Hair Salons in Northlake

Bliss Salon of Winnetka's stylists and designers, each graded according to experience and skill, redesign hair and nails to suit the style goals laid out by clients in personal consultations. Hair takes on a fresh appearance after incorporating waves, straightening, and split-level birdhouse construction, each rated based on whether the service is conducted by a master designer, director, or master director. Colorists and master colorists add new hues to flowing locks, and therapists assuage beleaguered hands and feet using gel nail and paraffin treatments. The warm, studio-lit interior shows off modern décor and framed paintings.

Between sky-blue walls covered with mirrors, the skilled stylists at Studio 23 demonstrate their cutting and styling prowess, which they keep up to date by frequenting industry seminars. Using products from Matrix and Goldwell Premium Color and scissors forged by the finest English blacksmiths, the stylists perform hair services including color treatments and perms at neat white workstations. In addition to polishing coifs, the team also removes unwanted hair with waxing services, and spruces up nails and skin with manicures and facials.

For more than 10 years, the staff of Techniques Salon—tucked away in Uptown Park Ridge—has kept a loyal band of clients beautified with customized aesthetic services coupled with high-end haircare and skincare products. Inside the beauty haven, five stylists scurry around the salon floor, tending to manes with traditional hair services including cutting hair with shears or coloring strands with permanent markers. Aestheticians softly step around a treatment room as they rejuvenate epidermises with microdermabrasions, facials, and waxing services, and nail techs strike up conversations with clients as they indulge their put-upon paws with mani-pedi treatments.

A portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo guards the entrance of Kahlo Salon, overseeing the creative stylists who cut, color, and sculpt hair armed with Redken and Moroccanoil products. Veronica Avila, salon owner and Redken master specialist weaves LOX hair extensions to add volume, length and color to locks and straightens follicles with Brazilian keratin treatments. Avila's list of achievements includes certifications in Pureology, Bosley, and LOX, as well as a certification as a Look Good Feel Better cosmetologist, which allows her to teach beauty techniques to female cancer patients in active treatment. The salon, decorated with artwork by local artists, also features a reception area with a brown-leather couch and shelves of Redken products customers can peruse in person or via wireless Internet as they sip complimentary glasses of wine, coffee, and tea.

Owners Jacqueline and Andrea oversee the team of stylists at Misano Salon and Spa who fashion male and female hair using Redken, Pureology, and Moroccanoil products. Consultations kick off appointments before staffers cut or color hair to suit the client’s lifestyle or secret lifestyle. Additional hair services include natural hair extensions designed to blend undetectably with existing locks and frizz-smoothing keratin treatments.

Behind their nail service stations, technicians pamper hands with skin-softening paraffin dips and treat feet with therapeutic soaks inside a whirlpool footbath before polishing nails with hues from OPI and CND. Meanwhile, a menu of waxing services banishes unwanted hair from faces and bodies.

hough it was developed more than 1,000 years ago in India, threading has found a modern niche due to its eco-friendly reputation and gentle treatment of sensitive skin. Practicing this method for the last 24 years, the trained threaders at Eyebrow MakeOver use a three-step technique to ensure brows flatter each client’s face shape and default emotion. Technicians start by outlining a desired shape for patron approval, then use a thin cotton thread to capture stray hairs at the root, yielding results that are more precise than with waxing and less likely to produce ingrown hairs. Technicians then train their clients in the use of eyebrow products, so brows continue to look full and even between threadings.