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Love Hair

Hair salon · Woolston, 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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Love Hair

Hair salon · Woolston, Christchurch

Where you stand#353of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health2.9/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social8.108Opening hours7.7

Where we can help

03Map positions3.805Facebook page3.201Google listing2.402Reviews2.007Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Love Hair is a hair salon in Woolston, Christchurch offering cuts, colouring and styling. The salon is known for experienced colour work, including blonde services, and a friendly, attentive approach to consultations and style choices that suits local clients.

Love Hair is a hair salon in Woolston, Christchurch, providing haircuts, colouring and styling for local clients. The salon operates from a neighbourhood setting and serves Woolston and surrounding suburbs in Christchurch.

Services focus on colour work, including blonde services and general hair colouring, alongside everyday cuts and styling. Reviews consistently mention experienced colour work and helpful advice about styles and colour choices, indicating a steady emphasis on technical colour skills and practical styling.

Customers tend to describe a thorough, attentive experience with good communication about style and colour. Reviews highlight that the primary stylist listens to client ideas, gives informed guidance, and delivers consistent results, with several comments noting reasonable pricing and strong satisfaction.

Locally, Love Hair presents as a small, experience-led salon centred on colour and personalised consultations. The emphasis on blonde and colour work, paired with a reputation for attentive service and value, is what distinguishes the salon for many clients in the Woolston area.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Love Hair has a low overall Google Business Listing health score, with room for improvements in website link, description, logo, and photo depth. The listing already shows claimed status, open/closed status, a listing title, a phone number, and a full address, which support easy contact and location. The strongest current asset is clear contact details and verified ownership.

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

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Love Hair
Love Hair✓✓
5.0 ★★★★★ (5)
Hair salon · Woolston
Open 6 days · late Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri ✓
DirectionsCall No website 1
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Love Hair shows a low health score overall but has notable strengths in customer satisfaction. The business maintains a high star rating, indicating strong client approval, particularly for colour services. Opportunities center on increasing engagement with reviews, growing total review volume, and improving response rates to reviews to build trust with customers.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
2.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Love Hair
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #399 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Love Hair in Woolston, Christchurch shows a below-average overall Google Maps health score of 3.8 out of 10, indicating limited visibility across maps searches. The borough-specific score is improving but still below the local midpoint. Top opportunities focus on boosting aggregate maps visibility and strengthening local Woolston presence to move toward the local midline.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
3.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Taylored Nails4.9 ★ (11) · Hair salon
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Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #309 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Love Hair shows an overall health of 4.1 out of 10, indicating below average social presence and local directory activity. The strongest verified asset is a very high trust Facebook profile, while other platforms show room for growth. Key finding: a moderate Instagram trust with existing activity and no visible TikTok or Yellow listings yet.

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.
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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/love-hair-medway-street-gore-8JgoZM) found via: Google search results.

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
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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.
8.1Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Glove hair woolston
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Family Company Studiolove-hairLove Hair | Family Company Studio
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InstagramlovehairltdLove Hair | Instagram✓
FacebookLove-Hair-100063480521258Love Hair | Facebook✓
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #96 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

  • 1
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
  • 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
    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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172 followers 1
LOVE HAIR is now operating at 84 Sullivan Avenue in Opawa.
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★ 5 reviews · recommended 3
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☎ +64 210 235 7199✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #340 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
  • 2
    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.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here.
0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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No ads from you on any search
Love HairNot 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

Love Hair's published hours largely match local demand, with strong coverage during weekday late-morning peaks and Saturday midday when searches are highest. Key gaps occur on Sundays around midday and mid-afternoon when the salon is closed despite notable demand. There are no low-demand open hours, so the main opportunity is modestly extending Sunday hours to capture extra bookings without adding wasted time.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
7.7Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Love Hair
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday10am-8pm
Tuesday10am-8pm
Wednesday10am-8pm
Thursday10am-8pm
Friday10am-8pm
Saturday10am-6pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Woolston
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #115 for opening hours
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The next step

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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#353of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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