Fringe Salon and Spa

06/24/11

Alway's makes me smile!!!! =)

by Andiecc at Citysearch

Christina is hands down the best!!!!! She is the hair stylist you could trust to do something amazing w/ your hair, I've asked her before to do what she thinks would look good on me.... and it's never disappointing ;) I always walk out w/ a smile and feeling beautiful!! Keeping rocking it Christina!!!!!

see you on July 6th for my next appt.

06/29/10

Susan Is Amazing

by Pantleg at Citysearch

If you are looking for a new esthetician in the city, Fringe should be your first stop. Susan is hands-down the best skin care specialist that I have ever been to. I have been to countless salons in Chicago, and have not found anyone who does my brows better. Her facials are so relaxing, you might fall asleep! My skin always looks amazing, & I wouldn't trust it to anyone else.

• Pros: Superb facials and waxing, great product lines

04/28/10

Awesome!

by rosesring at Citysearch

Adam is amazing. He has an excellent eye for both color and cut and does a great job of listening to exactly what you're looking for. He's extremely friendly and makes sure you're happy with it as you're going along. Roxanne is a master at eyebrows-mine have never looked so well kept! The location right on Milwaukee is really convenient and I've never had a problem finding parking nearby. All in all, an excellent experience every time.

• Pros: everything-good cut, color, service
• Cons: nothing

01/31/10

Bad experience

by VFArt at Citysearch

Perhaps my hair issue is more complicated than most clients that they have gotten in the salon, and perhaps my color stylist wasn't well versed enough for the task, but I feel that he didn't quite understand what was needed and made decisions and did things that seemed to make things worse. He never seemed to understand what it was that was needed and kept overcompensating.

I have resistant grey hairs and a lighter level of brown didn't seem to color them when he first applied the hair color on my roots. I also have fast growing hair, so that my roots need to be touched up every two weeks. The color was too light the first time and didn't cover the resistant grays, so the next time we decided together to do a darker brown at the roots but add highlights to disguise the grays for when they grow in. He didn't touch up the highlights at the roots the second time around so that I had dark roots and then the grey showed prominently as they grew in, and he didn't do a glaze (which I asked him to do to tone down the highlights - but he refused for some reason that made no sense) so that the next time that I came in my hair was orange. When I asked him to add a little ash to the same level of glaze color that he used last time to prevent it going orange he said that he didn't like ash. He didn't communicate with me what he was doing next, but decided on his own to cover the whole head with a much darker glaze, which then was too dark, then the highlights were totally obliterated and I was back to square one, with an overall dark color that didn't disguise the gray roots for when they grow back in. I asked him if we could come up with a plan that would work. After washing may hair several times, some of the highlights started to show again, so we decided, together, to do the roots again in the darker color that covers the resistant grays and then re-add highlights at the roots and extend them to some of the highlights that were showing farther down towards the ends. I guess he used the lighter level of color on my roots instead of the level that covers the gray and then when he highlighted some sections they matched the root color so that my roots were light and the rest of my hair was dark. It was a fiasco.

When I contacted the salon owner about correcting the problem she said that he was bending over backwards to help me, and kind of blamed it on me, and not on his bad communication and listening skills or poor choices. She did say that she would refund my money, but said that they couldn't correct it and that I should go elsewhere.

I went back to my old salon and they fixed it. It was a simple fix. She just put a darker glaze on it. Something that the other salon should have figured out and fixed,

• Pros: not much
• Cons: the owner has a bad attitude

01/14/10

Great salon in Wicker Park.

by Janet Bower at Citysearch

I have been going to Fringe for a few years now. Michael is awesome and really listens to you when you want to change your style, go short again or try to grow your hair out. Also, if you ever perm your hair, he can give you exactly the type of perm you want. Susan is a terrific esthetician and really tries to address whatever your skin issues are and offer helpful suggestions in your skin care routine. I knew Michael, Dawn and Susan from Salon 1800 and and they're all professionals. I highly recommend Fringe and all who are part of it.

It's a great salon and there is always parking.

• Pros: Hip, friendly, comfortable.
• Cons: None