Hand-scissored, not clipper-finished
There is a real and visible difference between a dog that has been clipped and a dog that has been scissor-finished, and it is the reason most of our Bal Harbour clients came to us in the first place.
A clipper leaves a uniform machine-cut length. Fast, and fine for many coats. Hand-scissoring shapes the coat in relation to the dog's actual structure — softening the topline, rounding the head correctly, balancing leg columns, and blending transitions so there is no visible line where one length becomes another. It takes considerably longer, and it is what separates a tidy dog from a beautifully groomed one.
Cuts we are asked for most in Bal Harbour
- Asian Fusion. Rounded face, full plush legs, shorter body. Exacting work on Poodles, Bichons and doodles — and very easy to get wrong.
- Teddy bear cut. Soft, even, rounded head with a short uniform body. The most requested small-dog cut we do.
- Breed-standard trims. Correct Schnauzer furnishings, proper Cocker skirt, traditional Poodle patterns.
- Lion cut. Full mane, close body, tail plume. Bold, and it needs precise blending to look deliberate rather than accidental.
Haulover and the salt problem
Bal Harbour sits directly beside Haulover Beach, one of the few genuinely dog-friendly stretches of sand in Miami-Dade, and a great many of our clients here are there every weekend.
Salt water is unkind to a scissored coat in particular. It dries the hair shaft, roughens the texture, and makes a precise cut lose its shape faster than it should. If your dog is a Haulover regular, tell us when you book — we build in a long fresh-water pre-rinse before any shampoo and a heavier conditioning treatment to protect the coat texture the cut depends on.
Bal Harbour and Surfside pricing
Standard grooming is priced by size below. Full hand-scissored styling is quoted individually, because the time it takes depends entirely on coat density and the cut — we would rather quote you honestly than advertise a low number and adjust it at pick-up.
| Dog size | Bath & dry | Full groom |
|---|---|---|
| XS — under 12 lb (Yorkie, Chihuahua, Maltese) | $55 | $80 |
| S — 12–25 lb (Shih Tzu, Bichon, Poodle toy) | $65 | $85 |
| M — 25–50 lb (Cocker, Schnauzer, Border Collie) | $75 | $95 |
| L — 50–80 lb (Goldendoodle, Labrador, Husky) | $85 | $115 |
| XL — over 80 lb (German Shepherd, Golden) | $95 | $125 |
Bring a photo of the look you want on your first visit. We document blade lengths, proportions and head shape in your dog's profile and reproduce it exactly on every visit after that.