I think the difference is that Dom. Salons allow you to leave out w/free flowing silky shiney hair, and when you run your fingers through it you don't have a bunch of oils and crap on your fingers, "MOST" AA Salons tend to style your hair, chop your hair and you leave w/it spritzed, fried, dyed and layed to the side, LOL, then a year or so down the road of attending that same salon your hair hasn't moved past the length you came with. Unfortunately, Health Hair is not apart of "SOME" of AA salons vocabulary, Not All But Some, the just make your hair look nice. Now there are a plenty of AA Salons out their that do target healthy hair and love to grow pple hair out, but it shouldn't cost an arm and a leg for it, it should be apart of the whole styling process. That's another thing I noticed, when you find an AA Salon that is into healthy hair and growwing it out, they hike the price up and charge sooooo much more, and add on consultation fees etc., that's part of the service to check the condition of the hair and scalp b4 proceeding to wash and style. In the end it's all about where you prefer to go and if that salon, no matter if it's AA or Dom. Salon, is giving you what your looking for.