# Why do hair salons have such stupid names? Know any? Do share. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 27, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384 "2001-06-27T22:47:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/1 "2001-06-27T22:47:40Z")
There’s a **Mane Attraction** on the base naxt to my house. I saw another and it set me off. So I went to the phone book and looked up all the other stupid names in my area. \*\*A Cut Above A New You A Wild Hair Attitude Adjustment Beautiful Hair Bushwackers Clip R Snip Dolores Scissorhands Hair It Is Hair Today Hair We Are Hair’s the Place Hair’s to You Hair’s What’s New Happy Beauty Salon Just Wild About Hairy Kutting Corners Magic Scissors New Beginnings New Creations New Image New Trends New Visions Picture Perfect Kids Pure Indulgence Salon Ef-Fekts’ Sensitive Hair Design Sharp Cuts Shear Artistry Shear Attitude Shear Attraction Shear Designs Shear Elegance Shear Experience Shear Excellance Shear Madness Shear Magic Shear Pleasure Shear Power Shear Pride Shear Talent Style Makers Style Masters Styles of Success Super Snippers Today’s Hair Vision’s of Hair Whiskers and Lashes The funny thing is, say to yourself, “I work at Shear Magic!”. See What I mean? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/2 "2001-06-27T23:23:54Z")
What, no **Curl Up 'N Dye**?? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/3 "2001-06-27T23:34:08Z")
Walking down the street the other day, my daughter starts to laugh. “Who would want to get their hair styled there?” The name of the hairdresser was Medusa. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/4 "2001-06-28T01:18:42Z")
From the local phonebook: Hair Attraction Hair Daze Hair Decore Hair Dimensions Hair Envy Hair Everywhere Hair Excitement (a huge chain) Hair Extravaganza The Hair Happening Hair I am Hair & Now Hair Station The Hair Place Hair Sense of Six (huh?) Hair Traxx Hairforce Hairworks Hairwave Hair’s my Heart - the more you type a word, the less like a real word it seems. Hair’s a silly word… \* ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/5 "2001-06-28T01:20:09Z")
I went once to a salon called **The Hairport**. Don’t tell anyone. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/6 "2001-06-28T01:27:27Z")
Around the corner from my office is a hair salon called “Scrupples.” That’s right, that’s how they chose to spell it. Written out in neon for the world to see. I didn’t think “Tangles” was too appealing, but we’ve got one of those. There’s one in the next town that I dig the name of: Big D’s Smoking Hair Salon. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/7 "2001-06-28T02:00:03Z")
My sister gets her hair cut at a place called the Guillotine. Pronounced Gill-o-teen. I have no idea why they choose to pronounce it this way - does it somehow make them sound snazzier, and I just don’t get it? ---
**Author:** ![Grok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Grok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grok)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/8 "2001-06-28T02:00:03Z")
On the Simpsons one time they had a hair salon called **Turn Your Head and Coiff!** ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/9 "2001-06-28T02:09:32Z")
Hair Apparent The Last Tangle :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/10 "2001-06-28T02:18:41Z")
The one my mother always goes to is called **Head Hunters.** Then there was **La Flamme.** It was actually a very nice, very traditional barber shop (Mike Dukakis got his hair cut there, if that’s supposed to be a selling point), but the name provoked a good of Beavis & Butthead-style sniggering. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/11 "2001-06-28T02:28:07Z")
**The Hairem** [sub]_ba-dum chhhi_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/12 "2001-06-28T02:42:00Z")
There used to be one near where I grew up, called **The Best Little Hairhouse in Texas**. It might still be there for all I know… and we weren’t anywhere near Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/13 "2001-06-28T02:48:52Z")
From the yellow pages - Hair 2 B Different Hair-E-Kari Hair 2 DYE 4 Hat Trix Mane Attraction Mane Event Scissor Paper and Stone Hair Studio Shear Art Split Ends Static The Last Tangle ---
**Author:** ![Blueberry\_Buckle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@Blueberry\_Buckle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueberry_Buckle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/14 "2001-06-28T04:00:04Z")
Only a few… Hair-itage House From HAIR to Toe The New Hairlennium Trophy Hair ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/15 "2001-06-28T13:39:36Z")
A few from our local phone book, covering a group of small towns in the region [ul] \*Abbreviations \*Comb & Brush Boutique \*The Cutting Crew \*Dream Catchers \*Freestyle Hair Design \*The Glamour Cellar \*The Hair Affair \*Hair Artistry \*Hair Corral \*Hair Gallery \*Hair Masters \*Hair Tailors \*Hair Works \*Manetamers \*The Shear Shoppe \*Tangles \*The Look \*Tropical Illusion \*United Hair Lines [/ul] AND \*\*The Great Hair After \*\* In the words of John Cougar Mellancamp “I was born in a small town…” ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/16 "2001-06-28T16:04:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wishbone \* > \*\*Bushwackers > \*\* Exactly what set of hair do they work on in this place? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/17 "2001-06-28T16:44:39Z")
The worst two I’ve ever seen (personally witnessed, not read out of the phone book): **Amazing Hair** : “Your hair is…_amazing_!” **New York, New York, For Hair** : I have _no_ idea what this means. None. ---
**Author:** ![davesink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@davesink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davesink)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/18 "2001-06-28T17:07:06Z")
My all time favorite was a salon in Chicago suburban North Riverside called “Illusion of Beauty”. I remeber passing it several times on Roosevelt Road, but I think they’ve changed their name or gone out of biz, cause I haven’t seen it in a while. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/19 "2001-06-28T17:52:50Z")
U.S. Hair Force :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384/20 "2001-07-02T00:41:27Z")
OK, this one is in the mall near where I live. I’m not making this up. **Sweeney Todd** Honest. Whointhehell would go _ **there** _??!! Unless they were hungry… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hair-salons-have-such-stupid-names-know-any-do-share/70384.md?page=2)