Beauty & Spas in Covina

Over the course of 720 hours of study and years of on-the-job experience, Maria Marrufo has mastered several massage modalities to treat a range of ailments. Today, she runs Therapeutic Massage with a singular goal in mind: improve her patients' quality of life by reducing pain, improving mobility, and aiding soft-tissue healing. Like eating band-aids, massage provides multifarious health benefits, including reduced anxiety, freedom from aches, and decreased migraine pain.

Working from inside Essentials Day Spa and Salon, certified eyelash extensionist Lyn Fullmer adds a little more drama to every one of her client's winks. She uses individual extensions, which are applied one-by-one to bestow a natural yet dramatic effect, much like a beauty mark shaped like an exclamation point. But while eyelashes are her specialty, they're not her only talent. A licensed skin specialist with more than a decade of experience, she also administers facials and puts her Nail Technician's license to good use by lavishing attention upon overworked fingers and toes during nail services.

Housing standup booths and three levels of tanning beds, The Tanning Company helps patrons sport sun-kissed exteriors regardless of the season. Whether vertical or horizontal, the equipment bronzes skin with features including miniature suns and dedicated bulbs for the side, shoulder, and face while keeping bods cool with adjustable fans.

Alternatively, staffers airbrush clients to create quick, UV-free glows. These custom spray tans evenly coat skin in an organic solution that, with proper maintenance, can render results that last for up to seven days. They also administer a signature "tanning cocktail," which combines spray tans with standup tanning-bed sessions.

Skincare is J&S Beauty Inc.'s specialty. Owner and trilingual beauty guru Susie Yu helms a staff of eight, including licensed aestheticians and massage therapists who relax and rejuvenate by blending an all-natural philosophy with the latest in safe cosmetic technologies. Classic facials keep pores clean and healthy, whereas other treatments—such as microdermabrasion, derma-therapeutic sessions, or LHE laser whitening—focus specifically on reducing wrinkles, acne, or pigmentation. Body treatments, on the other hand, such as Thermo Cool help slim waistlines by toning muscle, burning fat, and smoothing cellulite.

Soft, neutral colors permeate a decor that marries tranquil tones with clinical sensibilities. Private treatment rooms remain clean and orderly while enticing patrons with a warm and welcoming atmosphere, and some even boast showers to rinse away sweat built up in the steam room and the remnants of pre-appointment food fights.

The hair stylists, aestheticians, and permanent-makeup artists at Le Cheveu Salon & Spa combine forces to fight the common enemies of lackluster style and epidermal imperfection, drawing from an arsenal of products that hail from the Éminence Organic Skin Care line and the Repêchage seaweed-based line. In addition to performing facials and body scrubs, they strive to help clients burn calories and detoxify with infrared body wraps that induce sweat and inexplicable urges to curse all who enter the treatment room. Stylists, meanwhile, tend to above-the-shoulder needs with haircuts, color, and smoothing treatments.