Ankeny, IA Beauty and Salons

Jessica Sage and Tonya Vincent, the licensed aestheticians behind Skin Transformation, cosset visages with an array of treatments powered by Image skincare products. Jessica leverages her 10 years of experience as she targets signs of aging, as well as skin damage caused by burns, scarring, and exposure to nature documentaries. Working in tandem, Tonya, a graduate of the Aveda Institute in Minneapolis, channels her knowledge into microdermabrasion treatments, chemical peels, and spray-tan sessions. The duo also offers advanced treatments, such as microphototherapy, which uses light and heat energy to clear pigmented lesions, boost collagen, and jump-start evolution in a way that's far more effective than sewing thumbs on a pet rock.

Salon TEC's staff offers a variety of beauty services within a spacious studio-type salon. Hairstylists perform haircuts for both women and men, along with coloring, highlighting, and styling services. Facial-waxing services remove unwanted whiskers from the face, and nailcare services fortify and gloss the helmets of finger and toes. For a natural-looking tan, spray-tanning sessions can be purchased by the session or in packs of three.

The stylists at Trahvae Freraire Studio don't do haircuts. Rather, they specialize in precision "hair sculptures," along with an array of other color and styling services designed to unlock each mane’s hidden potential. The team performs Keratin Complex treatments that turn hair from frizzy to sleek, and nourishes damaged strands with custom conditioning treatments that leave hair less likely to eat in its sleep. Guests sip cocktails while talented hair artists soothe their scalps with acupressure massage and then go to work making locks more manageable with high-end products from brands such as Mizani and Aquage.

The studio is located in the historic Tone Mansion, where a sparkling chandelier and gold-framed mirrors give the space an elegant, classic vibe, and a fireplace makes an ideal place to swap scary stories about feathered bangs. In addition to making the world a more beautiful place one head at a time, the caring crew at Trahvae Freraire Studio has also participated in local charity events, where they donated services to benefit families in need.

At Sunsation Spa, a team of highly trained tanning consultants assists patrons in choosing from a succinct yet diverse selection of UV tanning beds. Twenty-minute sessions in the SunStar bed gently tan unsunned skin, and the 48 lamps and quartet of facial tanners in the SolarForce beds maintain golden hues in 12 minutes or less. The therapeutic Rejuvasun bed nourishes the face as it bronzes the body, using FDA-cleared phototherapy facial bulbs to boost firmness, clear acne, and provide reading light to literature-starved pores.

Clinically licensed aesthetician Ericka Mayes has been buffing and improving the skin and aesthetics of clients since 1999. With a cache of paramedical expertise accrued while working alongside plastic surgeons, she now singularly focuses on personally beautifying clients with a range of medically informed skincare treatments. Mayes wields advanced light to rejuvenate the skin, hydrofacials to diminish pore size, and molten sugars to lift away unwanted hair and band-aids that just won't let go.