Annandale, VA Spa and Massage

When Maureen Schantz founded Alternative Health Associates more than two decades ago, she did so with a simple concept in mind: bring together professionals who can tend to customers’ every aesthetic need. She and her staff do just that with a wide range of cosmetic services, ranging from Maureen’s specialty, electrolysis, to Botox and waxing. But their services also extend into aspects of health. Swedish and deep-tissue massages disperse aches, and a protein-oriented weight-loss program builds muscle and gets rid of fat faster than a firm handshake from a really muscular cousin.

Whether you've been looking for a new color to crown your cranium or a pretty polish for your perky piggies, today's deal has you covered from head to toe. With this Groupon, you get $100 worth of services from L'azur Salon and Spa for $50. The Aveda concept salon and spa will smooth and soothe whatever section of your surface area aches for tending, from your freshly sore Olive Oyl tattoo to the love-bite scars from your pet gull. Because you can apply this deal to any of L'azur's myriad services, the hard part might be deciding which parts of you should get special treatment.Major Massage: The leader of the rag-tag unit barks out his orders in a calm, soothing tone. Armed with an array of warm, fragrant oils, this is one commando who’s always “good with his hands.”

With five indoor tennis courts, a group exercise studio, and a fully equipped training room, Mount Vernon Athletic Club has kept hearts racing and muscles burning for 40 years. The tennis program aims to improve the skills of players of all ages by hosting clinics and seminars on correct stroke form and how to grow your own tennis-ball garden.

Personal trainers inhabit the training studio, creating regimens customized to their clients' physical prowess, while Fitness On Demand offers a library of group fitness classes. Rounding out the club's services, the wellness spa keeps clients looking their best with skincare and tanning services. Free childcare services allow parents to take advantage of the gamut of offerings.

Modern Day Spa soaks its clients in sweet serenity with an array of relaxing and refreshing spa services, administered in an environment of tranquility. Turn your soul-suitcase over to the spa's therapists for a 50-minute Modern Swedish massage ($90), which uses ample applications of pressure to gently ease out hornet's nests of hurt and tension. During the 50-minute Modern European facial ($90), Modern Day Spa's skilled aestheticians will exfoliate the skin, cleanse pores, and remove dead skin like autumn's leaves from a computer CD drive. A customized mask will be applied to elicit further radiance from a head's real estate, while a relaxing massage will soothe the face and décolleté. Finally, the Modern manicure ($23) classes up cuticles and nurtures nails, with warm towels and a massage further finessing the fingers for future endeavors in banjo-picking.

BioTec USA founder and licensed aesthetician Tanya Gospodinova has been transforming complexions for three decades. After studying medicine and dermatology in Bulgaria, Gospodinova created a day spa that would evolve into a research-based health-care and beauty haven. She wanted to develop topical products that were not only capable of fighting everyday signs of aging but also potent enough to repair skin post surgery. Her Serum Collagen HP, for example, includes active ingredients such as niacinamide, which improves elasticity, green coffee extract, which nourishes skin with polyphenols, and glycoprotein from the Antarctic sea, which moisturizes and promotes collagen production.

Gospodinova and her team employ the powerful, nature-based formulas during results-oriented facials, peels, and microdermabrasion treatments. At each consultation, she uses video microscopy to magnify the skin 1,000 times—enough to spot the tiniest imperfections and determine for certain whether a freckle really looks like Elvis.