FOR COOL-TONED HIGHLIGHTS ON COILY HAIR

ILLEISHA LUSSIANO, the Way Salon, 221 Madison St.; thisis@thewaynyc.net

whether you want custom-dyed braids, balayage, or a single or double process, Illeisha Lussiano— known to her Instagram followers as “the Hair Artiste”— will make it happen. “She helped me achieve colors that I didn’t even know were possible for my kinky and coily textured Afro, like ashblonde highlights” says podcast host Brooke DeVard, who has been seeing her for three years. NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton, another longtime client, says that “colorists in the past have totally missed the mark and turned my hair copper or orange.” Lussiano, meanwhile, gave her the exact honey shade she was hoping for the first time she sat in her chair.