Dry cutting has been at the heart of Wakko since 1992. We look at your hair, listen to what you want and work with you to find a hairstyle that suits you, your hair and your everyday life.
From trendy to completely “Wakko”, you can come to us for your cut, colour or transformation. Today, you’ll find De Wakko Kapper in Brussels and Antwerp.
De Wakko Kapper was founded by Peter Platel in Antwerp in 1992. After the first salon in Antwerp, Wakko salons later opened in Brussels and Ghent.
Between 2018 and 2020, the three original salons were transferred and each salon went its own way. Wakko Brussels chose to continue the De Wakko Kapper brand and philosophy.
Since the takeover in 2019, Charlotte Jacob has been at the helm of De Wakko Kapper. Charlotte herself started at Wakko in 2012 and grew within the salon to become its manager.
Since then, we have continued to build on what has always made Wakko special: a distinctive vision of hair, strong technical expertise and, above all, dry cutting as our central starting point. At the same time, Wakko has evolved with a new generation of clients and hairdressers.
After years of further developing Wakko in Brussels, a second Brussels location opened in 2025.
In 2026, De Wakko Kapper returned to Antwerp, the city where the story began in 1992. Today, Wakko once again has three salons: two in Brussels and one in Antwerp.
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We cut hair dry because dry hair shows how it truly behaves. By analysing your hair in its natural state, we immediately see how it falls, moves and grows.
We first listen to what you want and take your face shape, your style and your daily routine into account. We then look at the texture, structure and growth direction of your hair to better understand your specific hair type.
While cutting dry, we immediately see how every section of hair reacts. This allows us to work much more precisely, while you immediately see how your hairstyle will fall.
No surprises after the first wash. What you see is what you get.
A good haircut should not depend on an elaborate blow-dry to keep its shape. We want to create hair that also looks good when you style it yourself at home — or when you simply walk out the door.
That is why we do not start from a standard haircut, but from your natural hair. For one person that may mean a subtle adjustment, for another a complete transformation.
Our philosophy has continued to evolve over the years, but the essence has remained the same: looking at the hair in front of us and working with it.
Wakko is not just a method, but also knowledge that is passed on within the team.
Today, several hairdressers in our salons have many years of Wakko experience. Some have been part of Wakko for more than 15 years, and several are approaching 20 years of experience or more.
That experience forms an important bridge between the original Wakko philosophy and the next generation of stylists. Techniques, vision and culture are passed on every day on the salon floor.
This is how we combine decades of accumulated knowledge with new ideas, new techniques and a new generation of hairdressers.
Meet our hairdressers and stylists.
In 2020, we switched to gender-neutral pricing.
For us, it makes sense that the price of a haircut is determined by the work, time and technique required — not by the gender of the person in the chair.
That is why we work with different haircut durations and stylist levels. This helps us keep our pricing as transparent and fair as possible.
View our services and gender-neutral pricing.
Dry cutting is the foundation of Wakko, but colour has always been an important part of our creative identity.
From subtle colour work and balayage to complete colour transformations, we always consider colour together with the shape, texture and movement of the hair.
That way, we are not simply looking for a beautiful colour or a good haircut, but for a complete look that suits you.
The dry cutting specialist with a passion for colour.
From trendy to completely Wakko.
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