Hair & Styling in Evansville

• For $12, you get a haircut and style ($17.95 value) and deep-conditioning treatment ($10.95 value; a $28.90 total value). • For $30, you get a haircut and style ($17.95 value), partial highlights ($46 value), and a deep-conditioning treatment ($10.95 value; a $74.90 total value). A full-service salon for the whole family, Fantastic Sams has hair-savvy staff shearers that tame frazzled flax into more maintainable styles. All haircuts start with a soothing shampoo using Fantastic Sams' signature line of products intended to promote hair health and rid the cranium of laser-tag-related stresses. Whether clients plan to consult the stylist about face-flattering looks or replicate the head-hide of a favorite state senator, scissors-wielders snip and style ($17.95) each lock to match the desired look. Deep-conditioning treatments ($10.95) reach into locks’ recesses, infusing follicles with moisture as they wrestle four-square balls from playground bullies. Like a good movie of a classic novel, partial highlights ($46) introduce a subtle new hue but maintain the essence of the original.

With top-of-the-line Aveda skin- and body-care products and Aveda-certified technicians, Solaris polishes profiles and mollifies muscles with rejuvenating spa treatments. The fusion-stone massage employs smooth, heated stones, aromatherapy, and Swedish massage strokes to unknot tense tendons and send minds off to placid pastures. Those seeking to mollycoddle their mugs can opt for the customized Elemental Nature facial, which fights frowns and various skin conditions to leave faces buffed and more radiant than a neon radiator. Solaris Aveda Salon & Spa maintains a clean, relaxing environment with cozy furnishings and private treatment rooms for client comfort.

Signature Service: Color, highlights and lowlights, haircut, blow-dry Brands Used: Matrix, Paul Mitchell, Sexy Hair, and Shwartzkopf color Established: 1990 Reservations/Appointments: Recommended Staff Size: One person Parking: Parking lot Handicap Accessible: Yes Good for Kids: Yes Walk-ins Welcome: Yes Michelle Beckner is an artist who uses numerous media. At home, she redecorates furniture with van Gogh chalk paint, and at Sola Salon Studios, she transforms strands into stylish looks. In addition to executing masterful clipper cuts and vibrant color, Michelle specializes in sophisticated formal updos and multidimensional foil highlights.

Owner Janie Blunk and the beauty experts at Head to Toe Salon & Spa pamper their clients' hair, skin, and nails with a full menu of aesthetic services. In addition to haircuts, facials, and mani-pedis, they also beautify bods with specialty treatments such as permanent makeup, oxygen-infusion facials, and Victoria Morton's Suddenly Slender mineral body wraps. These wraps work to banish cellulite and wrinkles by detoxifying the body and tightening the skin, leaving you looking as smooth and soft as a newborn kitten.

In the comforting confines of the Art and Science of Hair salon, a tanning technician deftly administers spray tans completely by hand. Performing the service manually ensures an even and consistent tan for fall, winter, and summer months spent hibernating in the freezer. While you're at Art and Science, you can stick around and try out some of the salon's other services (for extra fees), which include haircuts, body-wraps, styling, and mani-pedis.

Amid the whirl of blow dryers and friendly chatter, Crystal creates classic, modern, and edgy styles with ease. Her scissors evict unwanted length or build volume with simple layering or feathering techniques. And highlight treatments can give monochromatic locks some depth. She also twists and curls coifs into chic updos for special occasions, such as prom or a Suzuki dealership's grand re-opening.