Hair Salons
Jimmy Trims
About Jimmy Trims
A trim is a small errand with an outsized effect on the rest of the week, which is why most people find one chair and stay in it for years. Jimmy Trims works from 2070 Harvey Avenue, one of three businesses sharing that address on the valley floor below Dilworth Mountain, on the commercial side of a largely residential slope.
Barbering and salon work overlap without being quite the same craft. Clipper work, fades, beard shaping and quick regular cuts belong to one tradition, while colour, chemical services and longer styling belong to another, and individual shops sit at different points along that line. The practical questions are whether walk-ins are taken or the day runs on appointments, roughly how long a cut is booked for, and how children and seniors are handled. Bringing a photograph of what you want remains far more reliable than describing it, since the words people use for hair length mean different things to different hands.
Chairs fill fastest before long weekends, at the start of the school year and through the wedding and graduation season, all of which land hard in a city that swells with visitors every summer. Kelowna is spread out, so a shop on the Harvey corridor is convenient for people coming down from the hillside neighbourhoods or across from Rutland, Glenmore and downtown, and it avoids the parking problem that comes with anything closer to the lake. If your schedule is tight, calling first to ask how far ahead the day is booked is worth the minute it costs.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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