Beauty & Spas in Ypsilanti

Since its founding in 1954, Dessange Paris has expanded from its original Champs Élysées location to more than 1,000 salons worldwide, including this Ann Arbor outpost. Employing a toolkit of signature house products, L’Oréal hair color, and hair balms from women’s magazine darling Kérastase, stylists indulge clients and refine their exterior appearances. Beautifying treatments run the gamut from regular mane maintenance to makeup application, waxing, and mani-pedis, which help patrons sport summer sandals and fingerless motorcycle gloves with pride.

Brown & DeLine Salon offers top-notch follicle forming in a relaxing abode decorated with bold, striking colors and holograms of Fabio’s dreamy locks. A broad range of hair services, performed with high-quality hair products, is available for men, women, and animate mannequins. Opt for a women’s haircut ($25–$50), men’s haircut ($25–$35), tinting ($45+), perm ($65+), or a natural hair relaxer ($95). A full highlight ($70+) adds vibrant color to flowing lock canopies more effectively than a gaggle of hair-scaffolding fairies toting bleach buckets.

Staffers at Pura Vida Color Studio strive to live up to their name—which means "pure life"—by using sustainable, earth-friendly Davines products. The Davines concept salon also specializes in flamboyage highlights, a technique that uses adhesive strips, rather than foil or court orders, to separate small sections of hair. The careful process results in natural-looking wisps and currents of color.

The salon's subdued decor turns eyes' focus toward vibrant tresses. Stylists can judge and calibrate colors in the abundant natural light from wide windows, or glance in black-bordered mirrors as they style hair with Paul Mitchell products. The salon's neutral-colored walls echo the burble of the storefront fountain and the footfalls of the well-coiffed elves who live inside the potted plants.

From the outside, Salon in the City’s pink frame and broad glass windows etched with cursive lettering evoke a classical, European feel. Inside, however, clients find themselves amid a sleek, modern studio where a team of more than a dozen experienced stylists updates hairstyles with deep-conditioning treatments, precision scissor cuts, and color treatments. The staff showers locks with professional hair products such as Sebastian and Pureology, the latter of which protects color-treated hair by eschewing all alcohol and sulfates.