Highview, KY Beauty and Salons

The talented and experienced crew of scissors-wielding swashbucklers that comprise Shear Artistry Salon’s staff of stylists have dueled the toughest tresses and always emerge victorious. They'll give your locks a new cut that complements your face and lifestyle as often as it compliments it. After a blow-dry and styling, sit back and drink in Shear Artistry's upscale décor while a Redken deep-conditioning chemistry treatment alleviates hair stress caused by chemical overuse, normal wear-and-tear, and space-travel-induced gamma radiation. Like a heroic gunslinger’s sidearm, the Redken treatment comes in six “shots” (extreme, color extend, clear moisture, all soft, smooth, and real control), and you get to pick up to three:

Let the friendly stylists at the 25-year-old salon reign in your unruly mane and whip it into yearbook-worthy shape. This deal includes the haircut of your choice and a solid-color treatment—highlights are extra and not included in the price of the deal. Sit back and relax as your highly experienced stylist addresses your individual hair needs and gives you the cut and customized color that you want, instead of the cut they had a dream about their sister having. Call ahead to schedule your appointment.

The MVP haircut is reserved for guys who want the brawn of a chiseled cut with the extreme adrenaline rush of a pleasant pampering. Following careful instructions or expert intuition, stylists can clean up the edges without sacrificing any degree of edginess. A thorough shampoo and scalp massage ensures an itch-free walk off, while a neck and shoulder massage with steamed towel leaves cleaned-up batters with the zonal focus to connect on any upcoming office pitch.

Wild Strawberry Hair and Nail Studio's team of master Eufora Elite–certified stylists beautifies hair, skin, and nails using natural and organic products. Beneath twinkling crystal pendant lamps, stylists massage deep conditioners into scalps and cut, perm, and highlight hair. Conversely, the salon's aestheticians deftly remove unwanted body hair, leaving smooth, clean expanses of skin. The full-featured studio also provides nail and tanning services with coats of gel polish for fingers and toes and custom airbrushing to gild untanned limbs.

Clique Waxing Boutique focuses almost exclusively on body waxing. The boutique's aestheticians perform several hundred Brazilian waxes each week—some completed in as little as 15 minutes—with either traditional strip wax or sensitive hard wax. For especially delicate areas, a dollop of Relax & Wax No Scream Cream dulls pain sensors and subdues hairs before they weave themselves into an organized protest. New clients are encouraged to review Clique's waxing etiquette.

On faces, the boutique's crew uproots fringe via traditional Indian threading techniques or the Anastasia brow-shaping system from Los Angeles, which includes a series of measurements that help technicians taper brows to the most face-flattering shapes, such as circles or lightning bolts.

The studio's Bohemian-style décor—with vintage furnishings, framed art, a chandelier, and ornately framed mirrors—carries over into a retail space, where guests can peruse products including paraben-free makeup and lavender-mint Dead Sea–salt scrubs from gloMinerals.

Lashes Plus began as a humble yet popular kiosk nestled in the center of Mall St. Matthews and has since blossomed into a full-size sanctuary devoted to ocular allure. Owner Deborah Williams is an experienced permanent-makeup artist, using her skills to create custom-blended pigments for the brows, eyes, and lips to simplify home beauty routines and leave faces feeling fresh any time of day. After reading a Wall Street Journal article about the growing popularity of eyelash extensions and noting an increase in the number of news anchors being replace by giraffes, Williams decided to extend her expertise beyond the lash line, introducing the Louisville community to natural-looking, synthetic lashes that last up to two months. The weightless, waterproof falsies are attached one-by-one using a surgical-grade adhesive, allowing for a precise application that takes just 50 minutes.