How to Get Shampoodle in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Last Updated: July 4, 2020

Animal Crossing: New Leaf brings back the beloved shop, Shampoodle. Shampoodle offers you the unique opportunity to change your hairstyle and color, Mii mask, and eye color. Getting it will require you to have a bit of patience as well as spend a lot of bells, but it's not difficult to do at all.

Steps

1
Spend 8,000 bells at the Able Sisters' shop. This can be split between clothes from Mabel and accessories from Labelle. Most items for sale at Able Sisters ring in around 200–300 bells a piece, so this will require you to buy quite a bit.
- You could save these wardrobe choices in your closet to prepare for Gracie's fashion checks, gift them to your villagers, or you could simply sell them back at Re-Tail for a loss. You can also save them onto mannequins, so you can easily change into them when you need to.
- By spending money in the shop, you are supporting the town's local economy and enabling the Kicks shop to open next door.
2
Have Kicks built in your town. Kicks will be built in your town as long as it has been at least ten days since you first started the game and created your town and you have spent 8,000 bells at Able Sisters.
- Kicks sells shoes, hosiery, and socks, which are important items to have down the road to coordinate for Gracie's fashion checks.
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3
Wait ten days and spend 10,000 bells. The 10,000-bell requirement can be split between Kicks and Able Sisters.
4
Have Shampoodle built. Once you've spent 10,000 bells and waited ten more days, Shampoodle will be built above Able Sisters.
- Shampoodle will take four days to be built, and once it's done, you can enjoy tweaking your character's appearance. If you can't wait, you can time travel.

Community Q&A

Question

When it says you have to wait 10 days, do I have to wait 10 days in real life, or just 10 days in the game?

Community Answer

You have to wait 10 game days.
Question

Does it help to fast forward the time?

FoxieJViellaT

Community Answer

Yes. If you time travel, you won't have wait long for the construction. But you still need to spend 18,000 bells altogether.
Question

Does Kicks unlock after you spend 8,000 bells?

Ruby

Top Answerer

Yes. After ten days of playing the game and 8,000 bells spent at Able Sisters, Kicks should be unlocked.