Beauty & Spas in Beverly Hills

For more than 10 years, the Downtown Ferndale Salon Rehe has been a site for beauty transformation. Like the rock sculptors who maintain Abe Lincoln's chiseled biceps on Mount Rushmore, Salon Rehe's skilled stylists improve the look of their clients with haircuts, color applications, and conditioning treatments. After a complimentary consultation, stylists perform a range of services that includes adding extensions, chemically straightening hair, or sweeping strands into an updo for elegant occasions like a wedding. Other services include nail care and waxing services that shape eyebrows or remove ‘staches from the lip. The team even host events such as a bring-your-own-blow-dryer girls' night.

Behind her chair within Youssef's Hair Boutique, stylist Andrea pampers hair with an array of salon services. After trimming split ends and designing face-flattering new 'dos, she accentuates existing shades with highlights or douses strands in new hues to complement skin tone or the current colour of each client’s mood ring.

Blow Dry Divas owner Kimberly Williams built her salon to be a fun place to hang out. In addition to a full menu of hair services—which range from cuts to blowouts—the salon throws parties where teens can primp for prom or girlfriends can get together for drinks before a night out. Williams even hosts photo shoots at her onsite boudoir studio, where you can get "pinup" shots and re-create your favorite Sears-catalogue covers.

Although the stylists at Vibe Hair Studio specialize in color services—such as dimensional color, color blocking, and highlighting—longtime clients love the salon's luxurious shampoo station. The lather lounge feels more like a spa thanks to essential oils, soothing music, and gently flickering candles, not to mention the relaxing hot-towel scalp massage included with each wash. At the studio's interactive color bar, owner, stylist, and Paul Mitchell educator Linda Lipka and her team helps patrons create their own personalized palette from a vibrant assortment of Paul Mitchell products.

The staff stays ahead of industry trends with continuing education, and also offers custom cuts for men and women, extensions, and formal updos. Sleek black styling chairs and a black wall with white polka dots create a hip, modern ambiance, as do the light fixtures, which resemble upside-down bouquets of orbs similar to those nervously presented by robots on a first date.

Marcia Fosnaugh Avis’s interest in skincare was sparked as she worked alongside her father, dermatologist Robert Fosnaugh, to develop topical treatments for various skin conditions in his lab. At first available only to Dr. Fosnaugh’s patients, the serums proved so popular that Marcia started marketing them to other clinics, founding Clinitone Skin Care in 1993. Today, Marcia’s Clinage Skin Rejuvenation Systems line is sold throughout the U.S., and Marcia herself is cited as an expert source for beauty advice in magazines such as Styleline.

At Clinage’s spa-like Southfield headquarters, aestheticians deliver facials with deeply penetrating products that can improve skin tone. Take-home Clinage Groupon Peel Kits exfoliate skin without the need to leave the house, reviving cheeks in time for beauty pageants judged via Skype.

A pale shade of robin's-egg blue washes over Spa Mariana's walls, throwing into stark relief the Asian-inspired décor lacquered in black and red. As the décor convinces guests’ eyes of the spa owner's aesthetic capability, their minds and bodies are relaxed at the hands of a trained massage therapist, yoga teacher, or esthetician. Clients seeking more specialized services can opt for a lesson in the Feldenkrais Method, a process that focuses the brain on forming new patterns to correct poor posture and unnecessary muscle contractions. Alternatively, clients can converse with the resident nutrition counselor to clean up eating habits or confirm that tomatoes are a fruit and cotton candy is a gift sent from the Greek god of carnival foodstuffs.