Salon CoCoLo

Salon CoCoLo sits along Highway 72 West in Madison, a small, LLC-registered salon led by master stylist Misook, whose name appears throughout the shop’s marketing as the salon’s owner and lead colorist. The salon opened as its own storefront rather than a franchise location, and the small team of stylists, Maryna, Merwen, Judy, and apprentice Nancy, work under Misook’s direction on everything from color correction to Bellami hair extension installs.

Extensions are something of a specialty here. Salon CoCoLo carries and installs Bellami Hair Extensions, a niche service that not every salon in the Madison area offers, and the shop markets itself around that expertise alongside more standard cuts, color, and treatments. The salon also added a head spa menu in recent seasons, a scalp-focused treatment that has grown popular as an add-on for clients already in the chair for color or a cut.

The salon books appointments through an online system, and Sundays are appointment-only rather than standard walk-in hours, which is fairly typical for a small independent salon staffed by a handful of stylists rather than a large rotating roster. Monday through Saturday, the shop keeps daytime hours that run into the early evening, giving working clients in Madison a decent window to get in after a shift.

The Highway 72 West location puts the salon within easy reach of both the older stretch of Madison near the county line and the newer growth around Wall Triana Highway, a corridor that has filled in quickly with new retail over the past decade. Being on a main commercial strip rather than tucked into a side street means the salon is easy to find for first-time visitors, with parking directly in front of the storefront.

Salon CoCoLo is independently owned and operates as a single location under Misook’s direction rather than as part of a regional salon group, which keeps pricing, scheduling, and service additions like the head spa menu decided locally rather than dictated by a corporate office. Clients looking for extension work in particular tend to find their way here through word of mouth, since specialty services like that are less common among the area’s smaller salons.

New clients booking online can typically see stylist availability directly through the salon’s scheduling system, which cuts down on the back-and-forth phone calls that come with a smaller shop’s limited front-desk hours. For anyone in Madison looking for a salon where the owner is still cutting and coloring hair on a regular basis rather than managing from an office, Salon CoCoLo’s Highway 72 storefront is a fairly direct answer.

The salon’s careers page also signals an operation that is still growing, with the shop periodically looking to add stylists as its client base along the Highway 72 corridor continues to expand alongside Madison’s broader population growth. That steady growth has not come with a second location or a shift toward franchising, keeping the shop’s identity tied to its single Madison storefront.

Clients traveling from neighboring Harvest or Athens for the extension work in particular tend to combine their visit with other stops along the same commercial strip, since the salon sits among several other small businesses rather than in an isolated standalone building. That accessibility, paired with the specialty extension services, has helped Salon CoCoLo build a client base that extends beyond Madison’s immediate city limits, even as the shop remains a single storefront rather than a growing regional footprint, a choice that has kept Misook directly involved in most of the salon’s day-to-day color and extension work rather than stepping back into a purely managerial role behind the scenes, a detail regular clients notice and mention often when recommending the shop to friends.