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La Viva Hair Studio

Hairdresser Β· Kaiapoi Centre, 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 Β· 498 businesses
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La Viva Hair Studio

Hairdresser Β· Kaiapoi Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#236of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health5.3/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

La Viva Hair Studio is a warm, inviting salon in Kaiapoi offering a full range of hair services. They specialise in colours and cuts and also provide perms and permanent straightening. The salon is known for friendly staff and attentive stylists who focus on personalised care for each client.

La Viva Hair Studio is a warm, inviting hair salon located in Kaiapoi that caters to a wide range of hair needs. The salon's core focus is on colours and cuts, and it also offers perms and permanent straightening. Services are delivered by a team who state they take care to tailor results to each client's hair and preferences.

Specialisations at La Viva include colour correction, blonde work and contemporary cuts. The salon's staff are noted for skill and attention to detail, with clients mentioning stylists who take time to achieve the intended result. The offering explicitly includes permanent straightening and perms alongside regular colouring and cutting services.

Clients consistently describe friendly, welcoming service and attentive treatment during appointments. Reviews reference successful colour corrections, transformative cuts and stylists who explain options and deliver on brief. The salon's team receives repeated comments about professionalism and the care taken during appointments.

La Viva Hair Studio stands out locally as a community salon in Kaiapoi that focuses on personalised hair services, especially colour and cutting work. Its combination of specialist colour services, permanent straightening options and a supportive customer experience shapes its local character.

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Your Google listing

La Viva Hair Studio shows an average overall health for its Google Business Listing, with room to improve. The listing already provides a phone number, website link, claimed status, and open/closed status, which helps customers reach and learn about services. The main opportunity areas relate to branding and visual content, with photos and a logo still needing attention.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
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    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
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    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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4.7 ★★★★★ (12)
Hairdresser Β· Kaiapoi Centre
Open 7 days · late Tue and Thu ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Warm, inviting salon for all hair needs. We specialize in colors and cuts but have been known to do perms and permanent straightening.

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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers Β· 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

La Viva Hair Studio shows a healthy Google review profile with an overall health score of 8.2 out of 10. The business is on a positive path, with room to grow in total reviews and star rating, while maintaining a high response rate. Key findings point to steady rating confidence, ongoing review collection, improving star rating, and strong engagement with customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
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    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
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Jessica H.★★★★★ · 3 months ago

Amazing place to get your hair done they are all so friendly and welcoming highly recommend. Will be back.

Response from the owner

Thank you Jess, can't wait to see you againπŸ’•

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Lois G.★★★★★ · 3 months ago

Amazing hairdressers, others turned me away as I wanted to get rid of a disaster red/orange colour from elsewhere. Connor did an amazing job. Restored my hair back to its beautiful colour. Hubby is over the moon

Response from the owner

Thank you Lois, we absolutely loved having you in the salon, safe travels πŸ’˜

Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers Β· 498 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

La Viva Hair Studio shows a very high health score for Maps search at 8.9 out of 10, indicating strong visibility. The borough-specific score is outstanding, placing the business in the top 10% locally. Top keywords show strength in kaiapoi centre and west, with multiple positions in the 2-3 range for hair and salon related searches.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
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1Top three for "hair salon" in 2 suburbs, seen in 5
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Looks Men's Salon Kaiapoi5.0 ★ (148) · Hairdresser
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Hair & Now4.9 ★ (54) · Hairdresser
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La Viva Hair Studio✓4.7 ★ (12) · Hairdresser
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A Step Up for Hair5.0 ★ (7) · Hairdresser
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers Β· 498 businesses
You are #50 for map positions
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Where customers find you

La Viva Hair Studio shows an above-average health score of 6.3 out of 10 for social and local presence, indicating steady but room for growth. The strongest achieved asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile and a well-maintained Fresha listing, supporting local visibility. Notable gaps include the absent TikTok presence and limited LinkedIn activity.

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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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/la-viva-hair-studio-christchurch-124-williams-street-w47ahrm6) found via: Google search results.
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    Infobel ListingWe can see your Infobel Listing listing (https://infobel.com/la_viva_hair_studio) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    Instagram Profileyour Instagram Profile page surfaces strongly in search, which is how we found it, though nothing you control points at it.
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    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.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Facebook61565482235456La Viva Hair Studio | Facebook✓
Freshala-viva-hair-studio-christchurch-124-williams-street-w47ahrm6La Viva Hair Studio | Fresha✓
Infobella_viva_hair_studioLa Viva Hair Studio | Infobel✓
Instagramangiechch11La Viva Hair Studio | Instagram2
Yellow/kaiapoi/hairdressersFound through search, not linked from anything you own3
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers Β· 498 businesses
You are #246 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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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.
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    A street addressA street address sits in your page details, so someone deciding between you and a business two suburbs over can see which of you is closer.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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πŸ’‡πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ ~ master stylists ❀️ ~ lover of all things hair 🌞 ~ La Viva Hair Studio πŸ₯° ~ kaiapoi hairdressers 🌻 ~ Nak colour πŸ”₯ ~ extension services ✨ ~ message for inquires
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers Β· 498 businesses
You are #257 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
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    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
  • 3
    Domain UniquenessYour web address belongs to a platform rather than to you - a social page or a site builder's own domain.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

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Where we can help

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Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers Β· 498 businesses
You are #212 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

La Viva Hair Studio's published hours largely match local demand: 63 well-aligned peak hours and no low-demand open hours. Strong alignment is concentrated on mid-day slots, especially Saturday 11am-1pm and Tuesday 11am-12pm. Missed opportunities include Sunday and Saturday late afternoons (4-5pm) and Wednesday 6pm when searches are high but the salon is closed. Consider selectively extending hours into those evening/weekend peaks.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand better than nearly every business here, so most of the time you are open, people are actually looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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La Viva Hair Studio
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5:30pm
Tuesday9am-8pm
Wednesday9am-5:30pm
Thursday9am-8pm
Friday9am-5:30pm
Saturday9am-4pm
Sunday9am-4pm
Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers Β· 498 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#236of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall Β· 498 businesses
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