First Class Fades

Your work speaks for you even when you are not in the room. Treat every client, customer, and relationship with care. Keep going.

A little heads up—my week is SHORT this week! 💈🌴

I’ll only be at the shop for a short time Wednesday, so if you need me before I leave, come early because those spots will go quick! If you’re interested in getting in before I open at 9 Wednesday, message me and I’ll give you the details. 💙

Then I’m headed to the beach to get my mama married! 🥹🌴💍 I’ll be gone the rest of the week and back next week.

This week at First Class Fades:

💈 Summer: Wednesday — limited hours
💈 Megan: Thursday & Friday 9–5
💈 Candice: Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 9–5ish, with earlier/later times available by contacting her. Saturday by appointment only.

The shop will still be in good hands while I’m gone! 💙💈

Three different personalities all packed into one little shop, with a whole lot of laughs along the way.🩵
The girls behind First Class Fades.💈💕

This design was out of this world! ⭐️

❗️Potential discount❗️
Got a design you’ve been dying to see me try? 👀 Drop an inspo pic in the comments and reply to your inspo pic with a picture of your future model! I’ll be picking a few designs that catch my eye and offering a discount on a design to bring to life! 💈

Let’s see what y’all can come up with!😎✨

It’s my birthday🥳, and after almost 5 years of First Class Fades, I realized I’ve spent a whole lot of time showing you my work and very little time actually introducing myself. 😂 So, hi! I’m Summer. 👋🏼💙💈

I went to cosmetology school while I was still in high school because I knew I wanted to graduate with a career already under my belt. I graduated 7 months pregnant with my oldest daughter, so figuring out what I was going to do with my life meant a little more than just choosing a career. I wanted to build a solid life for my kids and give them the kind of stability I didn’t always have growing up.

Barbering definitely wasn’t some lifelong plan. I kind of fell into men’s hair during school and quickly realized it was where I felt the most comfortable and where I was happiest. I started focusing on men’s cutting 8 years ago, and eventually took a chance on myself and opened First Class Fades.

I wanted to create something I felt Poplar Bluff was missing; a shop where quality came before quantity, people weren’t rushed through the chair, and kids were just as welcome as anybody else. Almost five years later, those are still some of the things that matter most to me.

If you’ve sat in my chair, you probably know I ask a million questions before I start cutting. 😂 I want to know exactly what you want, what you don’t want, and what worked last time. I’ll also probably remember where you work, what sport your kid plays, or something you told me three haircuts ago. I’m thorough, a little quirky, occasionally blunt, usually joking, and very genuinely myself. More than anything, I genuinely care about people. I want you to feel comfortable in my chair, and I care about how you feel when you get out of it.

Outside of the shop, I’m a mom of two, a college student graduating in May, a softball coach, and an animal lover with two dogs and two cats. I love hiking, iced lattes, watermelon Red Bulls, and apparently adrenaline enough to jump out of an airplane for my birthday last year. 😂 I keep myself ridiculously busy, but I think that’s just who I am. I’m very goal-oriented, I like feeling useful, and I’m almost always working toward something.

Of everything I’ve accomplished, though, First Class Fades is something I’m incredibly proud of. I built this place from nothing, and knowing our name has become associated with quality work means more to me than I can explain. I’m especially proud that parents know they can bring their little ones here and trust that they’ll be welcomed and met wherever they’re at, even when haircuts aren’t easy.

I started all of this wanting to build a solid life for my kids. Somewhere along the way, barbering and First Class Fades gave me exactly that; and became something bigger than I ever expected. Nearly five years later, I still don’t take for granted that people in this community know our name, trust our work, and continue choosing us.

So, another trip around the sun and I guess it was finally time you knew a little more about the girl behind the chair. 😂 Thank you for trusting me with your families, telling me about your lives, laughing at my terrible jokes, supporting this little shop, and helping me build something that changed my kids’ lives and mine. 💙💈

You can take the hat off, but the hat ain’t leaving. 😂🧢

Started this haircut on an OG client, saw the evidence of a long blue-collar summer, and immediately started laughing. 😂 Around here, a hat tan this committed deserves some recognition.

My blue-collar guys get it. 😂💈

The smallest members of the First Class Fades family.💈
They come see Summer for haircuts but somewhere along the way, the big haired barber with a claw clip becomes a familiar face they trust.💙 Getting to watch these little guys grow up is one of the sweetest parts of what I do.🥹