Before battle, samurai warriors honed their swords and cleansed their pores so they could slay foes with one sexy glance. Become an aesthetic warrior with today's Groupon. For $40, new clients get $110 worth of services at Blo Salon and Day Spa in Lincoln Park. This Groupon must be used in one visit and is not redeemable on products.

Blo offers a full array of salon and spa services in a charming basement storefront. The friendly stylists and aestheticians make customers feel as welcome as a soldier in a Norman Rockwell painting. Let one of these beauty buffs guide you to a salon chair for a haircut ($35 for men, $55+ for women) or illuminating partial highlights ($100+). The Blo Out ($29 for 30 minutes, $39 for 45 minutes) is a salon specialty, a quick wash and blow-dry that leaves bedraggled hair looking polished and new as an iPad forged from the purest mithril. Stick around for a skin treatment, such as a customized one-hour facial ($90). Tailored to your sensitive, insensitive, or emerald-green complexion, facials consist of a deep pore cleansing; an exfoliation; a massage of the face, neck, and shoulders; and a soothing mask and serum to target specific problems. Prepare bodily gardens for summer blooming with waxes for the eyebrows ($20), stiff and fuzzy upper lip ($10), bikini area ($30), or male back or chest ($45). Other services include spray tanning, makeup, and ionic detox treatments.

Salon and spa visits leave tangled head-threads free of knots, Christmas tinsel, and misplaced bramble collections. Facial pores learn to breathe after years spent in underground bunkers, and newly hair-free patches of skin peer tentatively at the world now open to them. Blo's interior is characterized by light colors, modern furniture, and a clean aesthetic, a reflection of the high-quality services provided. A flat-panel television entertains visitors in the waiting room by periodically transforming into a mustachioed player piano, which is subsequently waxed.

Reviews

Nine Metromixers give this salon a 4.1-star rating, and Yelpers give it four stars:

• From the fresh and fun manicure bowls to the not typical yet calming spa music I have found my new addiction. After a tough day at work this was just the care I deserved and thank god I have found this. – bellamariposa5229447, Metromix
• This salon rocks! Every time I go in the staff is so nice, professional and friendly. From the coordinator to the stylist everyone makes you feel completely at home. – natalie d., Yelp