Etre Hair Spa, Red Bank

Whether performed by a stylist or a master designer, all haircuts at Etre Hair Spa begin and end the same way. First, the styling team encourages clients to describe their vision—be it through words, a picture clipped from a magazine, or shadow puppets—and their lifestyle, touching on topics such as their job and daily time allotment for styling. This gentle prying allows the stylist to come up with the perfect cut, eventually finishing with a blow-dry and tips for re-creating the polished look at home with Bumble and bumble or Moroccanoil products. Though cuts are Etre Hair Spa’s bread and butter, the stylists and designers take things into gourmet territory with multidimensional highlights and Coppola Keratin Complex treatments, which banish curls and frizz for up to five months.