Hair Salons in Long Branch, NJ
By Tiffany Slowinski
Hair at the Shore has additional enemies.
Humidity.
Salt air.
Beach days.
Pools.
Wind.
The casual belief that you can put your hair in a bun for three straight days and everything will somehow be fine.
Sometimes it is.
Sometimes you need professional intervention.
If you are searching for hair salons in Long Branch or the surrounding Shore towns, this guide is designed to help you compare salons based on the thing women actually care about: what can they do with my hair?
Because “salon near me” does not tell you whether a stylist is great with balayage, extensions, curly hair, gray blending, blonding or the specific haircut you have saved to your phone 14 times.
Start with the mission.
Maybe summer has destroyed your color and you need highlights refreshed.
Maybe the sun gave you natural highlights and chlorine gave you several other things you did not request.
Maybe you want balayage.
Maybe you are going darker for fall.
Maybe you are blending gray.
Maybe you want extensions.
Maybe you have curls and need a stylist who understands what coastal humidity is about to do to them.
Maybe you are looking for keratin or another smoothing service because July has broken your spirit.
I understand.
Then there is event hair.
The Shore is weddings, showers, dinners, galas, family photos and weekends when you suddenly need to look significantly more polished than you did 12 hours earlier on the beach.
If blowouts, bridal hair and formal styling matter to you, include that in the salon search.
Not every salon focuses on the same things.
That is really the entire point of this guide.
Hair is not one service.
Color alone contains about 97 different decisions.
Highlights or balayage?
Warm or cool?
Bright around the face or more subtle?
Gray coverage or gray blending?
Rooted or bright to the scalp?
High maintenance or “please make this still look intentional when I forget to book again”?
Tell the stylist the truth.
Especially about maintenance.
Especially about your home routine.
Especially about what has previously been put on your hair.
A beautiful plan needs an accurate starting point.
For haircuts, tell them what your daily styling actually looks like.
If you are going to air-dry all summer, say it.
If your hair lives in a ponytail half the week, say it.
If you own a Dyson and use every attachment with military precision, congratulations. Also say that.
This Garden State Circle guide helps women compare hair salons in Long Branch using what the salons publish about their services and the New Jersey shop-license record.
It is not a ranking.
Use it if you are searching for hair salons Long Branch NJ, salons near Oceanport, balayage at the Jersey Shore, blonde specialists, gray blending, gray coverage, curly hair salons, hair extensions, keratin treatments, blowouts, women’s haircuts, bridal hair, wedding hair or color correction.
Then go deeper.
Find the stylist.
Look at the work.
Book the consultation if the change is major.
Because Shore hair can absolutely be beautiful.
It just occasionally needs a stronger strategy than “maybe the humidity will be better today.”
We did the homework here.
For the places actually worth your time, money and babysitter, follow me: @tiffanyknowsnj.
The Guide: Hair Salons in Long Branch, NJ
How We Selected These Salons
Salons in Long Branch, Interlaken, Oceanport, Deal, Allenhurst and Loch Arbour, and the nearby salons people here drive to. Salons are listed alphabetically within each table; the order is not a ranking.
About This Guide
This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Salons appear here because they meet the criteria described above – a hair salon as the business describes itself on its own website, with a street address it publishes in Long Branch, Interlaken, Oceanport, Deal, Allenhurst and Loch Arbour, and an Active shop license on the state register at that address. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No business can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the comparison table says about it. Businesses are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each business’s own website and the license register of the State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling, Division of Consumer Affairs, in September 2026. The license column reports the state’s shop license on the register on the date shown and nothing else.
Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labeled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Where a row carries a verification date, that is when we last checked that business’s record ourselves. A row without one has not been checked recently – that is a fact about our work, not about the business.
Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Long Branch, Interlaken, Oceanport, Deal, Allenhurst and Loch Arbour. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: How the guides are made.
Hair Salons in Long Branch, Interlaken, Oceanport, Deal, Allenhurst and Loch Arbour, NJ — Compared
| Salon | Town | Services, as published | Open Sunday, as published | Ownership, as published | New Jersey shop license, checked Sept 2026 | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogue Salon | Oceanport | Haircuts, Styling (blowouts, event styling, updos), Hair Color, Hair Extensions, smoothing treatments, nails | Yes (by appointment) | Not published | Shop license · 32WD03324600 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
Nearby options
| Salon | Town | Services, as published | Open Sunday, as published | Ownership, as published | New Jersey shop license, checked Sept 2026 | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Alan Salon | Monmouth Beach | Hair Services (Women’s Hair Cut and Blow-Dry, Mens Hair Cut, Children’s Hair Cut, Blow Out); Color Services; Nail Services; Facial Services | No | Independent (“Kevin – Founder – MasterStylist – Colorist”) | Shop license · 32WD03401700 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| Iconic Hair Lounge | Eatontown | Womens haircuts; certified colorists | No | Not published | Shop license · 32WD03735400 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| Wild Honey Hair Salon | Eatontown | precision haircuts; customized blonding; dimensional color; Blonding Services | Not published | Not published (“Led by Marina Lantos, renowned hair stylist, colorist, and educator”) | Shop license · 32WD03615100 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| Salon Pure | Little Silver | COLOR; SMOOTHING TREATMENTS; CONDITIONING TREATMENT; EXTENSIONS; MAKEUP | Not published | Not published | Shop license · 32WD03278400 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| Studio On Willow | Little Silver | Haircuts (women’s, men’s, children’s); Coloring; Styling (blowout, updo); Highlights; Balayage; Extensions | Yes (9-3 by appointment only) | Not published | Shop license · 32WD03587200 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
Something out of date?
This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, an address, hours, or ownership — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly, and a business that publishes a detail we have recorded as Not published is exactly the kind of correction we want.
And if you run a hair salon that should be on this list and is not: the test is the same one every business here cleared — that you lead with hair in your own published words, that your premises sit somewhere in Long Branch, Interlaken, Oceanport, Deal, Allenhurst and Loch Arbour, and that the shop holds an active New Jersey shop license at that address. Show us that and you go on the page.
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