Allena's hair salon

Strand is a working community with families, fishing industry workers, people commuting to Cape Town, and locals who've built their lives here. A neighbourhood salon isn't just a place to get your hair done — it's where you know the person cutting, where you can chat without rushing, where regulars come back because they trust the person behind the chair. Allena's hair salon functions as part of the social fabric here, the kind of place where word-of-mouth matters and where showing up for your community means something. That relationship between stylist and client is what keeps people coming back to the same chair, year after year.