Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, FL Spa and Massage

A bright reception area welcomes beauty-seekers into Friends Day Spa & Salon, where stylists transform manes with cuts, color, perms, and twisty updos, which will impress pillows at bedtime. Soothing facials pamper the remainder of clients’ heads, and nail techs add flair to handshakes and footshakes with manicures and pedicures. For full-body buffing, massage therapists remove knots from musculature, sometimes utilizing warm hot stones. Each spa service is performed in its own roomy area, separated from the rest of the 3,400-square-foot spa and salon. The space also has a locker room and a wet room equipped with a Vichy shower, which provides clients with a place to refresh between services.

In a sage-colored chamber within Mosaic Salon Studios, Zen Soul Therapy's Deven McPhaul orders tiny, rainbow bottles of essential oils by color and begins heating her set of smooth stones. These are the simpler tools of her trade—the most important and complex, of course, are her nimble fingers. McPhaul studied massage therapy at the Concorde Institute, developing her strength and precision with rehabilitative deep tissue and trigger-point therapies, and practicing a flowing delivery of Swedish massage's five refreshing strokes and whispered rap lullaby. Since massage can ease both physical and emotional pain, she considers it part of a holistic wellness program for each client that could incorporate energy work.