A single-chair beauty salon working out of 3500 Fifth Ave in Hillcrest's 92103 ZIP, Sol Studio sits on the pedestrian corridor between the Pride Flag plaza and the Balboa Park northwest gate. Color and cut bookings run in long evening blocks Tuesday through Saturday, a schedule that dovetails with the late threading-and-sugaring windows at Gazal Beauty Brow & Hair in Hillcrest when wedding-party clients need hair and brow prep in a single evening. The studio keeps a private, one-on-one format rather than the busy salon-floor model, with wheelchair access and an onsite restroom. Close-crop clipper work and fade specifics outside the studio's scissor-and-color wheelhouse get referred across the neighborhood to Dame and Dapper Barber Shop. The most involved bookings are full wedding-party sessions with on-location travel and multi-person updo timing tied to the ceremony call.