Blo Blow Dry Bar to Open Number 6

**Translated to English from Japanese:

New in North America is a popular hair salon Blo Dry Bar. This specialty hair salon Blo is in Yaletown at 1150 Hamilton Street Vancouver – telephone number 604-909-9495. The shop opened in June 2007 and has continued to grow with their clientele and in November will have a total of 6 franchise shops.
Blo Dry Bar which specializes in a wash and blow dry concept is a new idea in North America and has no cut or color services. Reservations are not required and styling is done in 30 minutes for about 30 dollars Canadian which is has proven to be popular.
The services are as follows – shampoo and blow-dry is about $31 Canadian dollars, hair extension styles are $62 and up-dos are $55. Hair styling for children are $21.
As the first blow-dry specialists in North America, there has been publicity in magazines, on tv and has attracted other media attention. Recently they have participated in H&M and Aritzia fashion shows as well as other events where hairstyling is involved.
Since the opening in 2007, there has been an increase in franchising requests which number 130 to present. There are presently shops in Yaletown, South Granville, Toronto on Yonge Street, and in the Vancouver and Toronto Four Seasons Hotel totaling 5 shops. In November, there will be another addition with a new shop in Oakville. The signature is the colour pink in the marketing and interior of the shops. The salons were started by the mother and daughter team of Judy and Devon. Entrepreneur Judy and her daughter Devon wanted to make an easily accessible shop like many of the manicure shops and this was the root of the creation.
Varied publicity events, dinner engagements, rainy weather making hair styling difficult are some of the reasons that the customers utilize this service. It is apparent that hairstyling is key in making a person.
With the reasonable prices, the present economic downturn is hardly noticeable.
Operating hours are Mon – Sat 9:00-6:00 Sun 11:00-5:00 and other than Sundays we will accept reservations for times between 7:00-9:00 and 16:00-9:00 we will accept reservations.

Nikkei News Online, Vancouver October 2009

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