Beauty
Take the New Year's Eve Party with You
Glam up for the countdown.
Beauty
Glam up for the countdown.
New nail salon puts its best foot forward.
Swap your winter cap for a pretty do.
Make batting your lashes worth it.
Brace yourself for holiday madness with a jolt of energy healing.
Fend off the harsh temps with a hot new spa treatment.
Soap that gives back.
Cuts, color, and no-fuss extensions at this huge (but sleek) suburban salon.
Face it. Beauty’s only skin deep. Makeup still helps, though.
Taking its name from plants that grow through snow, Nival Salon and Spa (formerly Hela Spa and Ted Gibson Salon), is strong on talent and discretion. Experienced staffers and a long menu of services (acupuncture, Botox, waxing, extensions, facials, cuts, color, nails) deliver head-to-toe primping for ladies and gents — including First Lady Michelle Obama.
The follicularly overactive will rejoice for this gentle treatment.
A very good color experience, indeed.
Not only does Johnny Bueno bring the goods with his expert skills as a colorist, but his compact studio is a study in chic tranquility. Clients look out over the ballpark and Bay from windows lined with a succulent garden in a serene space outfitted with vintage furniture.
Don’t be seedy. Settle in for a good-for-you facial.
Along with the usual classes, the new gym has a full-size boxing ring.
The experts at this new beauty spot will get you gorgeous for the holidays.
In addition to kickboxing, spinning, and body sculpting classes, the gym packs a different sort of punch — a full-size boxing ring and an octagon cage (for mixed martial arts).
At-home magnetized skin treatment that’s worth its metal.
Don’t ya wanna know your dosha?
Quaint healing spa and yoga center tucked in a small Plano shopping center. The warm oil massages are signature — just don’t plan to run errands afterward (the divine head massage leaves your scalp super greasy).
Photo: Courtesy of Pranaa Ayurveda Spa
Everything a gal needs to look her best in one friendly shop. Treat yourself from head to toe with fun services, then finish your look with sparkly accessories.
It’s the balm.
A charitable beauty day for the fairest of them all.
Fancy ladies and those who lunch love services and chitchat at this upscale salon. Frequent pro bono services for local charities and fundraising orgs prove that they have heart.
Lift saddlebags up, up, and away with a suspenseful new Euro workout.
Holistic health in the comfort of your own home.
Even the pretty ones can use a pick-me-up.
This bright, vibrant beauty boutique sells everything from clippers and dryers to skin care and makeup. Lines include Leonor Greyl, Dermalogica, and Alterna. Get a trim at the in-house salon.
Photo: Albert Moldvay / Getty Images
Artists and designers make you smell better than the rest.
Turkey necks, begone! An easy DIY recipe for beautifying with your leftovers.
It smells good, feels great, and leaves you with that special glow.
Maria Forrest uses theta brain waves to heal the crazy in ya.
A Pilates studio that doubles as a theta-healing center. What? Owner Maria Forrest goes into meditative state to heal energy blocks. Promise, it’s more subconscious therapy than hippie crap.
Clean up your act with hair products that are good for your mane and the environment.
Smell nice and look even nicer with local, all-natural beauty products.
A skin care line made with organic ingredients instead of icky chemicals.
Caviar at your fingertips? Who could say no?
This cute spa offers upscale treatments in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Go there for hard-to-find treatments like foil nails.
Minx nails, waterless mani/pedis, and more inside an unassuming office park studio space.
Darling baby blue bungalow-turned-private spa in Bluffview. Go alone or take friends to enjoy private treatments like a deep-tissue massage or relaxing mani/pedi. Sweet and savory sips and bites included.
A Delray spa comes to you for makeup application, brow sculpting, and lash extensions.
Cut the crap (out of your diet) with the help of a holistic nutritionist.
Swing by Boston’s newest perfume spot for an eau de toi.
Let head perfumer Jullian Coleman tinker and toil with the more than 300 essential oils (fig, tea rose, French blueberry, Egyptian sandalwood) on hand to make your very own bouquet. There’s also a sweet selection of bath and body products.
Photo: Courtesy of Essence
She may not be a doctor, but Andrea Mazzola’s medical-grade facials offer a higher degree of beauty.
In her teensy one-woman studio, aesthetician Andrea Mazzola delivers glowing skin with facials that use only medical-grade products. As evidenced by the name, waxing’s also a specialty.
Lather, rinse, and repeat with garden-fresh bath products.
Get makeup and designer duds at this baroque consignment shop.
This sexy, baroque consignment shop and makeup studio is stocked with high-end, on-trend, men’s and women’s clothing and accessories and offers in-store makeup application.
Work out old school (like Rocky) at CrossFit, a back-to-basics gym.