curly hair this was rude and uncomfortable. He also is not one to respect what you want to have done and gives opinions that seem quite uneducated about hair. Overall not the best experience and if you have any form of curl pattern do not go here.

Had such a great experience and loved my haircut! I had very long, but really thin and brittle hair and Alex gave me a really great cut that suited my face and my hair. Alex is clearly very skilled and even though I was nervous to go shorter I loved how it turned out, he did an amazing job!!

I've been going to Alex for many years and not once have I ever been disappointed with his skills and customer service.He is very blunt and straightforward, so he will always give you an honest opinion. I've never seen him rush through my haircut and takes time and effort for every appointment I have with him. I'd definitely recommend him to my friends and family!

I wanted to make this salon my new one since my old salon had to close due to flooding damage . However this is not the case . Although I know the stylist Alex may be experienced I feel like my hair is ruined. All I wanted was simple blonde full head of highlights but that's not what I got , I got ful colour bleach all over which I have never had in my life. I trusted him to make this decision but I left the salon in shock at my hair , far too blonde for my complexion I decided to go back to the salon the next day and ask for a darker toner as I'm not happy at all . I found Alex to be abit confrontational towards the situation almost blaming me for what had happend, he then proceeded to tell me maybe this is not the salon for me and I should go somewhere else. Which I find really rude considering i first booked for highlights and he said he could do it and now I now have bondish/ gray colored hair . So if anybody wants blonde highlights etc I would not recommend going here .