Douglasville, GA Spa and Massage

Solar Salon and Spa’s team of aestheticians and stylists beautifies clients from head to toe in a clean and comfortable environment. For the skin, artfully drawn mehndi tattoos bedeck arms, hands, and feet in graceful swirls and patterns, and four levels of tanning beds and a Mystic Tan booth lend an all-over glow to physiques. Using threading or waxing techniques, experts shape brows into graceful arches or attention-grabbing zigzags, and bring out desired hues with tinting treatments. Hairstylists round out services by updating coifs with trims, perms, and all-over color.

The specialists at Skyn Clinic and Apothecary take a French approach to fostering clear complexions, meaning they place a big emphasis on proper skincare in the long run and don't perform services that provide only a quick fix. Botanical and essential-oil-based ingredients furnish services and products, including the spa's own custom skincare line, Skyn Clinic Custom Blends. Skyn Clinic uses only silk eyelash extensions and cruelty-free mink eyelash extensions harvested by carefully brushing minks for their loose hairs. A highly trained technician applies extensions lash by lash and uses a soft collagen pad to protect the bottom lashes, specialized glue to adhere each strand to an original lash, and two tweezers in case one pair gets stage fright. Each semipermanent extension can last up to two months with regular showering, swimming, and exercising. Skyn Clinic technicians also provide eyebrow- and eyelash-tinting services, as well as nonsurgical face lifts to help rejuvenate the eye areas with a collagen infusion and microcurrent treatment.

During each beauty-enhancing salon or spa service, Carlos Lissimore Salon's appearance artisans draw upon years of expertise from prestigious training programs, such as Vidal Sassoon and the Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy. Inside the European-concept salon's chic setting, they employ products from Wella and Purvana during hair services that run the gamut from precision cuts to keratin treatments to hair colorings as vibrant as a peacock following a decisive paintball-battle loss. Stylists augment the mane attraction with an assortment of relaxing spa services, such as complexion-renewing facials and waxings and tension-releasing massages, that help bodies look and feel their best.

Most days upon leaving class at the International School of Skin and Nailcare, Kristen Axton headed straight to her job at Kiehl's. This combination of formal training and on-the-job experience helped develop her aesthetic expertise, which she further refined while working at several med spas throughout Atlanta. Today, as owner of Kristen's Skin Care & Massage, she commands a team of massage therapists and estheticians dedicated to beautifying and de-stressing clients. Their signature Atlanta facial restores vim and vigor to lagging faces with a multi-step regimen that includes peels derived from herbal enzymes or therapeutic acids. Estheticians also slough away dead skin cells with microdermabrasion sessions designed to lessen scarring from acne, sun damage, and general wear and tear. Elsewhere in the shop, massage therapists unravel kinked muscles with techniques borrowed from Swedish and neuromuscular specialties.

Posh Salon and Spa’s staff of beauty specialists fuse their respective expertise in hair, nails, massage, and skincare to grant clients with all-encompassing image enhancement. In the nail area, visitors melt into black pedicure thrones as nail technicians enhance natural mani-pedi treatments with exfoliating foot scrubs and hot towels. Meanwhile, aestheticians unearth glowing skin with five types of facials and higher-tech amenities, such as microdermabrasion and Endermologie cellulite-reduction treatments. Bright sunlight streams in from the salon's floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating stylists as they twirl tendrils into elegant updos, highlight strands to create more depth, and add length with hair extensions and fast-forward buttons.