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chopandchange
August 13th, 2010, 04:23 PM
I don't think there's a thread like this...

Reading through the "fear of hairdressers" thread made me think of this.

Do you find yourself noticing salon names as you walk past them in the street and being amused?

A lot of the smaller, cheaper ones tend to come up with funny names, which are generally a play on words.

I found some examples doing a quick Google search:

A Cut Above
Ali Barber
All Tressed Up
Bangs For The Memories
Best Little Hair House
Beyond the Fringe
Blood Sweat & Shears
Blown Away
Bubbles
By A Hair
Choice Cuts
Chopping Block
Clip Joint
Clip Teasers
Clippity Do Da
Cliptomania
Close Cut
Close-Shave
Comb One Comb All
Combing Attractions
Crowning Glory
Crown Of Beauty
Curl Up & N' Dye
Cut Loose
Cutter Shark
Debon Hair
Directors Cut
Dye Hard
Eclipz
Fringes
From Hair To Eternity
Get Your Locks Off
Goldilocks
Great Head
Hair & Now
Hair & There
Hair-After
Hair Apparent
Hair Force
Hairs Johnny
Hairloom
Hair O’ Dome
Hair-O-Dynamics
Hair Of Respectability
Hairraiser
Hair Razor
Hair-Riffic
Hair Say
Hair's Lookin' At You Kid
Hairs To You
Hair Today Hair Tomorrow
Hair To Stay
Hairway To Heaven
Hair We Are
Head First
Head Games
Headhunters
Head Masters
Head Start
Heads Up
Heads You Win
His And Hairs
Hi De Hilites
Homecombing Queen
Julius Scissor
Locks Of Luck
The Locks Smith
Loose Ends
Making Waves
Mane Event
Mane Man
Mane Street
MillionHairs
Miss Tress
Now Hair This
Parting Ways
Permanent Waivers
Scissors Palace
Shear Delight
Shear Genius
Shear Happiness
Shear Illusions
Shear Intensity
Shear Joy
Shearlocks Home
Shear Luck
Shear Magic
Shears To You
Short And Curlies
Sophisticuts
Soul Scissors
Streaks Ahead
Talking Heads
Tangles
Tease Me
The Cutting Edge
The Hair Port
The Hairtaker
The Mane Attraction
The Mane Objective
To Dye For
Top Knot
Upper Cuts
Wave Hello
Wave Lengths
Well-Comb All
Yankee Clipper


I think "Comb One Comb All" was my favourite! LOL

purplebubba
August 13th, 2010, 04:30 PM
Shear Wave
Scissor Wizards

Using the word clipper to refer to both the tool and a ship.

I think Blood Sweat and Shears was used in an episode of Growing Pains. The dad was complaining about the bills and the salon one was from the daughter.

There's a Hair Magic in my area.

There's some that use Headlines or Hairlines

Igor
August 13th, 2010, 04:37 PM
In Wijchen, Holland

http://22757575.dk//ida/photo/images/Holland03.jpg

my2cats1
August 13th, 2010, 06:05 PM
My favorite is "Curl Up & Dye." There was a salon named that in Chicago a few years ago. Made me smile every time I walked by.

Synthemesc
August 13th, 2010, 06:09 PM
I'm ashamed by how much I giggled at Get Your Locks Off.

kwaniesiam
August 13th, 2010, 06:45 PM
The Best Little Hair House is near me, amusing name.

RoseRedDead
August 13th, 2010, 06:52 PM
My favorite is "Curl Up & Dye." There was a salon named that in Chicago a few years ago. Made me smile every time I walked by.

I do believe Curl Up & Dye was also the name of the salon in which Jake Blues's fiancee (Carrie Fisher) in The Blues Brothers was employed.

ChrissieM
August 13th, 2010, 07:32 PM
There is a "Sweeney Todd" Hair salon near me....scary

VitaR86
August 13th, 2010, 07:41 PM
My favorite is "Curl Up & Dye." There was a salon named that in Chicago a few years ago. Made me smile every time I walked by.

I would so love to work there answering the phones.

"Curl Up and Dye..... How may I help you?"

:hmm:

Ami514
August 13th, 2010, 08:24 PM
We have a Curl Up & Dye near me as well. However I saw the best sign ever in a barber shop.... "We give great head jobs!". Can't remember the name of the shop, but that sign I won't soon forget....laughed my behind off for 10 mins. :D

ghost
August 13th, 2010, 08:48 PM
I like Curl Up and Dye, and Get Your Locks Off, lol
And I always thought Sweeney Todd's would be excellent, too (only if there is a pie shop next door!)

What else? I drove by one called Blow Me, once...sadly, I don't remember where.

CaliforniaAnne
August 13th, 2010, 11:07 PM
There's this guy a few miles from me in a mostly Latino part of town. His barbershop name always cracks me up: Magic Juan's.

In Berkeley, near where I live, there's also Barberella's. :D

bte
August 13th, 2010, 11:22 PM
There are some great names!

Funny to me, but not intended to be, was the salon in Cottingham (near Hull in north east England) in the 1970s which was called "Enrico e Nora".

The contrast of the mildly exotic first name and the Coronation Street feeling of the latter always made me laugh.

Pixna
August 14th, 2010, 05:10 AM
I love these!! Thanks so much for posting them, C&C!!

mellie
August 14th, 2010, 07:00 AM
We've got two funny ones here:

-Beaux Tangles

-Hair Jordan

Dreams_in_Pink
August 14th, 2010, 07:12 AM
We have "Kirik tarak" which means "broken comb" in turkish :D
Surprisingly, that's a very popular one, doing celebrities' hair.

bunnii
August 14th, 2010, 07:23 AM
In this town we have a 'Clones' i'm not kidding clones!!

Makes me chuckles every time, also i've NEVER seen anyone in there! :D

BlackfootHair
August 14th, 2010, 07:38 AM
Okay, so I have two I can't resist putting up...but they aren't salons....

Going towards Provincetown, MA there was a Seaman's Bank.

And locally we have a store called Beaver Mower...even the squirrel in their logo looks embarrassed. http://www.beavermower.com/

yogachic
August 14th, 2010, 07:54 AM
We have an Anita Hair Cut, in a surrounding town. silly

auburn
August 14th, 2010, 08:05 AM
In my city there's a small salon called "Style"- but EVERYBODY, reffers to that salon as "Six Tits", cause in that salon work 3 hairdressers with big breats. :) The salon is in a key-point zone, so if you go with the Taxi once in a while, you'll hear the order thru the station "one taxi to <Six Tits> for Xyz" :))

Merlin
August 14th, 2010, 08:07 AM
The ones I always worry about are the ones called 'Tangles' - somehow it sort of sends out the wrong message. A bit like going to a used car dealers called ''Rustbuckets'.

Personally, I think the really good hairdresser names are the ones which sort of convey and image - Oxford has one called 'Mahogany' and it sort of counjures up all the right ideas and images without mentioning hair in the name at all.

Merewen
August 14th, 2010, 04:08 PM
I used to live near one called "Cutting Corners". I'm not sure I would name a business that!

Elistariel
August 14th, 2010, 04:20 PM
My aunt works at a Headhunters, and there's a Cuttin' Time somewhere near me.

Sparkette
August 14th, 2010, 04:40 PM
Near me there are Mane Addition and Shear Obsession, In nearby towns, Mane Attraction, Short cuts, and Moni's Cut and Run:p

Avalonna
August 14th, 2010, 06:42 PM
Do or Dye!

julliams
August 15th, 2010, 02:53 AM
My local is called Cbine (Can't Believe It's Not Expensive). They are really good.

Toadstool
August 15th, 2010, 06:01 AM
Scissors Dot Comb

Kelly728
August 15th, 2010, 08:38 AM
I'm always sort of embarrassed when people ask me where I get my hair cut... "Chop Shop"

eamane
August 15th, 2010, 08:47 AM
I drove by one a few days ago named 'Hair I am' or rather the swedish version of it: 'Hair är jag'.

StephanieB
August 16th, 2010, 06:46 PM
My favorite is "Curl Up & Dye." There was a salon named that in Chicago a few years ago. Made me smile every time I walked by.
There used to be a Curl Up and Dry on the NY/VT border.

joiekimochi
August 16th, 2010, 07:30 PM
There's one near my apartment called "Emo Cut".

Cirafly24
August 16th, 2010, 07:44 PM
There is a salon chain in NY called Head Cutters.

I never wanted to go there. It conjures bad mental images.

Anje
August 16th, 2010, 07:44 PM
Do or Dye!
Heh, I saw a "'Do or Dye!" last week. With a cool sign that looked like it was more suited to a tattoo studio than a salon.

Thinthondiel
August 16th, 2010, 08:09 PM
There's a salon here in Norway called H&#229;rny, which literally means "hair-new", but is pronounced "h*rny".


ETA:


I drove by one a few days ago named 'Hair I am' or rather the swedish version of it: 'Hair &#228;r jag'.


It seems we Scandinavians just can't make any good hair puns with words from our own languages; we have to borrow English words and make cross-linguistic puns. :p

luxepiggy
August 17th, 2010, 07:15 AM
not exactly a salon, but there's a place in SF that does brazilian waxes called Lonni's Punani Waxing - I always do a double take when I see that sign :bigeyes:

luxepiggy
August 17th, 2010, 07:19 AM
There's a hair salon in SF called Parsnips, which I always thought was so cute!

XcaliburGirl
August 17th, 2010, 07:36 AM
"Sebastian's Hair'em"

"Headquarters"

Toadstool
August 17th, 2010, 07:57 AM
There's a salon here in Norway called Hårny, which literally means "hair-new", but is pronounced "h*rny".


ETA:




It seems we Scandinavians just can't make any good hair puns with words from our own languages; we have to borrow English words and make cross-linguistic puns. :p

Well that's pretty damn clever!

RedStripe
August 17th, 2010, 10:30 AM
There's this guy a few miles from me in a mostly Latino part of town. His barbershop name always cracks me up: Magic Juan's.

In Berkeley, near where I live, there's also Barberella's. :D

Oh, I know where that Barbarellal's is! I always wondered if it was worth trying. But then, I don't go to salons anymore.

I love "Magic Juan's"!

*Aoife*
August 21st, 2010, 12:25 PM
There is a salon near me called Scaramousse. I love the name and I've always wanted to go there.