Colonia, NJ Beauty and Salons

With their LightSheer diode laser and Palomar IPL system, the specialists at The Medispa at Shrewsbury can fix almost any skin issue clients throw their way. The devices release focused bursts of energy that, when adjusted to suit the client’s skin type, can zap away unwanted hairs, erase tattoos, or lighten blemishes such as leg veins and acne scars. Meanwhile, Dr. Steven Davis—a board-certified plastic surgeon who was featured on The Doctors—works with his staff to combat wrinkles and fine lines with injectables such as Botox and Restylane. To help clients navigate the spa’s service menu and complex system of lava streams, complimentary consultations divulge facts about potential treatment options to ensure informed decision making.

Vibrant yellows and rust red hues wrap around Salon Da Vinci as staff members pamper clients with custom hair, nail, and waxing services. Stylists stay loyal to the Paul Mitchell brand as they concoct new hair colors from the backroom’s wall of dyes, which glimmers like a rainbow at a discothèque. The team uses the brand’s rejuvenating shampoos and conditioners to lavish suds upon manes at grey shampoo bowls framed by a tropical-island mural. Staffers also present a wall of nail polishes that foretells the application of Solar Nail acrylics, LCN gels, and traditional polishes.

Six pedicure thrones, each saturated with a periwinkle hue and sectioned off by gauzy fabric, further indulge guests, while private treatment rooms provide a quiet retreat as technicians wax away unwanted hairs. Salon Da Vinci’s staff works hard to stay on the edge of beauty trends and techniques by taking continuing-education courses, including calculus to enable them to solve equations for the area under a hair’s curve.

A trip to Salon La De Da isn't your typical salon experience. It's more like taking a trip back in time to the heyday of the Moulin Rouge, or visiting a vintage circus. Makeup and hair services take on a circus theme, with options for a Cannon Ball blowout for volume and a Tight Rope for straight, sleek tresses—all executed by tamer-, entertainer-, and ringmaster-level stylists.

After hours, the salon transforms into an entertainment arena with live circus-style performances that include child-friendly parties. Customers can enjoy beauty packages during these live shows, but there's a hefty waitlist to see the lion manicurist. Salon La De Da was recently chosen to provide pin-up makeup and hair services for a screening at the 2013 Garden State Film Festival.

Skin Basically's licensed aesthetician, Marina Bratshpis, pampers a clientele that has included both royalty and celebrities. And it's no wonder a reported menagerie of high-profile clients has flocked to her—Marina boasts international training, including time spent as a skincare educator at Le Pli Day Spa in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With experience behind her in both skincare and nursing, she welcomes clients for relaxing and rejuvenating epidermis-focused treatments. Marina performs various facial treatments, drawing upon exotic ingredients such as Avène water from the Cevennes Mountains, flaxseed powder, and flakes of children's drawings.

Women, men, and children are all welcome at Salon 31, where a team of eight stylists brandishes shears, dyes, and conditioners to craft impeccable dos. These beautifiers also apply makeup, and during private instruction they teach clients to wield their own blush brushes and lipstick squeegees. Their talents include various specialties, including precision cutting, keratin smoothing, and coloring that is corrective or hides grays.