Marissa White

Marissa White works as a Color & Curls Specialist at Reverie Salon in River North, Chicago. Her focus is color and curly hair. Her specialties include balayage, highlights, lowlights, vivid and bold color, and women's haircuts. Her signature work covers curly hair and color correction, and she shapes and colors curls to create depth and movement. She started professional training in 2018 at the Douglas J Aveda Institute in Michigan, then relocated to Chicago. Her further training includes Kaizen Education, Michael Polsinelli and Ian Michael Black. For more than three years she worked under Reverie founder Sal Misseri, assisting in the salon and traveling across North America. He entrusted her with complex color cases he would typically handle himself, including multi-step corrections. She is trained in the Air Touch protocol as refined by Kaizen, performs Air Touch at Reverie alongside Sal Misseri, and sets her own price for the service. Her consultations are personal and detailed, and she tailors hair care to each client's lifestyle and preferences. Clients describe her as patient and intuitive, and note her commitment to helping them appreciate their natural texture. One client review says she took the time to understand their goals and shaped a cut around their curl pattern. The salon's site says her technical command of color goes well beyond what her experience would suggest.