Baraboucle: two Parisian salons where you no longer have to book an appointment for your curly hair

Before booking, you announce your texture as a difficulty, ask if the salon “knows how to handle it,” and warn them about the volume. This precaution says a lot about most appointments.

Baraboucle is one of the Parisian salons where that phone call is unnecessary. The salon was built around wavy, curly, coily, and kinky textures, operates two studios in the capital, and sells our products. Here is what it does, what it refuses to do, and what led to this partnership. Our other partner salons are listed in our directory of Afro hair salons.

Two locations, two neighborhoods

Studio Saint-Georges is located at 39 rue Saint-Georges in the 9th arrondissement, just outside the station of the same name. It is open Monday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Studio Charonne is located at 5 rue de Charonne in the 11th, at the back of the second courtyard, just a stone’s throw from the Bastille; it is open on the same days, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. In both cases, appointments are booked online through the Baraboucle website, and the shop remains open for walk-ins.

Having two locations makes a very practical difference. A complete treatment requires a long appointment slot, and that is often where things get difficult: the salon that knows how to handle it has no availability for another six weeks, so you postpone, and then you give up. Two studios mean two schedules, so twice the chance of finding a free morning when you need one. The split hours also help: an afternoon appointment is easier to book than a Saturday morning.

The salon welcomes both women and men, as well as children from one year old. This is rare, and it is worth noting: many specialized salons start with children aged eight or ten, leaving parents of young girls without options at the very moment when these techniques need to be learned.

What it does, what it does not

Baraboucle has worked with curls in all their forms since 2018. Its service menu is defined as much by what it includes as by what it excludes. You will find dry cuts, strengthening treatments, moisturizing masks, the at-home treatment they call the “detox ritual,” and vegetable-based color. You will not find blowouts, straightening, or perms.

This omission is not a shortcoming; it is a position, and it deserves to be understood. A salon that offers straightening alongside treatment will always end up offering it to the client who hesitates, whether due to exhaustion or a wedding. Kinky hair that has been straightened cannot be restored in a single season. By removing these services from its menu, the team rules out the easy solution and shifts the conversation elsewhere: toward shape, toward hydration, toward what texture can do when left alone.

This is the same conviction that binds us. Les Ateliers Crépus does not perform chemical relaxers. We do not recommend the Botox treatment any more than Ghana did when she tested it on her own hair and was left with dry ends for months. This does not mean that a woman who uses a relaxer is wrong: it means she should be informed before making a choice, and that the choice is ultimately hers.

The method we teach

The Rituel Texture® is the method we teach our partner salons. It consists of six steps in a fixed order: Detangling with a Chadian comb, Hydrating Detox, Lengths & Ends Massage, Detangling with the Man Dol’ Comb, Protective Drying, and Sealing in the Hydration. The details of each step are found in the six steps of the Rituel Texture®.

The first surprise for a client who arrives is the order of things: you do not go straight to the sink. The hair is first detangled with the fingers, while dry, section by section. This is the action that distributes sebum along the lengths and prepares the hair fiber to receive the treatment. What breaks kinky hair is not dryness: it is a comb passed through dry hair without product. The comb does not come out until the fourth step, when the hair is coated with a mask.

This is followed by a two-step wash: a gentle clarifying cleanse and then The Repair Shampoo. The Repair Mask is left on for 10 minutes under a cap when the salon has one: it is short, intentional, and sufficient. The appointment ends with The Styling Cream and protective drying, section by section, with constant movement.

Allow 2 hours and 15 minutes to 3 hours and 15 minutes, depending on the chosen style and whether a cut is included. It is a long appointment, and that is precisely why the setting matters. The Rituel Texture® is particularly suitable for hair in transition, for those who are coming off a long series of protective styles, and for very dense hair that can no longer be detangled alone. Our directory lists which salons offer it.

Protective styles

Vanilles, twists, flat braids, and updos: these styles are done after the treatment, on clean, supple hair. A protective style applied after a routine is not the final step; it is a separate service. We list it as “Rituel Texture® + Vanilles,” and it is booked as such, with the additional time required.

When it comes to tension, there are no exceptions: a style should not hurt, neither during nor the next evening. Persistent discomfort the next day at the temples or the nape of the neck is not the price of a beautiful hairstyle; it is a mechanical signal, and the style should be redone rather than waiting for the style to wear off.

As for how long the style lasts, it cannot be reduced to a single number. It depends on the presence of extensions, the tension at the roots, and the condition of the scalp. It is up to the hairdresser to tell you at the time of styling which of these three conditions will determine how long it lasts.

What led to the partnership

We do not train beginners. The teams at Baraboucle had been working with curly and kinky textures long before meeting us, and that was the entry requirement: a long-term partnership is built on an already solid craft, to which a method is added, never on a method that would replace the craft.

What tipped the scales, next, has to do with things that do not appear on any service menu. The lighting. The chairs. The coffee. The time given to a client to tell her hair story before touching her hair. At the salon, Ghana always starts there: she sits at the client’s level and asks, “Can you tell me your hair story?” Many arrive tense because they were pulled too hard somewhere, or because they were made to feel that their hair was a problem. The rest of the appointment often hinges on those first few minutes.

You will also find The Repair Shampoo, The Repair Mask, and The Styling Cream on the shelves—the three treatments in the Rituel Texture®—so you can try them in the salon rather than ordering them blindly.

Preparing for your appointment

The salon does half the work, and you do the other half, starting before you arrive.

To continue the work done in the chair at home, our step-by-step tutorial covers the six steps one by one, with quantities and techniques. And if you are comparing several salons before choosing, Baraboucle is listed in our guide to hairdressers for kinky hair in Paris, where you will find other salons, arrondissement by arrondissement.

Learn more

Sources

• Home page, “Hair Studios,” Studio Saint-Georges and Studio Charonne profiles, Baraboucle website, baraboucle.com, accessed September 25, 2026 (year of establishment, addresses, hours, access, services offered and excluded, clientele, children’s ages, appointments).
• “Les Ateliers Crépus” collection, Baraboucle website, baraboucle.com, accessed September 25, 2026 (Maison products sold in the salon).
• Bar à Boucle Charonne Planity profile, accessed September 25, 2026 (arrondissement, opening days and hours, location in the second courtyard).