Studio 800 Salon at Geary and Hyde

Got my hair cut today. There's this place on the corner between my home and my laundry mat with a big ugly orange sign that I'd never been to, and Q beauty salon, home of the $10 haircut, was closed, so I ventured inside. It was, as with every salon west of Mason, operated by foreigners from some part of Asia. Unlike many, however, they spoke very good English. The decor consisted of warm colors with a large mural on the wall opposite the mirrors - something to examine while having my haircut, if I'd somehow been able to keep my glasses on. The radio was tuned to something like Energy or RaverFM and tunes heard included Sophie Ellis Bextor's Murder on the Dance Floor, to which my stylist began singing along with (not very well, and fortunately not very loudly.) The gentleman who cut my hair put a lot of thought and energy into the haircut and used only scissors, never those razor-comb things. When his cell phone rang (not once, not twice, but thrice!) he never paused to answer it. He was friendly and conversational. It was not an in-and-out $10 haircut that I had grown to expect in my neighborhood. I told him what I wanted and he completely understood and gave me exactly that, finishing with a standard gel-and-blowdry. The whole process took about 45 minutes - exactly long enough for my laundry to be ready to go in the dryer. $15 plus a $5 tip was well worth it.
Atmosphere: 3 out of 10
Price: 9.5 out of 10
Professionalism: 3.5 out of 10
Quality of haircut: 5 out of 10
Overall: 5.5 out of 10