Avant Garde Hair & Beauty Harlow, Essex

16-18 , The Rows, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1BZ

About us

Avant Garde Hair & Beauty Salon in Harlow is a progressive, innovative and luxury salon which has become a firm favourite with locals and visitors from far afield since opening nearly 40 years ago.

Guests tell us we are the best hair & beauty salon in Essex because we have a team of exceptional experts offering the very latest hair, beauty and aesthetics treatments for men and women, plus five-star customer service and professional advice.

We understand everyday life can be busy, so we offer our guests everything in one place but without losing that personal touch. Our aim is to provide each and every guest with an enjoyable and relaxing experience in luxury surroundings. Of course, it's always important that we understand your needs so we offer complimentary hair, beauty and aesthetics consultations to help us provide you with the most appropriate and effective treatment or service for you.

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Opening hours

Monday Closed
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 18:00
Thursday 09:00 - 20:00
Friday 09:00 - 18:00
Saturday 08:00 - 16:00
Sunday Closed

Reviews

4.95
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Dawn Clark
27th Mar 2024
Stylist: Sarah
5.0
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Warm welcome as usual & great service as always. Lovely cut & blow dry very helpful staff. Sarah always does my hair how I want it.

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First class service

Linda Blackburn
15th Mar 2024
Stylist: Jess
5.0
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Always a first class service x

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Fantastic service absolutely love my hair

Franca Gaiteri
14th Mar 2024
Stylist: Lee
5.0
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Absolutely love my hair, after an initial consultation with Lee who described various options to me I decided to go for Balayage colour, my hair looks amazing and Lee was fantastic from start to finish. Highly recommend him.

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Excellent

Miss Mia Weatherburn
14th Mar 2024
Stylist: Hollie
5.0
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Absolutely amazing love my hair and love Hollie !!! 🩷

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Colour, cut and blow dry

Sally Brannon
13th Mar 2024
Stylist: Claire
5.0
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Thank you Claire. Fantastic colour cut and blow dry as always!!!

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Balayage

Jo.C Smith
9th Mar 2024
Stylist: Lee
5.0
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Great Balayage makeover, ready for S/S ‘24 gorgeous colours and blending - thanks Lee! x

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Holiday treat

Catherine Mitchell
7th Mar 2024
Stylist: Lee
5.0
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Excellent service and excellent stylist explained every optional choice further style I wanted

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Janette Sontag
7th Mar 2024
Stylist: Callie
5.0

Callie is a very nice lady,very polite and competent in her work, very pleased with my roots done and colour Thank you

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Janette Sontag
7th Mar 2024
Stylist: Callie
5.0

Callie is a very nice lady,very polite and competent in her work, very pleased with my roots done and colour Thank you

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Keratin blowdry

Caroline Penny
6th Mar 2024
Stylist: Hollie
5.0

I had the most relaxing experience. Hollie is very professional and explained everything prior to treatment. She is also lovely and made me very comfortable.

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Wash and blow dry

Lauren Dell
2nd Mar 2024
Stylist: Hollie
5.0
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Hollie is always friendly and welcoming into the salon. She is always up for a chat about everything and makes me feel very comfortable and always does a lovely job with my hair.

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Wash and blow dry

Lauren Dell
2nd Mar 2024
Stylist: Hollie
5.0
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Hollie is always friendly and welcoming into the salon. She is always up for a chat about everything and makes me feel very comfortable and always does a lovely job with my hair.

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10/10

Elise Hughes
2nd Mar 2024
Stylist: Sarah
5.0
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Sarah took on board everything I wanted in a cut and colour and I’m so happy with the result. She was friendly, professional and knowledgeable and the salon has a friendly and comfortable atmosphere. Would highly recommend.

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Cut n finish

Rebekah Camfield
1st Mar 2024
Stylist: Connie
5.0
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Always enjoy having my hair done by Connie.
I am.always relaxed and feel at ease with her.
It's like spending an hour with one of my friends.

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Feb as always

Katherine Butler
1st Mar 2024
Stylist: Connie
4.5
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Connie washed cut and styled my hair with attention and efficiently. She waa lonely and friendly, and even gave me a moment when I needed to take an urgent private phone call 😊

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Anonymous
1st Mar 2024
5.0

I always love come in salon seeing staff and been welcomed with my name, and seeing Sophie love my hair the style Sophie really listen and give really good advice.

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Colour

Claire Parry
1st Mar 2024
Stylist: Connie
5.0
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Connie is amazing I have akward hair to colour & she managed to do what I wanted perfectly. She’s such a lovely person & super talented. Love it thank you

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Claire Parry
1st Mar 2024
Stylist: Connie
5.0
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Connie is amazing I have akward hair to colour & she managed to do what I wanted perfectly. She’s such a lovely person & super talented. Love it thank you

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Anonymous
29th Feb 2024
Stylist: Alex
5.0

As usual Alex was lovely. She’s very knowledgeable about what she does and it’s so nice to have someone who guides you about the best to do. Thank you so much Alex. Xx

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Pretty good

Stephanie Pasquayak
28th Feb 2024
Stylist: Sarah
5.0
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Sarah did a good job. She told me how long it would take and what would happen along the way. I never had my hair done like that before. It's really nice.

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Cut and Colour

Christine Charles
27th Feb 2024
5.0

My stylist today was Michelle. She was covering for Stef in her absence. I was very happy with the cut and colour. I came out of the salon feeling a million dollars. Thank you

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Great Services

Miss Holly Pipe
24th Feb 2024
Stylist: Sasha
5.0
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Lovely lady! I came in for a root fix from a previous appointment which was no one’s fault! Just my crappy hair! It was fixed and looks better than ever!

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Excellent Service

Sunitha Daniel
24th Feb 2024
Stylist: Sasha
5.0
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Had excellent service by Sasha at Avant Garde.
Highly recommend 👍🏼👍🏼

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Chloe Elam
23rd Feb 2024
Stylist: Hollie
5.0

Hair cut was done amazingly and was throughly advised about colouring my hair.

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Haircut

Sharon Smith (Lee's Mum)
23rd Feb 2024
Stylist: Lee
5.0
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As always excellent haircut x

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Great as always

Ivana Nestorova
23rd Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0
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Excellent results, professional and friendly approach

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Very Happy

Christine Saunders
23rd Feb 2024
Stylist: Sarah
5.0
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Fabulous as always.

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Better than a trim

Linda Cramphorn
22nd Feb 2024
Stylist: Connie
5.0
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Connie, as usual knew exactly what I was asking for. She knows I’ve been having trouble with my shampoos, and has been giving me some good advise . She also advised me about the salon shampoo that she feels would be ideal for me, but unfortunately my pension won’t stretch through far. But so pleased for her help.

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Simply The Best

Janet Poulter
22nd Feb 2024
Stylist: Louise
5.0

Love the way she cuts and styles my hair wish she could style it for me every day

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Good hairday

Marion Burnett
21st Feb 2024
Stylist: Hollie
5.0
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Lovely girl good haircut

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Good hairday

Marion Burnett
21st Feb 2024
Stylist: Louise
5.0
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Always a nice experience

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Always over and above

Mrs Linda Harvey
18th Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0
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As usual Becky provided a thorough and extremely professional service . Along with a charming manner .

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Revived hair

Ana
17th Feb 2024
4.5
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Michelle was my hero today!
After presenting to her my lifeless hair, I was desperate for a much needed makeover and Michelle just delivered!
I have asked her to please help me and bring my hair back to life with a natural blonde/caramel looking balayage and I was back 5 years ago when my hair used to shine.
She would always listen and take into consideration any of my comments or suggestions (I’m very opinionated!)…
Thanks to her amazing work, professionalism and personality the result was fantastic!
She offered refreshments and was always making l sure I was comfortable.
Plus had some amazing her massage!!
Thank you Michelle!

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Eyebrows

Sharon Abumehdi
17th Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0
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Lovely friendly service , very pleased with my brows

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Great hair style!

Susan Mccaw
17th Feb 2024
5.0
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My hair stylist spent lots of time asking me about what I wanted and giving me suggestions
My hair turned out to be really lovely and I’m so happy with the results 🤗

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Julie Waghorn
17th Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0
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Excellent. Becky paid a lot of attention to detail, I was given a hand rub with nice hand cream after my nails were done

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Nails and EBW

Diane Hunter
16th Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0
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All good, Becky is a very nice young lady and my nails look lovely.

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Excellent

Linda Blackburn
16th Feb 2024
Stylist: Jess
5.0
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Excellent service as always, makes my day xx

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Nails at avant garde

Diane Hunter
15th Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0

Really nice lady and my nails look lovely

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Over the moon

Leanne
15th Feb 2024
Stylist: Alex
5.0

I cannot explain how much of an amazing job Alex has done on my hair she is truly the best!

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Nails at avant garde

Diane Hunter
15th Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0

Really nice lady and my nails look lovely

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Restyle

Kendle
10th Feb 2024
4.0

Excellent cut, very happy with final result

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Nails

Anonymous
10th Feb 2024
4.5

Perfect nails as always enjoy my appointment & chatting with Becky 😘

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Denise Morton
9th Feb 2024
Stylist: Lucy
5.0
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Lucy was professional and helpful as always

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Fabulous bouncy blow dry

Sue Coupland
9th Feb 2024
Stylist: Louise
5.0
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As always a fabulous bouncy blow dry …. Louise you’re a star

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Beautiful Colour

Lynda Murphy
9th Feb 2024
5.0
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From the beginning to the end of my treatment I felt pampered and relaxed topped with fantastic results

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Eye brows and eyelashes

Wendy Etherington
9th Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0
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Very good as always. Becky always does my eyebrows and eyelashes just the way I like them. She is always friendly and makes me feel comfortable. Excellent.

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Great experience

Chloe
9th Feb 2024
Stylist: Lucy
5.0
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All of the staff at Avant Garde are helpful and friendly, a very welcoming environment. Lucy is a great therapist, talks you through every step, answering any questions and provided a perfect treatment. Highly recommend Lucy!

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Expert advice

Kim Higgs
9th Feb 2024
Stylist: Becky
5.0
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Becky advised the best course of action for my eyebrows. Absolutely trust her advice

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Haircut and blow dry

Shirley Savill
8th Feb 2024
Stylist: Louise
5.0
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Louise is very friendly and helpful . Love my cut.

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