Savant Hair Salon

From the outside this is a very unassuming salon. That’s actually the reason that I decided to stop in. Earlier in the day I had gone to Great Clips to have my hair buzzed and due to an «incident» I had to leave without it being completed. So, picture this: it’s Friday afternoon, traffic is starting to get heavy, I have to be at my office near Perimeter in an hour, and I look like I just tried to cut my hair myself. As I was driving up Roswell Road I saw a sign in a strip shopping center that said «HAIR.» Welcome to Savant Hair Salon.
Let me just go ahead and say that Chavela did a great job fixing the mess that Great Clips made earlier. I was also able to get my eyebrows waxed here and they turned out great.
Now, let me digress back to describing the salon.
I walked in through the open door and I swear the entire place went silent. I didn’t look that much of a mess (well, I didn’t think I did), so I guess they just weren’t ready for me to step up in there. Actually, I think most of the attention was directed toward the «My Baloney Has a First Name» t-​shirt I was wearing. The ladies kept trying to figure me out. One asked if I was Jason’s friend (I guess Jason is the one gay person she knows)… Nope. Another told me that I didn’t look like the type of person who went to Great Clips… True. Finally I was offered the latest edition of some men’s fashion magazine, which I declined.
This is the salon equivalent to a «hole in the wall» bar, but I don’t think they realize it. I mean, the store was so small you could see all the way through it from the window. Even though you could hear everyone’s conversations, for some reason each time I went to another employee I had to be introduced to them. Cute touch, I guess… It seemed unnecessary, though. Speaking of unnecessary — the total for my services was $ 53.00. Yes, a men’s haircut (no shampoo) and an eyebrow wax was $ 53.00.
It’s not what I expected and it feels like they’re trying to be something they’re not. Oh well, thank you to the «little salon that could» for repairing my haircut and getting me set for the weekend.