Great Clips

This has been my place of choice for a hair cut for a while now. I’ve bounced around to some of the gimmick shops in the area, you know the kind, a coke as you walk in, neck and shoulder «massages,» TV’s with ESPN and girls dressed as referees… Those places are ok, but the fact is that they seem to run on the gimmick and not on the service.
I’ve had some crazy issues with dry skin since I was in college, and for years had fought this any way I knew how. At one point I was even using regular hand lotion trying to get the dryness to go away. My first trip to Great Clips a few years ago led to some light conversation about the dry skin. The lady doing my cut recommended a few different shampoos and conditioners and explained the ingredients and how they were meant to work to affect my issue. After trying a few different things, I’ve settled on a zinc based shampoo along with some leave in conditioner that seems to have brought the issues to a stand still. My skin still gets dry around my scalp, but not nearly as bad as when I first walked in.
Great Clips stays well staffed as well. With the gimmick shops, I would be in a line of ten people with only one or two stylists on duty. Great Clips usually has 3 – 4 stylists available, and even on days like yesterday where there were 4 or 5 people ahead of me (a rarity here) I was able to get in with about a 15 minute wait. You simply cannot beat that!
Finally, Great Clips has several locations around the city which makes it very easy to get a good cut and great service wherever I am in the city. I tend to criss cross certain areas of St. Louis pretty regularly, so when I have time to kill and need a cut, I don’t have to run all the way back to St. Charles just to get it done. Usually a quick Unilocal!search can get me to a location within a 10 minute drive.