New Guests Start Here
Welcome! We’re so glad you found dbs Salon.
Because our services are customized and many of our guests have curls, waves, color history, or specific hair goals, all new guests begin by completing our New Guest Questionnaire before booking.
This helps our reservation team understand your hair, your goals, your service history, your budget, and which stylist or appointment type may be the best fit for you.
After submitting your questionnaire, please text dbs Salon at 408-874-6879 so our team can review your request and help you schedule your first appointment.
Same-day appointments are rare, and most appointments are booked in advance. If we do not have an opening right away, we may offer to add you to our cancellation list.
Returning Guests
Returning guests may book online or text the salon for help scheduling.
Please note that online booking is available for existing guests only. If you are new to dbs Salon, please complete the New Guest Questionnaire first so we can help guide you to the right service.
Sculpted Cut, Wash & Style
At dbs Salon, every haircut begins with a personalized consultation. We look at your natural texture, density, shape, lifestyle, styling routine, and long-term hair goals before we begin.
Our goal is to create a haircut that feels like you and works with the way your hair naturally lives day to day.
Our haircut services include a cleanse, condition, style, styling guidance, and product recommendations to help you care for your hair at home.
Our Sculpted Cut is our signature haircut designed for all natural texture, including wavy, curly, coily, and highly textured hair.
Hair is shaped dry, in its natural state, so your stylist can see how your texture moves, expands, shrinks, and falls in real life. This allows us to customize your shape curl by curl, section by section, with your lifestyle, density, length, and styling goals in mind.
This service includes a personalized consultation, cleanse and condition, styling, product recommendations, and education to help you better understand how to care for your hair at home.
Sculpted Cuts are offered in Short, Medium, and Long options. Pricing may vary by stylist level, hair length, density, and the time needed to complete your service. Please see our current price guide for the most up-to-date pricing.
Sculpted Cut: Short
Best for natural texture worn above the chin, including short curly shapes, cropped curls, short shags, and compact textured cuts. On average this service is booked every 10-12 weeks.
Sculpted Cut: Medium
Best for natural texture worn from chin length to around the shoulders. This is a great option for curly bobs, shoulder-length curls, layered shapes, and guests who want a balanced shape with movement and definition. On average this service is booked every 12-16 weeks.
Sculpted Cut: Long
Best for natural texture worn past the shoulders or for guests with very dense hair that requires additional time and detailed shaping. This is ideal for long curls, high-density hair, major reshaping, or extra curl-by-curl detailing. On average this service is booked every 12-24 weeks.
Scissor Cut, Wash + Style
Our Scissor Cut is designed specifically for very short hairstyles that are created primarily with shears instead of clippers. On average this service is needed every 4-6 weeks
This service is best for pixie cuts, extra short cropped styles, and classic short scissor-over-comb haircuts. It is not intended for medium or long haircuts.
If your hair is chin length or longer, please book a Sculpted Cut: Short, Medium, or Long based on your current length and density.
Clipper Cut
Our Clipper Cut is designed for very short hairstyles that rely heavily on clipper work, including fades, tapered cuts, short barber-inspired shapes, and close-cropped styles. On average this services is booked every 3-6 weeks.
This service is best for guests who maintain a shorter shape and prefer a clean, precise finish. Depending on the style, your stylist may use a combination of clippers, trimmers, and shears to refine the final look.
How to Arrive for Your Haircut
At dbs Salon, we prefer to cut hair dry whenever possible so we can see how your hair naturally falls, moves, and lives in its finished shape.
For haircut services, please arrive with your hair:
- Completely dry
- Detangled
- Worn down and loose
- Styled in your natural texture
- Styled with your usual curl or wave products
- Free from heavy oils, sticky gels, or products that leave the hair stiff, greasy, or difficult to work through
Please avoid ponytails, buns, clips, braids, twist-outs, flat ironing, brushing out your curls, or anything that stretches or changes your natural curl pattern before your appointment.
For curly and textured hair, arriving with your hair in its natural state helps your stylist see your true curl pattern, shape, density, volume, shrinkage, and any areas that may need extra attention. If you are unsure of what to do, please text us at 408-874-6879.
Treatments
Healthy hair and scalp care are an important part of every great haircut, color, and styling routine. Our treatment services are customized based on your hair’s current condition, texture, styling habits, color history, and goals.
Treatments may be booked as a stand-alone service or added to another appointment when appropriate. Your stylist will help recommend the best option for your hair during your consultation.
Curl Transformation, Wash + Style
Our Curl Transformation service is designed for guests who want help understanding, refreshing, or reconnecting with their natural texture.
This service is ideal for waves, curls, coils, and highly textured hair, whether you already wear your hair naturally or are transitioning into a new routine. Your stylist will guide you through a customized cleanse, condition, styling session, and curl coaching experience to help you better understand what your hair can do.
This service does not include a haircut. It is a great option between haircuts, after a routine change, or when you want personalized help with styling, product selection, frizz control, definition, volume, or wash-day technique.
Detox + Clarifying Treatments
Best for hair that feels coated, heavy, dull, greasy, waxy, limp, or resistant to water and product.
A detox or clarifying treatment helps remove buildup from products, minerals, oils, hard water, environmental exposure, and daily styling. This can help your hair feel lighter, cleaner, and more responsive to styling products and conditioning treatments.
Your stylist may recommend a detox before certain color services, curl styling services, or deep conditioning treatments so your hair can receive the service more effectively.
Hydration + Conditioning Treatments
Best for hair that feels dry, rough, frizzy, brittle, or difficult to manage.
Hydration and conditioning treatments help replenish moisture, improve softness, reduce frizz, and support smoother styling. These treatments are especially helpful for curls, waves, long hair, color-treated hair, or hair that needs extra care between appointments.
Bond Repair + Strengthening Treatments
Best for hair that has been lightened, colored, heat-styled, chemically treated, or feels fragile.
Bond repair and strengthening treatments are designed to support compromised hair by improving strength, elasticity, softness, and manageability. These treatments may be recommended before, during, or after color and lightening services, depending on your hair goals and current condition.
Your stylist may recommend professional repair treatments such as K18, Olaplex, Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate, CurlBond, or other bond-supporting options based on what your hair needs.
Scalp Care Treatments
Best for guests experiencing dryness, flaking, itchiness, oiliness, or scalp discomfort.
Scalp care treatments are designed to support a healthier-feeling scalp and a more comfortable wash day. Your stylist can help determine whether your scalp needs clarifying, soothing, hydration, dandruff-control support, or a different at-home routine.
For persistent scalp concerns, irritation, sudden hair loss, or medical skin conditions, we may recommend checking in with a dermatologist or medical provider.
Treatment Add-On Options
Your stylist may recommend one or more of the following treatments based on your hair and scalp needs:
- CurlBond Pro Boost Treatment
- Wash Day Wonder Detangling Treatment
- Buildup Buster Micellar Water Deep Cleansing Treatment
- Melt Into Moisture Matcha Butter Conditioning Treatment
- Heaven In Hair Deep Conditioning Treatment
- Innersense Detox Treatment
- Innersense Hydrating Hair Mask Treatment
- Innersense Harmonic Healing Oil Treatment
- Redken Deep Cleansing Clarifying Wash
- Redken Scalp Relief Treatment for dandruff control
- Redken Acidic Bonding Deep Conditioning Treatment
- K18 Molecular Repair Treatment
- Olaplex Bond Building Treatment
Pricing may vary based on hair length, density, texture, and the treatment selected.
How to Choose the Right Treatment
Not sure what your hair needs? That’s completely normal.
During your consultation, your stylist will look at your hair’s texture, density, porosity, color history, scalp condition, styling routine, and goals before recommending a treatment. We want your treatment to support your actual hair, not just sound good on a menu.
Color Support + Bond Repair Treatments
Color and lightening services can be beautiful, but they can also be demanding on the hair. At dbs Salon, we may recommend a professional bond repair or deep conditioning treatment to help support the strength, softness, shine, and overall condition of your hair before, during, or after your color service.
These treatments are especially helpful for hair that has been lightened, highlighted, color-treated, heat-styled, chemically treated, or feels dry, fragile, tangled, dull, or over-processed.
Your stylist will recommend the best option based on your hair’s current condition, color history, texture, density, and long-term goals.
Bond repair treatments help support hair that has been stressed by lightening, color, chemical services, heat styling, or mechanical damage.
Depending on your hair’s needs, your stylist may recommend professional repair options such as K18, Olaplex, Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate, CurlBond, or another strengthening treatment.
These treatments may help improve the feel of the hair, reduce breakage, support elasticity, and create a stronger foundation for your color service.
Deep Conditioning + Moisture Treatments
Deep conditioning treatments are designed to support hair that feels dry, rough, frizzy, brittle, or difficult to manage.
These treatments help improve softness, shine, smoothness, and manageability. They may be recommended before or after a color service, or as a stand-alone appointment when your hair needs extra care.
When We May Recommend a Treatment
Your stylist may recommend a bond repair or conditioning treatment if your hair:
- Has been lightened or highlighted
- Feels dry, brittle, tangled, or fragile
- Has visible breakage or split ends
- Has been frequently heat-styled
- Has multiple layers of color history
- Needs support before a major color change
- Needs extra care after a lightening or vivid color service
At-Home Care
Professional treatments work best when supported by the right home care routine. Your stylist may recommend take-home products to help maintain the strength, softness, moisture, and longevity of your color between appointments.
Booking Note
Treatment pricing may vary based on the service, hair length, density, texture, and the amount of product or time needed.
All new guests must complete our New Guest Questionnaire and text dbs Salon at 408-874-6879 before booking. Appointments are booked in advance, and same-day appointments are rare.
Color Services
At dbs Salon, hair color is customized to your hair, your lifestyle, your maintenance goals, and the overall health of your hair. Whether you are maintaining your roots, refreshing your tone, blending gray, adding dimension, or planning a bigger color change, your stylist will begin with a personalized consultation.
We offer a variety of color services and techniques, including root maintenance, glossing, toning, gray blending, balayage, foil highlights, foilayage, Pintura highlights, vivid color, and corrective color.
We work with professional color lines, including Redken, and focus on creating color that feels beautiful, wearable, and realistic to maintain.
All color services include a consultation, professional color application, styling, and product recommendations to help care for your hair at home.
Root Maintenance
This service is best for guests who need regular maintenance for new growth, gray coverage, or a root color refresh.
Root Maintenance is typically used when the color formula is applied primarily to the regrowth area rather than through the full length of the hair. If your ends also need to be refreshed, your stylist may recommend adding a gloss or tone to your root touch-up.
Gloss + Tone
A gloss or toner is used to refresh, adjust, soften, brighten, deepen, or refine your existing color.
This service can be used to:
- Refresh faded color
- Add shine
- Adjust warmth or coolness
- Soften old highlights
- Blend color between larger services
- Refresh the ends during a root maintenance appointment
Gloss + Tone may be booked as its own service or added to another color appointment when appropriate.
All-Over Color
All-Over Color is best for guests who want one overall color result from roots to ends, such as going darker, refreshing an existing shade, or creating a more even color result.
This service is not the same as a major color correction or lightening transformation. If your goal involves going significantly lighter, removing old color, vivid color, or correcting uneven color, you may need a consultation before booking.
Custom Lightening
Our Custom Lightening services are used to create brightness, dimension, softness, contrast, or movement in the hair.
Depending on your hair, texture, goals, and desired maintenance, your stylist may use one or more lightening techniques, including:
- Pintura highlights, a curl-focused highlighting technique used to hand-paint brightness where it best enhances your natural texture
- Foil highlights for brightness, dimension, blending, or more controlled lift
- Balayage for soft, hand-painted dimension and a lower-maintenance grow-out
- Foilayage for a brighter balayage-inspired result with added lift
- Face-framing highlights or money pieces
- Dimensional blonding
- Soft gray blending
- Vivid color preparation
Custom Lightening may be booked as a Partial or Full service depending on how much of the hair is being lightened and how much time is needed.
A Partial Custom Lightening service is not a stand-alone appointment and needs to be paired with a haircut, root maintenance, gloss + tone, or wash + style service.
Vivid Color
Vivid color services are highly customized and may include shades such as pink, purple, blue, green, coral, red, yellow, orange, rainbow placement, or multi-color melts.
Because vivid color often requires pre-lightening, toning, custom placement, and multiple color applications, appointment time can vary significantly. Some vivid services may take several hours or require multiple appointments depending on your starting color, hair history, hair health, and desired result.
Vivid color requires a consultation so we can discuss your inspiration photos, maintenance expectations, budget, hair history, and what is realistically possible for your hair.
Color Corrections + Major Color Changes
Major color changes, corrective color, box color removal, dramatic lightening, and vivid transformations require a consultation before booking.
These services can be unpredictable and may require multiple steps or multiple appointments. Our priority is to protect the integrity of your hair while working toward your long-term goal.
Styling + Makeup
Whether you are getting ready for a special event, photoshoot, wedding, performance, or simply want help learning how to style your hair with more confidence, dbs Salon offers customized styling services designed around your hair, your features, and your personal style.
Our goal is to create a finished look that feels polished, comfortable, and like you.
Hair Styling + Special Event Styling
Our styling services are customized to enhance your natural texture, face shape, outfit, and overall event vision. We offer styling for natural curls, waves, smooth finishes, formal styles, updos, half-up styles, vintage-inspired looks, editorial styling, and creative hair design.
dbs Salon has experience with bridal styling, special events, photoshoots, TV, fashion shows, runway work, retro styling, and avant-garde hair design. Whether you want something soft and natural or something more conceptual and dramatic, we can help bring your vision to life.
For event styling availability, please text dbs Salon at 408-874-6879 with your event date, service needs, and any inspiration photos.
Bridal + Wedding Styling
dbs Salon offers bridal and wedding styling for guests who want a personalized look for their wedding day. We can create soft romantic styles, polished updos, natural curl styling, vintage-inspired looks, and custom designs based on your dress, accessories, hair texture, and overall vision.
Wedding services may require a consultation or trial appointment before the event date so we can plan timing, styling needs, and expectations clearly.
Please text dbs Salon at 408-874-6879 to ask about wedding availability.
Makeup Design
Our makeup services are designed to enhance your natural beauty while still helping you feel polished and camera-ready.
Sandra uses Temptu airbrush makeup to create a smooth, lightweight finish that can be customized for your skin, event, and comfort level. Options may include traditional makeup, long-wearing makeup, water-resistant makeup, lightweight water-based makeup, and vegan-friendly options when available.
At dbs Salon, our focus is never to cover you up or create an unrealistic mask. We want your makeup to feel like an elevated version of you.
Makeup Tutorials
Want help learning how to use what you already own?
Ask about a customized makeup tutorial. This service is designed to help you better understand your products, your features, your application steps, and how to create a look you can realistically recreate at home.
Makeup tutorials are great for guests who want a refreshed routine, help with everyday makeup, event makeup guidance, or support choosing products that feel comfortable and wearable.
Booking Notes
Special event, bridal, photoshoot, and makeup services may require additional planning time. Please text dbs Salon at 408-874-6879 with your event date, location if applicable, desired services, and inspiration photos so we can confirm availability and help guide you to the right appointment.
Cancellation and Salon Policies
A valid credit card is required to reserve all appointments and may be charged if a cancellation fee applies.
Please arrive on time and with your hair prepared for your scheduled service. Late arrivals, wet hair for dry-cut services, or hair that is not ready for the appointment may impact what we are able to complete and may result in additional fees.
Because our space is limited, please do not bring extra guests to your appointment unless previously approved. Guests may be asked to wait in the lobby during your service.
Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult unless prior consent has been given by phone or email.
If you are sick or contagious, please reschedule. Keeping our guests and team healthy is important to us.
If you arrive more than 15 minutes late, we may need to cancel or adjust your appointment, and a late cancellation fee may apply.
Cancellation Policy
Your appointment time is reserved especially for you. We understand that schedules change, and we respectfully ask for at least 48 hours’ notice for cancellations or appointment changes.
As a courtesy, appointment reminders may be sent by text and email before your scheduled visit. However, it is still your responsibility to remember your appointment date and time.
Cancellations or changes made with less than 48 hours’ notice may be charged 50% of the reserved service amount.
No-shows may be charged 100% of the reserved service amount.
Cancellation fees may be waived if we are able to fill the appointment with another guest, but this is not guaranteed.
To cancel or make changes to your appointment, please text dbs Salon at 408-874-6879. If you are unable to text, please call and leave a voicemail.