Beauty & Spas in Fernway

Our habits are like the nuns' garb from which their name derives—awkward, hard to get rid of, and a deal-breaker on blind dates. Today's Groupon helps you shake your bad habits with an appointment to see clinical hypnotherapist Elizabeth Cessna, MS. For $45, you get an introductory session at Cessna's Everyday Hypnotherapy, a $100 value.

Deemed one of the city’s best salons in 2010 by the Pittsburgh City Paper, Dean of Shadyside has been beautifying clientele since its founding in 1984. Its stylists focus on hospitality and guarantee all their services, which include everything from a basic blow dry to feather extensions and three levels of highlights. Nail techs perform four types of manicures and three pedicures for everyday occasions or as part of packages for bridal parties. In a private office, staff experts also consult clients on hair loss and offer them wig-fashion services or attach extensions for more voluminous looks.

Whether you've been looking for a new color to crown your cranium or a pretty polish for your perky piggies, Spa-Uptown has you covered head to toe. The friendly team of beauty experts will smooth and soothe whatever section of your surface area aches for tending, from your freshly sore Olive Oyl tattoo to the love-bite scars from your pet gull. Survive life on the lam with a new hair design ($30 and up), and recover from your scuffle down Mt. Rushmore with the necessary nail repair ($7 per nail). A 30-minute massage ($50) soothes sore joints and alleviates aches, a 20-minute Vichy shower ($25) offers a horizontal hose-down worthy of Napoleon’s mother, and a full-face makeup application ($45+) is the perfect professional blushstroke for a special event. You can get a lip wax ($15) before the big basketball game or properly express your victory with a perfectly tweezed brow ($20). These services are just the well-manicured tip of the hot-pink iceberg: Spa-Uptown offers many more treatments and salon services in a wide range of prices, allowing for customized gift packages upon request.

The staff members at Hollywood Tans guide their customers to the best tanning options for their skin types with a variety of booth and bulb intensities and their own specialized line of indoor tanning lotions. In addition to the high-performance stand-up tanning booths, they also offer UV-free tanning options powered by Mystic Tan.

Certified beauticians convene in Hair Symmetry's well-lit salon and merge their modern sensibilities with clients' unique traits and goals to produce fashions both beautiful and tailored to the wearer. The salon's hair stylists leverage a roster of products, including Big Sexy Hair, Pureology, and Moroccanoil, as they use deft scissor skills to refashion hairdos into modern headscapes and add colors so rich they could purchase real estate at the ends of a rainbow. Nail technicians dote on digits as clients kick back and relish the trimming and shaping of their fingers and toes, a process punctuated by applications of colorful OPI polishes and the Shellac Gel System by CND.

Holding masters degrees from the Academy of Oriental Medicine, practitioners Sydnie Bryant, Jessica Fritz, and Daniel Johnson balance the bodies and minds of their clients with deft acupuncture expertise. Invoking the ameliorative properties of the 5,000-year-old treatment, a knowledgeable needler will assess clients’ health by feeling nine pulsations at each wrist and observing the color and form of the face, the tongue, and the body before beginning the pin-cushioning process. During the one-hour session, guests are invited to relax as each gentle needle insertion spearheads stress and deflates tension, inducing a mellow mood that can help to alleviate ailments, improve immunity, increase fertility, and bend spoons.