Beauty & Spas in El Cerrito

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Today, future innovators of the beauty industry might be walking the halls of Cinta Aveda Institute, where veteran cosmetologists school their protégés in the many ways of client beautification and environmental consciousness. Under the watchful eye of licensed professionals, aspiring beauticians receive first-hand experience as they practice their chosen salon discipline on visitors, helping clients achieve a movie-star appearance with haircut and coloring services, skin-balancing facials, glamorous makeup application, and a bell that dings with every smile. Calling upon Mother Nature’s nurturing touch, Cinta’s instructors and students wield Aveda’s line of all-natural products packaged in eco-friendly containers made out of recycled materials.

Tucked away beneath the carved wooden eaves of a Victorian-style house, San Francisco Face and Body aims to provide a haven from everyday worries and cares. The friendly staff concentrates laser-like focus on customer service, customizing aromatherapy scents, massage techniques, and mask ingredients to each client’s skincare needs. Aestheticians smooth hirsute areas with numbing natural analgesics and imported French waxes designed to grip hair, not skin, easing the pain of separation without the need for regular Skype dates with estranged former moustaches.

Aesthetician Sharon Elizabeth Herbert began her career as an understudy of celebrity facialist Susan Ciminelli, whose clientele includes Jennifer Lopez and Naomi Campbell. By observing Ciminelli and enrolling in advanced aesthetics courses, Sharon learned that each person's skin responds differently to conditions such as weather, travel, and apple bobbing. With this knowledge in mind, she begins each appointment by asking clients to evaluate the sensitivity and texture of their skin. Then, Sharon concocts a personalized skincare treatment that restores balance and radiance. She also travels to Sonoma for on-location wedding and special-event makeup services.

Professional makeup artist Patricia Guerrera has accrued 15 years of beauty experience in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Boston, where she mastered an aesthetic art that accentuates clients’ natural comeliness for special occasions. The Montecito Messenger sings Tru Beauty’s praises, crowing that the organic facial products work “instantly” and that clients feel “spoiled.” Guerrera tackles finer details with lash and brow-tint services or eyelash applications, all of which help eyes garner more attention than Sophia Loren in a clown costume. Facials cleanse the countenance with organic and high-end products, and facial or Brazilian waxes lift away unwanted fuzz. Guerrera wields upscale makeup products such as M.A.C and Benefit Cosmetics when she prepares faces for weddings, special occasions, or long stints of hiding from the mob. The thorough makeovers begin with primer and foundation, and then intensify personal pulchritude with mascara, cheek color, lipstick, and eye shadow.