Friends

Hair Salon and Accessories Store

A pastel two-story salon with a great skate ramp and not much going on upstairs

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 42662 · 2025

Pieces347

Minifigs3

Year2025

Set number42662

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The verdict

I love what this set is trying to be, a hair salon stacked on top of an accessories shop, with a stunt ramp and a little photo booth bolted onto the side for good measure.

The exterior sold me before I even opened the bag, soft pastels against white brick, graffiti stickers giving it a bit of street edge you don't usually get in Heartlake City. Once I was actually building, though, I felt the budget. The interior fills up fast and then just stops, and there is nothing inside that made me stop and admire a technique. I'd hand this to a kid who wants a cute display piece and three new dolls to play with, and I'd steer a technique-hungry adult builder elsewhere.

Best for: kids who want a colorful salon playset with minifigs to swap outfits and styles, not adult builders chasing clever techniques

The full review

What it is

This is a two-story hair salon over an accessories store, and I mean that literally, it's stacked. Pastel walls, white trim, a stunt ramp bolted to one side for the roller-skating half of the theme, and a tiny photo studio tucked in with a lever that drops a printed photo into a tray when you pull it. That little mechanism got a genuine laugh out of me, it's a small thing but it's the kind of small thing that makes a playset feel alive instead of static.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about the caveats. Once you're past the facade, the rooms empty out quickly, and there isn't a single technique inside that made me want to take a photo and send it to a friend. The set goes together fast and stays simple the whole way through, which is fine for the stated age of 7 and up, but if you're an adult builder who wants your hands busy for an evening, this isn't that set. At $44.99 for 347 pieces, a chunk of that price is buying you the exclusive dolls and a couple of new hair molds rather than plastic complexity.

Who it's for

Get this one if you or your kid are collecting the Heartlake City cast and want Aliya, Faraji, and Nova specifically, or if the skate ramp and photo booth side builds are the hook. Skip it if you're shopping by price per piece or you want a Friends set that teaches you something new about building. It's a nice display piece with real charm on the outside, it just doesn't have much going on once you look inside.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this one moves fast. You start with the accessories shop base, work up through the salon floor, then cap it off with the roof and the bolt-on stunt ramp and photo booth. There's no fiddly moment where you have to slow down and study the instructions, it's a straightforward stack that a first-time builder can finish in one sitting without frustration.

The part that got me was the little details rather than the structure: a new coral inline skate mold sits next to the usual sports roller skate, giving the skating half of the theme a proper new accessory. Faraji comes with a new tan braided-knot hairstyle piece, and there are a couple of hair pieces recolored for the first time here too. Four light aqua tile 2x6 pieces are a nice small bonus for anyone who collects rare colors, and the reddish orange elements scattered through the build were previously only available in a Mercedes-Benz set, so there's a little bit of parts-pack value hiding in a fairly minimalist model.

Fun facts

01The reddish orange pieces used throughout this set were previously exclusive to a LEGO Mercedes-Benz set before showing up here
02The photo booth isn't just for looks, a working lever mechanism drops a printed photo into a tray when you pull it
03Faraji's tan braided-knot hairpiece is a brand new mold introduced with this set
04This was part of LEGO Friends' first wave of 2025 releases, launching alongside sets 42652 and 42663