# Painted Mane, Walnut Creek: a hair salon in Walnut Creek (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/walnut-creek/painted-mane-walnut-creek-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 3 sources. Updated 2026-08-14. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/walnut-creek/painted-mane-walnut-creek-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmstg1xny00pvyebzoyu5s475%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmstg1xny00pvyebzoyu5s475%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmstg1xny00pvyebzoyu5s475%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmstg1xny00pvyebzoyu5s475%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmstg1xny00pvyebzoyu5s475%2F4.jpg) ## In short Painted Mane is a hair salon in Walnut Creek, CA. Its AI Score is 43 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Hair salon | | Address | 1768 N Broadway, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA | | Hours | Mon 10 AM to 5 PM · Tue 9 AM to 5 PM · Wed to Thu 9 AM to 6 PM · Fri to Sat 9 AM to 5 PM · Sun 11 AM to 4 PM | | Phone | (925) 954-7539 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.7 across 62 reviews on Google | | Known for | Painted Mane is best known for its exceptional haircuts and extensions, with a reputation for transforming clients' looks while maintaining a warm, welcoming atmosphere. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Sunday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 7:08 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1768 N Broadway, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Painted Mane, a Walnut Creek hair salon that opened its doors in 2023, is dedicated to helping clients achieve their confidence and dream hair. Their passionate stylists are committed to staying up-to-date with the latest techniques and creating a comfortable and welcoming environment where clients can feel confident and beautiful. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Tue 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Wed to Thu 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Fri to Sat 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sun 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Painted Mane | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (925) 954-7539 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Services | Service | Book | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Hair coloring | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Haircuts | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Hair styling | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/paintedmaneco | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/paintedmanesalon | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://paintedmaneco.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 1 service Painted Mane offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Book | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Painted Mane is best known for its exceptional haircuts and extensions, with a reputation for transforming clients' looks while maintaining a warm, welcoming atmosphere. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Painted Mane Address: 1768 N Broadway, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA. Phone: (925) 954-7539. Hours: Mon 10 AM to 5 PM · Tue 9 AM to 5 PM · Wed to Thu 9 AM to 6 PM · Fri to Sat 9 AM to 5 PM · Sun 11 AM to 4 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Painted Mane on its Google Business Profile: "Painted Mane, a Walnut Creek hair salon that opened its doors in 2023, is dedicated to helping clients achieve their confidence and dream hair. Their passionate stylists are committed to staying up-to-date with the latest techniques and creating a comfortable and welcoming environment where clients can feel confident and beautiful." ### When to go Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Thursday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Round Table Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk | | N Broadway and Carlback Ave | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | N Broadway and S Carlback Ave | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Burger King | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | Parking Lot | Parking lot | 2 min walk | | Chicken Pie Shop | American restaurant | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.7 average across 62 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 14, 2026.) Painted Mane is noted for its talented stylists and personalized service, but experiences with color treatments can vary significantly. (AI guess, from 62 reviews.) ### What people like Nothing found ### What people do not like - Inconsistent results with color treatments - Poor communication regarding service issues - High prices compared to expectations ### Press No press story about Painted Mane found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Painted Mane Painted Mane hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### paying in instalments, is that possible here No answer yet ### best hair salon in Walnut Creek No answer yet ### is there a day here that is not slammed No answer yet ### torn between Painted Mane and Limón for Expert Haircuts and Extensions? No answer yet ### the good stuff about Painted Mane, what is it? No answer yet ### do regulars get anything here No answer yet ### Somewhere to park near Painted Mane? No answer yet ### walk in at Painted Mane in Walnut Creek, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### going rate for salons locally, any idea No answer yet ### any last minute appts at Painted Mane? No answer yet ### what is actually on the menu here? No answer yet ### Worth the hype at Painted Mane? No answer yet ### opening hours here, what are they these days? No answer yet ### where does this salon post updates No answer yet ### killing time on Broadway, any ideas No answer yet ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? No answer yet ### anything I should sort out before a first appointment here? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Painted Mane We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Painted Mane. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 14, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 43 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Walnut Creek hair salons run 25 to 61. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Painted Mane scores 43, above the Walnut Creek average of 39. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Painted Mane | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 93 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 55 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 56 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 58 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a hair salon When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a hair salon in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Painted Mane if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Painted Mane | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Painted Mane | LocalBusiness | #business | https://paintedmaneco.com/ | Subject of this page | | Walnut Creek, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Painted Mane is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the hair salons in Walnut Creek, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best hair salons in Walnut Creek: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/walnut-creek/hair-salon - Best businesses in Walnut Creek: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/walnut-creek ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Painted Mane. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJSVOVSiphhYARf5tQ75lF3ck (accessed Aug 14, 2026) - [2] paintedmaneco.com, https://paintedmaneco.com/booking.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 14, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)