Beauty & Spas in Alameda

Upscale Barber and hair salon!

Inspired Skin Care's convenient location on Buchanan Street makes the quick service an easy errand in the middle of any busy day (with an appointment). While scraggly eyebrows can send mixed messages to strangers in cafes and bus stops, a well-maintained set of brows opens up clear channels of facial communication that inspire people on the street to approach you, claiming to be your high-school football coach.

Estila Salon’s interior embraces luminescent mirrors that turn the living bust of any customer into a 360-degree revelation of noggin-fringe. The talented professionals at Estila transform hair into a fully malleable canvas privy to trimming, volumizing, and color modulation. A variety of services for men and women begins with haircuts including blow-dry and styling ($70–$90) and proceeds to the conditioning hair therapy of a Bonacure Smooth Express, a hydrating formula that smoothes and shines hair ($40+). Send a dramatic new message to familiar eyes with creative coloring solutions ($85–$120), partial highlights ($120–$155), full highlights ($150–$190), and more. Or put your Groupon toward the price of a keratin complex smoothing therapy ($325+), which removes up to 95 percent of frizzies through the power of keratin.

Lonni's Punani wins the hearts and hides of its customers through quick and delicate treatments of a body's most tender areas. Services such as waxing and brow and lash tinting are available for ladies and sirs. Bring baldness to a woman's bikini line ($35), underarms ($20), lip ($10), or chin ($10), or to a man's chest ($35), shoulders ($20), back ($50), toosh ($45), and more. Women can turn to Brazilian waxes ($65) just as men can achieve manzilian smoothness ($75), and anyone can enjoy the more northern treatments of a pleasant lash and brow tinting ($35). Lonni's Punani is open Wednesday–Saturday by appointment only, so call ahead.

A one-woman show, Felicia Gelardi’s Skin Care offers top-notch epidermal services with personalized precision and undeniable attentiveness. Felicia uses only the finest products from carefully selected fresh plant extracts, which contain no mineral oils, lanolin, sodium laurel sulfate, artificial colors, fragrances, pore-clogging ingredients, or unfair-trade diamonds from Martian mines. Services offered include corrective peels, waxing and tinting, and customized facials.

Ooh La La's owner, Wes Rafat, relies on the knowledge he gleaned through his time studying at Vidal Sassoon in London to lead a talented team of stylists and aestheticians. Mane wranglers shape coiffures into fetching ’dos, and stylists add eye-catching highlights or perform keratin or Japanese hair-straightening treatments to battle frizz brought on by head banging in a lightning storm. Éminence Organic Skin Care products—made from handpicked, natural ingredients—smooth and nurture epidermises, slough away depleted cells, and cleanse pores during custom facials. Additional services include hypoallergenic sunless tans, makeup lessons, and eyelash extensions.