Hair Salon Near Me on Santa Monica's Main Street: Bombshell Salon

Tips are cash only at Bombshell Salon, and the booking page notes an ATM inside the salon. Anyone typing hair salon near me between the Santa Monica Pier and Venice lands near Bombshell Salon at 2431 Main Street in Ocean Park, inside the Edgemar Center, a courtyard complex designed by Frank Gehry. Doors open Tuesday to Friday from 9 am to 7 pm and Saturday from 9 am to 6 pm, and the Edgemar lot gives two hours of free parking.

Bombshell was founded by co-owners Eric Torres and Lisa Watts, according to a June 2023 Santa Monica Daily Press profile that said the salon had first opened its doors ten years earlier. A 2024 profile in the same paper credited Torres with over a decade of dedication to the community, and the salon's own team page still lists him as Founder and Master Stylist rather than a manager who left the floor.

That June 2024 feature also credited Torres with over 30 years of experience behind the chair. The salon has been voted Santa Monica's Most Loved Salon several years running, which its homepage repeats. The profile says his stylists attend monthly advanced technique classes and singles out the perfect beach blonde as the house specialty, fitting for a room a few blocks from the sand.

The Edgemar Center at 2415 to 2449 Main Street began in 1908 as an Imperial Ice Company warehouse, and in the 1940s the Santa Monica Dairy Company turned it into the egg-processing plant later named Edgemar Farms. Developer Abby Sher bought the site in 1984 and hired Frank O. Gehry and Associates, who kept the Art Deco front wall and added new buildings in galvanized metal, chain link, stucco and green tile.

The courtyard was planned as a small piazza modeled on the Tuscan town of Volterra, with a fountain by Thomas Eatherton. Bombshell's site calls the salon a sanctuary tucked into that courtyard, steps from the sand. The 1908 ice warehouse next door held the Santa Monica Museum of Art from its first show in July 1988 until the end of 1996.

The service menu on the salon's website sets women's haircuts from $125 to $185 and up, depending on the artist you choose. Men's cuts start at $100, a fringe trim starts at $25 and a blowout starts at $60, with an added charge when you have extensions or want heat-tool styling. Up-dos and event styling start at $95, useful before a wedding at a beach hotel nearby.

Color is where the bill climbs. A gloss starts at $150, a root touch-up at $185, face-frame highlights at $265 and full highlights at $415, while balayage runs from $475 to $550 and up. The treatment list includes formaldehyde-free Cezanne smoothing from $450, a Brazilian Blowout from $400 and a scalp treatment for thinning hair from $175. Consultations are complimentary.

The team page names seven stylists: Eric Torres, lead stylists Amy Fields, Vincent Lowell, Jaclyn and Miles, and stylists Marley and Holly Burns. Each artist sets their own prices, so the same women's haircut costs a different amount depending on whose column you book. Boulevard lets you pick a specific stylist, which matters here more than at a salon with flat pricing.

Reviews quoted on the salon's homepage sketch the regulars. One client says she has been seeing Eric for over five years; another credits Amy Fields with taking her from light blond to dirty blond without a miss. A third calls the scalp treatment life-changing for a dry or itchy scalp. A fourth homepage quote admits there is incredible talent all over the area, but calls Bombshell special.

Appointments run through the Book Now button on bombshellsantamonica.com, which opens a Boulevard booking page for the Santa Monica location; the homepage line is that great hair is made by appointment, not by accident. New color clients are asked to phone for a consultation first, since color quotes depend on length, thickness and hair history.

The policy in the Boulevard booking flow asks for a minimum of 24 hours' notice to reschedule or cancel. Late cancellations and no-shows are charged 100 percent of the services booked, not a partial deposit. Gratuity is cash only, with the ATM in the salon as the fallback, so bring bills for gratuity.

Do not book a full balayage or a big blonde change straight through Boulevard as a first-time client. The menu itself says new color clients and anyone after a transformation should schedule a consultation for an accurate quote, and with balayage starting at $475, a free consultation before committing protects you from a surprise at checkout. Bleach and tone retouch pricing also assumes one inch of regrowth or less.

A second detail catches people out: color services at Bombshell include a complimentary blowout to finish, except when the colorist is Eric Torres. If you want to leave fully styled after a color appointment with the founder, budget for a separate blowout, which starts at $60, or book your color with Amy Fields or another lead stylist, where the finish is part of the visit.

Bombshell closes both Sunday and Monday, and Saturday ends an hour earlier, at 6 pm. A 9 am weekday start suits a long color appointment best, since Tuesday through Friday give you the full 9 am to 7 pm day, and the Edgemar lot's free parking covers two hours.

It is about 3 miles north by road in Santa Monica's Montana Avenue shopping strip, a short rideshare from the Edgemar courtyard.

Walk south from the salon and the California Heritage Museum sits at 2612 Main Street, open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm according to the museum's own site. Across the street, the Ocean Park Branch Library at 2601 Main Street reopened in January 2026 and is a quiet place to wait out color processing if your appointment runs in shifts.

Keep heading south on Main Street past the city line into Venice and you reach Jonathan Borofsky's Ballerina Clown, the giant sculpture on the corner of Main Street and Rose Avenue. From the Edgemar courtyard, the beach is a few blocks west, which is the fastest way to see a new beach blonde in actual coastal light.

Address: Bombshell Salon, 2431 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405, inside the Edgemar Center. Hours: Tuesday to Friday 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. Parking: two hours free in the Edgemar lot. Book through the Boulevard link on the salon's website or by phone.

Cancel at least 24 hours ahead to avoid a 100 percent charge, and bring cash for tips. New color clients should call for the complimentary consultation before booking. The salon's online shop links to Kevin Murphy and Rene Furterer products. Ask Karpo in the Karpo APP for a lunch spot on Main Street or a sunset walk on the beach after your appointment.