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Over the course of 30 years, Paragon Salon has earned the trust of Charlotte's leading scalps with its salon services, especially in the realm of highlights ($90+) that add the sort of depth to hair usually found only in French existentialist salons. Paragon's wide array of services includes women's cut and style ($48+) and men's cut and style ($30+), as well as special-occasion styling ($60+). Paragon's staff of skilled follicular sculptors is also dedicated to providing clients with take-home hairstyles that can be duplicated within the comforts of their own high-security compounds using only a comb and a microwave oven.

Healing Touch Charlotte offers seven modalities of massage therapy for Charlotte's rotten muscles and blown tissues. A Swedish massage relieves tension and stress throughout the body like the summer winds sweeping through Stora Sjöfallet National Park, while a deep-tissue massage attacks adhesions within muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The medical massage is a rehabilitative service tending to areas affected by accident or injury, while neuromuscular massage remedies posture problems and structural dissymmetry. Prenatal massage alleviates aches within expectant mothers, reflexology kneads at nexuses 'neath the knees with its focus on feet and concentration on calves, and myofascial release uses muscle contractions and light tissue stimulation to clear up tension.

The licensed massage therapist at Volume Salon kneads muscles with well-honed bodywork techniques in an edgy, upscale environment. During the Swedish massage, a therapist's skilled hands traverse muscular terrain with long, fluid strokes to release tension, ease aches, and stimulate circulation. Active and passive joint movements help to emend stiff hinges more effectively than rolling in bicycle grease, while the overarching aim of the therapy is to relax the body, improve health and wellness, and diminish physical and mental stresses. Hot stones supplement kneading by penetrating multiple layers of tissue to relieve muscles of deep-seated pain and deeper-seated snow demons.

With padded lime-green chairs lounging on a pillared porch that runs the length of a two-story, century-old wooden house in Dilworth, Folicle could easily be mistaken for a bed and breakfast at first glance. Though they can’t stay the night, guests are encouraged to stop and rest awhile as stylists and aestheticians snip, shade, and smooth their hair, shape their nails, or unknot their muscles amid floor-to-ceiling mirrors that reflect honey wood floors.

Globetrotting salon CEO Edward Woody shares expertise garnered from training with Vidal Sassoon, Aveda, and the Netherlands’ Keune and a sense of style honed while designing dos for Badgley Mischka, Ellen Tracy, and the fashion spreads of several magazines. Visitors who catch his ear may find him ready to point out the salon’s eco-friendly features, such as a shampoo-area floor made from recycled tennis shoes and furniture made from banana plants whose monkeys had already abandoned them.

HairArt is a full-service Aveda salon, but it feels like a home away from work. The salon is quaintly nestled in a red-brick house and will graciously accept you in your most stripped-down, no-makeup face. During your hour-long facial, a HairArt-certified aesthetician will use only natural Aveda products to tend to your every dermal detail and customize a treatment that suits your individual needs. Enjoy an Elemental Natural Facial, which will start with your chosen method of skin exfoliation, and continue with a face and neck massage and corrective coddling techniques to nurture stressed skin. The Botanical Skin Resurfacing treatment is Aveda's gentler alternative to microdermabrasion, resulting in a more even skin tone and texture, fewer lines and wrinkles, tighter pores, and a healthy glow. If you're looking to perk up tired, mature skin, opt for the Green Science Skin Renewing Treatment Facial. This treatment targets fine lines, wrinkles, and age spots; lifts and firms; and strengthens your face skin to make it a better barrier against the elements, particularly those pesky alkaline earth metals.

Four of Fuze Salon's stylists have more than a decade of experience, and Artistic Director Chip Perry has spent more than two decades in the business. Perry spent time as a national performing artist for Redken and specialized in teaching corrective color at the Redken Exchange, so it’s no surprise the salon uses ammonia-free Redken Chromatics dye as its go-to. Like Fievel Mousekewitz, his journey to happiness began with petty theft. His online biography describes how he would commandeer his neighbors' dolls as a child and "spend hours trying to twist the two inches of fiber into different shapes.” Now, he styles brides and men's cuts with equal dexterity, and keeps his hands busy raising two dogs, contributing to the boards of two charitable organizations, and rallying the community around philanthropic drives and walks.