OUR STORY
Twenty Years in the Making
A single-minded pursuit of craft that grew into Dubai's most trusted name in men's grooming.
Jason Makki
Jason Makki
Master Hair Stylist in Dubai
Built a Brand. Building a Legacy.
I picked up scissors at twelve, earned my professional licence at sixteen and moved to Dubai at twenty. More than twenty years later I lead Jason Makki Salon on Al Mankhool Road, where I still take a limited number of clients every day and work alongside a team I trained myself. The standard hasn't slipped since the first cut. It never will.
20+
Years of Experience
80,000+
Clients Groomed
4.9★
Google Rating
3.3M
YouTube Subscribers
It Started at Twelve
I picked up scissors when I was twelve years old. By sixteen I had earned my professional barber licence. By twenty I had four years of licensed experience behind me and a single ambition: to build a name that would outlast me. Not just a successful career. A brand. A legacy. Something my grandchildren would still hear spoken about in Dubai a hundred years from now.
That sentence became my compass. It still is.
Why Dubai
I came to Dubai at twenty and fell for the city the moment I arrived: the energy, the speed of growth, the standard of everything around me. I knew immediately I wanted to be part of building it. Dubai isn't where I was born, but it is where I became who I am, and it has been my home ever since.
From day one I worked behind a chair. I started as a partner in an established salon and stayed there until 2019, refining my craft every day on some of Dubai's most demanding clients.
From salon to screen
In 2014 I opened my YouTube channel. I filmed every video myself: no crew, no script, just real work from the chair. By 2017 the videos had gone viral. Today the channel has more than 3.3 million subscribers, and over 6 million people follow my work across YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
Going viral changed who walked through the door. For years my chair was filled with international clients, business leaders flying in from the US, UK, Europe and India for a single cut.
The Craft: Scissor Cuts for Long and Short Hair
My specialty is the scissor cut, at both ends of the spectrum. Long haircuts and hairstyles where the hair has movement, shape and texture. Short haircuts where every millimetre matters.
The skill is knowing how a man's hair grows, how it falls and how his face is shaped, then building the cut around all three. Done properly, it still looks right after a shower, three weeks in, with no styling product. That takes years of repetition.
I have trained my senior team in the same method. The Master Haircut, with a full consultation and unrushed attention, is the one I do personally. Slots are limited each day, and I keep it that way on purpose.
Through this journey I never stopped learning. I hold three professional qualifications: my original barber license, a Hairdressing Level 3 from Australia, and a hairstylist certificate from Dubai. Each one pushed my technique further.
Our Mission
“We're not building a salon for one generation — we're building a standard that outlasts us.”
Jason Makki's vision extends far beyond a single career. Every senior barber trained in-house, every technique documented and refined, every client experience held to one standard — the foundation of a 100-year brand built on craft, not trend.
Celebrity Hairstylist in Dubai: Who Sits in the Chair
People sometimes call me a celebrity hairstylist. It is true that members of royal families, business leaders and well-known faces trust this chair. I don't publish their names. Discretion is part of the service.
What I can tell you is this: around 80% of our clients today live in Dubai, and most of them come back every month.
Made in Germany: The Jason Makki Product Line
When COVID paused Dubai in 2020, I used the time to build something I had been planning for years. I went to Germany and established my beauty company there. Why Germany? Because German manufacturing sets the global standard for product quality. If I was going to put my name on a hair line, I wanted it engineered properly.
It took two years to develop the formulations. Every product answers a problem I saw in my chair daily: dry hair, frizz, scalp issues, and the lack of a pomade that actually styles instead of sitting on top of the hair.
Jason Makki Salon, Al Jafiliya: Opened in 2023
In 2023 I opened Jason Makki Salon as my own: fully independent, with my own team, on my own standard. By that point I had personally cut, styled and consulted on more than 80,000 heads of hair across Dubai.
Most of my regulars don't live in Al Jafiliya. They live in Dubai Marina, Downtown, JLT, JVC, Palm Jumeirah and Business Bay, and they drive 20 to 35 minutes past dozens of barber shops to get here. A haircut is the most visible investment a man makes in how he is perceived, and they want it done by someone who has done it thousands of times. Once you find the right stylist, you don't switch.
I built this salon to be bigger than one chair. That is where the team comes in.
The Team: Trained by Jason
I can't cut everyone's hair, so I trained five professionals who work to my standard. Each has spent years learning my methods and has built a following of their own. Book any of them with full confidence.
Ali
Senior Barber
Yousef
Senior Barber
Mo
Barber
Ahmad
Beard Specialist
Angelique
Nail Specialist