Elevate Salon Institute

    Highlights & Balayage Near Birmingham, Michigan

    About 5.2 miles (5 min) from Birmingham to our ESI Royal Oak student salon. Prices from $60.

    Elevate Salon Institute has two Michigan campuses: Royal Oak and Utica. We do not operate a campus in Birmingham; this page is for prospective students who commute from the Birmingham area.

    Getting here from Birmingham

    5.2 miles from ESI Royal OakAbout 5 min by car

    From Birmingham take Maple Rd or 14 Mile Rd east to Crooks Rd, then turn south to the campus. Woodward Ave south to 14 Mile Rd and east to Crooks is the scenic alternative through the Rouge River corridor.

    Birmingham guests are about five miles north-west of the Royal Oak campus on the same 14 Mile corridor. Many come specifically because student-salon pricing sits far below the downtown Birmingham rate card.

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    Highlights & Balayage prices for Birmingham guests

    Prices starting at

    Highlight$60
    Balayage$85
    Full Head Lightener$85

    What to expect

    • An elasticity and porosity test before any lightener is mixed
    • A drawn placement map approved by an instructor
    • Hand-painted or foiled application depending on the service booked
    • Timed strand checks throughout processing rather than a fixed timer
    • A bond-support rinse and toner to land the final tone

    Typical appointment: 3–4 hours. Performed by supervised cosmetology students.

    Popular with guests from around Birmingham

    We regularly welcome Birmingham guests who live and work near Downtown Birmingham and Shain Park, Booth Park, The Birmingham 8 theatre on Old Woodward, Quarton Lake and Birmingham Seaholm High School. If you live in 48009, 48012, the ESI Royal Oak campus is your closest Elevate Salon Institute student salon.

    Your closest campus

    ESI Royal Oak

    4050 Crooks Rd, Royal Oak, MI 48073

    Student salon hours

    • Monday – Thursday: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
    • Friday: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

    Highlights & Balayage in Birmingham — FAQs

    Our ESI Royal Oak student salon at 4050 Crooks Rd, Royal Oak, MI 48073 is about 5.2 miles from Birmingham — roughly 5 min by car. From Birmingham take Maple Rd or 14 Mile Rd east to Crooks Rd, then turn south to the campus. Woodward Ave south to 14 Mile Rd and east to Crooks is the scenic alternative through the Rouge River corridor.

    No. Elevate Salon Institute has two Michigan campuses, Royal Oak and Utica. Birmingham guests are served from the ESI Royal Oak campus, which is the closer of the two.

    Prices start at $60 and are the same for every guest regardless of which city you travel from. Because each service is performed by a student under licensed instructor supervision, pricing sits well below a commercial salon in the Birmingham area.

    Balayage is $85 — typically a third or less of what the same service costs at a commercial Metro Detroit salon.

    Balayage at $85 is hand-painted for a soft, blended grow-out. Highlights at $60 are foiled for brighter, more uniform lift and sharper contrast.