HOB Hair Salon Whetstone, London

1280 High Rd, Whetstone, Greater London, N20 9HH

About us

Established in 1983, HOB Salons is a multi-award-winning hairdressing group with 16 salons across London, Hertfordshire, and Essex. For over 40 years, the focus has been on expert hairdressing—precision cuts, bespoke colour, and beautiful blow dries—all in a welcoming and luxurious salon setting.

Renowned for creativity and craftsmanship, HOB Salons has built a reputation for excellence, earning over 50 national and international awards. Most recently, the HOB team won Artistic Team of the Year, London Hairdresser of the Year, and Trend Image of the Year at the 2024/2025 British Hairdressing Awards. Other accolades include 4x British Hairdresser of the Year, 4x Artistic Team of the Year, and 4x British Colour Technician of the Year.

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Opening hours

Monday 09:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 18:00
Thursday 09:00 - 20:00
Friday 09:00 - 18:00
Saturday 08:30 - 18:00
Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

Services

Hair

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Great cut

Elizabeth Crossick
24th Aug 2020
Team Member: Jack
4.5
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Superb cut, Jack is really talented and very patient!

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Cut and blow dry

Liz
24th Aug 2020
Team Member: Laurence
4.5

Great cut as usual. Very friendly salon. Good safety processes.

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Salon experience

Tricia
24th Aug 2020
Team Member: David
5.0
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David went above and beyond to fit me in for a blow dry at short notice on a busy day. Staff police helpful and everyone from juniors to stylists welcoming and very professional.

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Melany Pink
24th Aug 2020
Team Member: David
5.0
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Excellent as always. Andrew very professional & welcoming. Shampoo chap very polite & David conversational & personable as well as providing me with a fab haircut. Thanks all!

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Best salon ever

Babak
22nd Aug 2020
Team Member: Christie
5.0

The best salon and staff ever. From the moment you enter, Adam is always welcoming, and every staff member says a warm hello, special mention to Laurence too.
Christie is a superb stylist who makes you feel comfortable and always listens to how you want your hair cut and styled.
The salon is always clean and tidy, with a great atmosphere which is down to all the staff there!

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Blow dry

Angelique
21st Aug 2020
Team Member: Christie
5.0
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Super lovely Christie always very friendly efficient fantastic blowdry super safe

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Disappointed and ripped off

Sam
21st Aug 2020
1.0
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I have been doing highlights for twenty years yet this was the Worst highlights experience ever! 4 hours of agony and nothing else... to begin with the Strips of foil covered my eyes and forehead completely. I felt dizzy and hot so had to ask him to clip the foils backwards. My hair was tangled so badly that it took them ages to untangle while shampooing. It hurt so bad that I have a sore head and a dull headache even five days later. New way of ripping clients off is to charge them for toner? Why was I charged for that when It should be part of the highlights process. I told him I don’t want blond highlights and yet they were blond so toner had to be used to correct the colour! £170 and my reddish looking hair later when I was about to leave I was asked to pay £5 for PPE. I said why wasn’t I told this before, he just said ‘i don’t know’.
This is unacceptable! Please explain why are you asking clients to pay for this?? we pay more money to come to your salons expecting better service. No other hair salon or barbers are charging extra for towels and coats. What’s next? We will have to pay for combs too ?

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Cut and blow dry

Linda Jenions
20th Aug 2020
Team Member: Christie
5.0
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Christie always delivers a fantastic cut I have never walked away disappointed!

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Fantastic!

Ruth Grover
19th Aug 2020
Team Member: Christie
5.0
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I had Alicia do my highlights and she did an incredible job! I haven’t had colour in my hair for years and she did it just what I wanted. Christie has cut my hair for years and as always did a fantastic cut I love it! Everyone in the salon was following guidelines and it was very clean.

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Outstanding

Kelly cordani
18th Aug 2020
Team Member: Jack
5.0
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Jack is Creative and outstanding as always. Always a real delight coming to HOBS. Clean and friendly staff

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Precision

kristy
17th Aug 2020
Team Member: David
5.0

David is a perfectionist. I haven’t been to a hairdresser who demonstrates such precision. I’ll be sticking with him for as long as he’s cutting.

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Fabulous Experience

Martin Leigh
15th Aug 2020
5.0
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My Stylist was very professional and good humoured His attention to my well being was superb

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My haircut

Ruth Hirsch
15th Aug 2020
Team Member: David
4.0
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David took a lot of time to get the shape of my hair to how I wanted it cut

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Fabulous Hair

Penny Constanti
15th Aug 2020
Team Member: Nicole
5.0
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Extremely pleased and relieved to finally have my hair styled so well. Thanks to Nicole as a new mum with a 6 week old baby for agreeing to cut my hair. Staff are always friendly and welcoming. Adam was very helpful too.

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Excellent as ever.

Jonathan Gillham
14th Aug 2020
Team Member: David
5.0
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Salon is well set up to deal with COVID. Good hygiene standards and as ever a great haircut.

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Great hairdresser

Michael
14th Aug 2020
Team Member: Laurence
5.0
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Been having my hair cut by Laurence for nearly 25 years, as he’s younger than me I don’t have to worry about somebody else cutting my hair in the future. Hobs have done great job in making the salon Covid safe. I’m totally confident with the measures they have put in place and am happy in the environment they have created.

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fantastic blow dry

Bettina
12th Aug 2020
Team Member: David
5.0

David did a very careful, excellent blow dry and even recommended a new style that I have booked in for!

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Excellent first post-lockdown cut

Alex
12th Aug 2020
Team Member: Christie
5.0
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Christie was absolutely brilliant! Although not my normal stylist, she had clearly spoken with (and watched) Nicole previously and therefore knew exactly what I wanted doing. But she also had the added pressure of doing my first post-lockdown cut! Yet, it was almost as though Nicole had done it - it was excellent!! Thank you so much! The whole experience was really reassuring, given the wider environment, with the whole team wearing protective equipment. I’d highly recommend Christie and the rest of the brilliant team at HOB Whetstone - easily the best salon around!!

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Haircut day

Julia Bsss
11th Aug 2020
Team Member: David
5.0
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As always an excellent experience with my usual stylist

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