Buena Park, CA Spa and Massage

Like bonsai trees, eyebrows require loving attention and skilled care if they're to shade a face with beautiful good fortune. The talented brow artists at Vinita's Beauty and Threading Studio won the 2009 honors of Best Cheap Brow Job from Los Angeles magazine. The cleanly kept salon utilizes safe and sanitary threading practices to quickly shape and exfoliate the brow without using chemical solutions or hot wax. Threading is a gently administered ancient art that lasts longer than other shaping techniques and won't leave you with sore side effects such as bumping and redness. Skilled brow stylists rave that the technique gives them more control than waxing and delivers a more precise look.

At Indulgence Day and Med Spa, founder and world traveler Wendy Dye tends to aesthetic needs using experience and knowledge gained from her time spent living in England and Japan and her extensive treks to countries including Egypt and India. Nestled in an Old-World European setting, her spa’s staff includes a registered nurse, acupuncturist, and a handful of licensed skincare professionals and massage therapists who stand ready to perform everything from skin-soothing facials and body treatments to hand-applied airbrushed tans. Before or after treatment, clients can relax with a glass of wine in one of 10 treatment rooms or peruse a selection of professional skincare lines, jewelry, and pocket-sized aestheticians inside the spa boutique.

The staff at Vida Organic Wellness helps clients to detoxify, rejuvenate, and energize through holistic spa treatments that incorporate organic skincare formulas. Before every session, the spa's aestheticians and massage therapists reach for products from iLike and AmazonDrops that are forged without preservatives from organic fruits and vegetables. These nourishing products are used during five types of facials—including those tailored for men and teens—and 10 styles of massage that range from focused, pain-relieving techniques to the luxurious therapy of hot stones and reflexology. Vida also encourages whole-body well-being through customized and holistic diet and exercise plans, along with a multistep detoxifying treatment that aims to improve organ function and flagging oxygen levels caused by hooking the air conditioner up to a helium tank. The spa further enhances its community by sponsoring the national water-polo teams, the Every Drop Counts water-conservation campaign, and the Lightning Velo Cycling Club.

Amid the spa’s earth-toned walls and certifiably alive greenery, Bella Vi's team of massage therapists and skincare specialists unshackle visitors from their daily grinds with facials as well as Swedish, deep-tissue, and pregnancy massages.

By enhancing each treatment with pure plant extracts, the aestheticians at Sanctuary Spa restore skin to a naturally beautiful state. When performing facials, the skincare pros use plant enzymes to dissolve dead skin cells and thereby brighten the complexion. They also incorporate herbal ingredients, particularly essential oils, into massages—droplets of nine therapeutic-grade oils tumble toward skin during the raindrop-technique massage, simulating the curative experience of lying facedown in the driveway during a rainstorm. Body treatments, including airbrush tans, incorporate paraben-free products that enhance the body's best features. The spa's nature-focused treatments match its earthy decor, with floral wallpaper complementing a palette of mossy greens and petal pinks.

A team of experienced surgeons, nurses, and technicians at Yonge Eglinton Laser Eye & Cosmetic Centre masterfully performs laser eye correction and hair-removal treatments with state-of-tomorrow equipment and expertise. Unwelcome body fur shrinks away at the sight of the LightSheer diode laser system, which pulses condensed light to render surfaces such as the bikini line or underarms smooth enough to use as an impromptu dry-erase board. Additional beautification treatments include microdermabrasion and wrinkle-erasing Botox injections.