Crossfaded Hair Studio

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Crossfaded Hair Studio on El Cajon Boulevard in College Area, San Diego is a full-service hair studio co-owned by siblings Maybo and Jonathan Brown, combining barbering, hairstyling, and color work under one roof in the 92115 ZIP. Maybo brings over two decades of industry experience and holds the creative lead across the studio's service menu, which runs from $55 precision fades to $200 full-color transformations and $120 Blends Luxe Grooming sessions with a hydrating facial, steamer, hot towels, and scalp massage. The braiding and natural-texture referral pipeline runs both ways on El Cajon Boulevard, where Crossfaded shares clientele with Touba Hair Braiding for protective-style services outside the studio's cut-and-color core. The studio earned the Lenovo Evolves Small Award for a business model that fuses barber-shop culture with salon-level color and texture services in a format serving all hair types and gender expressions. Multiple stylists work the floor, including Christina (Xteeblendz), who specializes in curly cuts and balayage, and Jai, whose fade and lineup work books through Booksy with a separate client roster, making the studio function as an incubator for independent operators sharing overhead and walk-in traffic. Black-owned, Latino-owned, LGBTQ+-owned, and women-owned designations reflect the founding team's identity and the studio's position as a transgender-safe space with gender-neutral restroom access. Product sourcing for color formulations, toners, and styling finishers draws from the inventory at Beauty Supply Warehouse on the same commercial stretch, keeping turnaround fast on specialty-color orders. Walk-ins are accepted alongside Booksy appointments, and a free parking garage behind the building eliminates the metered-street hassle that limits dwell time at other El Cajon Boulevard shops. SDSU's campus two blocks north generates a semester-cycle demand spike as incoming students search for the best barber San Diego has on the east side, and Crossfaded's dual barber-salon model captures both sides of that traffic.