Aldine, TX Beauty and Salons

Using Aloxxi color and Eufora products, the stylists at Bella Madame skillfully color and style tresses. Their specialty keratin straightening treatments help soften stubborn curls, and extensions add quick length and volume to hairdos.

Vali, the aesthetician at Vali Skin Care European Organic, was an anatomy and biology educator in Budapest prior to immersing herself in skincare and opening her own spa. But she hasn’t left her medical sensibilities behind, or the fruits of her native country. Using European Organic products that hail from Hungary, and putting to use her complex knowledge of the human body, Vali commits to brightening complexions with nourishing skincare regimens and organic products.

For starters, Vali offers customized facials—extensive treatments that include an analysis, deep cleansing, steaming, and masks—that help skin achieve a radiant glow. And Vali Skin Care European Organic now employs a licensed massage therapist, who relieves tight muscles and replenishes spirits broken by unsolvable riddles.

Dr. Christine S. Cheng honed her expertise in anti-aging during two separate clinical professorship appointments in the University of Texas medical-school system. Now, as head of Elite Medical Skin and Laser Center, she supervises a team of highly trained technicians as they wield microcrystals, lasers, and gentle chemical solutions in the quest to boost beauty. The center partners with glo therapeutics, whose pharmaceutical-grade products power services that can be adapted to treat such common skin problems as lack of hydration and excess coal-mine soot. These kisser polishings take place in sunny yellow treatment rooms, where technicians also target fat cells with the vacuum-assisted radiofrequency of Elite body contouring and attack pesky hair follicles and spider veins with blasts from a laser.

Visage's style director and owner Lee Pham continually educates his team of stylists on emerging beauty trends and haircare techniques. Clients soak up the spa’s serene aura from massage chairs and relax as they gaze upon neutral cream-colored walls that contrast with the kaleidoscopic colors that are injected into patrons’ hair. Nails leave the salon shiny and rejuvenated, and massages refresh customers who have tested out their roundhouse kicks on every single closed door in the house.

To create the right mood for showcasing skills he honed at Vidal Sassoon, Chris Gangi adorns his classical-aesthetic salon with white sculptures, marble fountains, and buttery yellow walls. He leverages 16 years of experience to tend to strands amid these tranquil elements; his conditioning treatments, for one, soothe and replenish locks. Chris uses his special skills in cutting and coloring for good by transforming hair, instead of for evil by cutting people in line and making their faces red. He can also thicken manes with feather and hair extensions.

Outside the salon, if he's not attending hair classes and shows, Chris is volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House.

A lineup of Aquage, Redken, and Pureology products gives the stylists at Up In Tangles an ample palate with which to transform drab tresses into well-coiffed works of art. They paint strands with regular or corrective color to add depth to new cuts and tint eyebrows and lashes to match newly minted hair hues without covering brows with mustache appliqués. Keratin-based straightening systems change up mane texture, along with regular and feather extensions. The stylists can use Jane Iredale mineral makeup or bridal airbrush makeup to put the finishing touches on their masterpiece canvases.