Art & Science Salon

Helen Petty is an amazing stylist. She is very detail oriented and always welcoming with the friendliest of smiles. Her personality is soothing and her skills are second to none. She understands her clients desires and uses her insightful vision to create beautiful styles. I highly recommended Helen.

Helen’s amazing.
I am not trustful when it comes to my hair — and Helen exudes an approachable confidence and competence that quickly set me at ease. I feel comfortable giving her any feedback, and with putting my hair in her hands completely.

Let me first say that I have been a member here for a while and although I claim to love a lot of places in St. Louis, I have never once been compelled to Unilocal about them. That all changed when I discovered the magical hairstylings of Helen Petty.
As someone who has spent a lifetime engaged in an epic battle-​to-​the-​death with my long, thick, kinky, curly, course, chunky, frizzy, unruly, crazy-​nastyass janky mop-​o-​hair — I can tell you that I appreciate someone who knows what they’re doing. I can’t even get a comb through it without a 10 gallon tub of bacon grease and a lawn rake. Let’s just say if I had a dollar for every time I walked into a salon, sat in the chair and heard «Giiiiirl, you got enough hair for 80 people!» or «Oh dear. You poor thing…» — I wouldn’t have time to write this because I would be on a private jet to Fiji, getting my calves massaged by someone with hands like ‘The Refrigerator’ Perry instead of sitting at work. Where normal people attempting to cut/​color my hair in the past would have started chain-​smoking and downing airplane bottles of Jack 10 minutes in (please note: this has actually happened on multiple occasions), I knew from the first snip that calm, cool, amazingly talented, no-​nonsense (and did I mention HILARIOUS?) Helen, my own personal Lord and Savior, was skilled enough to tame the beast inhabiting my head. I can’t believe my eyes… or my hands… which seem to be wafting through my silky locks as we speak. Whoa, suddenly my room is filled with live doves and the harpist from Florence + the Machine is here and he likes my hair too and we’re starring in a shampoo commercial together and Helen is there too flashing me a confident yet unassuming thumbs up. SKOOOO-​ERRRRRT – What the what?!
Takeaway message? Helen gave me the hair (read: LIFE) I always wanted and never thought I could have. I was so satisfied with my experience I would push a school bus full of children into a pit of boiling lava to prove my point. Needless to say, if this place ever closes down or Helen moves out of town, so help me God I will end my own life. In fact, I don’t want to even tell you about it because it will just make it all that much harder to get an appointment.