If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, then disheveled hair provides the least efficient route for climbing monkeys to reach the bananas in your fruit hat. Today's Groupon tames tresses for easy scaling: for $125, you get a Brazilian Blowout hair-smoothing treatment at Arous Studio in East Greenwich (a $300 value).

Specialists in the delicate art of dry haircutting, the expert mane tamers at Arous Studio extend their follicular finesse to help calm frizzy head fluff with the help of professional straightening products. The Brazilian Blowout treatment uses a combination of essential nutrients, proprietary polymers, and photos of dry split ends to scare strands straight, eliminate frizz, and leave hair looking healthy and smooth.

After washing hair with a specialized shampoo to cleanse strands of scurrilous oils and residues that would interfere with the treatment, the stylist divides hair into sections and sprays it with the formaldehyde-free solution, smoothing the cuticles, and imprisoning fizz in an impregnable protein prison. A blow-dry and flat-iron straightening further solidify the protein's hold on the hair, detangling errant strands, and leaving hair perfectly coiffed, full bodied, and safe from nesting squirrels, for up to 12 weeks.

Reviews

Sixteen Insider Pagers give Arous Studio a perfect five-star average:

• My hair has transformed since I have been going to Arous, and she is an amazing and gifted hair stylist. – Luciana C.