For most hair salon profiles the best primary category is Hair salon — use it when: cuts, colour and styling are the main service. Choose Beauty salon instead if hair is one of several beauty services. Beauty profiles often over-add categories for one-off services. If a treatment is a small share of bookings, list it as a service instead of a category.
Open the free tool for a hair salon → tick what you really offer and get a copy-ready setup sheet
Primary category
- Hair salon — Cuts, colour and styling are the main service who else uses it
- Beauty salon — Hair is one of several beauty services who else uses it
Secondary (additional) categories
Add one only if the condition is genuinely true at this location. Fewer, accurate categories beat a full list of nine.
- Hair extensions supplier verify — only if: hair extensions fitted
- Make-up artist — only if: bridal / event hair & makeup who else uses it
- Barber shop — only if: men's cuts and beard trims who else uses it
- Nail salon — only if: nail services who else uses it
1 category is marked verify: it may not appear in every account or country. If you can't find it in Google's dropdown, skip it rather than picking something close but wrong.
Categories to avoid
These are often added to hair salon profiles but usually describe a different or broader business:
- Beauty supply store (unless you run a retail shop)
- Day spa
Address or service area?
Usually a storefront: show the full address exactly as it appears on your signage, and keep it identical on Google, Apple Business Connect, Bing Places and your website. Service-area vs storefront rules.
Starter services to add
Categories say what you are; services say what you do. Good first entries:
- Women's haircut & blow-dry
- Balayage & highlights
- Keratin smoothing treatment
Check before you change anything
Search “hair salon” on Google Maps in your own area, open the top few profiles and note their primary category (shown under the business name). Use what's common as a sanity check, not a template — your categories must describe your business. Ready to switch? How to change your category safely.
Profile problems?
Suspended, stuck in verification, or not showing on Maps? See the free fix guides: suspended profile · verification failed · not on Maps · name rules.