Chalco, NE Spa and Massage

Practiced in fostering outer beauty and inner wellness, Alive's proprietor Lisa Sinclair coddles her patrons with a wide range of spa treatments. Sinclair blends organic botanicals, essential oils, and genuine Ponce de Leon teardrops into skin-rejuvenating salves for her custom facials, which imbue faces with youthful radiance. Swedish, hot-stone, and shiatsu massages ease tissues and stimulate the circulatory system, and Hatha yoga classes encourage quiet breathing and squeaky stretching. To help identify blocked vitality points, an energy specialist gives a one-on-one chakra assessment, then charts out a personal healing plan involving exercise, yoga, and meditation. The spa's front room doubles as a product boutique and a gallery space; shelves display handmade aromatherapy candles, bath salts, and other items, and walls feature paintings by local artist Adam Weiss.

Brittany Harris always has her patients’ backs. In a private treatment room, the licensed therapist treats clients to 60- and 90-minute massages that feature Swedish, deep-tissue, and hot-stone techniques. Harris also offers prenatal massage to help mothers-to-be relax, as well as chair massage to address the sadness caused by being picked last for jury duty.

Skincerely Yours Spa’s owner, Jamie, graduated from Scot Lewis Beauty School, but her education doesn't stop there—she continues to attend advanced training courses to better supplement her array of skin services. With her depth of knowledge, she can create personalized treatment plans for each client. She prides herself on her chemical peels—beforehand, Jamie and her staff analyze the face and décolleté area before creating a custom peel for different areas of the skin, which helps reduce wrinkles and scarring and creates an even skin tone. She hand mixes glycolic acid into the products she uses for her luxury facial treatments, which can further help improve skin texture, and she also puts vitamin C in her masks, which helps brighten the skin.

Skincerely Yours offers more than just advanced skin treatments, though—the team also performs waxing services. In addition, Jamie and her team can help draw attention to the eyes with eyelash extensions. She applies them one by one to create thick lashes that won’t need mascara or pep talks every morning.

T'eez's staff of friendly stylists are experts at chic chops, full-cover coloring, and sensing innermost hair yearnings. Soothe a stressed mane and calm curly locks with a relaxer ($90+), or lighten your head's load with a haircut ($35+ for women) and full-color treatment ($50+). A professionally styled updo ($50+), makeup application ($30+), or facial waxing or threading ($15+) can prep anybody for prom, a wedding, or an upcoming home fumigation, and highlights for him ($30+) and her ($75+) enable the proudest strands to stand out.

The scents of thyme, peppermint, and mango blossom like petals from Relax and Live Beautiful's armory of naturally sourced products. Aestheticians add fresh sheens of vivaciousness during the studio’s lush facials by applying a series of artificial-dye- and fragrance-free products that were never tested on animals, unlike early versions of the SATs. Feet seep in warm spa socks, relishing newfound tenderness bestowed by the rough embrace of pumice scrubs beneath shelves brimming with the salon's signature BeautiControl line of skincare and beauty potions.

At Etre Vivant, licensed massage therapist Chalee George invigorates bodies with customized massage treatments. She specializes in hot stone massage, but is also astute in other modalities such as Swedish, deep-tissue, and specialty treatments such as warm-bamboo massage and aromatherapy. Ms. George also crafts her own line of homemade soaps, which smell of enticing fragrances such as sweet pumpkin, lavender, and cranberry sauce.