# Salon Cartier, Walnut Creek: a hair salon in Walnut Creek (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/walnut-creek/salon-cartier-walnut-creek-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 24 sources. Updated 2026-08-14. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/walnut-creek/salon-cartier-walnut-creek-ca

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## In short

Salon Cartier is a hair salon in Walnut Creek, CA. Its AI Score is 47 of 100, which is fair.

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 | Sola Salons, 1651 Botelho Dr Studio 4, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA |
| Hours | Closed Mon · Tue 9 AM to 5 PM · Wed 9 AM to 7 PM · Thu 9 AM to 8 PM · Fri 9 AM to 7 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (925) 939-7425 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.9 across 80 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Salon Cartier is best known for its exceptional haircuts and vibrant color services, particularly for special occasions like prom. Their expertise in low maintenance gray blending also stands out. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 18, 2026, 7:07 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 | Sola Salons, 1651 Botelho Dr Studio 4, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | We find creativity beautiful at Salon Cartier! Our teams of innovative stylists have a passion for custom color and cuts for both men and women. We offer personalized color that ranges from subtle to traffic stopping, and corrective color for those kitchen beauticians out there. Our stylists travel the country to learn the newest cutting techniques to help you achieve a style that fits you and your personal hair needs. We opened our doors in 2001, and have been making the Bay Area a more beautiful place ever since. Salon Cartier was voted the Best Hair Salon in Contra Costa County, was the recipient of the Diablo Magazine Best of the East Bay Award, and was featured in Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and In Style Magazines! | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon Closed · Tue 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Wed 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Thu 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Fri 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Location info | Mondays | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Salon Cartier | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (925) 939-7425 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | Closed | 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 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |
| Services | Service | 4 hair extensions tips | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Add hair extensions pop color | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Add pop color hair | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Balayage | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Balayage hair style | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Bringing hair back life | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Color melt hairstyle | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Color safe shampoos | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Corrective color | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Curly hair styling | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Custom haircuts | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Hair coloring | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Hair extensions | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Hair extensions 101 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Hair glaze | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Hair glaze get one | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Hair volume boost | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Keratin complex smoothing therapy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Keratin smoothing therapy | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Lowlights | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Men's haircuts | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Mens hairstyle mens barbershop haircut | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | More about lowlights | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | November giving back | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Oscars hair trends | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Ouidad curly hair types | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Post summer hair | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Preserving long hair extensions | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Short hair style older women | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Short hair styling | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Spring summer hair trends | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Truth hair extensions | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Use 7 seconds unite | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/saloncartier | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/saloncartier | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://saloncartier.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 22 services Salon Cartier offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Preserving long hair extensions |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Add hair extensions pop color |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Add pop color hair |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Use 7 seconds unite |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Hair glaze get one |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Hair volume boost |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Keratin complex smoothing therapy |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Mens hairstyle mens barbershop haircut |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| More about lowlights |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| November giving back |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Oscars hair trends |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Short hair style older women |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Spring summer hair trends |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Truth hair extensions |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Color safe shampoos |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Hair extensions 101 |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Ouidad curly hair types |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Post summer hair |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| 4 hair extensions tips |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Balayage hair style |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Color melt hairstyle |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Bringing hair back life |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

Salon Cartier is best known for its exceptional haircuts and vibrant color services, particularly for special occasions like prom. Their expertise in low maintenance gray blending also stands out.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Salon Cartier

Address: Sola Salons, 1651 Botelho Dr Studio 4, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA. Phone: (925) 939-7425. Hours: Closed Mon · Tue 9 AM to 5 PM · Wed 9 AM to 7 PM · Thu 9 AM to 8 PM · Fri 9 AM to 7 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Salon Cartier on its Google Business Profile: "We find creativity beautiful at Salon Cartier! Our teams of innovative stylists have a passion for custom color and cuts for both men and women. We offer personalized color that ranges from subtle to traffic stopping, and corrective color for those kitchen beauticians out there. Our stylists travel the country to learn the newest cutting techniques to help you achieve a style that fits you and your personal hair needs.

We opened our doors in 2001, and have been making the Bay Area a more beautiful place ever since. Salon Cartier was voted the Best Hair Salon in Contra Costa County, was the recipient of the Diablo Magazine Best of the East Bay Award, and was featured in Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and In Style Magazines!"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| S California Blvd and Botelho Dr | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Los Aguilares Taco Truck | Taco restaurant | 2 min walk |
| S California Blvd/Botelho Dr | Transit station | 2 min walk |
| Alpine Square Garage - ParkChirp | Parking garage | 2 min walk |
| S California Blvd and Newell Ave | Bus station | 2 min walk |
| S California Blvd and Botelho Dr | Bus station | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.9 average across 80 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 14, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 80 reviews.)


### What people like

Nothing found


### What people do not like

- Appointment cancellations due to staff illness
- Long waits past the appointment time


### Press

No press story about Salon Cartier found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Salon Cartier

Salon Cartier hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### do they do payment plans at Salon Cartier?

No answer yet


### cancellation list here, is there one

No answer yet


### Worth the hype at Salon Cartier?

No answer yet


### anyone tell me what a first appointment here involves

No answer yet


### services here, what do people go in for?

No answer yet


### walk in at Salon Cartier in Walnut Creek, or is it appointment only?

No answer yet


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?

No answer yet


### anything new from Salon Cartier lately?

No answer yet


### killing time on Sola Salons, any ideas

No answer yet


### Why do people rate this salon?

No answer yet


### best hair salon in Walnut Creek

No answer yet


### Somewhere to park near Salon Cartier?

No answer yet


### torn between Salon Cartier and Limón?

No answer yet


### Mondays at Salon Cartier, are they open?

No answer yet


### prices round here, anyone got a number

No answer yet


### is there a rewards thing here

No answer yet


### opening hours here, what are they these days?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Salon Cartier

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Salon Cartier. 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: 47 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. Salon Cartier scores 47, above the Walnut Creek average of 39. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Salon Cartier |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | 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. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | 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 | 83 | 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 | 58 | 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 | 52 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | 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 Salon Cartier 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 Salon Cartier |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Salon Cartier | LocalBusiness | #business | https://saloncartier.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Walnut Creek, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Salon Cartier 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 Salon Cartier. 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:ChIJ4UgP9_lhhYARjrJQ__9iJrQ (accessed Aug 14, 2026)
- [2] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/use-7-seconds-unite/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/add-hair-extensions-pop-color/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [4] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/add-pop-color-hair/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [5] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/mens-hairstyle-mens-barbershop-haircut/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [6] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/more-about-lowlights/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [7] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/november-giving-back/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [8] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/oscars-hair-trends/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [9] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/ouidad-curly-hair-types/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [10] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/post-summer-hair/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [11] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/preserving-long-hair-extensions/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [12] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/short-hair-style-older-women/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [13] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/spring-summer-hair-trends/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [14] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/truth-hair-extensions-walnut-creek/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [15] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/4-hair-extensions-tips-walnut-creek/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [16] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/balayage-hair-style/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [17] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/bringing-hair-back-life/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [18] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/color-melt-hairstyle/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [19] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/color-safe-shampoos/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [20] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/hair-extensions-101/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [21] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/hair-glaze-get-one/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [22] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/hair-volume-boost/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [23] saloncartier.com, https://saloncartier.com/keratin-complex-smoothing-therapy/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [24] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 14, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)