В салоне мастер посоветовала мне другую причёску.

В салоне means in the salon or at the salon.

It uses the prepositional case because it shows location:

• в салоне = in/at the salon
• compare with в салон = into the salon (motion toward a place)

So here:

• в
  • location → prepositional
• салон → салоне

A native English speaker often expects one form for salon, but Russian changes the noun ending depending on its role in the sentence.

Not usually. In this context, мастер means something like:

• stylist
• beauty specialist
• technician
• salon professional

In a salon, мастер is a very common word for the person providing the service. Depending on context, it could be a hair stylist, nail technician, brow specialist, and so on.

So although the dictionary meaning of мастер is often master or craftsman, in this sentence it is better understood as the stylist / the salon worker.

This is a very common learner question.

Мастер is grammatically a masculine noun, but it can refer to either a man or a woman in real life. Here, the person is a woman, so the speaker uses the feminine past-tense verb:

• посоветовал = a man advised
• посоветовала = a woman advised

So:

• мастер посоветовала = the (female) stylist advised

This kind of agreement is common in modern spoken Russian with job titles that are grammatically masculine but refer to women.

This is about aspect.

• советовать / советовала = imperfective
• посоветовать / посоветовала = perfective

In this sentence, посоветовала shows a completed, single act of giving advice. The stylist gave one recommendation.

So the idea is:

• Она посоветовала мне другую причёску = She recommended a different hairstyle to me

If you used советовала, it would sound more like:

• she was advising
• she kept advising
• she used to advise
• the process is being viewed rather than the completed result

English often just says advised in both cases, but Russian makes the distinction more clearly.

Because the verb советовать / посоветовать normally works like this:

• советовать кому? что?
• посоветовать кому? что?

That means:

• the person receiving the advice goes in the dative
• the thing being recommended goes in the accusative

So in this sentence:

• мне = to me → dative
• другую причёску = a different hairstyle → accusative

A useful pattern to memorize is:

• Он посоветовал мне книгу. = He recommended a book to me.
• Она посоветовала мне другую причёску. = She recommended a different hairstyle to me.

It is accusative singular feminine.

Why?

Because причёска is the direct object of the verb посоветовала. It is the thing that was recommended.

• dictionary form: причёска
• accusative singular: причёску

And the adjective must agree with the noun:

• другая причёска = a different hairstyle (nominative)
• другую причёску = a different hairstyle (accusative)

Since причёска is feminine singular, the adjective changes too:

• другая → другую

It can mean either, depending on context.

In this sentence, другую причёску most naturally means:

• a different hairstyle
• possibly another hairstyle

The idea is that the stylist recommended not the current/expected one, but a different one.

For English speakers, different is usually the safest translation here.

Because Russian often omits subject pronouns when the subject is already clear from the context or from the sentence itself.

Here the subject is explicitly named:

• мастер посоветовала...

So there is no need to say она.

Russian does this much more often than English. In English, we usually need a subject pronoun or noun in every clause. In Russian, once the subject is clear, pronouns are often left out.

Russian word order is fairly flexible, but it still affects emphasis.

В салоне мастер посоветовала мне другую причёску starts with the place, so it sets the scene first:

• At the salon, the stylist recommended a different hairstyle to me

That sounds natural if you are telling a story and beginning with the setting.

You could also say:

• Мастер посоветовала мне другую причёску в салоне

But that can sound slightly different in emphasis, because в салоне comes later and may feel more like added information rather than the starting point of the sentence.

So the original word order is natural and helps frame the situation.

Yes. In natural English translation, в салоне may be rendered as:

• at the salon
• at the hairdresser’s
• in the salon

depending on context.

Russian often uses the literal place phrase, while English may prefer a more idiomatic expression.

So even though the Russian says in/at the salon, the natural English meaning may be something like When I was at the salon...

Because in Russian, ё is often written as е in ordinary text, even though the pronunciation is still yo.

So:

• причёска and прическа
• причёску and прическу

are the same word.

For learners, it is helpful to remember that the pronunciation is with ё:

• pri-CHYOS-ka

Many printed texts leave out the dots over ё, but dictionaries and learner materials often include them to make pronunciation clearer.