Kids' Hair

What Kids' Hair does

Kids' Hair Inc. is a privately held, locally owned operator of dedicated children's hair salons, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company runs 10 physical retail showroom locations across the Twin Cities metro (Apple Valley, Blaine, Chanhassen, Coon Rapids, Edina, Highland Park/St. Paul, Maple Grove, Plymouth, Roseville, and Woodbury), serving families with children from babies through tweens. Its core offering is the pediatric haircut, executed by stylists specifically trained to handle anxious children, with a service environment built around child-sized chairs and capes, in-station TVs, lobby toys and games, and post-visit rewards (suckers, stickers, temporary tattoos). Complementary offerings include a First Haircut Experience with a keepsake lock of hair and certificate, fun add-ons such as tinsel, colored extensions, designs, and extra braids, and retail products (notably Malibu Swimmers' haircare) promoted at checkout.

The commercial model is direct-to-consumer service delivery in-store, supported by online appointment scheduling through the Zenoti booking and POS platform integrated across all locations, with Google Maps driving footfall. Revenue mechanics combine one-time service fees (per haircut and per add-on) and retail hardware sales of branded haircare products; pricing is not publicly disclosed but is accessible through the Zenoti webstore. Customer acquisition relies on earned media (Minnesota Parent magazine's Best Place recognition for three consecutive years and again in 2026), word-of-mouth referrals, and an organic social presence on Facebook, Twitter/X, and Instagram. The headcount band of 51–100 employees and 30+ year operating history point to a mature, cash-funded regional operator without external institutional investors, focused on replicating a specialized niche service experience rather than on technology differentiation.

Name

Kids' Hair

Legal name

Kids' Hair Inc.

Website

https://kidshairinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Kids' Hair Inc. operates 10 dedicated children's hair salons across the Minneapolis–St. Paul Twin Cities metro, serving families with children from babies to tweens through kid-friendly environments, trained stylists, and online booking.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Children's Hair Salon Services

NAICS

Beauty Salons (812112), Hair, Nail, and Skin Care Services (81211)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHSALAAAM

Kids' Haircut Services

Home & Personal Services/Personal Care & Beauty Services/Hair Salons & Styling Services

SECONDARYCRABAJAJ

Kids Haircare (Shampoo, Styling, Detanglers)

Consumer Products & Retail/Beauty & Personal Care/Baby & Child Personal Care

SECONDARYCRABABAJ

Kids’ Haircare

Consumer Products & Retail/Beauty & Personal Care/Haircare

Keywords

• Children's hair salon
• Kids haircuts
• Family salon services
• Child-friendly salon
• First haircut experience

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Haircut Services: Core revenue from children's haircuts performed by trained stylists at 10 Twin Cities locations. Services include standard cuts, first haircuts with keepsake certificates, and styling for various looks including bobs, fades, layers, and hockey flow.
2. Fun Add-ons: Optional premium add-ons including cool designs, tinsel, extra braids, and colored hair extensions. These enhance the core haircut service with additional revenue per visit.
3. Retail Products: Sale of hair care products including Malibu Swimmers' Products with promotional offers such as buy one get one 50% off. Retail upsell at checkout.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Kids' Hair operates a chain of 10 children's hair salons across the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) metro area in Minnesota, specializing exclusively in haircuts for children from babies and toddlers through tweens. Core services include standard children's haircuts performed by specially trained stylists in kid-focused environments with child-sized chairs, kid-sized capes, TVs for entertainment, and complimentary suckers, stickers, or temporary tattoos. The company also offers first haircut experiences with keepsake certificates, fun add-ons (tinsel, braids, colored extensions, designs), and retail products such as Malibu Swimmers' hair care items.

Product overview

Kids' Hair operates as a chain of 10 children's hair salons in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, providing a unified salon experience with a core haircut service as the primary offering. The product portfolio includes the main Kids' Hair haircut service (featuring child-friendly amenities like TVs, toys, and rewards), supplemented by add-on services: the First Haircut Experience (with keepsake certificate and saved lock of hair) and Fun Add-ons (tinsel, braids, glitter, temporary tattoos, colored extensions). Retail products include Malibu Swimmers' hair care items. All services are booked through Zenoti appointment software across their 10 locations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kids' Hair Core Haircut Service Professional children's haircuts performed by stylists trained to work with kids from babies and toddlers to tweens. The service emphasizes making haircuts fun, gentle, and relaxing, with child-sized chairs, kid-sized capes, TVs for entertainment, and complimentary suckers, stickers, or temporary tattoos at the end.
• First Haircut Experience Special first haircut service that includes saving a lock of hair as a keepsake and creating a commemorative certificate. Parents are encouraged to take photos of their young star during the experience.
• Fun Add-ons Enhancement options including cool designs, tinsel, extra braids, and colored hair extensions to make children feel extra special during their haircut.
• Malibu Swimmers' Products Swim care hair products available for purchase at salons. Currently running a buy-one-get-one 50% off promotion through July 11th.

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids: Largest U.S. kids-only hair salon franchise, operating ~180 locations with a virtually identical value proposition: kid-friendly environment, special chairs, entertainment, and trained stylists. Direct competitor in the same niche that Kids' Hair occupies.
• Pigtails & Crewcuts: National children's salon franchise with locations across multiple U.S. states, offering kid-focused haircuts in a fun environment. Highly comparable service model, customer segment, and franchise-vs-corporate-store structure to Kids' Hair.
• Snip-its: Children's hair salon franchise known for themed experiences, entertainment, and stylists trained to work with kids. Competes in the same niche with comparable parent-child value proposition and franchise growth model.
• Sharkey's Cuts for Kids: Franchise concept specifically targeting the children's haircut segment with a fun, themed in-store experience. Direct overlap in customer base, service offering, and franchise-driven geographic expansion approach.
• Cool Cuts 4 Kids: Specialty children's hair salon chain offering kid-focused haircuts in a fun environment. Competes for the same family-with-children customer segment with comparable service menu and entertainment-driven experience.

Broad incumbents

• Sports Clips: Largest U.S. men's and boys' haircut franchise with ~1,800+ locations. While it serves a broader demographic, it is a key competitor for boys' haircuts in many of the same family-shopping-trip occasions and provides a benchmark for franchise-style salon scale.
• Great Clips: Largest U.S. hair salon franchise with 4,000+ locations serving all ages including children. Represents the mass-market general-salon alternative families choose when they do not seek a kids-only experience, and a key scale benchmark.
• Cost Cutters: Value-priced family hair salon franchise present across the Midwest. Competes with Kids' Hair on convenience and price for routine family haircuts, including children's services.
• Supercuts: National walk-in hair salon chain serving the entire family including children. Represents the convenience-led general-salon alternative and a relevant scale/efficiency benchmark for a multi-location salon operator.

Emerging players

• Cartoon Cuts: Independent and small-chain children's hair salons operating in select U.S. markets, offering kid-focused environments. Niche competitor with partial overlap in service offering and target demographic.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/kidshair
• Instagraminstagram.com/kidshairsalons
• Xx.com/kidshair

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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