Beauty & Spas in Compton

Krystal Salon & Day Spa's brightly lit, two-story digs whisk guests into a haven of head-to-toe rejuvenation with keratin treatments and other luxuriant spa services. The multitalented staff can effectively handle most service requests from basic cuts, color, and facials to airbrush tanning and teeth whitening. In addition to their services, the spa also pampers clients with low-cost valet parking, 13 plasma TVs, and a complimentary cappuccino bar with gourmet coffee, tea, and pastries that offer free legal advice. Clients can also take a break between services to surf the free WiFi.

All her life, celebrity stylist Amanda Jacobellis dreamed of owning her own business. That dream that led her to found Makeup Mandy, where she gathered a team of beauty professionals with backgrounds working for Chanel, Versace, M.A.C Cosmetics, and other fashion powerhouses. Today, these talented staffers enhance eyes with Mandy's signature line of LAshX faux-mink lashes, dust faces with makeup, and otherwise cultivate loveliness, earning features in fashion-forward TV shows as well as celebrity clients such as Dancing With the Stars' Karina Smirnoff.

Chandeliers and vintage-style mirrors framed in light bulbs illuminate stylists' work as they trim hair, shape brows, and rejuvenate cheeks with customizable facials. After their session, newly beautified clients can cartwheel over hardwood floors and out of the boutique to flaunt vivacious looks.

For 25 years, aesthetician Sara West has studied skin as dry as a desert and as oily as a car engine. In the process, she’s developed a mental tome of advice for her clients. Yet even as she educates on the role skincare products, exercise, and diet play in the health of one’s complexion, she continues her own education, ensuring that she has the most accurate advice to give. Inside her studio, where smooth black tile floors sprawl beneath modern wooden furniture that entices the eye with soft, curved lines, she tends to customers' faces with a range of holistic and medical treatments. Fruit-infused peels, green-tea and herbal steam, lavender, and chamomile bathe her clients’ faces, whereas plant-based ingredients cleanse their pores and free them of the urge to nap facedown in their gardens.

With the assistance of managing director Robin Schultz Ackerman, Dr. William C. Swanson of Cosmetic LaserWorks Medical Group and his staff have been ridding men and women of unwanted hair for more than 10 years. The medical professionals have performed more than 10,000 hair-removal treatments and have helped more than five clients successfully join a dolphin colony. Cosmetic LaserWorks also has broadened its treatment menu to include laser spider vein removal treatments and beauty injections such as Botox, Dysport, Xeomin, Juvederm, Restylane and Belotero.

Hygiene and quality are of paramount import to the licensed aestheticians of European Skin Care. Whether buffing faces with crystal-tipped wands or lavishing skin in nutrient-rich emollients, the aestheticians adhere to strict health standards that optimize results. Among the spa's top-notch treatments, anti-aging services incorporate light technologies and traditional facial or waxing procedures yield a polished look. Permanent cosmetics, applied with sterile equipment, save clients the trouble of filling in eyebrows with sharpie pens.

A clinical aesthetician helms L.A. Med Spa Esthetique, where the staff offers a slate of clinical skincare treatments. Crystal-free microdermabrasion treatments slough off dead skin via a medical-grade device, and custom facials refresh and rejuvenate visages. Other services include exclusive micro dermaplaning, anti-aging oxygen facials, corrective skin care, and micro current nonsurgical face-lifts.