Charleston Spa and Massage

Within Salon Vantaggio’s sleek confines, replete with blond-colored floors, long mirrors, and vibrant art, Ashley Gardner clips and sculpts 'dos that suit each client’s features and personality. Specializing in color and highlights, she also excels in men’s and kids' cuts.

Elyon Day Spa owner Leah Whatley lends more than a decade of spa experience and training with celebrity makeup artists to her massages, facials, makeup applications, and waxing and sugaring hair-removal services. Whether she's reviving skin with asian herbs during The Green Body Peel, a natural alternative to microdermabrasion treatments, or helping bodies glow with a silky sugar scrub or implanted light bulbs, Whatley strives to give each client a personalized experience.

The Great Escape Spa Therapy has tailored their menu of treatments to promote whole-body rejuvenation and relaxation. Therapists enhance their seven massage techniques with extras including aromatherapy or soaks in a scented bath, while aestheticians blend botanicals and exfoliating chemical peels in their hour-long facials.

At Soul II Soul Massage & Salon, licensed massage therapist Faye Holmes uses her talent and passion for massage therapy to ward off stress and the ailments that come with it. She pampers aching muscles and fights anxiety with four types of kneading techniques, from muscle-stretching deep-tissue pressures to trigger-point release therapy. Faye also amps up her sessions with relaxing hot stones, and ensures skin stays as soft as the day it was grown with salt and sugar body scrubs and paraffin-wax treatments.

Cloud 9 Spa Therapy promotes overall wellness with therapies that target skin-deep ailments as well as ingrained stress. The spa’s extensive list of services encompasses exfoliating body treatments, lash and brow tinting, and tension-relieving massages, such as Swedish or deep tissue—all of which are aided by hot stones and towels. They beautify faces with microcurrent technologies or custom facials that utilize Image skincare products; before you scheduling a facial, take advantage of a complimentary phone consultation that is as comforting as a parent who takes the time to attend all of your first dates. When they’re not pampering patrons, the staffers are leading spa education classes. There, they teach patrons how to make soap or body scrubs from salt, sugar, and ground-up Legos.

Rather than relying on a set menu of facial peels, masques, and extractions, licensed aesthetician and massage therapist Kelly Haver customizes her skin-conditioning treatments to each client’s particular skin type. She does this by blending Dermalogica and Éminence products, which cleanse faces without exposing them to strange chemicals or funny-smelling walnuts. She also performs integrative therapeutic massages, applying long effleurage strokes and deep percussive kneading to specific areas as needed.