East Chattanooga Spa and Massage

In the Buff Salon and Day Spa's licensed beauticians love what they do, whether updating hairstyles or polishing toenails. Driven by the goal to provide top-notch value and service, specialists observe flexible scheduling when booking appointments and industry standards when administering them. Hair experts nourish and color manes with products by brands such as Moroccanoil, Pureology, and Biolage, while aestheticians lavish bodies with award-winning lotions and serums by Jan Marini Skin Care. The salon's massage therapists entered the finalist round in timesfreepress.com's best therapeutic massage competition, gaining accolades thanks to deeply relaxing bodywork and the ability to defeat even the most tightly clenched tendon fists.

At Pink Sparkle Spa, young girls can add a dash of glitter to their medley of sugar, spice, and everything nice. These glamorous transformations take place at the spa or clients’ homes—with technicians providing everything from sweet-smelling mani-pedis to fancy makeup and updos. Pink Sparkle Spa also combines these services in an array of packages, with most including balloon bouquets, sweet bags, and a secret decoder ring for deciphering Parent Speak.

Salon La Vie’s stylists—many of whom have trained with professional brands such as Schwarzkopf, Redken, and Dikson—keep up with the latest trends and techniques to provide clients with contemporary looks to fit all lifestyles. Men’s and women’s haircuts, feather extensions, and keratin hair-smoothing treatments are just a few of the studio's specialties, which extend all the way to elegant updos and makeup for special events such as weddings or formal trips to the dry cleaners. A certified massage therapist rounds out the salon’s offerings with 30- to 90-minute massages that draw on Swedish, deep-tissue, and sports modalities.

Before she launched Bodyworks Massage, Jennifer Snelgrove racked up 900 classroom hours at Georgia Career Institute—that's 400 hours above the state requirement. During these hours, she fine-tuned her skills and honed her intuition, becoming a master of massage therapy. Snelgrove works alongside Melanie Ward, a fellow overachiever who possesses more than 900 hours of anatomy and hands-on education. They practice modalities that range from long, soothing Swedish strokes to targeted deep-tissue manipulations. Regardless of technique, their bodywork sessions induce a deep sense of tranquility and cause muscles to slacken like carolers after New Year's.