Hair salon serving Downey
Salon 11:11 is a boutique studio suite on Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach, and it is a deliberate trip from here rather than a convenient one for Downey, known for the Downtown Downey blocks and the Columbia Memorial Space Center. It is a real drive across the county, so appointments are usually planned rather than spontaneous.
Blonding, lived-in color & effortless hair in a private studio suite, with Justice Pallais — Bellami certified in hair extensions and specializing in blonding and lived-in color.
What Downey hair is up against
Just inland of the river the heat holds later into the evening than it does at the coast, and hair spends most of the week tied back because of it. Color fades rather than goes brassy, roots show sooner against darker natural hair, and the ends carry the wear of being up all day. It is a maintenance rhythm built around fade, not around lift.
The work suits rich dimensional color that fades slowly, root shadows that soften the grow-out line, and cuts that keep their shape when tied up.
The drive from Downey
The 105 west almost door to door, exiting at the beach cities.
The studio is at 1559 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 202, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. It is a private suite rather than an open salon floor, and appointments are by arrangement, so there is no waiting room and no overlap with another chair.
If you are making the drive, it is worth booking a longer appointment and handling everything in one visit — consultation, color, cut and any extension work together — rather than splitting it across trips.
Get directions ↗Where Downey clients usually begin
If you are growing out old color
A hard line of demarcation is the most common thing people arrive wanting gone, and the fix is rarely another full highlight. Softening the transition with a root shadow or a lower-lift placement lets old color and new growth meet without a stripe, and buys months before the next appointment. It usually costs less than starting over, and it is far kinder to hair that has already been lifted once.
If your hair is thick and hard to manage
Heavy hair is a cutting problem before it is a styling problem. Weight removed in the wrong place makes it wider, not lighter, which is why so many people arrive convinced their hair simply cannot be cut short. Dry cutting and texture work on hair that has been left to sit the way it naturally does is how the right amount comes out, and it is why the consultation happens before the shampoo.
If none of that is quite your situation, the consultation is the place to say so. Nothing gets mixed before it has been talked through.
Available to Downey clients
Color & Blonding
Dimensional color, balayage & bright, seamless blondes.
See details →Haircuts
Precision cuts and styling shaped to your hair and life.
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Length and fullness that looks and feels like your own hair.
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Smooth, bouncy, camera-ready hair whenever you want it.
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