Business Profile: Zen Salon and Spa
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Sean and Julie Shannon operate Zen Salon and Spa. The business has 10 hair stylists, two massage therapists, three estheticians for skin care and two nail technicians. It also houses Zen-sational Solutions, a hair-restoration clinic
Zen Salon and Spa
Where: 2800 S. Ind. 135 , Greenwood, IN.
Services: Hair styling, massages, facials, pedicures, manicures, intricate nail paintings and Zen-sational Solutions non-surgical hair restoration.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday; 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Closed Sunday.
For the past five years, the 56-year-old Vengley said he has received non-surgical hair-restoration treatments in coordination with consultant Tim Schladweiler at a Northwestside Indianapolis center.
Late last year, Schladweiler, Greenwood, opened his own Zen-sational Solutions non-surgical hair-restoration business inside the new Zen Salon and Spa in a retail center at the southwest corner of Ind. 135 and Stones Crossing Road.
Vengley said he decided to continue his consultations with Schladweiler by following him to his new location, where technician Angi Lankford, 35, Camby, conducts the treatments.
Schladweiler, 40, said there are at least four hair-restoration businesses in the north suburban area, but he could find none on Indianapolis’ Southside or in Johnson County.
So, he said, he decided to open a business in the Greenwood area. His service offers scalp laser treatments to generate hair growth in those with just spots of thinning hair and cosmetic skin grafting for those with advanced hair loss.
The cost to a customer varies greatly depending upon the scope of treatment needed, Schladweiler said, but the total annual cost generally ranges from $1,200 to $2,500.
Vengley gets monthly treatment updates on his skin-grafting hair restoration, a process that injects human hair matched identically to his own into scalp-like material to provide hair.
Vengley said he’s seen constant improvements in hair-restoration treatments since he first started receiving them 15 years ago while living in New Jersey.
He said he can swim and water ski and never have to worry about his restored hair. He added that the restored hair also boosts self-esteem. “If you feel good about yourself, everything else comes together in your life,” he said.
As for the long drive for his hair restoration treatments, Vengley called the new Zen Salon and Spa “awesome.”
“It’s full service,” he said, adding that he also likes to get a manicure and massage there.
The salon and spa, owned and operated by Sean and Julie Shannon, Greenwood, opened in late November in 6,700 square feet of space.
Besides housing Schladweiler’s hair-restoration business, the salon and spa has 10 hair stylists, two massage therapists, three estheticians for skin care and two nail technicians.
The Shannons designed their salon and spa in predominant red and black colors and Japanese artwork, with top-of-the-line equipment, including upscale pedicure chairs that give a customer a back massage while rising and lowering during feet-soaking treatment.
Julie Shannon, 41, said she and Schladweiler’s wife, Anita, 42, met when they both did office work at a hair salon a few miles farther north in Greenwood. Also, they each have a son who is a freshman at Center Grove High School.
Anita Schladweiler, a native of Germany, works the front desk at the Shannons’ Zen Salon and Spa.
Hair stylist Jennifer Barker, 35, Greenwood, said she found the opportunity to work at the new Zen Salon and Spa just right, as she returned from several years in Chicago to be nearer to her family.
Another hair stylist, Kris Crafton, 32, Greenwood, moved over from another Greenwood salon.
“There’s nothing in here I do not love,” Crafton said of the people and interior design at the new salon. “We’re one big happy family.”
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