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Misola Hair & Style

Hairdresser · Wigram, 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
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Misola Hair & Style

Hairdresser · Wigram, Christchurch

Where you stand#17of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health9.7/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Misola Hair & Style is a hair salon in Wigram, Christchurch, offering Japanese-influenced service and full hairdressing for clients. They state they provide a luxury yet affordable salon experience with premium products and world-class techniques. The salon describes itself as multicultural and multilingual, and it focuses on styling, cuts and perms in a relaxed, nature‑inspired setting.

Misola Hair & Style is a hair salon located in Wigram, Christchurch. They describe their name as a blend of Japanese words meaning beauty and sky and say the salon is inspired by New Zealand's natural landscape. The salon states it aims to offer a luxury, relaxing experience while remaining affordable.

Services include haircuts, styling and perms, with staff who they say use premium products and professional techniques. The salon describes itself as multicultural and multilingual and states it employs award-winning stylists. Website content highlights a relaxing environment and attention to technique and product quality.

Customer feedback commonly notes friendly, attentive staff and skilled stylists. Reviews mention successful wedding hair work, detailed preparation for diverse style requests, and positive follow-up comments about lasting results. Several clients refer to specific stylists by name and report satisfaction with cuts and perms, and one review notes a good phone interaction.

Locally, Misola serves Wigram and the broader Christchurch area as a neighbourhood salon that blends Japanese service elements with a nature-inspired interior. Practical distinctions include a focus on personalised styling, a multilingual team and an emphasis on premium products and professional technique, with customers often booking ahead for preferred stylists.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Misola Hair & Style shows a very high health score and strong completeness on the Google Business Listing, with essential contact details and verified ownership. The review of key achievements highlights a present website link, a visible listing title, a claimed status, open-for-business status, and a phone number, supporting easy customer reach.

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 two opportunities

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    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
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    Photos on the listingYou carry more photos than most of this market, which gives a customer a real look at the work before they ring.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
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4.8 ★★★★★ (371)
Hairdresser · Wigram1
Open 7 days · late Thu and Fri ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

MISOLA is a hair salon in the heart of Wigram, Christchurch. We provide amazing Japanese service and hairdressing for you. At MISOLA we’ll prove that a luxury salon experience doesn’t have to cost you a fortune; that you really can enjoy the services of award-winning stylists who use premium products and world-class techniques, in a comfortable & relaxing environment. The Salon is inspired by the New Zealand’s stunning natural landscape, and our name is a combination of two Japanese words – Mi, meaning ‘beauty’ and Sola, meaning ‘Sky’. It reflects the fact that we’re a multi-cultural, multi-lingual salon dedicated to making our customers look, and feel, beautiful.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Misola Hair & Style shows a very high health score on Google Business reviews, indicating strong customer satisfaction and engagement. The two key achievements highlight a solid rating confidence in the top 10% and a strong total review count in the top 10%, reinforcing trust and social proof in the Christchurch market. The main opportunities point to maintaining momentum in rating growth and sustaining top-tier response engagement.

Strengths

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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you at the head of this market: well rated, with enough reviews behind it that a customer takes the number seriously.
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    Review countYou hold one of the deepest review banks in this market - social proof that does its own selling.

Top two opportunities

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    Star ratingYour rating sits ahead of half the businesses here, so the number is not pushing anyone away.
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    Response rateYou answer nearly all your reviews, which is more than almost anyone in this market, and a customer reading the page sees a two-sided conversation rather than a scoreboard.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
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EL★★★★★ · a month ago

Showed Mika my inspo, shared my concerns, here’s her interpretation. 6 months in and still looking so good! She’s amazing.

Response from the owner2

Hi EL, We’re so happy to hear you had a great experience with Mamika. And I agree - She is an amazing hairdresser! Thank you so much for choosing our salon :) Thanks, Chisa

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Mini★★★★★ · a month ago

Absolutely wonderful experience at this hair salon in Christchurch. They were extremely accommodating and kindly fit me in on short notice to fix my hair colour. The result was amazing, done with great care, and at a very fair price. A spec...

Response from the owner

Hi Mini, Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed and thoughtful review. We’re truly grateful for your kind words and are so pleased to hear that you enjoyed your experien...

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Where you show up on the map

Misola Hair & Style shows very strong performance in Google Maps, with a health score of 9.2 out of 10. The business ranks highly in borough-specific searches and is lifting presence across multiple suburbs. The top opportunity is to further improve aggregate local visibility while maintaining the elite borough ranking.

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 "unisex hairdresser" in 2 suburbs, seen in 8
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Misola Hair & Style✓4.8 ★ (371) · Hairdresser
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Future Angels Salon4.9 ★ (281) · Hairdresser
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Headmaster Barber3.1 ★ (77) · Hairdresser
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Wigram Barbers4.8 ★ (43) · Hairdresser
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where customers find you

Misola Hair & Style shows solid health with a 7.4 out of 10, indicating a stable social presence and directory visibility. The strongest findings are an outstanding Facebook profile and an outstanding Instagram profile, both with very high trust scores, and a Fresha category page that boosts search visibility beyond the main profile. Opportunities to improve focus on TikTok and Neighbourly presence.

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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    Infobel ListingWe can see your Infobel Listing listing (https://infobel.com/misola_hair_style) 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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    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 6 of them.
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FacebookmisolanzMisola Hair & Style | Facebook✓
Instagrammisola.nzMisola Hair & Style | Instagram✓
Cylexmisola+hair+%26+style-18168044Misola Hair & Style | Cylex
Infobelmisola_hair_styleMisola Hair & Style | Infobel✓
Family Company Studiomisola-hair-styleMisola Hair & Style | Family Company Studio
Freshalp/en/bt/hair-salons/in/nz-christchurch/wigramMisola Hair & Style | Fresha3
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
FreshaNo listing found3
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
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    People following your pageMore people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post can travel past your own customers when one of them shares it into a local group.
  • 3
    Recommendations on your pageMore customers have recommended you than at most pages in this market, and depth like that reads as a business that has been doing this a while.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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MISOLA is a hair salon in the heart of Wigram, Christchurch. We provide amazing Japanese service.1
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★ 31 reviews · recommended 3
🌐 misola.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-348 6280✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

Misola Hair & Style shows a solid on-page SEO health with a 7.7/10 overall score. This indicates strong foundations, with potential improvements mainly in meta and render-blocking resources. Current strengths include a valid favicon, fast page load under 3 seconds, compact page size, presence of an H1 tag and secure HTTPS content, supporting clear, accessible information for customers.

Strengths

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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from about as wide a range of sites as anything in this market, and the mix of link types looks entirely natural.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.

Top three opportunities

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    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
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    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
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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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Misola Hair & Style shows a very healthy website traffic profile with a strong organic presence and high value. The main finding is that organic traffic value and volume rank in the top local tiers, while paid traffic indicators remain unshown and warrant initial testing in small, targeted campaigns.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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www.misola.co.nzMISOLA Hair & Style | Relaxing Hair Salon at Wigram ...

Our friendly team will do their best to answer any questions you may have :) Call or text 03 - 348 6280 | 021 - 0226 5060 misola. Read more

thelandingwigram.co.nzMisola Hair Salon
About 4,361 visits a month from search, across 547 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Misola Hair & Style's opening hours largely match local demand, with 62 weekly hours open during peak search times and no low-demand open hours. Strong alignment is especially clear on weekday late-mornings and Saturday middle-day. However there are a few missed evening opportunities on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday late afternoons when demand remains relatively high. Consider modestly extending weekday and weekend evening hours to capture more bookings.

Strengths

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    Hours aligned with demandNo business here matches the demand around it more closely than you do - you are open when people are looking and shut when they are not.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. Your hours already line up with when people are looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Misola Hair & Style
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours ✓
Monday9am-6pm
Tuesday9am-6pm
Wednesday9am-6pm
Thursday9am-7pm
Friday9am-7pm
Saturday9am-5pm
Sunday10am-5pm
Popular times Friday · Wigram
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02Reviews2 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

Where you'd stand#17of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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