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Your bank account isn’t the only thing that suffers during the holidays. Find peace of mind with simple solutions you can try anywhere.
Beauty
Your bank account isn’t the only thing that suffers during the holidays. Find peace of mind with simple solutions you can try anywhere.
Celeb aesthetician Renée Rouleau whips up two cranberry recipes for your face.
New York indie boutique Catbird turns its nose up at tradition with a line of solid scents.
Tomorrow, it would be inappropriate not to stuff your face and wear elastic-waist pants. Keep the focus off your food baby with a subtle glow around your eyes.
Burst your bubble (bath). We asked the girls at Skin Remedy to design three easy DIY tub recipes just in time for winter.
You can do better than a gift card. Wrap presents she’ll fancy, from artsy scarves and emerald baubles to dessert deliveries and makeup tricks.
Fight the winter-weight trap with one of the most ass-kicking workouts in town. Take five classes weekly (three Flybarre, two Flywheel) and get two technique workshops and a nutrition seminar to keep you in your hourglass. Cost is $275 for nonmembers and $100 for members. Sign up at 678-702-5684, buckhead@flywheelsports.com, or in person.
Photo: Courtesy of Flywheel Sports
Stretch according to your sign with zodiacal poses from Yogastrology founder Diane Booth Gilliam.
Joomee Song’s at-home treatments will have you doing the happy dance.
John Barrett Salon helps us create a special style that only looks complicated.
The Vancouver, B.C.-based facial-only spa has a treatment menu that is varied and luxurious — the Xtreme facial includes a foot facial and scalp massage, and the Mancial is specially tailored for the dudes. Stock up on the line of potent products for at-home maintenance.
We’re gearing up for the season with thick night creams, face oils, and (of course) sunscreen. Bring on the snow.
Put the man back in manicure with a boys-only salon day. Personal flat-screens (with sports channels for days), leather armchairs, and booze take his mind off the task at hand.
You down juices packed with antioxidants and try to get your beauty rest. Round out your healthy regimen with No Bull Botanical Skin Care.
Fellas get pampered (hot towels, oils and moisturizers, shampoo and conditioning) in a cool, manly atmosphere (pool table, peanuts, beer) when they go for a shave and/or haircut. The shop also sells trimming tools, hard-to-find beard/mustache serums, and accessories like vintage bow ties and shotgun shell cuff links.
The new 15,000-square-foot boxing gym from George Foreman III adds glamour to the fighter’s workout with an organic juice bar, six daily mind-body classes, and rainfall showers.
Billing itself as a “local, organic, free-range fitness” program, Roam is a gym without walls (hosted at The Savoy Suites Hotel). Members sign up for untold physical adventures — one session might involve running to Georgetown’s Washington Harbour and kayaking to Roosevelt Island; another might have participants hiking in Rock Creek Park.
It’s time to try an oil.
From makeup applications to massages, the services at this trio of salons make us say “ahh.”
This spa blends Eastern and Western products with age-old ayurvedic practices. Treatments include waxing, threading, facials, makeup, massage, henna, and more.
At this Lakeview salon, you can get waxed, eyelash extensions, facials, and spray tans. The back section of the 3,000-square-foot space can be rented for events and can accommodate BYOB crowds of up to 50.
This salon is an ecofriendly alternative in the beauty world, offering chemical-free massages, pedicures, facials, and makeup applications: no parabens, sulfates, phthalates, formaldehyde, toluene, or other toxic ingredients here.
Crack is wack. Try these scrubs, balms, and creams for softer lips.
You don’t have to be a movie star to leave Rheanne White feeling like one.
Get the A-list treatment at celebrity stylist Rheanne White’s Tribeca salon, which specializes in color, cuts, and styling for women and men with top-of-the-line products from Kérastase and Shu Uemura.
Fight aging like an astronaut with Comfort Zone's super food-rich products.
Jewelry designer Lana Barakat has a jewel of a boutique in SoWa, housing jewelry, home decor, bath products, and kids' wares from emerging designers as far away as New Zealand and Morocco.
You’ve always wanted a beauty product with brains, too. This top-notch oil does double duty.
Dead Sea skin care just became a little easier to find. The holiday pop-up carries all the line’s exclusive products, as well as customized and prepackaged gift collections and specialized cupcake bath bombs. Free makeup consults and freebies help ease the holiday credit card crunch.
Photo: Courtesy of Arianna Skin Care
Get an out-of-this-world experience inside a sensory deprivation tank in Bethesda.
A small Bethesda spa devoted to hydrotherapy. The twofold process involves a 30- or 45-minute rest in an infrared sauna followed by a quick shower and a 60- or 90-minute meditative float in water mixed with 850 pounds of Epsom salts. The practice of relaxing in a warm bath in total darkness and silence is designed to ease the mind of worry and comfort weary bones.
Take your wintry manicure to the next level.
Rev up your fitness routine with SweatGuru’s workout marketplace.
All work and no sleep? Lay puffiness, dark circles, and bags to rest with one of these concentrated formulas for tired eyes.
Chanel Luck’s yoga studio offers up to fifteen weekly classes with well-known instructors. The Yoga for Single Moms and Dads program lets harried solos take a class with their littles.
Find everything you need to keep up your beauty routine — no matter how intensive. Tired of DIY? Book an appointment with one of the in-house stylists.
Unclog pores (and more) with this not-so-secret ingredient.
Charlotte Cho of Soko Glam, purveyor of hard-to-find international beauty products, shares the company’s latest beauty tips and discoveries.
Photo: Courtesy of Soko Glam
A team of creative wunderkinds leaves New York to open a sprawling salon-slash-boutique in our hood.
Strike skin care gold with a straightforward regimen that yields maximum results.
Stop in for cuts and color or recline in a Bauhaus chair while Rescue Rittenhouse alum Michelle Martin tends to your brows. There’s also a tight edit of vintage clothing and housewares.
Three essentials to keep in your tool kit.
We’re bringing the DailyCandy experience to life at the DailyCandy Bazaar, a first-of-its-kind shopping event starting Friday.
We’re bringing the DailyCandy experience to life at the DailyCandy Bazaar, a first-of-its-kind shopping event, November 8 through 10 in New York City. Our favorite designers, bakers, and craft makers from coast to coast will be under one roof for the festivities.
A new generation of face masks boosts skin while you sleep.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but herbal remedies keep winter ailments at bay. Homestead Apothecary’s Nicholas Weinstein gives us the lowdown.
At one Lincoln Park hidden gem, $28 goes a long way — from your head down to your toes — for an entire blissful hour.
Get your massage fix at a fraction of the price at this Lincoln Park parlor. Options include a $28 hour-long massage that starts with the head, neck, and back (30 minutes), then focuses on the feet (30 minutes). If you’re tight on time, opt for the 30-minute foot massage. Book ahead for the weekend, when it’s busiest.