The beginning of the Adair family beauty legacy
Chelsea’s great-grandmother Phyllis Adair starts the family in hair. The trade gets handed down from there — grandmother, mother, aunt, uncle.
Chelsea gets behind her chair
Fourth generation. She builds a book in North County the old-fashioned way: one happy client telling another.
The first salon, Encinitas
Chelsea opens her own place and outgrows it in three years — faster than she planned for.
Carlsbad, Embarcadero Lane
The salon moves into its current home and becomes the room it is today: greenery, neon, and a full beauty menu under one roof.
Hair loss joins the menu
Salon Adair adds hair loss services, and hair restoration becomes Chelsea’s main focus and specialty — the beginning of the salon’s shift from traditional salon to full-service destination.
Best Salon, San Diego
Voted best salon in San Diego. Chelsea begins traveling throughout the country, expanding her education, building industry relationships, and strengthening the Salon Adair brand.
Working internationally
Chelsea begins working internationally — Ireland, India and China — bringing what she learns back to the chair in Carlsbad.
Our own extension line
Salon Adair launches its own human hair extension line, hand-selected to the standard we were already demanding from suppliers.
A destination, not just a salon
Beauty, hair restoration, scalp health and wellness under one roof — still family-run, still booked, still the salon people drive past three closer ones to get to.
Giving back
Salon Adair gives back
We partner with Humanity Showers, bringing showers, haircuts and dignity to unhoused neighbours across San Diego County.
Humanity Showers