I've driven past 8th Street a hundred times without noticing the building where Cross Hairs sits — tucked into Unit 230, which makes it sound like an office park but feels more like finding someone's extremely well-lit secret. The kind of place you hear about from a friend who swears their hair has never looked better.
It's a smaller operation, and I mean that as the highest compliment. Thirteen reviews, all five stars, which tells you something about consistency when you're not trying to be everything to everyone. I think there's power in that — in knowing exactly what you do and doing it without the performance of being a "salon experience." Just good cuts, good color, and the kind of attention that comes from actually listening instead of nodding while mentally moving to the next appointment.
The location on 8th isn't flashy. It's east of downtown proper, in that stretch where Sioux Falls transitions from historic buildings to light industrial to places that just exist because someone needed four walls and decent parking. But that's also why it works — no pretense, no pressure to justify your presence with exposed brick and Edison bulbs. You're here because you want your hair done right.
The five-star rating across every single review isn't luck. It's someone showing up consistently, appointment after appointment, without the slip that comes when a place scales too fast or stops caring once the schedule fills. I've seen what happens when salons chase volume — the cuts get faster, the conversations get shorter, everything becomes assembly-line efficient until you realize you're just another head in a chair.
Cross Hairs hasn't done that. At least not yet. And in a city adding салons faster than I can keep track, that restraint matters.
— Grace
It's a smaller operation, and I mean that as the highest compliment.