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The sounds of hair dryers blowing, stylists and customers chatting, and music playing greet customers who walk into Fusions Salon and Spa, nearly overpowering the memory of the salon’s last few difficult months.

Fusions closed for three months after a flood, but have reopened and offer services to customers including cuts, colors, manicures, pedicures, texture and waxing.

The salon also provides a private salon room for customers who want a modest salon experience.

“We have the only private room in the area, which is great for women who wear the hijab,” said Salena Moore, manager of Fusions. “The private room is basically its own little salon.”

In addition to the private room, Fusions likes to keep its products organic and local.

“We try to keep as much organic as we can,” Moore said. “We make our own sugar scrubs for pedicures and lotions.”

A few months ago, the cosmetologists who enjoy styling hair and doing manicures couldn’t even help customers. Fusions shut down in April after a water pipeline burst and caused the building to flood. The salon has been back in operation for three and a half months, but the flood affected business even after reopening.

“It’s been bad because we used to have tons of (customers) at the beginning of the year, and now we’re at half,” owner and operator of Fusions, Jennifer Wolfe said.

During the flood, Fusions’ frequent customers had to visit other salons, Moore said, so getting customers back has been a slow process.

“We’ve gotten several of our regulars back, it’s just kind of slow-going,” Moore said.

Throughout the close, Fusions kept updating customers via social media of when they planned to reopen, she said.

“We would get questions (like) ‘are you guys open yet?’” Moore said.

Wolfe said they continue to get busier and busier, but they still don’t have nearly as many clients as they expected during August and September.

“We are having to close down if we don’t have appointments to save on electricity,” Wolfe said. “If there’s no appointments, we aren’t staying because there’s nobody here, and I don’t want to waste electricity.”

Fusions has been in business for over two years, so the women said they will continue to work to get the salon back to where it was.

“We’re strong together, so we help each other,” Wolfe said. “The flood was the worst, so it’s going to be an uphill process again.”

She added that the women were already friends before the flood.

“I love it so much here, it’s amazing,” cosmetologist at Fusions, Brittany Benninger said.

Due to flood damage, construction crews renovated the building. New walls and flooring were installed, and while they salvaged as much furniture as they could, some had to be replaced. The flood cost Fusions much of its inventory as well, Wolfe said.

“We still don’t have all of our inventory back,” she said. “We lost a lot of our product from it being in a storage unit with the heat.”

After reopening, Fusions continues to operate from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

“We’re all pretty much the same in here,” she said.