Grace Taylor Salon

This Salon is an experience you should treat yourself to.
I found Rose to be educated in the latest styles & trends for cuts & coloring.

I went to Rose for a color and cut and I couldn’t be happier! I have gotten so many compliments… my hair has never had so much volume or looked so healthy. The color blonde she achieved is perfect. The experience itself was very enjoyable and the place is super cute! Going back for sure.

Chelsea gave me a great haircut. I have thick hair that takes a good amount of time to style and she didn’t take any shortcuts. I came out with an amazing new cut, and a stylist that I plan on using again! $ 40 and online booking were great perks too.

I went to Grace Taylor Salon for the first time today and LOVED the experience. Chelsey is so good at what she does. My hair had been damaged by someone else, and she fixed it without making me go extremely short. The color needed help as well, and she listened to me and gave me exactly what I needed. I scheduled my next appointment before I left because this is my new place! Oh. One more thing. I want to say do not bother with the one bad review. I have never met Chelsey in my life before today, and the bad review is either a disgruntled competitor, or, someone who can’t be pleased.

This place is super cute and conveniently located in Maplewood. Rose cut my hair about a week ago and I love the way it turned out. I’ve gotten tons of compliments and she gave me a cut that is easy to maintain because I’m super low maintenance. She explained the products she used as she styled my hair and offered recommendations. I’ll definitely be a regular. Highly recommend making an appt. with her!

Chelsey has been my hair guru for over a year now. I luckily trusted groupon and decided to try her out while she was at her old salon. She is great, and now that she opened up her own beautiful salon, I can’t imagine going anywhere else. The only negative review on this page couldn’t be further from the countless experiences I have had with Chelsey. I often ask her opinion on styles and cuts, and I firmly believe that she knows better than I do. She shows me how to style it, and it always ends up better than anything I could imagine. Also, the bad Unilocalers review of her personality and voice was cruel and unnecessary… I love when it’s time to get my hair done because I get to hang out with her! And I am not a friend she recruited to post, I am just a loyal customer because of her great work!
Also, she gives you wine!

I was referred to Chelsea by a co-​worker after a terrible string of dye jobs which left me with an obvious horizontal dark line in my hair that I could not get out despite getting it professionally dyed twice (from a different hairstylist) and box dyed twice. She determined that any new dye was not taking to my hair due to my recent pregnancy and that the hormones most likely caused a change in my hair. Instead of just covering the problem, she used a color stripper, then re-​dyed my hair and, on top of that, did a beautiful byalage. It was a process but I am so happy because this is the first time in about 9 months that my hair has not had a dark line in it! I WILL be back!

I just went for my first appt. Chelsey last night and I am blown away at how amazing she is. I was very dark and wanted to go very light. I know that doing this can be very hard. She took her time and did a fabulous job. I have very long hair and it was looking very stringing she cut enough off to make it look healthy but not to much for me to freak out. I am so happy I found her she will be my new stylist from here on out!

I first met Chelsey when she worked at a different salon in CWE. I had read rave reviews of her there and was going for the drastic change of long (elbow length) hair to a short pixie cut.
Chelsey was patient, thoughtful, and offered great advice while I was showing her and talking about what I wanted. She advised that we go slow, and take our time with the cut so that I was happy with it. She made sure to know exactly what I wanted and expertly cut my hair into a chin length bob. Though I was extremely nervous about drastic cut, Chelsey did an outstanding job! I have never been to another stylist since!
She’s a perfectionist and dedicated to making you look and feel good. She took her time to ensure I was happy with the cut and showed me how to style it as well.
She always has new ideas from seminars, and conferences. And when I bring in a Pintrest idea, she’s always open to it! And executes it perfectly!
I was so excited to see her company and brand grow with this new salon. She’s put a lot of care and hard work into this salon and it shows! She’s booking up fast! Not only does her salon offer expert work and styling, there are eyelash extensions, waxing, and many other services. The décor is astounding and in such a easy accessible location.
I have recommended her to everyone, even my mom goes to her! I would definitely book an appointment soon!

When I first moved to St. Louis, I was nervous. I was a TV news personality, and if I may say without any vanity, my appearance was a critical component of my job. Hopefully you can understand I had to be picky and particular. Thankfully, I found Chelsey and I never had to worry again.
I have had numerous cuts from Chelsey and I will never go to another stylist, so long as I am in St. Louis. Grace Taylor salon is a beautiful and relaxing place to go and with Chelsey at it’s helm, you absolutely could not ask for more.
Chelsey is what some would call a perfectionist when it comes to her craft. I cannot express enough how much I admire that in a stylist. She takes her time and focuses on each cut, every angle, all to make it perfect. This is an incredibly rare trait in a stylist and it’s exactly what most women want. More, she ensures that I know exactly how to replicate what she’s done when we are not together. She has provided lessons to me on how to fix my hair and style it, etc. She takes extra time in the appointment to talk with me about home styling technique. She wants me to leave not only with a cut that looks perfect when she’s done it, but with the confidence, based on experience, that I can do the look myself. Few other stylists would want to provide you with these skills. Any one who has interpreted her intentions as anything else is simply wrong.
Chelsey is often going to seminars and conferences to learn the very latest in styling. She is dedicated to doing the very best job and I really believe she knows exactly what’s doing with every cut and color (mine is pretty darn complicated).
Though her talent for styling is really palpable, what I love most about Chelsey is her warm personality. She listens to my styling needs and concerns. She has a way of making me and others feel really good about themselves, glamorous and fabulous, when they leave her chair. I get so many compliments on my hair. I can honestly say I have given many referrals to now happy clients. I know that her number one priority is a satisfied client with the best and hottest cut and color, but she also cares that you had a good, relaxed time while you were with her.
There’s a reason her business has grown so fast in such a short time. If I were you, I’d make an appointment soon, because she’s been booking up lately. Hey, that’s what happens when you’re good.

BEWARE OF FAKE REVIEWS! Another Unilocaler messaged me after I wrote this listing describing another customer who had a very similar experience to mine. She also found out that Chelsey was fired from her previous salon because she didn’t live up to standards. She may have a lot of friends who write fake reviews, but please don’t be fooled like I was!
Review Below:
1. I am a true lost cause when it comes to styling hair. Going to the salon for me is normally a great experience, mostly because I get to learn a new way to style my hair. I told Chelsey at least 5 – 6 times in different ways that I am clueless about styling my hair and I really look forward to seeing how she styles my new haircut.
Instead, when the haircut was over, she sort of played with my hair, moved it around a little then no joke, literally says: «I don’t know what to do with this. Why don’t you style it. I hate when other people style my hair.» Trust me, I remember EXACTLY what she said, because I was in such shock. Imagine, telling a stylist you need help styling, then they make you style your own hair in the salon! She even handed me the hairspray and said: «Here, you try,» after I also requested some suggestions about products to use beyond hairspray. What bothers me even more, is that she gave me a haircut that she couldn’t even style. If she, the expert, couldn’t do anything with it, what am I expected to do with my plebian hair styling skills?
2. I had two photos of the cut I wanted. At the end when I was styling MY OWN HAIR, I went to look at the photos I brought to help me figure out how to style, at which point Chelsey says: «Oh, you can’t style it like that because your haircut is too short.» Well, it wasn’t too short when I came in. Even worse, she says this in a strangely snarky way with attitude insinuating that it was somehow my fault that she cut my hair too short. The two photos were two different ways to style. Surprise, she couldn’t style it either of the ways in either photo.
I have absolutely been to the salon before and left with a cut different from what I asked for. In those circumstances, however, the stylist at least styled my hair and made it look good (not to mention was polite). Here, I was left to the wolves without even an effort on her part and left the salon looking like a mess (because, like I said, I suck at styling my hair).
Part II
When I arrived, Chelsey looked at the two photos I brought without saying anything, so I tried to discuss what I wanted from each. She still didn’t say anything until I asked her, «do you think you can do this, and do you think this will look good?» She finally responded in a strange monotone and said, «yeah, this will be fun.» And she took a photo so we could do a before and after.
We began and I thought her strange monotonic, apathetic affect was perhaps a result of her genius, based on others’ raving reviews. I don’t need personality in a hairdresser, in fact, I prefer not to talk at all. But this was quite a strange, non-​communicative experience. I discussed the great reviews, which brought me to her, and she said, «yeah, I’ll definitely cry when I get my first bad review.» This makes me wonder now if she says something like that to all of her customers in order to dissuade dissatisfied customers from writing a negative review because they know they’ll hurt her feelings.
I hate to be the bad guy, but I’d rather save the feelings of future customers than to hurt one person’s feelings who was so extremely inept with my cut.
Regarding the before and after photo, I’ll let you guess if she took an after photo of her lovely work. (answer is no-​and I don’t wonder why)
As I was struggling to style my own hair, she said– «why don’t you give it a week and if you want it changed, you can come back. You’ll probably get used to it in a week» (like having a haircut she couldn’t even style was something I just needed to get used to…). This was also code for, you need to leave, at which point I paid, left a large tip (because it did take her almost 2 hours. to get nowhere), and left.
I also have the misfortune of having fine hair that gets greasy really easily. When asking for suggestions about the best way to reduce my greasy mess she straight face recommended I damage my hair by bleaching it because the damage would make it look less greasy. RED FLAG, you can bleach hair WITHOUT severely damaging it! If you are a hairstylist saying this, maybe this should be a customer concern.
At least there was wine, I probably would have left a sobbing mess

Chelsey is a wonderful stylist who not only is very knowledgable, but also takes pride in her work. She has always exceeded my expectations and gave me beautiful results! The salon is fabulous and clean — the perfect place to go after a long day at work! I recommend this salon to all my friends.

Chelsey’s new space is welcoming, bright and so darling. It is refreshing to be in a salon where I enjoy the space itself.
As always, my color is spot on.
I was met with a fresh cup of hot coffee.
Clean. So clean.

I moved to St. Louis over the summer and was so nervous about finding salon that would be able to offer me great services at an affordable price. I don’t know how it happened, but I found Chelsea and she has been AMAZING!
Grace Taylor is an adorable salon with great decorations, cute stations, and most importantly wine and coffee while you get pampered by Chelsea.
I have already told anyone who will listen to try out Grace Taylor because it is THAT GOOD!
I will continue to see Chelsea no matter where she goes and can not rave enough about the quality of her color work, cuts, and personality! I look forward to going every six weeks!
Chelsea will also let you stop by for free bang trims between appointments!
I can not say enough good things about Grace Taylor!

Solid place with a lot of personality. I made an appointment last minute, walked in, was offered a beverage from Chelsey and then she cut my hair. Grace Taylor is clean and classy, I like Chelsey’s style and she plays good beats. The restroom was also very clean and well kept; not cluttered with storage supplies. I highly recommend Grace Taylor Salon to anyone.

I am a perfectionist and I don’t trust anyone with my hair. However, I went in to get my hair dyed and put into an updo for a fancy party, and I couldn’t have been happier. I got compliments all night long– not only about how classy I looked but how cute my highlights and lowlights were. I never would have thought I could go from a dark brunette to a blonde, but she did the trick! Her salon is very cute with a black and gold theme, and she gave me a glass of caramel coffee to enjoy during my appointment. I would recommend her to anyone!

I found her through Unilocal and I’m glad I believed the reviews. Awesome cut. Great service. Honest advice about what kind of cut would suit me and my lifestyle. I’m extremely picky about my hair but she listens and delivers. She is friendly but if you’re not much of a talker, she is cool with that, too.

Chelsey is a great stylist, I have very straight short hair and needed a precision cut. She really did an amazing job. Her new salon is wonderful. Highly recommend!

I will follow Chelsey wherever she goes, she’s seriously that good. I bring in pictures or give her an idea, and she brings it. When you say I only want a few inches off, she really listens. Thank goodness for this woman, I look professional and polished. I’ve never gotten so many compliments on my looks as I have after every cut by Chelsey.
TIP: get your hair washed, her scalp massage is therapeutic (seriously).
Very sweet person and beautiful inside and out. I think everyone will leave happier, relaxed, and feel like a million bucks!