Finding addresses in Paris isn't the hard part. The hard part is never knowing who you'll end up with. One salon that claims to do “all textures” hesitates; another doesn't even advertise it and is brilliant.
This page is the complete directory, arrondissement by arrondissement: seventeen salons, sixteen inside Paris and one just outside, spread across eleven arrondissements, each with its exact address, what it genuinely works on, the source that backs it up and the reader we'd send there. The list is exhaustive and reads like a map: start by looking for your neighbourhood. For care between appointments, our step-by-step tutorial walks you through the six steps of the Rituel Texture®. Outside Paris, our directory of afro hairdressers lists our partner salons all over France.
What a salon should know how to do
A salon that knows coily hair can be spotted by three things, in this order. First, a solid grasp of the craft: they know how to cut, colour and style, and the specialism builds on that foundation instead of replacing it. Next, the order of the steps, which you can read in three minutes: they look at your hair dry, detangle with their fingers, work in sections, and only then take you to the basin. Finally, the way they ask questions, because a hairdresser who asks nothing about what you do at home can't advise you on what comes next.
The warning signs are just as clear. A fine-tooth comb dragged through dry, bare lengths without any product is the number one cause of breakage among our customers. Being offered a straightening to make the cut easier is the second, and it almost always means the texture hasn't been mastered.
The mistake I correct most often in hairdressers isn't down to lack of goodwill. When I was distributing our products to salons, many admitted they didn't know how to shampoo this kind of hair and asked me to show them. If you've never touched coily hair, you don't know where to begin. A salon that admits it and learns is worth more than one that improvises.
Ghana Elin, founderThree of the salons on this list work with us, and we say so every time: La Belle Boucle, one of our partner studios; Baraboucle, our partner salon in Paris; and Maison Koton, which offers the Rituel Texture® by name on its menu. For the others, we report what the salon itself says, without reading into it: they're no less serious, they simply have no link with us for now. For the general approach, see our article on how to find a good hairdresser for coily hair.
The centre and the Marais
Les Petites Mains de Cass, Paris 2nd
218 bis rue Saint-Denis, 75002 Paris
Cassandra welcomes straight, wavy, curly and coily hair alike, and says so in those very words, which is rarer than you might think. Appointments open with time spent simply observing, and the menu centres on cutting, targeted treatments and advice. We recommend her for a first appointment, when you can't yet put a name to what you need and want, above all, to be listened to.
La Belle Boucle, Paris 2nd and 11th
25 rue du Sentier, 75002 Paris and 113 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75011 Paris
La Belle Boucle is one of our partner studios: our treatments are offered there and we know how they work. It's a long-term partnership, not a seasonal listing. The brand combines a shop and a salon, with testing areas where you can try products on your own hair before buying them, which saves a lot for anyone whose shelf is already full of bottles that didn't work. They work with wavy, curly and coily hair, and cut hair dry.
This is the address we recommend when you're still unsure what your hair can handle, because observation comes before any service and you can leave with the product you've seen working. We've written a separate profile of them as one of our partner studios.
Elodie Euston, Paris 3rd
46 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris
Elodie Euston is first and foremost a colourist, and that's what makes the address interesting here. Colour makes the fibre more porous and changes the way it holds water: a salon that colours without allowing for this delivers a beautiful shade on lengths that will break three months later. The menu also includes straightening treatments, which we don't recommend on coily hair.
So we recommend her to anyone who wants colour without sacrificing the health of their lengths, and for that alone: go for the colour, and say so clearly when you book.
Studio Ana'e, Paris 4th, 5th and 15th
4 rue du Pont Louis-Philippe, 75004 Paris, 11 bis rue des Carmes, 75005 Paris and 9 rue Balard, 75015 Paris
Three Paris addresses, plus one in Lyon, and a team used to welcoming worn-out hair: repeated colouring, old straightening, breakage that has set in along the lengths. Appointments open with a diagnosis, and repair comes before styling. This is the address we recommend for damaged hair, when the priority isn't Saturday's hairstyle but the state of your hair fibre six months from now.
Eastern Paris
This is where most of what Paris has to offer is concentrated, by a long way: six addresses in the 11th alone, four more in the 12th and 13th. It's also where our two strongest links in the capital are, Baraboucle and Maison Koton. If you live in the west or the northern inner suburbs, this is the side of town to look at first.
Baraboucle, Paris 9th and 11th
5 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris (Charonne studio) and 39 rue Saint-Georges, 75009 Paris (Saint Georges studio)
Baraboucle is our partner salon in Paris, and it sells our treatments. The brand describes itself as a curl specialist since 2018 and sorts its services by texture, from wavy to coily hair. It also states what it doesn't do, which is even more telling: no blow-drying, no straightening, no perms. It's a rare stance, and it says a lot about how texture is treated there.
Both studios welcome children from the age of one. We recommend this address if you want a dry cut and polished styling without having to turn down a straightening, and to families dreading a little girl's first appointment. See our profile of both studios.
Le Studio Monah, Paris 11th
2 ter passage du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris
The studio promises a precise diagnosis, a tailored cut, definition and moisture, and explicitly separates a curls corner from a coils corner. One detail matters to us: in its coils corner, it advertises Chadian finger detangling, the very technique that opens our Rituel Texture® and that almost no salon names. The welcome is gender-neutral, and the menu also includes braids and twists.
We recommend it if you want your cut and definition in the hands of a team that already knows detangling is done with the fingers, on dry hair, before any trip to the basin.
Maison Koton, Paris 11th
24 rue Popincourt, 75011 Paris
Maison Koton is a broad beauty space, from facials to head spa, with a coily hair corner inside. It's the only address on this list where the Rituel Texture® is offered by name on the menu, cut and Chadian finger detangling included, because that's where the Les Ateliers Crépus chair is based.
In other words, if you're after the house method itself rather than a salon that comes close to it, this is the place: the Les Ateliers Crépus Salon experience is booked here, with all six steps and a diagnosis to start. Allow between two hours fifteen and three hours fifteen, depending on the styling and whether there's a cut.
Fairy Chair Studio, Paris 11th
14 boulevard Beaumarchais, 75011 Paris
The studio lists curly hair and dreadlocks among its services, alongside cutting, colour and balayage. It doesn't claim the tightest textures: we recommend it for loose curls or loc maintenance, and if you have very dense 4C hair, ask before booking.
Dreadluxe, Paris 11th
12 rue Jean-Macé, 75011 Paris
A single-speciality address, and that's exactly what you want from it: Dreadluxe does dreadlocks and nothing else, from starting them to maintaining them. On coily hair, locs don't forgive guesswork, because roots twisted too tight mean months of tension. Book it for that reason alone, not for a treatment or a cut.
MONA Paris, Paris 12th
1 rue Fabre d'Églantine, 75012 Paris
MONA offers a service dedicated to curly hair, from shampoo to drying, and asks you to arrive with your hair loose and in its natural curly state. The request speaks volumes: they want to see your hair as it really is. The salon doesn't advertise coily hair in the strict sense, so we'd recommend it more for looser curls, and in any case say what your texture is when you book.
R'Wellness, Paris 12th
10 rue Taine, 75012 Paris
The salon presents itself as the 12th's curly hair specialist and regularly works with coily hair, short cuts included, which isn't all that common. The menu includes a texture-specific cut, colour and hair advice. This is the address we recommend if you wear your hair short and have been offered the clippers by default before.
Boucles d'Ébène Studio, Paris 13th
31-33 rue Esquirol, 75013 Paris
The studio covers every curl type as well as locs, and also trains professionals. We recommend it if you're torn between keeping your hair loose and starting locs, because both skills are under one roof, so you can talk it through there and then, with no commitment.
Doriath Coiffure, Paris 13th
197 rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris
Doriath works with curly hair and dreadlocks, offering cuts, colour and balayage. It's more a neighbourhood salon than a specialist: we recommend it for everyday upkeep between bigger appointments, not for restoring hair after years of breakage.
The west, south and north
Before You Go, Paris 8th
6 rue de Naples, 75008 Paris
This address is listed for afro hairdressing in the 8th, an arrondissement where options are very thin on the ground. Its menu is broad and includes relaxers, straightening and weaves, three services we don't recommend on coily hair. So we only suggest it for colour, cuts or treatments, and only if you state your request clearly when booking.
Coeurly Care, Paris 15th
50 rue des Morillons, 75015 Paris
Coeurly Care describes itself as a dermo-trichology institute specialising in textured hair, and that's what sets it apart: the scalp is a subject in its own right, not just a step before styling. This is the address we recommend if your itching has been going on for months and no salon has yet taken a close look at your scalp. It has moved from the 12th to the 15th, so double-check the address if you had the old one in mind.
Miss Mag, Paris 17th
95 rue Lemercier, 75017 Paris
Magalie works on definition: bringing out the natural shape of your curls and making it last beyond the salon doorstep. The result depends as much on how well moisturised your hair is to begin with as on the styling: dry hair won't define, whatever product goes on it. We recommend this address if you wear your hair loose and lose heart when frizz sets in after two days, because you usually leave with one precise technique to repeat at home. Our article on defining curls covers the same principles for home.
Just outside Paris
La Loge, Châtillon
4 place de l'Église, 92320 Châtillon
The only address outside Paris included here, because it specifically advertises wavy, curly and coily hair, with dedicated cuts. We recommend it if you live in the southern inner suburbs: it saves you crossing Paris on a Saturday morning, which costs hours as well as energy. For the rest of the Île-de-France region, check our directory.
Which one to choose, depending on what you need
Seventeen addresses can't be narrowed down by neighbourhood alone. Here's how we'd decide in your place, depending on what brings you in.
If you want the house method, done properly, go to Maison Koton in the 11th: it's the only address with the Rituel Texture® on the menu. If you'd like a salon that works with us while keeping its own identity, Baraboucle and La Belle Boucle are our two Paris partners, the first for dry cutting and a firm no to straightening, the second for product advice and trying before you buy.
If your hair is damaged and repair matters more than styling, Studio Ana'e. If your scalp is the issue, Coeurly Care. If you colour your hair, Elodie Euston in the 3rd, and in any case a salon that asks about your chemical history before agreeing. If you wear your hair loose and want definition that lasts, Miss Mag or Le Studio Monah. If you wear it short, R'Wellness. If you want locs, Dreadluxe for pure specialism, Boucles d'Ébène if you're still unsure about taking the plunge.
One last tie-breaker that works for everyone: between two equally well-rated addresses, choose the one that asks the most questions before touching anything. It's the best clue we have, and it only costs a phone call.
Preparing for your appointment
A successful appointment takes three minutes on the phone to prepare. Ask whether the cut is done on dry or wet hair, whether a diagnosis comes first and if it's included in the price, and how long the whole appointment should take. A salon that answers those three questions precisely will rarely disappoint you on the day.
Then turn up with your hair as it usually is, unless the salon tells you otherwise. Many women wash and style the night before out of politeness, and deprive the hairdresser of exactly what they need to see: how the fibre really behaves, how dry it is and how it reacts to tension. Leave yourself time, with nothing booked afterwards.
Warning signs to look out for
- You're offered flat-iron straightening to make the cut easier.
- You're taken to the basin before anyone has looked at or detangled your dry hair.
- A fine-tooth comb goes through dry lengths with no product, and it pulls.
- They cut wet with a comb, without explaining the length they're aiming for.
- Nobody asks what you do at home between appointments.
Shrinkage explains the fourth point: when wet, coily hair stretches out, then springs back up as it dries. The length taken off is never the length you agreed to.
Finally, use the appointment to watch and learn. Ask what the hairdresser is using and why, remember the order of the steps, notice how much product they actually put into a section. That's how a salon visit carries on at home instead of vanishing at the first wash. Our article on detangling without breakage goes back over that opening step.
