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Sukha Organic Hairdressing

Hair salon · North Beach, 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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Sukha Organic Hairdressing

Hair salon · North Beach, Christchurch

Where you stand#46of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health9.1/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Sukha Organic Hairdressing is a peaceful, gender-neutral home salon in North New Brighton, Christchurch, set in a quiet garden with the beach at the end of the street. The salon uses professional organic, vegan products and specialises in creative haircuts and modern colouring. Services include Reiki and herbalist-informed care, and a three-legged dog often offers a friendly snuggle during appointments.

Sukha Organic Hairdressing is a home-based salon in North New Brighton, Christchurch, tucked into a quiet garden with the beach at the end of the street. The salon presents itself as gender-neutral and animal friendly, operating from a relaxed home studio rather than a conventional shopfront.

The salon focuses on organic, vegan hairdressing and uses professional non-toxic products, including a signature Sukha Argan Oil. Services listed include creative haircuts and modern colouring. The proprietor also offers Reiki and is studying herbalism, which shapes a holistic approach to client care.

Clients describe attentive, friendly service and a calming salon environment. Review themes highlight precise cutting for a variety of hair types, knowledgeable styling that listens to client needs, and a welcoming atmosphere in the home studio. The presence of the salon dog and the quiet garden setting are noted as part of the client experience.

Locally, Sukha is distinguished by its combination of organic, vegan product use, a holistic service mix that includes Reiki and herbalist influence, and a home-studio setting near the beach. Clients seeking non-toxic haircare, creative cutting and a relaxed, personable salon visit will find those elements central to the Sukha offering.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Sukha Organic Hairdressing shows a very healthy Google Business Listing, with a 9.1/10 health score. The listing already includes a website link, a claimed status, a visible phone number, and an open-for-business indicator, giving customers a straightforward entry point. Current strengths also include a strong listing title and robust photo presence.

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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    Photos on the listingYou have more photos on your listing than half the businesses here, so a customer arriving has enough to look at that they stay on it.
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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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    Description lengthYour description is one of the fuller ones in this market, which means a customer comparing you side by side has more of your case in front of them than most.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
9.1Strong
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5.0 ★★★★★ (56)
Hair salon · North Beach2
Open 4 days · late Wed and Thu ✓
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From the business

A peaceful Hair studio surrounded in a quiet garden with the beach at the end of the street. We only use professional Organic Vegan products so no nasty chemicals and smells and safe for the environment and for ourselves. Specializing in creative haircuts and modern colouring , Reiki and being a Herbalist student I'm here to help with your holistic needs and offer a relaxing environment to remove the stresses of the day. Shanti the wee 3 legged dog is also on-hand to come and snuggle on your knee so hope you like animals as we are animal friendly here!

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Sukha Organic Hairdressing shows a strong health score on Google Reviews, reflecting solid customer satisfaction and engagement. The business's rating and review base place it in the top tier, while the response rate shows good engagement with customers. Key strengths include a top-10% Google star rating and high confidence in rating quality. Opportunities to improve are modest but worth pursuing.

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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    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 two opportunities

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    Response rateYou answer more of your reviews than the middle of this market, so a customer scrolling your page mostly finds you there.
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    Review countYour review count sits above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
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Sukha Organic Hairdressing
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Renn N.★★★★★ · a month ago

I have been coming to Su for my haircuts for two years now. She is just a gorgeous soul who never fails to make her clients feel just as beutiful as they look. She cuts hair for a majority of my friends group, there are lots of different ha...

Response from the owner1

Thank you Renn!! It's such a joy to cut your stunning curls ans love your beautiful friend group too with all of their fun hair styles

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Marie S.★★★★★ · 6 months ago

This salon is awesome, and the hairdresser (Su) really listens and knows her stuff. She uses non-toxic, nourishing organic products and I always feel welcome in her gorgeous home studio with its relaxing atmosphere.

Response from the owner

Thank you so much Marie and it was such a pleasure to have you and your lovely locks at the studio 😊

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Where you show up on the map

Sukha Organic Hairdressing shows a below-average overall health score for Maps search at 3.6/10, indicating room for improvement in visibility across Google Maps. The strongest area is the borough presence which has risen from the bottom quartile, suggesting steady gains locally. Key opportunities include lifting aggregate search visibility and consolidating the North New Brighton footprint.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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.
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    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.
3.7Room to grow
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Brighton Style5.0 ★ (17) · Hair salon
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Sukha Organic Hairdressing2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where customers find you

Sukha Organic Hairdressing shows very high overall health (8.7/10) for social presence and local directories. Strengths include outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles, plus a Neighbourly and Fresha listing that support local visibility. The main opportunity is to broaden presence on TikTok and directory pages, and consider GrabOne to attract deal-seeking customers.

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

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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.
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    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
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InstagramsukhaorganichairdressingSukha Organic Hairdressing | Instagram✓
FacebooksukhaorganichairdressingSukha Organic Hairdressing | Facebook✓
Wedding Guidesukha-organic-hairdressingSukha Organic Hairdressing | Wedding Guide
Neighbourlybeauty/canterbury-region/christchurch/north-new-brightonSukha Organic Hairdressing | Neighbourly
Freshalp/en/tt/hair-colouring/in/nz-christchurchSukha Organic Hairdressing | Fresha3
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
FreshaNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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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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    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.
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    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.
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    What your page says about youYour intro carries more detail than most pages in this market and is doing the work of a short landing page for the visitors who never reach your website.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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A peaceful relaxing private salon studio overlooking a garden and close to the sea. Sukha only uses Organic products which are great for the hair and not harmful on the environment.3
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★ 25 reviews · recommended 2
🌐 sukha.co.nz✓
☎ +64 22 031 3492✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

Sukha Organic Hairdressing shows a very strong on-page SEO health with a 9.9/10 score. The two key findings are excellent meta description and title tag health, both in ideal character ranges, plus a valid favicon and a compact page size. Opportunities focus on improving load speed, adding an H1 tag, fixing mixed content, and reducing render-blocking resources to lift performance further.

Strengths

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    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits in the length that reads in full on most screens, which is as far as length alone can take it - a narrow phone still cuts the tail off a line this size.
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    Page titleYour home page headline fits a search result exactly, so the whole line reads to someone scanning a page of results rather than cutting off mid-phrase.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
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    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Sukha Organic Hairdressing shows a healthy overall traffic profile with a 6.9/10 health score, indicating above-average performance for the local market. The strongest opportunities lie in paid traffic and organic value: paid spend is missing and paid traffic isn't measurable yet, while organic value is mid-range and improving. Priorities include starting small paid campaigns and continuing content and SEO refinements.

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.
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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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21No ads from you on any search
www.fresha.comBest Hair Salons near me in New Brighton, Christchurch
m.yelp.comTHE BEST 10 HAIR SALONS near NEW BRIGHTON ...
sukha.co.nzThe Home of Sukha Organic Hairdressing | Christchurch

Welcome to the home of Sukha Organic Hairdressing, a peaceful gender-neutral, vegan and organic home salon in New Brighton, Christchurch.

www.facebook.comSalty Hair & Co. | Christchurch
3About 347 visits a month from search, across 52 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Sukha Organic Hairdressing's published hours partly match local demand, but gaps reduce overall efficiency. The salon is open during several high-demand windows on Wednesday and Saturday midday, which aligns with customer search peaks. However, it is closed during popular weekday lunch hours on Monday and Tuesday, representing missed bookings. No low-demand open hours were identified, so wasted hours are not evident.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
2.9Room to grow
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Sukha Organic Hairdressing
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday10am-8pm
Thursday10am-8pm
Friday10am-6pm
Saturday10am-4pm
SundayClosed
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03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#46of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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