The Best Hair Salons in Paris, Texas

Studio 220 is the only hair salon in Paris with genuine independent editorial coverage rather than a directory badge. The Paris News profiled its opening on 6 December 2020 under the headline "Studio 220 opens", reporting that owner Brittany Schoggins had styled hair for sixteen years before she took the lease. It is also carried in the Lamar County Chamber of Commerce directory under Hair Salon, which very few salons here are.

The work on offer is color, extensions and cut and style rather than a quick trim, and the front of the shop doubles as a small retail floor selling hair care products alongside candles and gifts. That combination is unusual in a town this size and it is the reason the salon reads as a destination rather than a stop.

RoKo has the deepest paper trail of any salon in Paris. It runs its own website with a dedicated salon page, it is carried in the Lamar County Chamber directory, and it is one of the very few beauty businesses in town listed by Visit Paris Texas, the city tourism site. Twin sisters Claire and Grace took over the business in 2023.

The salon side works by appointment only and staffs both hair stylists and a nail technician, so a cut, a color and a manicure are one visit rather than three. The boutique alongside it sells women's clothing in store and online, which is why the business turns up in the chamber's boutique category as often as its salon one.

If the problem is getting seen this week rather than finding the perfect colorist, this is the answer. Lamar Avenue Hair Salon runs six days with a 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. window, which is the widest schedule any salon in Paris publishes, and it carries the biggest roster of stylists in town. Reviewers name a long list of them individually, which is a decent sign that people come back for a particular chair rather than whoever is free.

The shop finished a full remodel recently and its listings describe cuts, color and razor cutting for the whole family. Its record is directory deep rather than paper deep, since it keeps no website of its own, so call rather than book online.

Sarah's is a Lamar County Chamber member and runs its own boutique site, and it sells more than hair. The published service list covers cut and color and treatments alongside makeup, facial waxing, brow threading, microblading, lash lift and tint, and organic spray tanning. Nowhere else in Paris puts that many services on one booking page.

It also opens at 8 a.m., which is earlier than any other salon on this list, so it is the practical choice for a wedding morning or a school picture day. We have published no street number because listings split between 201 and 230 North Collegiate Drive.

Hair Works keeps its own website, is carried in The Paris News business directory, and posts an 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. schedule six days a week, which together with Lamar Avenue gives the town its two genuinely long salon days. Its own site describes its staff as certified cosmetologist, stylist and nail techs working across cuts, perms, color and nail services for men, women and children.

The site claims twenty-seven years serving Paris. That figure is the salon's own and carries no date, so treat it as a long run rather than a precise number.

The Dun and Bradstreet business directory dates Galaxy Hair Design to 1978, which makes it the longest running salon we could document in this market by a wide margin. Manta files the same business as Galaxy Hair Design and Skin Care, so skin services sit alongside the hair work.

It is the last shop on this list you would find from a web search, because it has no site of its own. Note that galaxyhairdesigns.com belongs to an unrelated salon in Jupiter, Florida, and is not this business.

Owned by Sherry and Brandy Draper, Glow runs a full hair salon alongside a med spa and a tanning room. The aesthetics list published on its own site covers facials, laser hair removal, photofacials, skin resurfacing, spider vein treatment, Botox, lash services and makeup.

That breadth is the whole point. If you want hair and skin handled in one afternoon before an event, this is the only address in Paris that can do both, and it prices accordingly.

The Parlour works strictly by appointment. Ask for Amanda Seay on the number above. It is a small downtown shop rather than a strip-center salon, recently remodeled, offering hair alongside nail and pedicure services, and the appointment-only model means you are not sharing the room with a waiting list.

Its record is social and directory based rather than documentary, which is why it sits here rather than higher. An older listing in a local directory still puts a business of this name on Lamar Avenue, but every current source places it at 15 1st Street SE downtown.

Tanglz has the clearest business record of the salons without their own website. Its BBB file, opened 15 November 2021 under Tanglz Spa LLC, gives a business start date of 25 November 2013 and names Lance Downs and Valeriya Downs as managing members. BBB lists it as not rated for insufficient information, and we are saying so rather than implying a grade.

The service list runs wider than hair, covering color, cut and style, men's barber styling, nails, massage, body contouring and teeth whitening, with a boutique attached. It shares the 3310 Park Place address with RoKo, which is a small strip rather than a shared shop.

Molly & Co. takes no appointments at all. It is walk-in only for men, women and children, and its listings put a basic cut at $15 in cash with a slightly higher card price, which is the lowest posted haircut price we found anywhere in Lamar County. Prices move, so treat that as an order of magnitude rather than a quote.

What its reviewers return to over and over is patience with kids, including children with special needs, and stylists who do not rush a chair. That is a real thing to be good at and it is why this sits on the list rather than in a footnote.