09/09/2026
✨ WORKING WOMEN’S WEDNESDAY ✨
Meet Sharon, owner of Macy’s Hairstyles in Central, Alabama.
For 40 years, Sharon has been doing hair, and for the last 27 years, Macy’s Hairstyles has been hers.
Forty years behind the chair means Sharon hasn’t just built a clientele — she’s watched entire generations grow up.
People whose hair she cut years ago now walk through her door with their children, grandchildren, and even their great-grandchildren. In that little Central shopping center, her customers aren’t really customers anymore.
They’re family.
And if the walls of Macy’s Hairstyles could talk, they’d have plenty of stories to tell... but so would the chairs.
Those chairs actually survived a fire at Sharon’s first salon on Waterloo Road. When she opened her new place, they came with her, and all these years later, there they sit.
“I guess I could get new stuff,” she said, laughing, “but then I’d have to raise my prices, and my customers say my stuff works just fine.”
That little comment tells you a lot about Sharon.
She’s the kind of woman you can sit down with and immediately cut up with. The kind who laughs easily, knows everybody, and makes you feel less like you walked into a business and more like you stopped by to visit an old friend.
And somehow, 40 years of doing hair isn’t enough work for her.
When Sharon isn’t behind the chair, she also works a second job sitting with and caring for the elderly.
Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising.
Whether she’s taking care of somebody in her salon chair or sitting beside someone who needs a little extra care, Sharon has built a life around showing up for people.
40 years doing hair. 27 years owning Macy’s Hairstyles. Generations of customers turned family. A salon full of history — right down to the chairs.
Thank you, Sharon, for inviting me into your sweet little salon and treating me like family.🤍✂️
