Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every South Carolina metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 6 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 1 metro area, and New Image in 1 metro area. 4 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in South Carolina as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 4 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 2 metro areas, and Supercuts in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
Greenville, SC 1.5× · Myrtle Beach, SC 1.2× · Hilton Head Island, SC 1.6× · Spartanburg, SC 2.1×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Columbia, SC 1× · Charlotte, NC (SC part) 1.4×
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Supercuts
Relative #1 in Charleston, SC, 2.6× its share in South Carolina
Not enough tracked stores: Sumter, SC
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Augusta, GA (SC part) · Florence, SC
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Great Clips
#1 in 6 metro areas
Greenville, SC · Columbia, SC · Myrtle Beach, SC · Charlotte, NC (SC part) · Hilton Head Island, SC · Spartanburg, SC
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Youngs Fashion & Beauty
#1 in Florence, SC
Not enough tracked stores: Sumter, SC
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to South Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in South Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in South Carolina and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of South Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in South Carolina. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked hair salon chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. SmartStyle and Sharkey's Cuts for Kids sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | SmartStyle | - | +17.5% |
| 2 | Sharkey's Cuts for Kids | ▲1 | +10.0% |
| 3 | Great Clips | - | +9.0% |
| 4 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | +7.3% |
| 5 | Cost Cutters | - | +2.3% |
| 6 | Pigtails & Crewcuts | - | +1.8% |
| 7 | Supercuts | - | -0.5% |
| 8 | Salon | - | -10.6% |
| 9 | Southern Roots | ▼1 | -11.9% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- New Image
- Supercuts
- Touba African Hair Braiding
- High Praise Hair Boutique
- SmartStyle
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
599 tracked store locations in South Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 176 of the 599 stores (29%); 383 of the 404 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, the same share as across the United States.
- Great Clips (93)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (41)
- New Image (1)
- Supercuts (17)
- Touba African Hair Braiding (1)
- High Praise Hair Boutique (1)
- SmartStyle (19)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 93
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 41
- 3 SmartStyle 19
- 4 Supercuts 17
- 5 Pigtails & Crewcuts 6
- 6 Cost Cutters 6
- 7 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 4
- 8 Salon 3
- 9 Southern Roots 3
- 10 Hair Designs 2
- 11 Willow Salon 2
- 12 Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids 2
- 13 Studio M 2
- 14 Frank's Gentlemen's Salon 2
- 15 Bloom Salon 2
- 16 Dolce Lusso Salon and Spa 2
- 17 Palmetto Style Salon 2
- 18 Brown's Barber Shop 2
- 19 Regis Salon 2
- 20 J. Phillipe Salon 1
- 21 Alexandria's Salon & Spa 1
- 22 MasterCuts 1
- 23 Savannah J's 1
- 24 Sheila's Salon 1
- 25 Living Color Salon 1
- 26 Oh! Salon 1
- 27 Blo Blow Dry Bar 1
- 28 Bliss Salon & Spa 1
- 29 Dwell Salon 1
- 30 Crave 4 Salon & Wellness 1
- 31 Vintage Hair Studio 1
- 32 The Pristine Barber Co. & Aesthetics 1
- 33 Salon 611 1
- 34 Shear Perfection Salon & Day Spa 1
- 35 Celebrity Styles and Cuts 1
- 36 The Salon of Anderson 1
- 37 Loretta's Hair Boutique 1
- 38 After The Rain Salon 1
- 39 The Chair 1
- 40 Hot Heads Salon 1
- 41 Fringe Salon 1
- 42 WOW Salon Co. 1
- 43 Lice Beware 1
- 44 Harmony Hair Company 1
- 45 Kreations Hair Design 1
- 46 Wild Hare Parlour 1
- 47 Crew Cuts 1
- 48 Shine Hair Color & Design Studio 1
- 49 Loc Bar Of Charleston 1
- 50 Artistic Cutters salon and spa 1
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