Elkhart, IN Spa and Massage

Salon Ubon’s colorful styling areas always seem to be abuzz, with their full lineup of aestheticians and stylists creating a convivial atmosphere as they cater to client’s beauty desires. The staff bears training in both classic and trendy services, knowing both how to create a classic bob haircut or add in extensions for a long, full do. A line of mani-pedi stations and private treatment rooms surround the salon’s styling chairs, offering a place for clients to relax as staff groom nails, remove unwanted hair, or freshen up faces with rejuvenating masks and creams.

As an Aveda Concept Salon, Salon 301 equips its stylists with a range of professional products from Aveda and Rusk. The stylists put these products to good use, cutting hair and charming clusters of snakes as the sounds of lively chatter fill the salon’s open floor. Their services don’t stop at the scalp, though. The salon also houses a day spa in which clients can relax with a massage, facial, or mani-pedi.

The Paul Mitchell–trained stylists and skilled aestheticians at Anointed Beauty Salon & Day Spa coax inner elegance outward with a spread of salon services and full-on beauty makeovers. After consulting with their clients, stylists grab shears or bottles of conditioner and set to work imbuing hair with volume and flattering accents. On the other side of the salon, technicians brush and polish nails during relaxing mani-pedis. Further removed from the bustle of the main floor, seasoned aestheticians expertly defuzz faces brow to chin with warm wax, gently uprooting unwanted follicles and leaving faces as smooth and hairless as a marble bust of Mr. Clean.

Director and naturopathic doctor Christine Brinker is a wellness wonder worker who has also earned her Master Herbalist degree and has been practicing since 1996. Initial consultations with Christine (a $120 value) last about an hour and include an iris analysis, nutritional assessment, and a biological terrain assessment (BTA; a $70 value). Natural Health Services' BTA is a state-of-the-art diagnostic assessment (one of the only labs of its type on the East Coast) that will generate a cellular panel used to customize each client's protocol. You'll receive a dietary and supplemental recommendation, along with a detailed exercise program and lifestyle coaching. Attend to plaguing health concerns, shape up for summer, or spring clean your immune system. Call ahead to schedule your appointment.

At Peace Body Therapy, certified massage therapists consult with clients in order to learn which muscles hurt and what the clients wish to get out of the session before they customize the massage. They use manual palpation to evaluate stress and misalignment in the muscular structure of the body and encourage clients to vocalize when the pressure is too intense or too light. Their specialty massages improve health in several ways at once, increasing flexibility, releasing chronic stress, and facilitating unhindered blood flow.

Certified massage therapists Jenny Bauer and Nicole Kidwell both took graduate classes at The Holistic Wellness Academy. And today, if one of their former teachers wanted to check on them or give them a pop quiz, they wouldn’t have to travel far. That’s because Bauer and Kidwell’s massage studio is located roughly eight blocks from the school. There, along with Steffany Parris and Samantha Wardlow, they dole out relaxation and prenatal massages for 30, 60, or 90 minutes to release tension and stress.