Best Hair Salon Poll Winner: Capelli e Mani

is more than a hair salon. It’s a Springfield institution.

Partners Fran Corcione and George Milia have stylized generations of Springfield residents. The Springfield residents opened their Mountain Ave. salon eight years ago after working in other township hairdressers. While they get a fair share of new customers lured in by specials and treatments, their customers are often regulars.

“Fran and I, we’ve been cutting hair for 35 years or more,” Milia said. “You build a relationship with people. Eventually, you’re cutting their grandchildrens’ hair.”

While at heart a family oriented business, the winner of our offers a wide variety of current styles and techniques, including Keratin treatments and dimensional highlights.

The full service salon expanded a couple of years ago, overtaking the Verizon store that sat next to it in the strip mall. The generous space allows for a roomy atmosphere and enough room to devote half the salon to nails and other treatments.

Springfield residents know Corcione as more than a hairdresser and business owner. The lifelong Springfield resident has been an active and visible part of township life for years. Most visibly, she ran for Township Committee as a Republican in 2004.

“I’ve been a PTA president,” Corcione said. “I’ve been involved with most of the sports in the town, too. Girl Scouts, the swim team; you name it, I did it.”

In Patch comments, their customers were quick to point to the warmth and skill offered at Capelli e Mani.

“The atmosphere is warm and friendly and the salon is staffed with nice, kind, talented beauticians,” one reader wrote. “Now my Mom and my daughter also go there. Men, women and children are all patrons and I have observed that elderly patrons are particularly treated with kindness, respect and dignity.”