A lot of Marina del Rey lives in apartments and condominiums rather than houses. Buildings along Admiralty Way and Via Marina, the towers near the basins, and the smaller places out on the Peninsula and the Silver Strand all come with front desks, garages and elevators, and a visiting service has to work around that.

We do it every week. Tell us how the building works when you write to us, whether that means a gate code, a guest parking spot or a call up from the lobby, and we will handle the rest.

Marina del Rey runs on gate codes and buzzers more than any other neighborhood we work in. Tell us upfront whether we're heading to a building with a doorman, a complex with guest parking, or a private slip community, and we'll plan around it instead of calling from the curb.

Families here also tend to be juggling two schools at once, one in the Marina and one across the bridge in Venice or Culver City for after-school sports, so evening slots go quickly. If Saturday morning is realistic and weekday evenings aren't, say so when you reach out.

Treatment where you live

The Hair Whisperers is mobile. Nobody brings a child anywhere. We arrive with the combs, the oil and the LouseBuster, a device that uses heated air rather than pesticide shampoo, and the work happens at your kitchen table.

Venice is immediately north of here and Playa del Rey immediately south, both of which we cover constantly, so appointments in the Marina are easy to schedule. We work evenings and weekends as a matter of course.

Checking everyone

Every person in the household gets looked at during the same visit. In a smaller apartment this is especially worth doing, because people share bathrooms, sofas and bedrooms in closer quarters, and an untreated adult is a straightforward path back to an infested child.

Since we charge by the hour rather than per person, an additional check adds minutes rather than another fee. Hair is what governs the length of a visit: how much, how long, how thick, and how far the infestation has progressed.

See how pricing works. If you're not sure what to expect, our services page walks through the visit.

What the work involves

Combing, section by section, with a comb built to pull eggs off the hair shaft after an oil has loosened them. It is repetitive and it is thorough, and it succeeds where over the counter shampoos frequently do not, since the lice now common across California have largely developed resistance to them.

Every treatment carries a fourteen day guarantee, and the business has run since 2006.

Client Testimonial

"Estera saved the day! We got rid of lice from the whole family, and she's coming back to double check in a few days. We tried the lice shampoo before she came, but she got everything, and now we can sleep peacefully!" - N.D., Southern California

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Request a visit

Send us a message describing what you have found, how many people are in the household, and anything we need to know about getting into the building.