Davis Mann & Co.

On South 8th Street in downtown Opelika, just a short walk from the restored storefronts of South Railroad Avenue, Davis Mann & Co. occupies a bright, well-appointed space built, according to the salon’s own description, to create an intimate and relaxing environment while providing exceptional hair services. Co-owned by stylists Ashley Mann and Claire Davis, the salon has become one of downtown Opelika’s steadier beauty-industry anchors, growing from a two-chair partnership into a full team of stylists serving clients from across Lee County.

Mann and Davis built the salon around a straightforward idea: hair services delivered with genuine attention, in a setting that does not feel rushed or transactional. The team today includes stylists Rachel Beatty, Natalie Abernathy, Kate Manning, Anna Weissinger, Mare Nelson, and Madeline Taylor, working alongside newer talent such as Abigail Traylor, plus dedicated bridal specialist Amanda Guilmette for wedding parties preparing for big days across the Auburn-Opelika area. Clients can expect the full range of modern salon services: precision haircuts, single-process color, foil highlights and balayage, keratin smoothing treatments, and brow shaping, with new-talent stylists offering a more accessible price point for guests willing to grow with a stylist early in their career.

The salon carries a curated set of professional lines, including R+Co, Bumble and Bumble, and IGK, and backs up its color and styling work with a ten-day exchange and store-credit policy rather than cash refunds, a small detail that signals a shop invested in whether a client is actually happy with a purchase rather than just moving inventory. That kind of follow-through extends to the bridal side of the business, where Amanda Guilmette leads styling for wedding parties, coordinating timelines and trial runs so that brides and their attendants are not scrambling on the morning of the ceremony. Clients can reach the salon directly by phone or by email at hello@davismannandco.com to ask about scheduling or specific services.

Pricing at Davis Mann & Co. is tiered by stylist experience, a common and transparent structure in independent salons. New-talent stylists start haircuts around $45 and color around $65, with highlights and balayage from about $70 and smoothing treatments from around $100, plus brow shaping around $20 and smaller add-ons from about $15. The salon’s more experienced stylists charge accordingly for more advanced work, with haircuts generally running $55 to $70 and up, color from $72 to $85 and up, and highlights or balayage ranging from $95 up to $155 depending on the complexity of the work, alongside smoothing treatments, brow shaping around $20, and add-ons priced up to about $35. That range gives newcomers to downtown Opelika, students at nearby Auburn University, and longtime residents alike a way to find a stylist that matches both their budget and the complexity of what they are asking for, whether that is a simple trim or a full balayage transformation.

The salon operates primarily by appointment, with walk-ins accommodated only when same-day openings allow, a scheduling approach that keeps each stylist’s chair time predictable rather than stacking guests in a waiting area. What sets an independent shop like this apart from a chain salon is less about any single service and more about continuity: the same two owners greeting regulars by name, a team that has largely grown together rather than rotated through, and a location that has become part of the daily rhythm of downtown Opelika rather than a strip-mall stop between errands. For visitors exploring the historic district along Railroad Avenue, a stop at Davis Mann & Co. is a chance to see how the city’s small-business fabric extends a few blocks off the main drag, into the kind of storefront where the people cutting your hair also happen to own the place.