Summer Dagger

Summer Dagger is a hairstylist, salon owner, and founder of Edge + Aura, a next-generation salon experience in Valparaiso, Indiana. With more than a decade in the beauty industry, she specializes in custom color, blonding, hair extensions, precision cutting, and hair health-focused transformations. After training in advanced color techniques at a flagship Chicago salon and refining her cutting skills through apprenticeship under an award-winning platform artist, Dagger built her career around delivering high-end expertise typically found in major metropolitan markets. Her work emphasizes healthy, low-maintenance results tailored to each client's lifestyle, hair goals, and long-term hair integrity. As the founder of Edge + Aura, she is reimagining the traditional salon model through tr...