Pillars Salon — The Heights Almanac · 35 Years of Hair & Nails

The neighbourhood institution

The Hastings Street salon that grew up with the Heights.

For more than thirty-five years, a single chair on Hastings Street has quietly done the neighbourhood’s hair — and, in time, its nails too. First haircuts became wedding up-dos; regulars became friends. Voted “Best of Burnaby” more than once, and certified as a Green Circle salon, Pillars has stayed exactly where it started while the city changed around it.

4.9★ on 83 Google reviews · Burnaby Heights, Burnaby

Feature · The Story

Two trades, one chair, three and a half decades.

Salon interior with styling chairs and mirrors — The room on Hastings — styling stations & mirrors. *Swap for the salon’s own photo.*

It started as a hair salon, the kind a neighbourhood keeps for a generation. The cuts were good, the welcome better, and word travelled the length of Hastings Street the old-fashioned way.

Over the years the offering grew — colour, treatments, and a full nail bar — but the feel never did. You still walk in to your name, not a number, and leave looking like the best version of yourself.

Hairdressing tools — dryer and styling kit — Tools of the trade. *Swap for the salon’s own photo.*

Recognition followed: more than one “Best of Burnaby” win, and a 4.9-star average across 83 Google reviews — numbers earned one happy regular at a time.

And somewhere along the way, Pillars made a quieter decision: to do all of it with a fraction of the waste. That’s where the green comes in.

Feature · Sustainability

Why there’s a green circle on the door.

A busy salon generates a surprising amount of waste — foils, colour tubes, paper, plastics, and the hair itself. Most of it goes straight to landfill. Pillars is a certified Green Circle salon, which means almost none of it does.

Lush green foliage — The green angle, made literal. *Swap for a Green Circle bin / certificate photo.*

Up to 95% of that waste is collected and recycled. Leftover colour is recovered instead of rinsed away. Even hair clippings are repurposed — gathered for use in environmental clean-up efforts.

It’s the same beautiful hair and nails you came for. The only difference is what doesn’t end up in the ground afterward.