Dye & Wave

In love. Marielena & Ruth are the best. Good prices and good service.
Me encanto! Marielena y Ruth son las mejores. Buenos precios y buen servicio. Tengo el pelo bien rizado y saben como tratarmelo. Alto nivel de profesionalismo.

I had a Keratine treaqtment with Maria Ellena and I am VERY satisfied. I like the appearance of the salon. I was a little skeptical when I had trouble communicating with the receptionist & stylist but I WILL go back again.

The owner of this salon overbooks herself. She gave me an appointment and didnt see me till 40 min after my appointment. Why even make an appointment? Now she did all of these different things to my hair when all I went in for was a touch up and when I asked he for a price she said «dont worry about that if you dont have the money we will work something out». At the end she charged me $ 165 RIDICUOUSLY OVERPRICED! RIP OFF!

Over priced. Theres always a wait. The «beautician» likes to cut hair while doing twenty other things. Definitely not worth what they are charging now. Time to find a new salon.

I was a 1^st time customer about to try this place for a haircut. They have a $ 10 offer for 1^st time customers. I had arrived around 5:30 pm in the afternoon just to find the salon closed before 6:00 pm. Their hours. Someone (A woman) did answer to the salon but she said she was too busy to do ANY service. That is not a good thing to say for someone about to try to get a haircut. I guess you are not interested in new customers for a business in cutting hair.

I want to give this place more stars. I really do. The lady who did my mani/​pedi was really nice and accommodating. But there were A LOT of issues.
To start with the pros: The foot scrub was awesome. She was very thorough. And as I said, a nice, accommodating technician. I was offered coffee/​tea and a magazine, which just makes the experience generally pleasant.
However, the list of cons is much more extensive: Firstly, it took almost two hours! That’s the longest mani/​pedi I’ve ever gotten. And that might have been okay if it had been higher quality, but when I got home almost every nail was messed up. The polish on my toes was messed up too! I was so frustrated that I took it all off the next day. I don’t know why this happened, but I think it might be because of the polish — she had to do way too many coats on my toes because it kept coming out hot pink (I picked a dark red). When she started on my nails the same thing was happening, so she got a new bottle and explained to me that her assistant sometimes puts acetone in the nail polish. Um, why wasn’t this explained when I got my toes done?! Could have saved a lot of time! She offered to re-​do the polish on my toes but it was already an hour and a half into the mani/​pedi and so I said no. Very frustrating. Also, the only thing they have to dry your nails with is a tiny fan. Ugh.
Anyway I got home and realized I gave way too good a tip — when I checked their prices online I realized the lady had told me the wrong ones…
I’m really glad this was through a lifebooker deal, but still. Definitely not going back. I’m even thinking of giving them just one star, but as I said it wasn’t all bad… I’d definitely pass on this place though!

i was VERY DISAPPOINTED with this salon! I went here just to get blonde highlights, thinking it wouldn’t be a problem because it’s just highlights. The hair stylist gave me ugly copper highlights, clearly not blonde. Plus she charged me $ 120 for the highlights and the toner and she blow dryed my hair even though i didn’t ask for it but she still charged me for it. i had a short bob haircut, it shouldnt cost $ 120 for highlights with my short hair. I wasn’t happy paying $ 120 for copper highlights when i asked for blonde highlights, so I called back and asked if she could fix it and she said yes so I came back happy thinking she’d fix it, but i was wrong. She highlighted my hair but didn’t put a toner in it so i had some blonde highlights and some ugly copper highlights. It looked like a color blind person colored my hair! So she made it waaaaaaay worse! I had to go to another hair stylist to fix it and put a toner in it. I will never go back to this salon even if it was the salon on earth.

I feel guilty for not reviewing this place sooner. But they seriously work wonders. I’ve been going to them since 2008 and every once in a while, I will try a different place but no place will ever compare to Dye & Wave.
Ruth normally cuts my hair and she does such a good job. She pays so much attention to me, it makes me feel special. Maria Ellena has cut my hair several times too and she’s just as good. I’m so happy with this place. I have so much hair and its so thick plus its kind of curly/​wavy, so the fact that they master the cut is fantastic.
And everyone is so friendly and the place is always so clean.

I let my hair go untouched for so long because my hair is curly/​wavy and I couldnt seem to find a perfectly balanced place that could provide a great variety of services AND customer service without having to charge outrageous prices. BUT at DYE & WAVE the staff are GENUINELY friendly, accomodating, and totally talented! (Check out their website) I have been there a couple times for myself and have referred a few people here (including my mom!) and we have all left with great results! From all over color, highlights, great cuts, styling DIFFERENT TYPES of hair, and blow-​dry! The stylists really listen to what you want and have creative ideas if you ever need a little help deciding. They definitely have my business! Awesome place where you get REAL people and REAL good service.

Even though there are many worthy establishments in Chicago that I adore, I’m rarely moved to actually translate that into a Unilocal review. But, after my first visit to Dye & Wave I felt compelled to rate it as soon as possible. In fact, I started drafting this in my head as I was getting my nails done.
The entire staff was extremely welcoming, not just the person at the front desk and my manicurist – and it seemed like the sort of place that people stop by at the end of the day to say hello and catch up.
The attention to detail was phenomenal, and they took great care to do a wonderful job on both my hands and feet — all while plying me with coffee, magazines, and even a Galaxy Tab when I got through my magazine.
They advised me on care of my manicure and pedicure, and were willing to stay open late to allow my pedicure to dry (and mildly horrified when I insisted on wearing the paper flipflops on my walk home — only a couple of blocks). You do want to budget some time for this experience (my manicure and pedicure took about 2 hours) – but it’s 100% worth the quality and comforts.
I can’t wait to go back and try their other services.

El Salon — the one you patiently wait and realize, beauty is a moment to be savored. Make an appointment and get the up-​do you need or the blowout you can’t seem to get right.
Its simple style with big salon prices. Bonus for the man in your life: They do have a barber who can give the thickest of hair a deep fade.