Hair Salons in Montville and Kinnelon, NJ
By Tiffany Slowinski
Finding a salon you love is one of those small life upgrades that is not actually small.
You stop bringing six screenshots to every appointment.
You stop explaining the same thing from scratch.
Your stylist knows how your hair lifts, where it gets weird, which side flips out and exactly what you mean when you say, “Not too short.”
That relationship is gold.
So if you are looking for hair salons in Montville, Towaco, Pine Brook or Kinnelon, the goal is not simply to find somewhere with an open appointment.
It is to find the salon and stylist who make sense for your hair.
Maybe you are looking for highlights or balayage.
Maybe you want richer brunette color.
Maybe you are starting to notice more gray and deciding between full coverage and a softer gray-blending approach.
Maybe you want extensions.
Maybe humidity has convinced you to investigate keratin or smoothing treatments.
Maybe your curls need someone who actually understands curls.
Maybe you just need a really good haircut, which sounds simple until you have had a bad one.
Then you know.
Women also search for salons differently depending on where they are in life.
At 25, you might happily spend Saturday afternoon at the salon.
At 45, if an appointment is going to take four hours, I need to know that before I book it because I have apparently agreed to run a small logistics company disguised as a family.
Time matters.
So does maintenance.
Before making a major color change, ask how often the salon expects you to come back. If you want a lower-maintenance look, say that clearly. Balayage, highlights, gray blending and root coverage can all have very different maintenance schedules depending on the technique and your starting point.
There is no prize for choosing hair you do not have time to maintain.
Same with styling.
If you air-dry your hair most days, your stylist should know.
If you blow it out every morning, say that.
If your idea of styling is putting it in a clip at a red light, we should probably design around reality.
That is not defeat.
That is strategy.
This Garden State Circle guide helps women compare salons around Montville and Kinnelon using the services each business publishes and the New Jersey shop-license record.
The salons are not ranked.
Instead, use the guide to identify salons that appear to offer the service you need, then look at individual stylists and their work.
Start here if you are searching for hair salons Montville NJ, hair salons Kinnelon NJ, hair salons Towaco, balayage, blonde highlights, brunette color, gray blending, gray coverage, curly hair stylists, hair extensions, keratin treatments, blowouts, women’s haircuts, bridal hair or color correction near me.
A few minutes of research up front is worth it.
Especially when the alternative is sitting in the chair halfway through foils thinking, “I have made a terrible mistake.”
We are trying to avoid that.
We did the homework here.
For the places actually worth your time, money and babysitter, follow me: @tiffanyknowsnj.
The Guide: Hair Salons in Montville and Kinnelon, NJ
How We Selected These Salons
Salons in Montville and Kinnelon, and the nearby salons people here drive to. Salons are listed alphabetically within each table; the order is not a ranking. Where fewer than five salons in these towns met the criteria, the nearest salons that met the same criteria are listed in a second table, each with the town it is based in.
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 Montville and Kinnelon, 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 Montville and Kinnelon. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: How the guides are made.
Hair Salons in Montville and Kinnelon, NJ — Compared
| Salon | Town | Services, as published | Open Sunday, as published | Ownership, as published | New Jersey shop license, checked Sept 2026 | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fantastic Sams Cut & Color | Kinnelon | Haircut; Color; Balayage & Highlighting; Perm & Texture; styling, updos, men’s cuts, kid’s cuts, women’s cuts | Not published | Franchise, franchisee-owned | Shop license · 32WD03571200 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| Loyalty Hair Lounge | Pine Brook | Women’s Haircut; Men’s Haircut; Kid’s Haircut; Single Process/Touch Up; Glaze; Blow Out; Creative Color/Balayage/Highlights; Hair Extensions | Not published | Not published | Shop license · 32WD03279100 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| MC Salon | Montville | Color; Cut; Hair Treatments; Style; Makeup; Wax | No | Independent (“Melissa Condurso / Owner”) | Shop license · 32WD03538400 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| Salon I Am | Montville | Haircuts, coloring and treatments, waxing, lash extensions, facials | No | Not published | Shop license · 32WD03353500 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brick & Mirror Beauty Bar | Based in Parsippany | Hair Cuts; Hair Styling; Hair Color; Bridal; Make Up; Keratin Treatments | No | Independent (“George Verdis Owner / Master Barber”) | Shop license · 32WD03537700 · Active · checked Sept 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| Salon de Beauté | Based in Parsippany | Hair & Styling: Women, Men, Children haircuts; Blowdry Styling; Updo Styling; color; precision cuts; also nails, facials & waxing | No | Not published | Shop license · 32WD01016700 · 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 Montville and Kinnelon, 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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