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Salon, beauty & personal care franchises — the FDD facts
Every salon, beauty & personal care franchise in our corpus, on the numbers their own FDDs put on record — what it costs to open, whether the franchisor discloses earnings, how many outlets close, and the risk signals. Not marketing copy.
| Franchise | Total investment | Item 19 | Closure rate | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| After Glow Tanning & Beauty Bar | $75,000 – $150,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Angels Spa | $288,650 – $550,100 | — | — | Medium |
| Avari Beauty | $135,700 – $232,000 | — | — | Medium |
| Balensi Spa™ | $182,900 – $432,750 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Beauty Bungalows | $765,400 – $1,705,500 | ✓ | — | Low |
| bex+Co. Shared Workspace Salon | $402,540 – $634,370 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Bishops, Bishops Cut/Color | $323,442 – $494,293 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Blonde Voyage Global | $82,735 – $132,700 | — | — | Medium |
| Blushington | $485,500 – $680,100 | — | — | Medium |
| Boardroom | $574,900 – $795,150 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Buff City Soap | $383,292 – $956,024 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Cherry Lash | $462,585 – $587,500 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Clean Your Dirty Face | — | — | 0% | Medium |
| ColorOnly | — | — | — | Medium |
| Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids | $60,000 – $90,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Cost Cutters | $180,990 – $342,340 | ✓ | 8.9% | Medium |
| Daela Co. | $263,000 – $600,900 | — | — | Medium |
| Dashing Diva | $232,750 – $516,500 | — | — | Medium |
| DaVi Nails | $68,300 – $177,000 | — | — | Medium |
| Drybar | $391,229 – $1,096,999 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Enhanced Expansions | $411,600 – $736,850 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| European Wax Center | — | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Face Foundrie | $365,370 – $621,800 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Fantastic Sams | $162,500 – $453,000 | ✓ | 2.1% | Medium |
| Floyd's 99 Barbershop | — | ✓ | 1.5% | Medium |
| Freecoat | $221,500 – $562,500 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Frenchies | $422,883 – $500,060 | ✓ | 4.3% | Low |
| Glo Tanning | $759,200 – $1,448,000 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Glosshouz USA | $885,500 – $1,397,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Glosslab | $314,500 – $584,000 | — | — | Medium |
| Hair Success | $2,489,800 – $4,668,600 | — | — | Medium |
| Hammer & Nails - Grooming for Men (Unit) | $650,300 – $918,700 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Hello Sugar | $265,372 – $734,705 | ✓ | 8% | Low |
| House of Color | $27,845 – $57,700 | — | 6.3% | Medium |
| House of Colour | $13,845 – $71,100 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Idolize Brows and Beauty | $381,454 – $461,803 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| iTan Sun Spray Spa | $280,044 – $834,914 | ✓ | 3.8% | Medium |
| Knockout Beauty | $181,200 – $438,300 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Knockouts | $224,250 – $423,800 | ✓ | 7.4% | Low |
| Lemon Tree | $184,794 – $277,939 | ✓ | 5.9% | Medium |
| Locafella | $96,150 – $159,800 | — | — | Medium |
| LoveSculpt | $121,600 – $300,000 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Madonkee | $302,470 – $608,500 | — | — | Medium |
| Magnolia Soap and Bath Co | $263,900 – $490,500 | ✓ | 20% | Medium |
| ManCave | $225,000 – $325,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Merle Norman Cosmetics | — | — | 0.4% | Medium |
| MiniLuxe Studios | $557,629 – $989,790 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| My Salon Suite | $66,490 – $312,685 | ✓ | 0.7% | Low |
| Onyva | $384,925 – $784,725 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Organic Bronze Bar | — | — | — | Medium |
| OVO Salon | $387,202 – $638,702 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Pampered Peach Wax Bar | $67,663 – $195,863 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Phenix Salon Suites | $15,000 – $15,000 | ✓ | 1.1% | Low |
| Pigtails & Crewcuts | $159,500 – $384,600 | ✓ | 3.8% | Low |
| PureGlow | $563,925 – $966,650 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Queen Bee Salon & Spa | $199,098 – $640,334 | — | — | Medium |
| Radiant Waxing | $432,713 – $707,947 | ✓ | 5.1% | Medium |
| Roosters and | $20,000 – $30,000 | ✓ | 2.6% | High |
| Salons By JC | $1,352,200 – $1,900,500 | ✓ | 1.3% | Low |
| Scissors + Scotch (Unit) | $514,300 – $798,250 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Sharkey's Cuts for Kids | $199,960 – $341,035 | ✓ | 1.8% | Medium |
| Shubh® Beauty | $80,100 – $185,000 | — | 0.8% | Medium |
| Sit Still | $166,600 – $422,800 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| SKIN EXPERTS by Brentwood Spa | $477,700 – $729,200 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Skoah | $322,427 – $537,260 | — | — | Medium |
| Smartstyle | $184,440 – $336,340 | — | 4.3% | High |
| Snip-its | $571,365 – $1,040,700 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Sola Salon | $950,214 – $1,748,296 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Sparkle and | $238,750 – $485,250 | ✓ | — | Low |
| SPEC | $1,052,420 – $2,073,624 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Sport Clips | — | ✓ | 1.5% | Medium |
| Sugar Sugar | $142,875 – $365,680 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Sugaring NYC | $133,750 – $215,700 | ✓ | 4.2% | Low |
| SugaringLA | $353,250 – $466,500 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Sun Tan City | $1,048,790 – $1,797,750 | ✓ | 1.8% | Medium |
| Supercuts | $185,930 – $323,460 | ✓ | 7.1% | High |
| Tan Republic | — | — | — | Medium |
| The Barbers, Hairstyling for Men Women, Inc.(SMARTSTYLE) | $182,440 – $324,140 | — | 16.2% | High |
| The Barbershop a Hair Salon for Men | $207,000 – $352,600 | ✓ | 10.4% | Medium |
| The LivBay Franchises | $370,889 – $671,955 | — | — | Medium |
| The Ten Spot | $335,000 – $524,000 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| TLSS Franchise System | $940,493 – $1,192,280 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Townhouse Nail Salon | $604,100 – $759,700 | — | — | Medium |
| Uni K WAX® | $364,412 – $719,100 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Urban Waxx | $268,000 – $638,500 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| V's Barbershop | $290,000 – $690,000 | ✓ | 1.7% | Low |
| Waxing the City | $339,945 – $646,195 | — | 4.2% | Medium |
Figures as disclosed in each brand's most recent registered FDD. “—” means the FDD does not disclose it or the table did not parse cleanly — never an estimate. Tap any brand for the full breakdown. New to the term? What is Item 19? — the earnings disclosure, in plain English.
Beauty & personal care franchise rankings
Beauty & personal care franchises — frequently asked
What is the best salon, beauty & personal care franchise?
"Best" is a claim the FDD numbers have to back: we rank salon, beauty & personal care brands that disclose Item 19 earnings AND beat the category's median closure rate. Boardroom currently tops that list with a 0% franchised-outlet closure rate; 15 salon, beauty & personal care brands qualify. See Best salon, beauty & personal care franchises by the FDD numbers.
How much does a salon, beauty & personal care franchise cost?
The median total initial investment across the 87 salon, beauty & personal care franchises we track is $429,500 (FDD Item 7); individual brands range widely — the table on this page shows each one. The lowest-cost brands are ranked in Cheapest salon, beauty & personal care franchises to open.
Which salon, beauty & personal care franchises disclose earnings?
61 of 87 salon, beauty & personal care franchises (70%) make an Item 19 financial performance representation in their most recent FDD — franchisor-disclosed unit earnings, not estimates. See Salon, beauty & personal care franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings.
What is the failure rate of salon, beauty & personal care franchises?
Across the 40 salon, beauty & personal care brands with parsed outlet tables, the median franchised-outlet closure rate is 1.8% (FDD Item 20 — closures, terminations and non-renewals, the closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate). 16 of the 68 with net-change data shrank in the latest reported year.
Which salon, beauty & personal care franchise fits your budget?
87 salon, beauty & personal care franchises is a long list. Tell us your budget and state and we'll send you the 5–10 that fit, ranked by earnings disclosure, growth and closure rate from their own FDDs.
One sponsored slot per category, and it's data-gated: a brand must disclose Item 19 earnings and beat the category's median closure rate to hold it. Sponsorship is always labeled and never changes a ranking, a risk read, or a report — the data on this site is not for sale. Franchisor inquiries: ryan@franchisefactsreport.com.