Beauty & Spas in Clarksburg

Husband-and-wife team Dr. Alan Rohrer and Ann Rohrer, a certified electrologist and master cosmetologist, founded Crystal Lume Medical Spa in an effort to help clients achieve their cosmetic goals with modern, noninvasive technologies. Ann brings an artists' eye to electrolysis, laser procedures, and microdermabrasion, working to illuminate natural beauty and reveal the da Vinci goddess hidden beneath depleted skin cells. Dr. Rohrer also emphasizes clients' good looks, rejuvenating facades with Botox, wrinkle fillers, Juvéderm, and other aesthetic services. They also wield lasers to eradicate unwanted tattoos and perform therapeutic massages to help erase tension caused by walking around with a tattoo that says "kick me."

Co-owner Rebeccah Bartlett Leister of Structures Salon and Spa will not trade jobs with you. "I love that every single day I am here I laugh out loud," she says on her staff bio page. "I feel so lucky to be able to enjoy my 'work' this much." One draw may be the salon and spa's proprietary organic and natural products that are crafted by a small family business. Another draw might be the encouragement staff members receive to augment the products' powers with rounds of continuing education and creative projects such as fashion shoots, makeup design, and hair-coloring experiments. Leister herself has experience designing makeup for Vanity Fair and InStyle magazines.

Wide windows illuminate Structures Salon and Spa so that stylists can mix colors in optimum light and let new hairdos photosynthesize. Colorful yarn twines around stair railings to create chromatic triangles, and appliqué birch trees stand tall along the lobby's windows.

What was once a boarding house for U.S. senators is now a full-service spa, which relies on the same rustic charms those early 1900s politicians enjoyed to keep patrons relaxed. Vast windows offer guests views of the wraparound porch and the well-kept gardens beyond as they relax throughout a wide range of massages and facials.