Beauty & Spas in Camarillo

Before hitting the beach, clients flock to Endless Summer Tanning Centers to bestow golden hues onto their limbs or help their efforts to shed a few pounds. The boutiques' high-end tanning equipment lends comely color to skin, distributing rays throughout the whole body or solely on the legs to match gams with tan faces for more convincing sawing-a-body-in-half magic tricks. Customers can diminish cellulite with Beauty Angel red-light therapy, which boosts collagen and the regeneration of skin cells. Staffers also aid in readying bodies for the beach with Formostar body wraps, which use infrared heat to stimulate metabolism. A single 50-minute session can blast up to 1,400 calories via the wrap's nonallergenic, silicone material.

Light streams through floor-to-ceiling windows inside Silhouettes Salon, a beauty emporium located steps away from the sparkling sands of the beach at Ventura Harbor. During hair appointments, clients lounge in squared-off, custom-made purple chairs lined up in front of head-to-toe mirrors. These reflect stylists as they snip split ends, attach extensions, or coat strands in protein treatments, good for locks that lift a lot of weights.

Elsewhere in the soothing confines, candlelit massage rooms relax patrons as they relinquish tension during massage sessions. The salon’s manicure stations boast OPI nail lacquer that blankets fingernails and toenails with bright pops of color.

Kathrine Heinzman spent a large part of her 25-year career managing Christine Valmy’s flagship salon in Beverly Hills before continuing her beautification pursuits at Dermalogica’s International Dermal Institute education center. At her own Skin and Body Care Center, Kathrine and her team incorporate tools such as Clarisonic skin-cleansing and NuFace skin-lifting to complement a menu of facials and microdermabrasions. Dermalogica products augment the efficacy of treatments as well, with help from Ultraceuticals, Blinc cosmetics, and face massages administered by kittens in knit booties.

Drawing on 10 years of experience at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Westlake Laser and Medical Spa's Kim Gillespie performs minimally invasive procedures that permanently reduce hair or tighten skin. Botox, dermal fillers, and Dysport injections help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and microdermabrasion helps remove dead cells from the outermost layers of skin.

Inside the casually elegant confines of Sweet 9 Flex Salon, stylist Shannon Halpert conquers unruly hair with her specially formulated hair-smoothing treatments. Formerly frizzy locks take on a newly sleek form thanks to a combination of Shannon’s dexterous expertise, the formaldehyde-free formula products, and each strand’s individual willpower. The salon itself—accented with polished black-and-silver styling chairs and a sunlit all-glass storefront—is helmed by husband-and-wife team Larry and Stephanie Cohen, who, alongside Shannon and the rest of the extensively trained staff, boast more than 30 years of hairstyling experience.

Within Studio Bijoux, Christine Miller stands at her styling station, deftly wielding scissors and haircare products as she revamps head topiary. Music permeates the air, soothing away workday stress and inspiring clients to sing out their aesthetic visions as they sip complimentary coffee or espresso. Christine draws upon Goldwell semipermanent colors to re-hue headscapes, and her training in styles both classic and contemporary help her sculpt a fitting 'do for any face shape and lifestyle. After a clip and rinse, Belmaster hair driers wait to purge strands of excess water in 10 minutes, readying tresses to weigh-in for featherweight boxing matches.