Welcome to Fringe
Welcome to Fringe / A Salon Inc. — a space where beauty is approached with intention, craft, and care. Our team of experienced stylists and estheticians is deeply passionate about creating a salon experience that feels personal, thoughtful, and effortlessly elevated.
At Fringe, we believe true beauty is not one-size-fits-all. Every guest is met with careful listening, expert guidance, and an appreciation for individuality. From the first consultation to the final detail, our focus is on delivering results that feel authentic to you — refined, confident, and timeless.
We are committed to the pursuit of continuing education, ensuring our team remains inspired by the latest techniques, trends, and innovations across hair and skin. Paired with the use of premium professional products, this dedication allows us to offer an experience that is both modern and enduring.
Fringe is more than a salon — it is a place to feel seen, cared for, and beautifully transformed. We look forward to welcoming you.
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Our Services
Discover everything we offer by clicking an icon below. As a full-service salon, we bring together expert hair, skin, and specialty treatments—so you can look and feel your absolute best, all in one place.
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Brands
At Fringe, we curate only the finest professional products—chosen for their innovation, performance, ingredient integrity, and commitment to hair and skin health. Every brand we carry reflects our belief in products that deliver exceptional results while being more responsible to people and the planet.
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Shop our curated collection of R+Co salon favorites—professional formulas we trust and use behind the chair, delivered straight to your door.
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Browse our extended online shop featuring Moroccanoil, K18, Brazilian Blowout, and more! Top-performing essentials for every texture & style.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Fringe Chicago?
Fringe / A Salon is a curated, boutique hair and beauty salon in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood, near Wicker Park. For more than two decades, we’ve brought together experienced artists and beauty professionals known for thoughtful consultation, exceptional technique, and highly personalized service.
Our approach is elevated but never intimidating. We believe luxury should feel personal — not pretentious. Every service is tailored to the individual, whether you’re coming to us for beautifully dimensional hair color, a precision haircut, healthy hair and scalp care, or one of our specialized skin, brow, lash, and waxing services.
Fringe combines decades of experience with a commitment to evolving our craft, creating a salon experience that is polished, welcoming, and distinctly personal.
What beauty services does Fringe offer in Chicago?
Fringe offers a thoughtfully curated range of hair and beauty services, including customized haircuts and styling, blowouts, dimensional hair color, highlights, balayage, gray blending, glossing, corrective color, smoothing treatments, hair extensions, and specialized hair and scalp treatments. Our esthetics services include personalized skin care, brow shaping and waxing, lash lifts and tints, and facial and body waxing.
Our team includes professionals at different stages of their careers, from established senior stylists with decades of experience to talented emerging artists building their clientele. Each brings their own specialties, aesthetic, and personality to their work.
We encourage you to explore our team profiles to find the professional whose expertise, approach, and style feel like the best match for you. When booking, you’ll see the services offered by each individual professional.
How do I choose the right stylist at Fringe?
Every Fringe stylist is a well-rounded professional experienced in a wide range of hair types, textures, cuts, colors, and styling needs — so you don’t need to worry about choosing the “wrong” stylist. Within that broad expertise, each team member has areas they especially love or have become known for, from curly hair and blonding to dimensional color, precision cutting, and creative transformations.
Our team ranges from New Talent to established Senior Stylists, offering different experience and pricing levels while maintaining the same commitment to thoughtful consultation and exceptional care.
Explore our team profiles to discover each stylist’s specialties, experience, and personality — and find someone who feels like your person. Still unsure? Our front desk team is always happy to help make the perfect match.
Where is Fringe Salon located?
Fringe is located at 1656 W. Cortland Street in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood, just steps from Wicker Park. Our salon is conveniently located just one block from the Clybourn Metra station and the Ashland bus stop, with plenty of street parking available nearby.
Our neighborhood location makes Fringe easy to reach from Bucktown, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Logan Square, and surrounding Chicago neighborhoods.
Does Fringe serve clients from Wicker Park and nearby Chicago neighborhoods?
Absolutely. While many of our longtime clients live in Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan Square, Lincoln Park, Ukrainian Village, Humboldt Park, and nearby neighborhoods, the Fringe community extends throughout Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
We also love welcoming visitors to Chicago who make Fringe part of their time in the city — whether for a haircut, color refresh, blowout, skin care service, or simply a little time for themselves.
Wherever you’re coming from, our goal is the same: to make your time at Fringe feel personal, relaxed, and worth the trip.
How do I choose the right service at Fringe?
Not sure whether you need a full highlight, balayage, gloss, root touch-up, or something entirely different? You don’t have to figure it out on your own.
The most helpful place to start is knowing whether you’re looking to maintain or refresh your current look, or make a transformation. Our service descriptions and front desk team can help guide you, and we’re always happy to arrange a phone consultation if you’re unsure what to book.
For a significant color or style transformation, we highly recommend a complimentary consultation before booking. It gives your Fringe professional the opportunity to see your hair, understand your goals, and create a thoughtful plan for the time, services, and maintenance your new look may require.
And no matter what you book, every appointment begins with a personal consultation to make sure we’re creating the right plan for you.