Let’s face it, it is not always easy to find a salon or stylist that specializes in natural hair. Oftentimes salon visits end in heat damage and extra charges for styling your luxurious natural hair.
Worry-less hunNay!
If you are in the Chicagoland area, we’ve collected the top ten salons that specializes in caring for natural hair. These salons are unique and all cater to the overall maintenance, styling, and growth of natural hair.
1. HUETIFUL SALON
Huetiful Salons are exclusively focused on providing healthy hair treatments for women with natural or processed hair, wavy, curly, or kinky-curly type and textures. Their treatments are borne from the products that have made Huetiful a globally recognized hair care brand in less than three years.
Using research and client insights that have come from the input of tens of thousands of customers, Huetiful’s techniques, products and services are both innovative and extremely effective.
LOCATION:
1614 E 53rd St.
Chicago, IL 60615
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2. RELAX SHE’S NATURAL
Relax She’s Natural is an Independent Sisterhood built on the quest that healthy hair is the 1st and ultimate goal. The mission here is to accentuate the beauty that lies in every woman, the beauties that are women. Relax She’s Natural is not just another hair salon, it’s an learning experience. Coined as the “best silk press in the Midwest”.
LOCATION:
847 W Monroe St #1B
Chicago, IL 60607
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http://www.relaxshesnatural.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RelaxShesNatural/
3. TWISTED ROOTS SALON
Twisted Roots Salon, is a salon that specializes in natural hair care, primarily loc maintenance, styles and cuts.
LOCATION:
701 E 75th St.
Chicago, IL 60619
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https://www.facebook.com/pg/twistedrootssaloninc/about/?ref=page_internal
https://twistedrootssaloninc.com/
*Photos from Twisted Roots Salon
4. NATURAL HAIR BAR
Revitalize the look of your hair with wholesome and healthy hair care treatments from Natural Hair Bar.
Their services have been developed over countless years of practice and experience, and their warm and welcoming environment can properly service hair textures from all over the globe, including wavy, curly, or kinky.
LOCATION:
Millenium Park Plaza
155 N Michigan Ave #606
Chicago, IL 60601
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https://www.facebook.com/naturalhairbarchicago/
https://www.naturalhairbar.com/
*Photos from Natural Hair Bar
5. GLO ON BRAIDS & NATURAL HAIR STYLING
GLO ON represents our innate ability to “Glo’ in our natural beauty”. Located in Chicago’s Hyde Park Neighborhood, cosmetologist, Shavon Akhan offers an intimate, professional, personalized, one on one natural hairstyling experience.
LOCATION:
1371 E 53rd St.
Chicago, IL 60615
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https://www.glo-onnaturalhair.com/
https://www.facebook.com/GloOnBraidsNaturalHairstyling
*Photos from GLO ON
6. CURL KITCHEN
Curl Kitchen Salon is dedicated to serving our community by providing the best quality hair services to the Chicagoland area. Their 10 stylists are available seven days a week, morning, afternoon and evening. Silk press, color, cuts, and twist outs are our specialty.
They are a Black woman-owned and woman operated salon.
Curl Kitchen Salon provides upscale, natural healthy hair care and styling. We are a Black woman-owned and woman operated salon.
LOCATION:
3428 S. King Drive
Chicago, IL 60616
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https://www.facebook.com/curlkitchensalon/
https://www.instagram.com/curlkitchensalon/
https://www.curlkitchensalon.com/
7. THE CURL SOCIETY
The Curl Society is a co-working + educational space for the modern texture focused independent salon professional. Their mission is to connect and engage the entire textured hair ecosystem including texture enthusiasts + licensed professionals + influencers + product manufacturers.
As independent hair artists they operate by appointment only.
LOCATION:
1905 W Belmont Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
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https://www.curlsocietychi.com
https://www.facebook.com/thecurlsociety/
*Photos from The Curl Society
8. CURLS & COMPANY
Curls and Company is a creative collective of stylists specifically chosen because of their talent, training, personality and devotion to the craft of hair styling.
It doesn’t matter what age or sex you are; dudes, college professors, professional folks, musicians, comedians, barista’s and bar staff, accountants and chess nerds…they guarantee that you have a new place to call home when you need their skills.
LOCATION:
Salerno’s On Tap – Rogers Park
1627 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
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https://www.facebook.com/CallysCurls/
9. THE CURL WHISPERER OF CHICAGO
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The Curl Whisperer of Chicago is a salon suite specializing in naturally kinky, coily and curly hair, with a specialty in curl patterns 3c-4c.
It is owned and operated by Curlspert Starresha Martin. Her mission is to help curly girls all over the world understand that curly hair isn’t as complicated as it seems.
Each client leaves the salon with new knowledge, product recommendations and a customized care regimen to maintain length and build moisture for lasting success.
LOCATION:
Home Suite-Chicago, IL
(312) 847-4477
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https://www.facebook.com/TheCurlWhispererOfChicago/
https://www.thecurlwhispererchicago.com/
10. Lockology Natural Hair Gallery
Get your natural hair care needs and unlock your inner beauty over at Lockology. They accept walk-ins, based on stylists availability.
They offer an array of services, ranging from color change / Loc Extensions/ Reinvented / Maintenance/Healthy Locs.
LOCATION:
4303 S State St.
Chicago, IL, IL 60609
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(773) 536-2800
https://www.facebook.com/lockologysalon/
*Photos from Lockology Salon
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