Though inner beauty is important, the fact remains that outer beauty is still often used to determine SAT scores and income-tax rates. Get a leg up on life with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of salon or spa services at Donato Academy.

Heads get refreshed by Donato’s hair and styling services, and bodies are smoothed and spiffed by the spa’s mani-pedis, facials, and waxing services. Administered by a Donato new-talent student stylist and supervised by an academy instructor, salon services range from women’s ($22.50+) and men’s ($20.50+) haircuts to a follicle-soothing conditioning treatment ($10). Bodies not content to merely quench internal thirst will relish the spa’s hydration facial ($30), and brows, bikini lines, and lips emerge as fresh and smooth as bowling balls from a bubble bath after a careful waxing ($8–$40). During the pedicure with paraffin ($34), aestheticians pare and polish keratin beds using Deborah Lippmann products, and dry feet metamorphose into winged beauties with exfoliation, a moisturizing paraffin treatment, and a relaxing massage. The salon and spa professionals and mavens-to-be are on a first-name basis with top-line products such as Oribe, label.m, Arrojo, Deborah Lippmann, Keratin Complex, and Hairdo by Jessica Simpson.