Co-founded in 1999 by a Wella coloring educator who tours color classes across the US and Canada, Walter Todd Salon now operates from within the DK Hair footprint at 123 West Washington Street in Mission Hills. Tailored haircuts and Wella-system color correction make up the core service menu, with the founders' professional-education background carried directly onto the salon floor — a formal-training lineage that distinguishes the chair from general-practice stylist seats including those at Casa Salon across Mission Hills. The salon operates as an LGBTQ+-welcoming space inside the shared DK Hair storefront, with appointments booked through Fresha rather than walk-in. The salon-floor cutting approach here handles color and scissor work rather than clipper grooming, leaving the fade-and-straight-razor market on the same corridor to Top Cutts Barber Shop San Diego farther into Mission Hills. The most technical work on the Walter Todd calendar is multi-session full color correction — reversing box dye, rebalancing tonal mistakes, and rebuilding over previously damaged processes using the Wella-educator lineage of the two founders.