Salons in Nashville

The MVP haircut is reserved for guys who want the brawn of a chiseled cut with the extreme adrenaline rush of a pleasant pampering. Following careful instructions or expert intuition, stylists can clean up the edges without sacrificing any degree of edginess. A thorough shampoo and scalp massage ensures an itch-free walk off, while a neck and shoulder massage with steamed towel leaves cleaned-up batters with the zonal focus to connect on any upcoming office pitch.

The team at Aura Salon goes the extra mile to make clients feel like their handprints belong outside Grauman's Chinese Theater. At the helm is hair and makeup artist Jeanna Seiner, who has worked with celebrity clientele including Reba McEntire and Dierks Bentley over her 15-year career. She and her crew use quality products to perform services such as cuts and color, feather extensions, and chemical straightening. Stylist conduct an in-depth consultation before each service and enhance a relaxing shampoo with scalp massage before creating a blow-dried style and teaching a mini lesson for recreating the look at home.The staff's skill set ranges from experience in the modeling industry to prowess in cutting hair that is fine, curly, or accidentally fossilized after a trip back in time. Patrons can accent their new looks with an eyelash extension specialist and stylists who double as spray tan technicians.

Reservations/Appointments: Required
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Staff Size: 2–10 people
Parking: Parking lot

The name of Transformations Salon is an apt one in several ways. From the outside, the building looks like it could be a private home, but inside this domestic façade gives way to an upscale salon stocked with products from more than 20 professional brands, such as Kenra, Moroccan Oil and Schwarzkopf.

But it's the clients who undergo the real metamorphoses. The attentive and friendly stylists—who draw on more than 90 years of combined experience—update looks with signature haircuts, keratin treatments, and laser hair-regrowth sessions. Detail-oriented, the team also performs the finishing touches, including waxing and makeup applications. But the stylists won't snip one hair until they've conducted a thorough consultation.

The highly trained stylists at Gloss look to the past for inspiration and reinvention. Aided by Davines products, they delight in experimenting with classic 'dos such as pompadours, bobs, and buzzcuts from steam-powered razors. They hardly shy from modern aesthetics, however—their cut and color menu bends to suit each client, and they keep well abreast of fashion's pulse, maintaining that style education is an evolving process. With stylists who have trained with Davines in Italy, Bumble and bumble in New York, and Goldwell in Los Angeles, Gloss's team represents a convergence of worldly expertise. Two of its members have toured with haircare brands as trend role models, imparting trimming tips to fellow stylists.

When it came time for Leticia Smith to pick a career, she decided to follow in her parents' footsteps and started Universal Hair Studio. She excels at a wide range of services, from basic cuts to more intensive treatments—striving at all times to highlight the client's best attributes. In addition to trimming and styling hair, she layers in highlights and massages in relaxers to release and straighten curls.

Business Basics

Established: 1996
Reservations/Appointments: Recommended
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Staff Size: 1 person
Parking: Parking lot
Most popular service: Shampoo, blow-dry, Titanium press-out
Brands Used: Design, Chi, Straight Request

Gordon Robison’s small-town upbringing in Tennessee, along with his passion for preparing young women for Teen and Miss USA pageants, led him to create Gordon & Co. Salon, a spa that features high-end treatments in an inclusive, down-home atmosphere. In addition to treating scalps with Pravana coloring products and Aquage styling balms, Gordon's affable staffers perform body treatments and massages. Scrubs incorporate coffee or honey and almond scents, and spray tans leave skin looking sun-kissed without the painful radioactive lip marks. The massage therapists draw from a number of therapeutic modalities, targeting knotted muscles with gentle kneading or improving sluggish circulation and lymphatic flow with energy work.