Alhambra, CA Spa and Massage

At Beauty by Marina, steady-handed professional makeup artist and eyebrow-shaping specialist Marina enhances clients’ natural features with artistic daytime and evening looks for weddings and other special occasions. After consulting with clients, Maria sharpens ocular over-scores and finishes foundation with striking or subtle hues and vibrant shimmers to create dramatic looks for strutting down a red carpet, aisle, or airport moving walkway.

An aesthetician for nearly three decades, Danuta Kozlowski brings multiple dermal certifications and expertise gleaned from continuing-education courses with French beauty companies to each session of lavish skincare services. Massages and hydrotherapy pamper weatherworn hides with full-body treatments in private rooms, as well as with natural add-ons, such as mud and algae. Sweat sessions included with body treatments take place in a hardwood sauna, where bodies can clear themselves of lingering toxins and dated CD liner notes.

Lauded on the pages of Fit magazine, as well as on computer screens on LA.com and TVs on E! News, Vida Emanuel European Day Spa has garnered well-deserved attention for 25 years. The spa’s owner opened her namesake beauty haven to provide locals of Beverly Hills and beyond with expertly executed skin and body services. Amid an elegant space embellished with gold accents, Emanuel’s highly trained crew of Certified Aesthetic Consultants, massage therapists, and laser specialists gets to work perfecting exteriors with more than 15 skin treatments, many of which feature Emanuel’s personal skincare line. On-trend beauty treatments include Yon-Ka facials and threading services, all-natural spray tans, massages, and laser hair-removal treatments. Clients who opt for more advanced therapies can pursue dermal-filler injections to plump fine lines, or try ultrasonic lipolysis, a painless procedure that helps pinch inches by breaking down fatty cells shaped like Twinkies.

Dr. Joseph Yadegar, born in Iran, educated in England, and scrubbed in as a Los Angeles surgeon since 1977, sculpts physiques and enhances beauty at Body Cosmetics of Beverly Hills. His team of board-certified surgeons, anesthesiologist, nurses, and technicians tucks tummies, lifts faces, and implants implants, boosting patients' self-confidence and improving their outlooks on the world. Says Dr. Yadegar of the work done here at his surgicenter, "When you guide and support a patient in their decision to have elective cosmetic surgery, or in some cases life altering reconstructive surgery, it is quite a rewarding and gratifying experience."

Makeup artist Vincent Ford has always found himself drawn to shapes, textures, and colors, from the pale green of a budding spring bloom to the intricate pink argyle of a skyscraper's façade. Ford funnels his aesthetic inspirations into makeup applications customized for weddings and headshots as well as TV and film appearances. A careful application of faux-mink or ethically collected Siberian-mink eyelash extensions dramatically defines peepers; makeup lessons cover a range of topics that includes getting acquainted with the basic tools of the trade, and learning to use airbrush equipment to enhance brides' complexions or pinstripe their foreheads on the big day.

Ford says he has the most fun on the job when applying makeup for print images, which present the challenge of making a 2-D image pop with color and emotion. His beauty blog is a wellspring of everyday tips and celebrity makeup tricks.:m]]

Savvy the Beauty Apothecary manager Parmiss Akhavan deploys more than a decade of experience as a licensed aesthetician to help customers make selections from the shop's array of beauty-boosting serums. The colorful shelves teem with name-brand beauty products, including hair products from Moroccanoil, age-conquering moisturizers from Jan Marini, and mineral makeup from Jane Iredale. Meanwhile, a squadron of trained stylists snip, highlight, and deep-condition unruly manes during hair services, as well as banishing blemishes, irritation, and rebellious freckle picket lines during custom facials.