With this year's Nobel Peace Prize application, you'll want to look your tactful and truce-making best in the photo you submit with your 500-word essay. Splurge on salon splendor with today's Groupon. For $45, you get $125 worth of services from Alex Emilio Salon, located about 20 minutes northwest of Detroit in Royal Oak. Alex Emilio Salon is open every day except Sunday.

Alex Emilio Salon, founded by friends Alex Lekocaj and Emilio Giglio in 2001, offers an inedible buffet of beautifying and body-bettering salon services. Metal-band roadies preparing to begin an accounting career can tidy up with a men's haircut ($25+), while female fugitives from justice can adjust their aliases with a haircut ($40+) and a tint ($40+). Hands hampered by too many midnight games of no-glove baseball can delight their digits with a manicure ($20+), and feet still scuffed up from last week's borderline-illegal April Fool's prank can achieve 10-toed tranquility with a spa pedicure ($50+).

Alex Emilio Salon's staff of enthusiastic and supportive stylists are focused on customer satisfaction. From the moment clients step atop the fine hardwood floor of Alex Emilio's warmly aglow interior until they step out into the world newly nail-trimmed and freshly follicle-shaped, they'll find an ode-inspiring salon experience aimed at personal comfort and preference. Call ahead to schedule serene salon salvation.

Reviews

In 2009, CityVoters listed Alex Emilio Salon as one of Detroit's best salons for hair coloring. Eight Yelpers give the salon 4.5 stars, and 53 Citysearchers rate it a perfect five:

• The staff is always up to date on the best and newest techniques. They love to make you feel your best! – Paige G., CityVoter
• They provide a wonderful and friendly atmosphere with a very high level of customer service. When you walk in you feel like you are in a New York or Chicago salon. – agrassadonia, CityVoter
• I have never in my life found such a fabulous salon. The atmosphere was amazing, the stylists were fantastic, and even the assistants knew what they were talking about! – tnin, Citysearch