Art Works Salon and Day Spa is known for staying consistently current with the latest trends and techniques. Nestled in the scenic North Georgia Mountains, we’ve proudly served our community since December 2020.
Our talented team specializes in a full spectrum of color services — from bold, on-trend transformations to timeless, natural looks. We also offer precision haircuts, expert styling, color correction, hair extensions, and a range of nourishing treatments to keep your hair looking and feeling its best.
Beauty Tips Blog
Color Correction Isn’t Magic — It’s Chemistry (And Art)
• August 2, 2025Color correction isn’t a quick fix. Tai explains what really goes into fixing color mistakes, from chemistry to consultation — and how to do it safely.Is Waxing Really Better Than Shaving? Here’s the Truth.
• August 3, 2025Wondering if waxing is really better than shaving? Tai at Art Works in Ellijay, GA compares both options and explains why waxing often wins for smoother, longer-lasting results.
Why a Great Haircut Is More Than Just the Cut
• July 31, 2025Let me say this upfront: a great haircut isn’t about how straight the lines are or how fancy the scissors look. It’s about how the hair moves, how it fits your face and lifestyle, and how it makes you feel when you walk out the door. At Art Works Salon in Ellijay, we’ve seen it…Are Lash Extensions Safe? What You Need to Know Before Booking
• August 3, 2025Are lash extensions safe? Tai from Art Works Salon in Ellijay, GA explains what makes lashes safe, what to avoid, and how to protect your natural lash health.
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Does this make you happy? 🌈 Lots of smiles in here. 🙃
This client has so much hair, she decided she only needs the top half. 😂
Cut, Color and Style by Tai
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If we haven’t met yet, I’d love to introduce myself. I’m Tai, a master cosmetologist with 17 years of experience, specializing in custom color, precision cuts and organic product knowledge. I’m also a semi-retired color chemistry educator and the owner of Art Works Salon & Day Spa, where I work behind the chair full-time.
I’m excited to share a new chapter in my career. If you’ve tried to book with me in the past 10 years but couldn’t because I wasn’t taking new clients, this is for you!
Thanks to my amazing staff, who have welcomed some of my clients as their own, taking on part of my schedule, and with some clients relocating over the years—along with focusing my education work solely within the salon—I’m now able to welcome a few new clients this year!
If you are interested in becoming a client, please call or text the salon. 706 635 2781 (ART1)
🌟 Big congratulations to Baley! 🌟
We couldn’t be more proud to celebrate this incredible milestone — Baley has officially graduated from cosmetology school!
From her early days as our front desk rockstar to now stepping into her future as a licensed professional, we’ve had the privilege of watching her grow, shine, and bring her signature positivity to everything she does.
The entire Art Works Salon & Day Spa team is beyond excited for her next chapter. The sky’s the limit, Baley — and we can’t wait to see all the amazing things ahead! 💇♀️✨
#ArtWorksSalon #SalonFamily #CosmetologyGraduate #FutureStylist #ProudMoment #TeamArtWorks
Happy Holidays one last time in 2025 from the Art Works Crew! Thank you, Tim for taking 90% of these pictures, because we were all having too much fun partying together and playing games! 🎁
🥂 Cheers to the dream team!! Love you all 🙏
@anna_swartz @langping_ @lori_macarthur @msadventures3 @baleyjane.creations @tim_emmert_edwardscissorhands @chelcinicole @glad_280
Happy Honeymoon and congrats to our girl Michelle! We’ve missed you this week and can’t wait to have your beautiful, creative soul back home! We love you! 💍👰🤵
It was an awesome turn out and fun crowd at @buckleyvineyards for their first annual Beard Bash. 🧔♂️
Awesome prizes, donated by Art Works and other local companies were given to these deserving winners with their fantastic, cared for facial hair. 😂 🤗
OUR GIRL IS OFFICIALLY LICENSED!! 🪪 👏👏👏
Looking for a new stylist? A well-rounded stylist who listens to your hair needs?
Baley is a naturally talented artist whose desire to make people feel great reflects directly in her work behind the chair. Check out some of her work 👉
Using top of the line plant-based professional products and color @allnutrient @aveda is our way of life @art_works_ga. 🌱
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon
When you need to borrow a twistie but can’t lose your place on your client. 🤪
Like a good neighbor, Chelci is there.
When your staff asks you to celebrate themed Halloween days for the whole week, you oblige. 💀👻🎃
The Purge was today, and everyone made it through the day. 🎬🔪⚔️🤪
🚨 We need your help, friends! 🚨
Our current Facebook page has been giving us all kinds of setup and capability issues, so we’ve created a brand new page to keep things running smoothly! 💇♀️✨
👉 Please follow our new page: Art Works Salon & Day Spa – New Page 👈
We’re working on deleting or merging the old one soon, so make sure you’re following the new page to stay updated on all the fun, specials, and salon happenings! 💕
Thank you for supporting us through every trim, tone, and transition — we can’t wait to keep connecting with you!
#ArtWorksSalon #NewPageWhoDis #SalonLife #FollowUs #HairAndSpaVibes
Merry Christmas Eve from some of the Art Works Staff…and Fred. 🎄
CIRCUS DAY at Art Works…and we brought the circus to the Boo Bash 🤡🎪🎡
If you can’t have fun at work, what are you doing?
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Please follow our new Facebook page- Art Works Salon & Day Spa- New Page (old page will be deleted due to capability issues)- Like being able to tag this new page 😂
📚 Having a deep understanding of the chemistry of hair color and the physical science of hair is such an amazing tool in our industry.👩🔬
🤔 For so many of us, schools fly through our color chemistry education and we don’t truly absorb SO much of it at the beginning.
💡Going “back to the basics” can make so many light bulbs go off for us, no matter how long we’ve been doing hair color!
🌈 The hair color world has changed drastically over the last 15 years. So many more options of products and possibilities have made our job a constant evolution!!
But one thing never changes. Science. 🧪
⚫️ Do you know what ammonia’s specific job is? Or ammonia substitutes?
⚫️ Do you know what peroxide’s specific job is?
⚫️ Do you know the major difference between pigment and melanin, in reference to coloring hair?
⚫️ Do you use the color wheel every time you formulate, so you can correctly enhance or neutralize remaining pigment? Or create ashy tones?
We can help! Our private classes at Art Works are available for anyone in our industry who would like to join.
Call or text us to be put on the contact list for the next time we plan one! 👇
706 635 2781 (ART1)
#haircoloreducation #organiccolor #ellijaysalon
A little 50’s vibe with a current, trendy outcome! 🤗
Style by Baley
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All Organic 🌱 All the time.
#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon plantbasedbeauty artworkssalon
Thank you Tim and Baley for donating your time last minute to make the kids of Gilmer County feel great about themselves at this local Christmas Event! 🎄
We have such a great team with big hearts, thank you for representing Art Works!
Looking to add some vibrancy and shine?
Our go-to organic color line @allnutrient delivers rich tone, radiant shine, and healthier-looking hair—all in one. Clean, vibrant, and full of life. 🌱✨
Cut, Color and Style by Baley
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#instahair #organicsalon #ellijaysalon #plantbasedbeauty #artworkssalon
Thank you to our crew for making Ping’s and my joint-birthday celebration so delicious…with some of “The Office” humor in the decorations…and T Shirt. 😂
#TaiAndPingsAsianBlastStrikesAgain2025
Every position this color is in makes it look like a different color. 🌈 Can’t stop playing with it! 🎨🧑🏼🎨🖌️
Cut, Color and Style by Tai/ Braids by Baley
#organicsalon #instagood #picoftheday #ellijaysalon #plantbasedbeauty
Do you have a ton of natural white or silver around your face? Do you color your roots every few weeks to cover it?
Choosing a color that contrasts with your regrowth as little as possible is always going to be less maintenance.
For this client- we weave blonde into her face frame- where she is naturally white. We then cover the rest of her “salt and pepper” natural with a light brown. This gives her a soft grow out, without going all over blonde! Plus, a little bit of spunk. 🤗
Cut, color and Style by Tai
All Organic 🌱 All the time.
#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon plantbasedbeauty artworkssalon
🌈 A little kaleidoscope moment ✨
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#KaleidoscopeHair #VibrantHair #ColorPlay #SalonColor #RainbowHair
📣Let’s talk BLONDE expectations vs. reality
Blonde is a journey, not a one-stop flight to platinum (Especially if you have been coloring your hair dark and have baby fine hair)
Yes... many people will say that they…
“have a hairstylist, or know a hairstylist who is able to take black box dye and turn in platinum in one day and all the hair was silkier and healthier than ever.” That is not a reality for most clients. It is all dependent on the current health of the hair, color history, hair texture, budget, and time allotted for the appointment. We always want to do our best to keep our clients’ hair healthy and taking our time (when necessary).
We always warn our clients... it’s going to take 4-7 appointments & you will have Warmth, contrast, and depth along the way. It’s a part of the process, if we want to play it safe with your hair & keep ALL your length.
💛🥭Appointment 1: expect warmth (hello mango,
honey, golden glow)
🖤High contrast + less warmth often needs at least
one visit
🤍“Universal blonding” ALWAYS has warmth built in
❄️* Platinum is earned, not rushed (sometimes that’s appt #5, for others is appt #7)
✨* Dimensional blonde lives in the mix of warm + cool
⏰ Rushing blonde = compromised hair.
🫶Trusting the process = healthy, shiny, long-term
magic.
🌈If your dark isn’t platinum yet, that doesn’t mean it’s wrong, it means it’s on the way.
🙏STYLISTS, SAVE THIS. It’s a perfect guide for your next dark to blonde consultation.
🦄 CLIENTS, if you want to go blonde, SAVE THIS & show your stylist what steps you’re willing to take!
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood organicsalon ellijaysalon
@sydneyannlopezhair Thanks for the posting material!
Happiest of Birthdays to both of our Pisces! ♓️
Michelle wanted “Everything Asian” for her spread. 🍱
Baley wanted “Everything Italian” for hers. 🍝
We love to spoil each other. Welcome to a place where everyone’s love language is FOOD. 🍔🌮🥗🍕🍗🍛🥟🍳🥞🍪🧁🥧🎂🍓🍌🧀🥜🥩🥦🍯🍚🥐🍴
When your client is going to a Football Game in Buffalo, and she wants her hat to be a team-spirit hat, but she can’t find one warm enough in the right colors, you let her know that you can just add some colorful extensions to that sucker.
#problemsolved
Chelci’s doing.
Love dimensional color but wanting to keep it low maintenance?
Need a new style but don’t want to cut too much off?
Lighten it up! ✨ Color-wise AND Cut-wise!
Balayage concentrated around the face, and off of the root area gives an impactful color with a soft grow out.
Feathered face framing, blended into light, long layers throughout the rest of the hair allows a change without loss of length! 📏
Cut, Color and Style by Tai
706 635 2781 (ART1) text or call
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All Organic 🌱 All the time.
#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon
Want to go blonde but don’t want the maintenance?
How about a fashionable cut to give you a fresh start?
Lived in Blonde created with teased highlights/balayage combination. Blunt cut with beachy/textured top layers.
Cut, Color and Style by Tai
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon
Blonde, but better 🤍 Slightly Rooted. Refreshed. Radiant ✨
Cut, Color and Style by Baley
#plantbasedbeauty #organiccolor #avedacolor #organicsalon #hairstylist
Vivids don’t have to be all over color- this is your sign 💜
Cut, Color and Style by Baley
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon
❤️❤️❤️ This is part of what makes the difficulties of this industry worth it. Making people feel great when they are down, and celebrating with them when they are up. ☺️
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Missing summer? ☀️ Let’s manifest Summer with more Blonding! 😎
Want to go more blonde, and have your hair feel better than before? 👩🦳 You got it! Only the best organic color and products for our clients at Art Works. 🌱
Cut, Color and Style by Baley
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon
Fun Fact ☑️ If you look at split ends under a microscope- you could say that it might remind you of a tree or maybe a never ending banana peel🍌.
Want your hair to grow? 🧐 Get. Your. Trims.
Just make sure your stylist knows you are wanting it to grow, and to take off the bare minimum! Do this every other month and VOILA 🪄 You will have the results you are looking for.
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon plantbasedbeauty artworkssalon
Razors make us sassy. 💁♀️ Lived- in caramel highlights make us happy. 😃 So. We be sassy-happy. 🤗
Cut, Color and Style by Tai
All Organic 🌱 All the time.
#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon plantbasedbeauty artworkssalon
After the chaos of the holidays, don’t forget to pre book your next appointment to take care of yourself! ❤️
Thank you, Dolly, for making the world just a little better. 🥰🎄🎅
It may seem like fixing this issue is as simple as slapping one color all over- but it is not…
1️⃣ Use a color “remover” (which rarely actually removes dark color) to help loosen & dispel color molecules to create more room in the hair for the next step.
2️⃣ Create multiple formulas to apply over each of the different tones, moving through the hair in small sections to select where to paint each formula as you go.
3️⃣ Reconstruct. Without reconstructing, the color molecules will not attach themselves as well, creating more of a likelihood of an uneven fade because of the starting point.
Cut, Color and Style by Chelci
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon #plantbasedbeauty #artworkssalon
If you haven’t seen our new website- www.artworksga.com -check us out! Easily find all of the staff’s bios/portfolios, request to book an appointment, blogging questions and answers for everything beauty, and so much more!
Check out this ✨ SHINE ✨
Using @allnutrient organic color never fails. 🎉
Cut, Color and Style by our newest talent @baleyjane.creations
#ArtWorksSalon #AllNutrientColor #OrganicHairColor #HealthyHairGoals #SalonVibes #EcoBeauty #GlossyHair
These are non-negotiable. Doctors orders. Hair Doctors. 🤓
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#instahair #organicsalon #ellijaysalon #plantbasedbeauty #artworkssalon
True words in many ways! ✂️
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#selfcare #lettinggo #freshstart
Needing a change? How about This transformation from brunette to a beautiful golden blonde?
Cut, Color and Style by Michelle #organicsalon #plantbasedbeauty #ellijaysalon #instagood
Wishing you could be blonde but not need to sacrifice the health of your hair? We’ve got you! Organic, plant based color @allnutrient and products @aveda will make sure of it! 🌱
Everyone has to take a different path to get there, but the path can be a fun adventure of beautiful colors along the way!
Maintaining the health of your hair is our #1 priority when coming up with a game plan, and it is always worth doing it right!
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon ellijaysalon plantbasedbeauty artworkssalon
Soft, feathered layers + bright face-framing highlights = instant glow ✨
Light, bouncy, and just the right amount of fun.
Cut, Color and Style by Tai
#FeatheredLayers #FaceFraming #FreshHair #LivedInColor #HairGoals SalonVibes EffortlessStyle
Rolling out a honey balayage that checks all the boxes for easy upkeep, soft dimension, and a natural glow. Organic color and products keep the hair shiny, touchable, and healthy—making this look a smooth, low-maintenance win.
#HoneyBalayage #DimensionalColor #LowMaintenanceHair #OrganicColor #SoftGlow #HealthyHair #BalayageVibes #SalonTransformation
You don’t have to be a hair dresser to relate to this. 🙃
Protect your investment!
⏰Please wait 48 hours before shampooing your hair after your coloring service.
💦 Even if you have a filtration system on your house or shower head, using a chemical/mineral chelating product like ClarPhx from @allnutrient can help retain the tone of your color.
🔥 If you are using a blow dryer or any other heating tool without a heat protectant, you will cut the longevity of your color in half, easily.
💆♀️ Ask your stylist about realistic expectations of color maintenance, every color and client is unique!
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon
The Eighty’s have made it full circle in the fashion industry in a handful of ways! Especially with young men!
Does this hair give you flashbacks? 🕰️
Cut and Perm by Michelle
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon
Help us to Help you. 😀
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon
Lacking dimension in your hair color? Needing to add some shine and bounce back into your hair, even after it’s been colored?
@allnutrient & @aveda hair color and products can give you the best of both. 🌱
Cut, Color and Style by Tai
706 635 2781 (ART1) text or call
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All Organic 🌱 All the time.
#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #plantbasedbeauty
Wanting a color that you could fool people into thinking it’s your natural?
Ask and you shall receive!
Cut, Color and Style by Michelle
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon plantbasedbeauty artworkssalon
Swipe 👉 to see an AWESOME 😎 transformation from Brunette to Golden Blonde 👱♀️
Looking for a change? We got you! 🤩
Cut, Color and Style by Michelle
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#goldenblonde #transformation #organicsalon
Lacking dimension in your color? Wishing you could add some shine? 🤩
Plant-based color that lasts. 🫧 Warm tones that glisten. ✨
Cut, Color and Style by Chelci
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon plantbasedbeauty artworkssalon
Are you on the naughty list? These things are deal breakers!
If you do the opposite of everything you see here…you will see the benefits of being on the nice list! It will be the healthiest and thickest your hair has ever been. 💇♀️
Hand painted to perfection! All smiles around here. 🙃
Cut, Color and Style by Michelle
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#picoftheday #instahair #instagood #organicsalon #ellijaysalon #plantbasedbeauty #artworkssalon
Beautiful pastel accents are a great way to have some fun with your hair without taking too big of a leap! We love this placement and the decision of tones to compliment this young clients natural color.
Cut, Color and Style by Baley
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