PJ's Barbers & Stylists

Founder Patricia Boykins thought very little about hair until she stumbled upon an ad for a beauty school enrolling new students on her way home from work in the late 1980s. It was at this school that her love and passion for hair began to grow and blossom. In the years that followed, she worked at several salons, where she learned the ins and outs of the business. Patricia worked her way up from a stylist to barber and eventually manager. In 1992, the opportunity to own a salon presented itself. Patricia took a leap of faith by using her life savings to purchase the very salon she had been working in as a stylist. The business she bought became PJ’s Barbers and Stylists, and it opened its doors for business in Chinatown, Washington DC on October 17th, 1992. In 1996, Patricia was inspired to move to her own neighborhood of Anacostia in the southeast quadrant of the city. It was an unlikely choice, but Anacostia was where she was meant to be all along. Ever since, Patricia and her te