Jean Louis David Via Catarina

Good

It isn't exactly cheap but have been going there for years without a single bad surprise.

Just has bad energy from employees and are overpriced for quality service they provide

Little store in a very big centre in the high street of Porto. Well cut my hair by a gently and friendly person. Well done and very satisfied.

Too bad you can't leave 0 stars. If you are not Portuguese do not bother because they will charge 2/3 times the regular price for a very basic work. Even for the regular price, the results would not be worth it AT ALL.

Nightmare service !! NOT recommended ever I left Jean Louis David Via Catarina salon with a tears because I had important meeting those day and got manicure very very very low quality. All that they said - 'this is the way we do'. One salon employee said she had 6 years experience, the other - 12 years. So I can not understand why they didn't study how to do at the best level. So NO special place for manicure - I was sitting at place for doing the hair and master had a little chair (!) near me, I was need to set not good body position for having manicure (no table to put hands, master holds your hand in her hand) and use the special lamp for gel fixing, NO safe and cleanness: they don't show you that all the stuff they use is from sanitization machine (I saw they re-used stuff from other clients, may be to save money), but for good service salon employee needs to show to client new package of manicure stuff, show the date of sanitization and after this open and start to work with this stuff, NO hand preparing: they don't make a hand bath first and start to cut your dry cuticle (!), NOT enough care: they don't do skin and cuticle well (you can see cutting marks and even have blood from their work), they don't care about nail health and do really rude buff so they damage the nails, NO good aesthetics view: they don't make nail good form, don't do nail alignment with base polish, NO good quality cosmetics (remover, cotton pads, polish), all stuff are looking dirty and not well-treated and like from the 2000 beginning, when first gel polish appeared, NO welcoming person: this salon had not an employee to meet a customers as well, so when you come, you can see that all employees are working and may be someone will help you in 15 mins. Woman that met me (she a hairdresser) was really angry, and during my manicure I could see how she was working, she was fighting with her client about her work, finally her customer took brush and hairdryer and started to do hair by herself (I'm really interested why clients need to pay for this nightmare?)

I was traveling for vacation and work and didn’t have time to grab a haircut before I left home. I stopped at JLD and was immediately taken back, and the stylist did a wonderful, efficient cut and clean up before sending me on my way. Not to mention I don’t speak the language and she managed to cut to my guidance. Would definitely recommend for other travelers.

Went to the one in Norte Shopping and they told me the price for my hair cut would be 23€ but they didn't have any appointments, the service was very nice and friendly. On the contrary, the one in Via Catarina very rude and when I asked the price she told me 40€. Why the big difference? Why bother to have prices on the counter or on windows? Please train your staff to be polite and have standard pricing for all your hairdressers. I'm only here for a few days so don't care but it's not very good for business if you treat people like that.