Private Grooming · Chicago
Private, in-home grooming for Chicago men who value time, privacy, and consistency.
You should never walk into a room wondering how you look.
The Real Cost
The drive, the parking, the wait, the interruption. A traditional appointment can take a morning. CRAYTON comes to you, on your calendar.
The conventional appointment
Cost to your day≈ 2 hours 20 minutes
Typical figures, not a survey. Most of it is logistics, not the result.
A private appointment
Cost to your dayThe hour you chose
The appointment is $500. What it buys is the hour you keep, without the commute, waiting, or interruption.
Private appointments are $500. Request a time.
I moved out to Colorado and I won't even get my haircut out here. I'll fly back home for the haircut by him.
A client, on why he still books
The Experience
Two minutes on the form below. I read every one myself and reply by text, so you never have to find time for a call. Prefer to talk? Say so.
Everything arrives and is set up before we begin. An unhurried cut built around your face and how you actually style it. You should look considered, not freshly cut.
Everything is packed away and your space left as it was. Your cut is written down, so the next one starts from what you approved.
Your next three weeks, handled.
Why Private
Not a haircut. The composure of knowing you look exactly right.
The appointment happens inside your day rather than around it. No commute, no queue, and no dead half-hour.
No public floor, no conversations overheard, no name confirmed to anyone. For a client whose face is known, that is the requirement.
The same hands every time, from a written record. What you approved in March is what you get in September.
The Appointment
The Private Appointment is $500. Beard shaping and straight-razor detail are available as a $125 add-on, confirmed before the appointment.
At your home, hotel, or office · 60 to 90 minutes
Included
Optional add-on
Beard shaping and straight-razor detail
Confirmed before the appointment, never added on the day.
+$125
The Assurance
More than twenty minutes late without telling you, and you may decline without charge. If the result is not right, say so before I leave and I will correct it. If it still is not right, you do not pay.
No payment required to request. Answered by text within the hour, 8am to 8pm.
Prefer to ask first? Call or text .
The Setup
A full professional setup arrives and is assembled before we begin: the chair, the lighting, linens and tools. You provide the room. Nothing else.
The chair is the part most men assume they give up: the difference between a proper appointment and a stool pulled up to a mirror. Carried in, set up where you want it, carried out again. You trade the commute, not the standard.
Everything is packed away and removed before I leave. Your home, hotel suite, or office is left as it was.
After Your First Appointment
Nothing to decide yet. Retainers are arranged after a first appointment, once you have seen the work. Here so you know where this goes, not so you choose now.
Reserved Access
$950per month
For the man who never wants to think about booking it again.
Priority Access
$1,400per month
For the man whose calendar moves, and who must look right on the days it moves toward.
Full Access · By Invitation
$2,200per month
For the man who is seen constantly and cannot afford an off week.
Monthly, no contract, no minimum term. Pause or cancel any month with 30 days’ notice, subject to agreed availability.
Tell me which tier interests you and I'll confirm what's currently open.
Who You're Trusting
I'm Malique Crayton, Founder and Private Grooming Specialist. Three appointments a day, deliberately: the same result every time, starting when it is meant to, does not survive volume.
The person who cuts your hair the first time cuts it every time after, and never from scratch. The things you would never think to mention are the difference between a good haircut and one you stop thinking about.
Discretion
Names are withheld on purpose.
Clients are not asked to write public reviews. Discretion is part of what this sells, and it does not stop at the door.
Praise stays private, the same way names and addresses do. If you want to hear it first-hand, ask and I will arrange it.
References available on request.
Questions
Not a haircut with delivery added: an unhurried appointment at your address, the setup brought and removed, a written record so it repeats. You keep the hour a shop would have taken.
Everything listed beside the price above, travel and setup through to cleanup. Beard shaping and straight-razor detail are available as a $125 add-on, confirmed before the appointment.
The neighborhoods listed at the top of this page, and the near North Shore. Travel within that area is included; beyond it, quoted before you book.
Most appointments take 60 to 90 minutes, including setup and reset. The first runs to the longer end.
By card, through a private link once your request is accepted. Nothing is charged to send one. Retainers bill monthly from the date you begin.
Names are never published, never used in marketing, never confirmed to anyone. Confidentiality agreements signed on request.
Request an Appointment
Where you would like to be seen, and roughly when. Answered by text within the hour, 8am to 8pm.
Direct access
Questions, or need today? Text or call. It reaches me, not a front desk.
Prefer to write? maliquecrayton1@gmail.com
I have it. You will get a text with availability and the confirmed price for your address.
Anything in the meantime, call or text .
Or write, if you prefer: maliquecrayton1@gmail.com