Oh my gosh don't know where to start. PLEASE do not go Evoke on Yonge Street. If you have crummy hair to begin with they will only make it worse. There may only be one experienced hairdresser in the salon, the rest are newbies or inexperienced. Don't trust when receptionist says, they are all good or she suggests someone. One stylist especially does not know how to colour and another cannot cut. My hair is uneven, colour was terrible and had to be redone. Absolutely not worth the price nor the grief.

I went to Evoke about two months ago because someone referred me as a good place. New to TO, I had been looking for a stylist for the last six months. I called Evoke and specifically asked for a stylist who understands curly hair. The receptionist recommended Leslie. She was nice to talk to, and I explained that I wanted my hair to be long, with minimal layers in the back. After she blow dried it it looked nice, if a bit shorter than I had wanted. My nightmare began after I washed my hair: she COMPLETELY WRECKED IT. First of all, the right side it totally shorter than the left side. Moreover, her understanding of layers is completely off. Instead of just layering the bottom tip of the hair in a progressive manner, she chopped of the top part of my hair and left the half portion below it longer. The result it awful. I don't get a wearable look, unless I blow dry is straight, even then I end up wearing it in a bun.

I don't mind paying a high price for a hair cut, in fact I have spent more where I lived before. But $87 for a crappy haircut felt like burning money.

I totally agree some of the comments here. I went there as a result of a web search, couldn't really get a good salon from my friends, and it is very close to my place. I went and asked for a really experienced one and I mentioned that I had earlier bad experiences in some other salons. They said, everybody there is very experienced. I trusted for some reason I don't know, the place and the people looked very professional to me (maybe some really are) Before I sat down the chair, I looked at the magazine and found a few styles that would go nice to me, not a very different from my current one, just layers and a little bangs, just to make sure she understands what i want for my hair. She just glanced it a bit and started cutting. She was nervous, trembling and slow. At the end I had a hair full of visible scissor cuts and unblended layers. It is cut so bad that I can't give it any style!
We need TALENTED hairdressers. Because it is expensive and has a stylish place, it doesn't mean that it is good. Does anybody knows one? or I will have to cut my hair forever myself.

I had a hair perm at this salon. Well, the hair colorist was the one who did it and he was awful. He didn't talk to me the whole time, had difficulty putting on the rollers (probably because he doesn't have the habit) and didn't do a trim afterwards because he doesn't know how to cut hair!
Well, I came out of there looking weird and everybody in the salon was looking at me. The whole procedure lasted 2.5 hours. Nobody asked if I wanted something to drink.

It cost me $110 plus tip. Also, it was very dry and coarse and I couldn't wash it so the solution kicks in.

3 days later, I went to another salon where the hairdresser told me that my hair was very dry and burned. She gave me a conditioning treatment and did a cut. My hair was saved. (The salon was Andre Pierre on Bloor in the Manulife Centre. Ask for Nicole)

I am never going back there again to Evoke. It's a very snotty place.