Suite B Hair & Skin Lounge vs Bishops Cuts/Color: The Issaquah Comparison in Full

A rating is only as good as the number of people behind it. Suite B Hair & Skin Lounge holds 4.9 across 225 Google reviews; Bishops Cuts/Color holds 4.8 across 1000. Both are Issaquah hair salons, and that is where the comparable evidence starts and, for one of them, largely stops.

The common ground

Both are hair salons serving Issaquah, both appear in Google's local results for the category, and both have enough reviews behind them that neither rating is guesswork. Either will do the core service you are booking. If you live between the two, distance is not the deciding factor.

The question behind the search

Most people comparing two Issaquah hair salons are not asking which is better in the abstract. They are asking something narrower: will this appointment be worth the money and the hour, and will I know the price before I am in the chair?

On the first half, Bishops Cuts/Color has the larger sample at 1000 reviews, so its average is the more settled of the two. Suite B Hair & Skin Lounge's 4.9 rests on 225 reviews, which is a smaller but still substantial base. On the second half, only one of them answers in public. A published price is a commitment. An unpublished one is not necessarily higher, but it is an unknown, and on a first visit an unknown is a cost of its own.

The real difference

The rating gap comes first. 4.9 against 4.8 is a 0.1-star difference, and it is built on 225 reviews versus 1000. The second difference is how much each is willing to put in public. Suite B Hair & Skin Lounge publishes 131 services with a price on every one. Bishops Cuts/Color publishes no menu we could find, which is less a criticism than a fact about what you can know before you walk in.

Side by side, on the record

"Not stated" below means exactly that: the claim is not made anywhere a customer could hold them to it. It is not an accusation, and it may simply mean the information lives on a wall inside the business.

Where Suite B Hair & Skin Lounge does not lead

Suite B Hair & Skin Lounge is not the highest-rated hair salon in Issaquah. Being Salon sits ahead on average score with 5 stars from 170 reviews. The case for Suite B Hair & Skin Lounge is not that nothing beats it. It is that it leads Bishops Cuts/Color on the measures above and publishes what it charges, which most of the local field does not.

Where Bishops Cuts/Color still shines

1000 reviews is a real customer base, not a thin listing, and a hair salon does not reach that number without regulars who keep coming back. A 4.8 average also hides a distribution: plenty of those reviews are five stars. If you already have someone there who knows your preferences, nothing above is a reason to switch. Nothing here is a criticism of the business.

Making the call

If you want the most evidence before booking, Suite B Hair & Skin Lounge gives you more to go on: a higher rating, a published price for all 131 services, and online booking. If you already have a trusted regular at Bishops Cuts/Color, stay. If you are choosing cold and price matters, only one of them will tell you the price before you arrive.

Figures come from Google Business listings and each business's published menu, checked in October 2026. Ratings move. Check the current numbers before you book.