Ditch Your Hair Anxiety at the Door

About Sam’s Shears

Samantha Maxwell, the owner of Sam’s Shears, has one goal: to enhance her customer’s natural beauty. After working for more than a decade in the hair industry, Maxwell decided to open her own shop in Clarksburg and has steadily grown a following of regular, satisfied customers.

While other salons are focused on quick customer turnover, Samantha is more interested in taking her time and giving the customer exactly what they want. Before she even picks up her scissors, Samantha likes to have an in-depth conversation with her customers, asking them about their wants, needs and desires.

“I want this to be a place where people can come and feel welcomed,” she said. “They can tell me what they want and they can get what they want.”

During her time in the industry, she has heard from countless customers who left a salon feeling rushed and pressured into a cut or style they really didn’t want.

“When people go to get their hair done, they’ve had so many bad experiences that they’ll have really bad anxiety,” she said. “When you come into my salon I want you to leave that anxiety at the door.”



In addition to haircuts for men and women of all ages, the business also offers an array of services including waxing and balayage, a technique of painting hair by hand.



”I can’t say that I specialize in any certain thing, because everything that I do is top-notch,” Maxwell said.