A space for restoration.
For transformation. For being.
“Essere” is Italian for to be. The whole place is built around that one idea.
It started with two stylists who love hair.
Charles and Nicole Gillick opened Blu in 2009 with a simple vision: a salon with a harmonious team, a genuinely warm room, and hospitality at the center of everything.
A family business, and decades of craft behind the chair.
From Blu to EssereBlu.
From 1,240 feet to 6,000.
In 2026 we moved — about seven miles, into a reviving pocket near the city — and used the move to become who we'd been growing into. A full rebrand. Five times the space.
Color was the beginning. Now there's extensions, a four-bed Head Spa, the first FaceSpace in the U.S., an academy, and a caffé — under one roof. The Salon — The Space.
Cool luxury.
The furthest thing from stuffy.
We're not selling a haircut. We're building an experience — a club you get to be part of, refined but comfortable, never refined and unattainable.
The craft has an Italian accent. For more than a decade we've worked with Davines — out of Parma — and its skincare sister, Comfort Zone. Our owners teach for them across North America. The lineage is real, and it shows up in the chair.
And yes — there's coffee.
A glass-walled caffé sits right inside the salon: a full-time barista, specialty coffee, and beer and wine on the way once the permit clears.
It's the part people linger over. The reason they don't want to leave.
Come be a part of it.
The story's better from a chair in the room.