# The Collection, Gahanna: a beauty salon in Gahanna (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/oh/gahanna/the-collection-gahanna-oh. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 33 sources. Updated 2026-10-23. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/oh/gahanna/the-collection-gahanna-oh

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## In short

The Collection is a beauty salon in Gahanna, OH. Its AI Score is 36 of 100, which is poor.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Beauty salon |
| Address | 1378 N Hamilton Rd, Gahanna, OH 43230, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 8 PM · Sat 9 AM to 6 PM · Sun 10 AM to 5 PM |
| Phone | (614) 477-8199 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.6 across 147 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Connie dearwester and Emily looney |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Monday |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | October 20, 2026, 7:31 AM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1378 N Hamilton Rd, Gahanna, OH 43230, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 15,000 square foot State of the Art Facility designed for the salon professional Salon and Facilities Director on-site Studio 99 for education, bridal parties and special events on-site Medi Spa for skin services on-site | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | The Collection | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (614) 477-8199 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Alycia sangvone | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Anna tran | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Annette saveski | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Bree brickner | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Bridal parties | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Carrie daniels | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Chau mcmahan | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Chelsie smith | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Connie dearwester | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Deyett brown | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Emily looney | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Jane wilcox | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Jess odenweller | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Kelly hayes | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Kenya gibbs | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Keo atkinson | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Kristi murphy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Kristi tran | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Kyla ross | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Lauren vannatta | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Mallory dearwester | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Mary peterman | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Melissa mclain | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Missy buccicone | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Nick burns | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Niki evans | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Nina tran | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Olivia duck | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Selena abbington | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Skin services | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Tacischuler | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Tammy tran | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/thecollectionsalon | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/the_collection_salons | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Links | Website | http://www.thecollectionsalons.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 4, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 30 services The Collection offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Connie dearwester |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Emily looney |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Kelly hayes |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Carrie daniels |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Mallory dearwester |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Kenya gibbs |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Lauren vannatta |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Chau mcmahan |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Keo atkinson |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Niki evans |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Nick burns |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Missy buccicone |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Melissa mclain |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Mary peterman |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Kristi murphy |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Tammy tran |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Anna tran |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Annette saveski |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Bree brickner |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Kristi tran |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Kyla ross |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Nina tran |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Olivia duck |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Selena abbington |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Chelsie smith |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Tacischuler |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Alycia sangvone |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Jess odenweller |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Jane wilcox |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Deyett brown |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

The Collection stands out for its variety of independent beauty services, offering a personalized salon experience with skilled professionals. Clients appreciate the unique atmosphere and the quality of services provided.

- Connie dearwester: 20% of reviews (AI guess, counted across 5 reviews)
- Emily looney: 20% of reviews (AI guess, counted across 5 reviews)


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting The Collection

Address: 1378 N Hamilton Rd, Gahanna, OH 43230, USA. Phone: (614) 477-8199. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 8 PM · Sat 9 AM to 6 PM · Sun 10 AM to 5 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by The Collection on its Google Business Profile: "15,000 square foot State of the Art Facility designed for the salon professional

Salon and Facilities Director on-site

Studio 99 for education, bridal parties and special events on-site

Medi Spa for skin services on-site"


### When to go

Quietest day: Monday. Busiest day: Friday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Casa Hacienda Mexican Grill | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Smoothie King | Food | 1 min walk |
| Bob Evans | Family restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Starbucks Coffee Company | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |
| Jersey Mike's Subs | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk |
| Tora | Japanese restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.6 average across 147 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read September 4, 2026.)

The Collection features a variety of independent beauty professionals but struggles with customer service consistency. (AI guess, from 147 reviews.)


### What people like

- Jeff Ours as the best barber


### What people do not like

- Unresponsive receptionist
- Missed appointments without notification
- Uneven haircuts and poor service


### Press

No press story about The Collection found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from The Collection

The Collection hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### how much is a first visit around here

No answer yet


### anything I should sort out before a first appointment here?

No answer yet


### bad experiences at The Collection, anyone?

No answer yet


### Calling this salon, or is there a better way?

No answer yet


### best beauty salon in Gahanna

No answer yet


### The Collection, any chance to book in this week?

No answer yet


### Does The Collection split it over a few months?

No answer yet


### somewhere cheaper in Gahanna that is not a risk?

No answer yet


### torn between The Collection and Salon Lofts for Diverse independent beauty services?

No answer yet


### address for The Collection, anyone have it?

No answer yet


### what else is on Hamilton around The Collection?

No answer yet


### pricey at The Collection, or about normal?

No answer yet


### anyone actually happy with this salon?

No answer yet


### Are the hours on Google right for The Collection in Gahanna?

No answer yet


### last update from here was when?

No answer yet


### services here, what do people go in for?

No answer yet


### is there a day here that is not slammed

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about The Collection

We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about The Collection. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 23, 2026. Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 23, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 36 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Gahanna beauty salons run 22 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Collection scores 36, level with the Gahanna average. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Collection |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 23 answers that recommended anyone. 17 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 95 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 58 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 74 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a beauty salon

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a beauty salon in Ohio, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
- Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.
- Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with Ohio.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including The Collection if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to The Collection |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Collection | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.thecollectionsalons.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Gahanna, Ohio | City | #city | Nothing found | City The Collection is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the beauty salons in Gahanna, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best beauty salons in Gahanna: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/gahanna/beauty-salon
- Best businesses in Gahanna: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/gahanna


### Nearby

- /columbus: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/columbus
- /cleveland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/cleveland
- /toledo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/toledo
- /grove-city: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/grove-city
- /dublin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/dublin
- /reynoldsburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/reynoldsburg


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Ohio: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own The Collection. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

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- [3] thecollectionsalons.com, https://www.thecollectionsalons.com/anna-tran (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] thecollectionsalons.com, https://www.thecollectionsalons.com/annette-saveski (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] thecollectionsalons.com, https://www.thecollectionsalons.com/bree-brickner (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] thecollectionsalons.com, https://www.thecollectionsalons.com/selena-abbington (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [7] thecollectionsalons.com, https://www.thecollectionsalons.com/tacischuler (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
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- [29] thecollectionsalons.com, https://www.thecollectionsalons.com/niki-evans (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
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- [31] thecollectionsalons.com, https://www.thecollectionsalons.com/olivia-duck (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
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