Owner/Stylist


Salon Hours

Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 9pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 9pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm
SundayClosed
photo of Karen Mitchell-Wood, Owner/Stylist Karen Mitchell-Wood
Salon Oasis and Day Spa
8504 N Church Road
Kansas City, MO, 64157 USA
816-415-3733

Karen Wood was a stay-at-home mom with 5 children when her husband became terminally ill. She needed to find a way to take care of her family while her husband received care for brain cancer. Her grandmother told her she needed to go to beauty school - and that she was going to pay for it.

Thanks to this help from her grandmother, Karen found her second calling in life. Beauty school was a place where Karen excelled, and the beauty industry and hair styling came naturally to her. After graduation, Karen worked at a few salons in Kansas City, enjoying meeting new people and helping them to feel and look their best. As a hair stylist, Karen was able to support her family during her husbands illness.

After several years in an open salon environment, Karen wanted a chance to run her own business. She moved from the open salon to renting her own station. She ran her own hair styling business from that station for eleven years. There, the seed was planted for Karen to someday open her own salon.

During this time, Karen began traveling to third-world countries on mission trips to help people living in garbage cities. She was called to serve after learning that these people needed basic care - like haircuts. She knew she could make a difference in their lives by showing them someone cared about them.

Karen returned from a mission trip to find that someone had purchased the salon where she had been renting her station. She knew it was time to pursue her own dream. Karen would open her own salon built around her mission to help and serve others. She would expand the business to include spa services as well, another way to help people heal and grow through the power of touch. In that way, she would also serve another important calling - to help other beauty professionals get started on their own careers.

After searching for the perfect location, Karen settled on the storefront building now home to Salon Oasis and Day Spa which opened on October 6, 2001. It took a lot of planning, designing, and dreaming, and after starting out as a single storefront, Salon Oasis and Day Spa has expanded over the years to three times its original size.

Karen succeeded in her mission of creating a place with the highest level of professionalism and a relaxing atmosphere. Salon Oasis and Day Spa set a new standard for service in northland Kansas City.

Salon Oasis and Day Spa has been built around the belief that the focus of all service is on the guest. Everything revolves around this principle - the design of the salon and spa, the one-on-one attention and the personalized greetings for each guest.

Karen plans to continue to offer the same level of service on into the future. Salon Oasis and Day Spa will continue to educate up-and-coming service providers with its Associates Program - and give back to the community by supporting and participating in community causes.