D Cari

I have been going to this salon ever since 6^th grade. I am about to graduate high school now. My hair type is about a 4c and I have been natural for about 3 years (I trimmed my hair to about an 1inch below my shoulders) My hair is very kinky curly when washed. I skip the roller set part because there is no point in roller setting if it wasn’t stretching anything.
I always Wash, Deep condition, and blow dry.
Which is 35 $ total. (Wash and blow dry=30 and 5 $ for the deep conditioner)
Hunny, let me tell you, my hair comes out laid as if I had a perm. My hair is super silky after e everything. She blow drys it after the conditioner and flat irons it.
Love this place.

I didn’t want to do this review but I think other people need to be warned before stepping into this salon. I had one of the worst hair salon experiences of my life in his place.
I walk in at around 10:30 am and the place is packed. I look around for someone who seems to work there. I go over to someone doing hair to tell her I want a wash and set. There was only one seat left in the place that was in a corner and she told me to sit there (this was the thing that started a whole domino effect). This seat was on the entire opposite side from the hairwashing sinks. I sit and sit and sit for about 30 minutes. Three new customers come in and since there are no seats they kinda just stand in the middle of the salon. When a hairwashing sink becomes available it was meant to be my turn but i guess the hairwashing lady didn’t see me sitting in the corner and so she starts washing one of the new girls’ hair. I get up and tell her that I need to be next but she shoos me away and tells me that these girls were here before me. I tell her I’ve been here longer but she doesn’t believe me. (Keep in mind that most of the ppl who work here don’t speak English and I was trying to mix together the bit of spanish i know together with English.) I go over to the lady who I first talked to so she can convince the hairwasher that I was here first. They speak in Spanish and based on body language I think she told her what I wanted her to. But once she was done washing the girls hair she motions to the 2^nd of the new girls to come over. I’m not one for confrontation but I had now been waiting for about an hour and a half so I was getting pissed at this lady trying to snub me of my spot in line once again. I tell her it’s my turn but she keeps saying the other girls were there before me. You can imagine how frustrating it is to be basically told you are lying when you know you are telling the truth. Now all the hairdressers start arguing loudly in spanish. It seems like the salon is split in two. Half the employees are on my side and half the employees think the other girl was here first. The way they were yelling and carrying on was so dramatic and unprofessional. I’ve taken up to level 4 of spanish in college so I know when people are being rude or talking s**t about me and all that and more was happening. To make it worse the 2^nd new girl obviously didn’t see me in the corner either so she’s arguing on her own behalf saying she was here first too. It was all a big, unprofessional mess.
Finally one hairdresser takes pity on me and tells me she will take care of me. This brings me to the 2^nd big problem with this salon. They have an attitude about natural kinky hair that is disgusting and uncalled for in a hairsalon. As soon as I first sat down in the salon I could sense the hairdressers looking at my hair and it seemed like nobody wanted me in their chair, so when this «kind» hairdresser started washing my hair i thought «oh finally someone who’s not a hair type elitist» WRONG. Although she washed, blowdried and flatironed my hair and it came out nice, it seemed like she was being very stingy with products as well like she didn’t want to waste them on my hairtype. She also didn’t do what I wanted. I wanted rollers but she told me they can’t do rollers on my hairtype (3C/​4A). I’ve gotten my hair done at many dominican salons and they all did just fine putting my hair into rollers. They also charged me extra for my kinky hair I think, it was $ 35.
Note to Unilocalers: DONT GO HERE but if you absolutely must, here are some pointers
#1 they are stingy with conditioner so bring your own
#2 they will try to rake a fine toothed comb through your curly hair (wtf?)
#3 brush up on your spanish skills
#4 make yourself known when you walk in, stand by the hairwashing sinks
#5 they want you to tip the hairwasher and your hairdresser! (ummm…no)
#6 if your hair is kinky maybe come in with a twist out/​braid out/​blow out to lessen the dirty looks

Love this Dominican salon! Quick service and very inexpensive.
I’m natural and also have 4c hair. They did an excellent job with my wash and blow. It really looks like I have a relaxer and I don’t. I was in and out in less than 2hrs and the salon was full.
If you don’t know any Spanish, you’ll have a hard time communicating your needs. I would only recommend coming here for wash and rollos or blow dry. You can also bring your own shampoo and conditioner.
There are Tuesday and Wednesday specials.
Great bargain for anyone looking to straighten their natural hair.

I came here for the very first time the weekend before christmas. I was nervous because I know the weekend before a big holiday means packed salons. I was alittle mad because they told me the salon opened at 8am so when I got there… at 8am… I noticed people were already getting washed and some were under the dryer. One lady came in and asked what time they opened and they said 7:30am. I purposly came in at 8 so I could be one of the first ones in cause I had plans at 1pm. Even though that made me alittle bitter, I was asked what I wanted done and I was immediatly to the sink and getting prepped for a wash and roller set plus blow dry. My hair came out BEAUTIFUL and I was out by 11am. mind you im black and Im kinda in the need for my next touch up, but when I left there it looked like I just got a perm. The only downside is almost everyones english in there is horrible but as long as they understand what I want, and do it right, thats all that matters to me. I will be back soon this is my new spot.

Although my hair looked good when I left, it wasn’t finished.
D’cari seems like a great neighborhood salon, but if you’re in a rush (& by rush I mean don’t have an entire day to devote to hair styling) or expect someone to communicate wait times with you, this place isn’t going to be your cup of tea.
The salon is predominately Spanish-​speaking and they make no attempt to accommodate your lack of comprehension (or at least attempt to learn a few English words related to their services). My high school Spanish vocabulary was no bueno — thus making communication impossible. Luckily, toward the end of my visit there was a patron willing to translate.
Had I gotten my entire hair done, I know it would have looked fabulous (my family frequents this salon), but 3 hours later and my hair still not complete is unacceptable to me — my time is $$!
FYI: I came in for a relaxer, trim, and blowout. I didn’t get the trim and my hair wasn’t done drying because my stylist was working on two other women simultaneously.
The relaxer lasted and my hair was laid for a few weeks which is longer than my at-​home, box relaxers.
My scalp, on the other hand, had never been so brutally massaged/​washed before, which did feel really good and slightly relaxing at the time, but now I have dandruff and I don’t know which product used upset my scalp.
My total charge was something like $ 70, not bad, but for incomplete service there should have been an accommodation.
The prices are moderate because unless your just getting a wash, they’re not any cheaper than all the other local salons, they’re just average.

Dont even know why this place has good reviews. You get what you pay for, cheap prices equals cheap services. This has got to be the most ghetto Dominican salon I’ve ever been to. It’s so pack with no place to sit. People bumping into one another. There was this extremely ratchet hoodrat in the back don’t know if she worked there or not cuz she wasn’t there to get her hair done and kept cracking jokes with the owner. This chick was EXTRA LOUD calling customers Bitches if they messed with the owner UNPROFESSIONAL. This place has no order first come first served. Sometimes they don’t even remember who came in first. This place is not clean whatsoever. The lady who was doing my hair kept coughing in my face. Definitely will not come back here.

This salon is awesome!!!
I read all the reviews and was enticed by the prices. When i went in the ladies were all VERY friendly and the location was clean (passed the first two of my tests!)
I got a wash and blow dry and let me tell you… my hair was silky for nearly two weeks after. Marie is awesome! I have been back 2 other times including getting a relaxer and I am quite pleased in how my hair turned out every single time. Very healthy and they use quality products — no need to bring your own like some of the NY salons.
No offense to black hair salons, but I cant understand why they arent able to give the same level of service and SPEED at the same prices. For basic services, this is my new home.
Dominican blowouts are the best in the world!

I have been searching all over Boston for a place to get my hair done as I’m used to from my home town in Brooklyn. After living in Boston for a year and a half and trying out almost every salon from Brighton to Cambridge that had experience doing black hair, I have finally found the one!
D Cari is not only affordable ($ 35 for a touch up on Wed, $ 40 every other day) the stylists were nice and got me in and out of there in no time.
It is now 3 weeks into my relaxer and my hair still looks as if it was just done yesterday. This never happens! The only stylist who has been able to achieve this was the one from home and I found myself frequently making the 4 hr trip back to NY to get my fix.
Needless to say their products are of great quality and this will be my new permanent spot.

So after reading the previous review, I felt confident to try this salon, as she was very thorough in her assessment. She was right on the money. the salon is clean, I thought that they were efficient and you cant beat the price! I went last Wednesday evening and I was in and out in just under 2 hours! I will definitely make this a spot to go to if i just need a quick wash and blow dry!

First let me preface this review with the most important statement ever… D Cari charges $ 12 dollars for a wash and set and they charge $ 15 for a Wash, Set, and Blow Dry (A little more if your hair is long). So really, you need not read any more of this review. You really could hop into your vehicle and drive over to D Cari and spend less than $ 20 on a service that normally runs you about $ 40. Like seriously and quite frankly… who the heck can be picky about a service that is only 12 dollars?!? Who?!? Well… me. I’ll give the pros first.
Pros:
~Its only 15 dollars for a wash, set, and blow dry. Did I say this already? Yea? Okay. Moving on.
~My hair looks amazing. Let me note that I have not had a relaxer in ten weeks! And my hair is still bone straight.
~ I was in there and outta there! Arrived at 8:30am and left at 10:00am
~ All of the stylists are sweethearts.
Cons:
~ Okay, Im Ten weeks post relaxer and what you can NOT do and what you will NOT do is try and take a fine tooth comb and rake it through my head. Not only is it painful… its almost physically impossible sweetheart.
~ She shampooed my hair so many times and with so much force I was afraid I may not have any hair left on my head O_​o seriously
~Once you blow dry my hair once… there is no need to repeatedly blow dry my relaxed hair… again and again… it just can’t take that amount of heat.
~ No Bells and frills in here. Wash. A little condish. And thats it. But for 15 dollars… beggars cant be choosers.
At the end of the day if you enjoy a good «dominican blow out» they do a really good job and its crazy cheap! They are very fast compared to other Latino salons I’ve visited. I personally could not be a regular there… But, I’ll definitely re visit D Cari again.