I found three funny articles about hair salons whose names are puns. One is by Jess Zimmermam at Atlas Obscura on September 30, 2015 and titled Hair They Are, the Punniest Salon Names in America. A second is at the Meh.com/Forum on October 23, 2018 and titled Hair places often have some of the worst (read:best) pun-tastic names. The following are all real. What’s your favorite? An undated third at DaySmart salon is The 23 Funniest Hair Salon Names. An alphabetical merged list of them is:
Anita Haircut
Barberella
Best Little Hair House
Bush Wacker
A Breath of FresHair
Clip Art
Combing Attractions
Curl Up and Dye
Cut and Dry
Deja Do
Do or Dye
Dye Pretty
Family Ahair
Finger Bang
From Hair to Eternity
Grateful Dreads
The Grateful Head
Hair Force One
Hair Today Dye Tomorrow
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Hair We Go!
Hairitage
Hairport
Hairphernalia
Hairatics Dye for Your Beliefs
Hannah and Her Scissors
Jack of All Fades
Jack the Clipper
Julius Scissor
Lice Knowing You
Lunatic Fringe
The Mane Tamer
Mullet Over
Nail Me Good
Scissors Palace
Shear Delight
Shear Destiny
Shear Lock Combs
Shear Madness
Shear Perfection
Snip Doggy Dog
Snip Tease
The Tortoise and the Hair
Turn Your Head and Coif
The Twisted Scissor
A Wild Hair
You Are Hair
You’ve Got Nail
I got started on this topic by seeing page 44 of the 2026 book by Christopher Duffy titled Humor Me: How laughing more can make you present, creative, connected, and happy. In a section on Looking for Laughs in All the Right Places Chris said:
“Once I was traveling through Maine when I passed a hair salon named Hair Force One. It was a pun so hilarious and terrible that it stopped me in my tracks. And then, over the course of the next week, I noticed more and more hair salon puns: State of Mane, Curl Up and Dye, and so many more. To me, Maine is now a state defined by business name puns so excruciating that they come back around to being amazing."
The hair salon cartoon was adapted from one at OpenClipArt.
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