Sweet & Sassy
Embrace inner diva at glittery salon
Sweet and Sassy is a colorful salon and spa at Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus, where princess-loving preschoolers and precocious preteens go to get pampered. The franchise is established throughout the United States, but the Polaris store is the only location in Ohio.
I recently took my 5-year-old daughter there to get a breezy haircut and a nail polish application. But little did I know how much fun she’d have getting all dolled up and how much I’d appreciate our “girl time” afterward, eating lunch in a booth for two at the nearby Cheesecake Factory and splashing in the mall’s outdoor fountain.
The salon’s services include haircuts and styles for girls and boys, manicures, pedicures and ear piercing. Its retail space offers cheeky merchandise such as peace sign-covered backpacks, big-eyed stuffed animals and bottles of chocolate shampoo. Customers also can concoct their own lip-glosses and glittery lotions.
Rosie got a “Sassy Cut,” which included a fruit-scented shampooing, haircut and a modified French braid that wrapped around her head and ended in a tasseled tail. I was pleased to see the stylist, dressed sleekly in pink and black, engaged in a conversation with Rosie and not me, her doting mom. “You’re going to love it,” she told Rosie, beaming.
I stepped aside to allow Rosie some privacy.
I watched a half dozen giggling girls enter the salon for a birthday party in an area labeled “Glam Central.” They put on sequined dresses and sat in tall chairs before a wall-length mirror. Their hair was arranged in an array of up-dos, and stylists applied makeup to their fresh faces. As a finale, they sashayed down a makeshift catwalk to loud music.
“I want to go on stage,” delighted Rosie, as her stylist sprayed cupcake-scented hairspray on her new braid.
After a quick application of purple nail polish, Rosie pranced on stage like the star of the show. Purple polish and cupcake hairspray? What’s not to like?
Sweet and Sassy is located at Polaris Fashion Place at 1540 Polaris Parkway. For more information, visit sweetandsassy.com.
