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Headfirst Hair Design

Hair salon · Hornby-Islington, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Headfirst Hair Design

Hair salon · Hornby-Islington, Christchurch

Where you stand#463of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health0.7/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social6.5

Where we can help

08Opening hours5.405Facebook page1.601Google listing1.102Reviews0.803Map positions0.307Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Headfirst Hair Design is a hair salon and barber located in Hornby, Christchurch. The salon offers hairdressing and barbering services for local clients and provides haircuts, styling and grooming in a neighbourhood setting.

Headfirst Hair Design is a hair salon and barber situated in Hornby, Christchurch. The salon serves local clients in the suburb and surrounding areas, operating as a combined hairdressing and barber service under the Headfirst Hair Design name.

The salon offers hairdressing and barbering services consistent with its category. Services include haircuts, styling and barber grooming suitable for a range of client needs. The team focus on standard salon and barber procedures expected at a neighbourhood hair business.

Clients come for hair and barber services and can arrange appointments for cutting, styling and general grooming. The salon presents itself as a place for routine haircare and maintenance, catering to both hairdressing and barber requirements without specific speciality claims provided here.

Locally, Headfirst Hair Design is distinguished by its Hornby location and its combined salon and barber offering. As a neighbourhood hair business in Christchurch, it provides accessible hairdressing and barbering options for clients seeking regular hair maintenance and basic styling in the Hornby area.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Headfirst Hair Design shows a very low overall health score on Google Business Listing, indicating limited completeness and optimisation. The strongest points are a complete address, a visible phone number, a main image, and a clear open-for-business status. The most important opportunities are adding a website link, claiming the listing, expanding the description, uploading more photos, and adding a logo.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.
  • ✓
    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
  • 2
    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
  • 3
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Hair salon · Hornby-Islington
Open 5 days · late Tue and Thu ✓
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Headfirst Hair Design shows very low overall health on Google Business Reviews, with a 0.4/10 health score. Key findings indicate a weak rating confidence, an unestablished star rating, few or no reviews, and no responses to reviews. This combination signals high caution among potential customers and a need for foundational reputation-building actions.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
  • 2
    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Headfirst Hair Design
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #460 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Headfirst Hair Design shows a very low health score in Google Maps search, indicating limited visibility overall. The strongest finding is a single top-5 keyword where the salon ranks for unisex hairdresser in hornby-islington (position 19), suggesting some local relevance. The opportunities focus on improving both the broad aggregate maps presence and the borough specific visibility to attract more local clients.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Not seen in the searches we ran across Christchurch
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Headfirst Hair Design2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #485 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Headfirst Hair Design shows an above-average health score with room for improvement in social reach. The most notable finding is a very strong Facebook presence, complemented by an active, but less visible, Fresha and Yellow Directory footprint. Opportunities focus on expanding TikTok and LinkedIn presence while maintaining trust on Instagram.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
  • 3
    Fresha ProfileWe could not find an active Fresha Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
6.5Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Instagramhead_first_hair_designHeadfirst Hair Design | Instagram✓
FacebookHeadfirst-100063605198525Headfirst Hair Design | Facebook✓
Freshalp/en/bt/hair-salons/in/nz-christchurch/hornbyFound through search, not linked from anything you own3
LinkedInlesley-crosby-2b952253Headfirst Hair Design | LinkedIn
Yellow/yaldhurst/hairdressersHeadfirst Hair Design | Yellow2
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
FreshaNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #173 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    A cover photoYour page opens with a cover photo rather than a blank banner, so the first impression a visitor gets is your own work.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Where your page link pointsNothing in your page details points at a website, so a visitor who has read your posts and wants prices, hours or a booking form has nowhere to go next but back to search - where your competitors are waiting.
  • 2
    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
  • 3
    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
1.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
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people2
704 followers
Experts in hair!3
FollowMessage
★ 13 reviews · recommended
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #416 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
  • 2
    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google Mapsgoogle.com › mapsHeadfirst Hair Design - Hornby-Islington, Christchurch
Your websiteNo website of your own1
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

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Where we can help

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0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Headfirst Hair DesignNot in these results
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #212 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Headfirst Hair Design's opening hours partially match local demand: several peak slots in late morning to early afternoon are covered, but notable high-demand windows remain closed. Strong alignment includes late-morning and early-afternoon times on Tuesday and Saturday. Missed opportunities include several midday and early-afternoon slots on Monday, Saturday and Sunday. No low-demand open hours were identified.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
5.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Headfirst Hair Design
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am-8pm
Wednesday10am-5pm
Thursday10am-8pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-2pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Hornby-Islington
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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The next step

Your top opportunities, in one place.

These are your top 18 opportunities, from the 44 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#463of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
You are #463 overall
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