Huber Heights, OH Beauty and Salons

Within Utopia Salon & Day Spa, a beauty emporium specializing in skincare, massage, makeup application, and nail services, Stephanie exploits her steady hands and keen eye to sculpt flattering 'dos. She performs men's, women's, and kids' haircuts; transforms texture with perms and relaxers; and adds vibrancy and depth with coloring and highlighting treatments. Stephanie also performs Brazilian blowouts, which leave locks more manageable than a well-trained canine actor.

The sounds of snipping shears and lively chatter fill the interior of Utopia Salon & Day Spa, a full-service beauty emporium where professional stylists twirl around salon chairs as they cut and color hair to match the unique personalities of their clients. Among these stylists is Ali, whose wealth of experience finds a worthy outlet in her comprehensive repertoire of treatments. Ali’s highlights and coloring treatments infuse hair with the most common shades of summer, from the rippling yellows of a sunset to the vivid pinks of a sunburn. When she isn’t cutting and coloring hair, she adds texture and shine to strands with frizz-busting keratin smoothing treatments.

For more than 20 years, Joanna Kleekamp has spruced up coifs with skills she honed studying with expert European stylists in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Specializing in highlights, Joanna infuses strands with sun-kissed hues, imparting a natural appearance previously only attained by donning a wig made out of hemp.

Sky-blue walls and glowing lamps set a chipper tone for coiffure overhauls inside of Salon Ventures, where stylist Jennifer Belle breathes new life into hairdos one client at a time. The highlights specialist trims and shapes locks into face-framing 'dos before reanimating gray or faded strands with fresh colors stolen out of a rainbow's brainstorming journal. With the patience and personal attention that comes from an independent stylist, clients can feel free to discuss their image goals without having to compete with a chorus of blow dryers. Visitors can also bid adieu to body hair as the stylist discreetly waxes whiskers from lips, chins, and eyebrows.

A tiger stares hungrily at a Changing Colors Salon customer. The cat can’t eat them, though—its face resides in the artwork of an airbrush manicure. Since 1988, the nail salon has brightened extremities with handiwork ranging from traditional manicures and pedicures, powered by OPI polish, to funkier looks such as glitter french tips, acrylic nails, and zebra-print designs. Beyond nail art, the salon tends to skin, with waxing, microdermabrasion, and rejuvenating treatments that combat aging more effectively than engineering the salon clocks to run backwards.

Behind the unassuming pink walls of Flamingo Tan's lobby is nothing less than the bottled power of the sun, in the form of the salon’s four different levels of tanning beds. The machines bronze bodies at different intensities, from the standard, long 3,000-watt bulbs of the Level 1 seashell bed to the concert-worthy light show of the 19,000-watt Level 4 Open Sun 1050. In addition to standard tanning, the studio heats up bodies with infrared body wraps and mimics the sun's touch with VersaSpa sunless spray tans, which produce bronzed skin more effectively than convincing a third-place athlete to clobber you with his medal.