Beauty & Spas in Carmel

The specialists at each of Bronze Bay Tanning Center's locations craft custom plans that emphasize building a tan while avoiding burns. They work to help those new to UV beds acquire a base tan and aid seasoned bronzers in reaching new shades. Within colorfully walled rooms, warm-skinned patrons slip out from UltraSun and SunScape units, thankful that the sun is now only used to give cowboys a cool way to leave parties. Air conditioners in UltraSun TurboPower 25000 S units pour out cool air, and the SunScape SS755 produces an even, all-over tan with the aid of frosted acrylic surfaces. At some shop locations, clients foster summer glows with tanning lotions from brands such as Swedish Beauty and Australian Gold.

From working as a makeup artist on daytime drama One Life to Live to enhancing the faces that grace Redbook, Brenda Sotolongo has spent the past 32 years helping her clients feel beautiful in their skin. She and her staff, licensed aestheticians with nine years of make-up industry experience in television and film, share this expertise during makeup-application classes, teaching techniques and tricks to contour cheekbones, augment pouts, and downplay newly evolved gills. In order to address common skin issues such as acne and sun damage, Sotolongo has also created her own line of cosmetics called ProSoto, which are packed with minerals and vivid pigments and lack pore-clogging ingredients and harsh dyes.

The aestheticians at Seasons Light Therapy draw on the power of phototherapy, a technology pioneered by NASA and trusted by the Mayo Clinic. Their treatments vary in intensity and intended benefits, but each employs LED light as the main ingredient. Safe, natural beams penetrate outer layers of skin to soften the appearance of blemishes and signs of aging, from wrinkles and acne to pigmentation and marker moustaches drawn by Father Time. Phototherapy induces no thermal damage and requires no downtime, and can treat necks, chests, and hands as well as faces.