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Kids haircuts and spa services St. Louis provide families with a range of fun, safe, and creative choices. From sensory-friendly salons to themed spa parties, these local businesses turn grooming and pampering into memorable experiences for children—and often for the whole family.
AmberSky Salon
AmberSky Salon is designed with families in mind. Kids can get their haircuts in the same place where their parents and older siblings come for cuts, color, and other services. While younger clients enjoy toys and fun chairs, grown-ups can book highlights, waxing, or beard trims. The salon’s stylists are skilled at keeping children calm and making sure everyone leaves looking their best.
Cookie Cutters
With locations in Creve Coeur and Lake St. Louis, Cookie Cutters turns haircuts into playtime. Kids can choose a vehicle-shaped chair, stream a favorite show, and relax while a stylist works quickly. The salon also features a small play area with a tunnel and slide. Every child leaves with a balloon and a sucker.
Kiddo’s Closet and Clips
Located in Fairview Heights, Illinois, this children’s salon doubles as a boutique and tumbling gym. Kids can ride in car-shaped chairs, play video games, and receive a keepsake “My First Haircut” photo with a lock of hair.
Sweet and Sour Salon
In Ballwin, Sweet and Sour Salon is led by Timothy Sauer—known as “Mr. Tim”—who specializes in haircuts for children with special needs and sensory sensitivities. The salon’s “sweet and soothing” haircut option ensures a comfortable, low-stress experience.
Tee Styles
Tee Styles in Des Peres offers services for kids with diverse hair types. While getting a cut or style, children can watch kid-friendly TV and pose for before-and-after selfies on the salon’s photo wall. Every visit ends with a prize and a treat.
Sweet & Sassy
At Sweet & Sassy of St. Louis, the spa menu is designed entirely for kids. Services include gentle manicures and pedicures, braids, updos, makeovers, and a First Haircut package with a lock of hair and certificate. The salon also hosts themed parties, classes, Glam Camps, and ear piercings.
Polish Room Nail Bar
Formerly PAINT Nail Bar, Polish Room Nail Bar in Richmond Heights provides a luxe experience with hygienic, jet-free water basins and vegan, formaldehyde-free polishes. While primarily an adult-focused space, they offer extra-gentle manicures and pedicures for kids under 12.
St. Louis Children’s Party Mobile Spa
This traveling spa service brings the pampering to you. Packages include fizzy hand and foot soaks, chocolate facials, nail art, and spa robes. Designed for groups of six or more, the service even handles clean-up after the event.
The Hairy Elephant
With locations in Ballwin and O’Fallon, The Hairy Elephant makes haircuts an adventure. Kids can choose a themed chair—Jeep, sports car, train, or traditional—and enjoy built-in video games and movies. The salon also offers creative extras like hair tinsel, chalk, braiding, and fauxhawks, plus sensory-friendly tools for children with special needs.
Content for this summary was derived from original reporting by St. Louis Magazine
