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About Us
When I first considered opening the salon I envisioned a space where the wonderful
and creative community of Lane County would feel comfortable and welcome.
I am able to bring that concept into the salon with:
  • A place where clients and friends can relax, enjoy a cup of tea, coffee or
    rehydrate with water.
  • A great team of stylists.
  • Locally made items that you can purchase, great for gifts.
  • An open one on one environment where you can verbally de-stress from your
    busy schedule, or look at magazines and have a quite moment just for you. (All
    magazines are recycled or donated to local art classes.)
  • We donate to local community non-profit programs in Lane County by offering
    salon services, gift certificates for auctions and space in the salon for
    advertising. (see in the community)
  • We are always accepting donations to Food For Lane County, help fill up the
    FFLC barrel located in the salon.
  • We retail EVO hair products in the salon, evohairproducts.com.
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At I Run With Scissors we hope to inspire our clients to think about Sustainable
Beauty. By taking time to reduce the energy use, reuse paper and plastic products
as much when we can and recycle everything from boxes to bottles,
I Run With Scissors is looking towards a greener future. A large part of living
sustainable deals with the relationships people and businesses build between each
other, and how these relationships are cultivated and strengthen. Because we value
our clients, we want to share our salon's eco-activities with you and love when you
share your eco-activities with us. We can become a source of inspiration for both
beauty and sustainable business practise with each other.
  • Reduce the salon's eco-footprint.
  • The salon's climate control is monitored daily. Reduce energy by monitoring
the climate control.  We turn down the thermostat just 4 degrees in the winter
and rarely use the air conditioner, we run the fans in the air conditioner for less
energy usage, in the summer to prevent the emission of nearly 1,200 pounds of
carbon dioxide annually. We will always adjust the heat or air to accommodate
the comfort of our clients just ask!
  • We recycle everything in the salon from glass, plastic, paper and cardboard. We also have gardeners that will
    occasionally pick up hair clippings, used tea bags for gardens and compost around the area, or I may bring these
    things home for my own compost. (If you are a gardener and interested in adding hair to your compost let me know.)
  • We have worked with Matters of Trust, when they are accepting hair, and donate all our hair clippings for the purpose
    of making hair mats that are used to clean up oil spills. Not only are reducing what we are putting into the landfill by
    eliminating the disposal of hair we are also putting that waste to use and cleaning up the environment. A great big
    shout out and thank you to Matters of Trust for their brilliant resourcefulness.
  • Precyle; reduce waste before we buy. We consider packaging that comes with the product as one of the factors in
    determining choice in what we retail in the salon.
  • Many of the items we retail use post consumer recycled materials in manufacturing and packaging, and can be
    recycled. To help bring recycling full circle in the salon.
  • We use energy star rated lighting in the salon, where possible. We also try to turn off lights in the salon when they are
    not needed.
  • We offer/use products that are not tested on animals.
  • We now carry a wonderful line of Eco-Friendly Bamboo Brushes.
  • Our laundry is done using Biokleen laundry detergent, and we use eco-friendly cleaning products whenever possible. In
    some cases strong cleaning chemicals are used for sanitation practices in accordance with Oregon Health Licensing
    Rules and Regulations.
  • We use green paper products, including toilet paper and paper towels.
  • We offer two different ammonia free lines of hair color and a line of color with a dissipating ammonia base that is 98%
    natural.
  • We use and diffuse essential oils in the salon.
  • I am using a low wattage palette on this web site; a monitor uses 74 watts to display an all white web page with a low
    wattage palette we are using 63 or less watts.
  • We use Organics 100% organic cotton grown without toxic pesticides, fertilizers or irradiation, in our services.
  • We us eco-foil, precycled and recyclable foil for our color services.
  • We have Eco Designs Eco Friendly Shampoo capes. They are the Biodegradable alternative to vinyl, non toxic, made
    of 100% EVA. EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) is an alternative to PVC. Traditional PVC is chlorinated and is a source of
    many of the environmental heath concerns with PVC such as the emission of dioxin (a highly carcinogenic chemical).

Sara, the owner, has been licensed and practicing hair in Eugene since 1997, she opened I Run With Scissors
The Salon,
in 2002 and has become a growing and thriving member of the community since. You may have seen
the name before in our advertising with
Eugene Weekly, Bang Magazine, Eugene Magazine, Eugene Wedding
Magazine
or heard our radio advertisement on 102.3 The Star.

Stylists have listed their education and continuing education classes, per request, in the
your stylist area of this web
site. For those interested in information about the owners experience, schooling and training as a Hairstylist,
Colorist and Regional Color Educator. See
your stylist SaraT.

Sara's  phone number for booking appointments is (541) 870-0388. She is available seven days a week by
appointment only. It is recommend to book your appointment a week in advance, evening appointments book up
fast. Why appointment only? Appointment only schedule allows flexible hours and flexible days which will allow
clients appointments when it is convenient for them. Please see our
Policy page for information regarding
appointments.

We also have a great team of hairstylist seven days a week, and are now able to accept walk-ins upon stylist
availability. To guarantee a specific time please phone and schedule your appointment with one of our stylists.

Driving Directions:
We are located in between 18th Ave and 19th Ave on Oak Street, a block west of South Eugene High School. Take
19th street and turn North onto Oak Street, Oak Street is between Willamette and Pearl. Our parking lot is on 18th
Alley.