To date, we had only taken our son to Cookie Cutters at Norterra, but they didn't have any openings for a few days, so I booked an appointment at Sit Still to try them out. For a standard short haircut for a child, it's $30 plus tip, and you must book your appointment online, which seems to be the standard for children's hair salons.
First impression of the salon as we walked in was that it was absolutely adorable - clean, fresh and modern, with a tasteful retail space at the front with a variety of toys, clothing items and accessories. They were decorated for Valentine's Day, and had a cute little cart just outside of the front door for adorable post haircut photo ops.
For the haircut itself, we were taken to a station where my son was able to pick whatever show he wanted to watch from a tablet that was affixed to a "car" chair. He isn't really into television yet so we put on a random show to distract him. The hairdresser was trying her best, but my son was very wiggly, despite taking him to an indoor trampoline park prior to the haircut. Throughout the whole experience she tried to distract him with toys or fun noises - she was definitely making an effort to get him still so she could give him a proper haircut.
The only apprehension I had about the experience was that towards the end, she had me hold my son's head so she could finish the edges. That was when my son lost it, and I realized it wasn't worth it. That wasn't the hairdresser's fault at all, but going forward if my kiddo won't sit still, we'll get what we get with as occupied as we can get him, but I won't restrain him to get it "polished".
Regardless, she gave him a lovely haircut, and once I got him outside and he settled down, we were able to take some cute post haircut photo ops. He managed to get his hands on a dum dum pop, and he was all smiles after that.
We would absolutely give Sit Still Kids Salon another visit in the future.
