Before modern hair treatments, frizzy hair could only be smoothed by pressing it with an iron or by running it through the fingers of a jazz pianist. Achieve a noteworthy ‘do with today’s Groupon: for $45, you get a hairstyle package valid with stylist Michelle at Bella Rio Salon (a $100 total value). The package includes the following:

• Haircut (a $35 value)
• Partial highlights (a $65 value)
  
  

Michelle draws on her degree from the Douglas J Aveda Institute of East Lansing to renovate hairdos in the trendy Bella Rio Salon. After consulting with clients and hiring a medium to prepare split ends for the afterlife, the hair caretaker cuts and styles cranial decorations into eye-catching new arrangements. Next, highlights repaint head threads, enabling them to garner compliments from passersby and scare away natural predators. The historic building opens into a loft-like space, where exposed brick and pipes, modish light fixtures, and bare floors transport clients back to the heyday of posh industrial warehouses, when steam-powered robots cut hair for $5 a day.