Massage in Alamo

Sister duo Michelle and Marie draw on Swedish, deep tissue, and pressure point principles and techniques to tailor each treatment to your body's singular quirks and complaints. During the integrated massage, the mitten fillers of your licensed massage therapist will skate smooth circles and figure eights on the surface of your back, boosting circulation, oxygenating muscles, and promoting peacefulness. If your body is already nice and rubbery from hours of boiling in a spaghetti pot, you can de-stress just as completely with a mani/pedi as technicians clip, cut, and file untamed talons into clean and orderly perfection before coating them with your color of choice. Call ahead to schedule an appointment.

Tucked away from the clanking dumbbells and whirl of treadmills at Gold’s Gym, Angel Hands Spa offers many moments of silence during relaxing appointments. Clients recline on cozy treatment tables as massages unwind tense muscles and facials remove dirt and excess oil from pores. Excess body hair can be tackled with a laser or warm wax for those tired of shaving or asking it politely to leave. A nail technician on staff files and buffs fingernails and toenails before painting them in vibrant polish hues. The spa's most impressive treatment, however, is the noninvasive HydraFacial, which uses a Vortex-Fusion process to eliminate imperfections in the skin such as wrinkles and sun damage.

Cosmetic care that stops at the surface is only fighting half the battle. This is the philosophy of the staff at Eternal Wellness MedSpa & Salon, and its various aestheticians and technicians aim to rejuvenate and revitalize clients' spirits with their beauty services. To do so, they incorporate traditional spa techniques, such as Swedish and deep-tissue massage, with medical-grade products and technology. A cosmetic laser system and Vibraderm exfoliating machine fit right in with the center's arsenal of aesthetic equipment, which also includes infrared light skin-tightening devices. Colon hydrotherapy machines and 21-day cleanses help clients shed weight and toxins. Even something as straightforward as a new hairstyle or freshly polished set of nails can revitalize spirits and give clients the confidence they need to finally assemble their home's particle accelerator.

Rock Star Tanning's expert technicians use UV-free, streak-shunning solutions to coat their clients in a healthy and natural-looking glow. Relax as a specialist evenly applies a fine mist of color over your entire body, delivering beach-like bronze in 20 minutes or less. Choose from three custom levels of tan based on your current skin tone or the seven-day forecast for your fake-vacation locale. Your custom-contoured color will last 12–14 days with the proper care and maintenance.

All Star Cuts’ team of five waxing technicians draws on more than twenty years of combined experience to make depilatory missions as swift and painless as possible. In each treatment, wayward hairs are lulled into a false sense of security under plush blankets of skin-friendly wax elixirs, then uprooted and transplanted to greener pastures. The radiance of newly unveiled epidermises is maximized with a soothing application of Paul Mitchell tea-tree body moisturizer. While eyebrow shaping ($18) and upper-lip treatments ($10) claim top popularity honors, All Star Cuts’ technicians willingly defoliate a gamut of body components upon request, including underarms ($20), chins ($8), backs (price upon request), and more.

Signature Service: Face and body sculpting
Brands Used: Terra Organics
Established: 2012
Reservations/Appointments: Required
Staff Size: 2–10 people
Parking: Parking lot
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: No

At Ultimate Hair & Body Studio, Green French doors surrounded by brick open up to high ceilings. The spacious salon-spa's wood-paneled floors and walls contain everything from private massage rooms to a fitness club manned by personal trainers. While stylists and techs primp 'dos and nails, aesthetic specialists remove unwanted hair with wax and slow it's return with a restraining order.