Color & Highlights in Destin

For 24 years, Karin Petersen has been transforming looks with her signature precision cuts. In addition to precision cuts, the Redken master colorist specializes in corrective color, highlights, and lowlights, as well as in creating natural-looking length with extensions. She also readies brides for their big days with hair and makeup, whether at the salon or onsite at the bounce house hosting the ceremony.

La Renaissance Salon welcomes waiting guests to cozy up in the lobby’s cushy armchairs before they head back into the chic chocolate-toned salon, which features ornately framed mirrors and antique-style armoires at each styling station. Karin has her pick of the salon’s premium products, selecting from brands such as Redken, Pureology, Moroccanoil, and Wella.

Red leather pedicure chairs keep clients in place as nail technicians tend to hands and feet with coats of glossy polish. Patrons may sip a complimentary beverage such as wine while soaking their paws in a whirlpool bath or curing their CHD Shellac polish under UV lamps.

Our hands are the tools we use to interact with the world, so it makes sense to take good care of them. Lisa Marie Santos does more than that with her spa manicures and pedicures, which soften skin and groom cuticles. After she's done pampering digits, she's known for embellishing nails with custom art or patterned gemstones. And when nails need extra protection, she dresses them up with a Shellac polish, which won't chip while you're scratching your name into your neighbor's new sports car.

The specialists at Nail & Hair Studio domesticate wild nails and manes. They detach split ends on heads and trim unwanted length on fingernails. Further mani-pedi pampering includes hand massages, French tips, and taking the time to play “this little piggy” with patron’s feet.

• For $17, you get a Gelish manicure (a $35 value). • For $25, you get a 30-minute Ashiatsu massage (a $50 value).

Aesthetician and owner Jeniffer Ward leads a team of seasoned stylists who pamper clients by rendering salon, skin, and nail treatments. Inside the facility's chic boutique confines, the staff gets to work taming overgrown hair on women, men, children, and paying Chia Pets. The salon's nail technicians lavish fingers and toes with full trimming, filing, and polishing services. For special events, The Posh Daisy also performs elegant updos, airbrushed makeup, and semipermanent mascara treatments to make a wedding a memorable occasion, as opposed to weddings lacking color and personality or those attended by the Jason Bourne family.