ABOUT
Welcome
Welcome to The Style Salon. We are Summerside’s eco-sustainable hair salon offering a full range of services from a well-tailored cut and color to brow shaping or a beautifully finished style. We specialize in helping you find solutions to your haircare needs. We also have one of the largest retail boutiques on Prince Edward Island carrying professional brands like Redken, Moroccanoil, DesignMe and Matrix to name a few. Our team takes great pride in helping you feel comfortable and confident from the moment your visit begins until it’s time to leave. We look forward to serving you at one of our locations!
• The Style Salon in County Fair Mall
• Life Styles Salon on McEwen Rd.
• Hair Concepts Training Academy
In the Beginning
The Style Inc. started as a small two chair barber shop in 1974 and quickly grew to 7 locations around the island. In the early 90’s our company committed its future growth to Summerside and sold the other locations. With 2 locations in Summerside during a period where there was a shortage of hairstylists and no local training facilities available, The Style Inc. saw an opportunity. We pioneered Hair Concepts Training Academy and opened our doors in ’92 and began training hairstylists creating more jobs for the area.
Our first salon opened in Summerside in 1974 at Waterfront Mall. This was our flagship location until a shift happened in shopping traffic throughout Summerside and businesses were closing and moving to the busy north end of the city. The Waterfront Mall felt the impact of this shift and closed its doors in 2005. The Style Inc. saw this as an opportunity to move the salon to a new location and in 2006 Life Styles Salon and Boutique opened its doors on McEwen Rd.
Throughout the history of The Style there remains one original salon that bears the company’s original name. The Style Salon opened in ’75 just as County Fair Mall was being constructed. It’s now our largest hair salon and over the years has been fortunate to have helped foster confident, skilled and knowledgeable hairstylists, some of whom have studied with the best in the industry and have taken advanced training from Halifax, Vancouver and Las Vegas.
Green Circle Salons
The
Facts
Converted to energy efficient lighting
Accomplished a 95% waste reduction since 2015
Over 2546 pounds of waste diverted since 2015
A GCS fee is added to certain services for recycling.
For more information visit Greencircle Salons
Did You Know:
Hair Clippings are considered waste and when placed in a plastic bag and buried in a landfill hair will begin to mummify. The mummification process produces methane gas which leaks from the bag and into the eco-system. At The Style Salon, our hair is gathered and sent to a facility on the West Coast where Greencircle manufactures nylon booms stuffed with hair for the purposes of oil spill cleanup. Human hair has the same adsorbent properties as an animal’s fur or feathers and proves extraordinarily effective at removing oil from water. Nylon booms are donated to any party in the event of an oil spill.
Our Impact:
With the planet focusing on environmental issues and many people and businesses becoming sustainable in the 21st century, we knew as the largest salon in the local area we needed to do more to reduce our impact on the environment. The Style Salon was one of the first salons in the Maritimes to take on this initiative of becoming environmentally sustainable. It was through our partnership with Greencircle Salons in 2015 that opened the door to significantly reducing our waste and start recycling everything that could not be recycled by our local green initiatives. Hair clippings, chemical waste, used foil, aerosol cans and #7 plastics are now all being diverted from our local landfills and eco-system and are being sent to other locations across Canada to be recycled back into useful consumables. Our staff along with our guests are proud to be part of the efforts our salon accomplishes everyday as we lead the way in salon sustainability.