Beauty & Spas in Forest Acres

A licensed cosmetologist with more than 20 years of experience, Felicia Weathers opened Majestic Cuts Salon and Spa in 2011. Wielding an arsenal of products from brand names such as Paul Mitchell, American Crew, and Pravana, Felicia and her squad of stylists rejuvenate hair with cuts, highlights, and blowouts. Keratin treatments straighten curly hair, and extensions elongate locks so they'll cover up an embarrassing dorsal fin. Along with salon services, Majestic Cuts' spa staffers enrich skin with exfoliation and facials and pamper nails with mani-pedis.

The licensed and insured massage therapists at My Magic Hands vanquish tension and soreness from bodies of virtually every age, from infants to seniors. Before kneading out localized knots with focal-point therapy or ranging over the entire back with long Swedish strokes, the staff listens carefully as clients describe their particular issues or how they fell asleep on a pineapple. Unlike many massage offices, My Magic Hands accommodates parties of six people or more for actual parties, be they bachelorette celebrations or birthday fetes, during which the staff massages each guest.

If anybody deserves a massage, it's Maggie Gibson-Bostic. The nationally certified massage therapist regularly walks marathons and has taught classes in aerobics across the southeastern United States. Despite this flurry of activity, Maggie’s overworked muscles never rebel. This may be because she practices what she preaches and treats herself to a relaxing massage once a week.

Maggie passes this relaxation on to her clients during custom massage sessions at Utopia Massage Therapy. She and her team of experienced therapists soothe away aches and pains with deep-tissue, hot-stone, and four-handed techniques, the last of which depends on two therapists working simultaneously. When they aren’t untying knotted muscles, Maggie and her staff exfoliate skin with a Jamaican body scrub that blends brown sugar or sea salt with the aromas of tropical flowers or jerk chicken.

The staff members at Five Points Salon, an Aveda concept salon, employ numerous naturally derived products when crafting dos. When painting on single-process color and highlights, they infuse clients' hair with Aveda Full Spectrum hair color, crafted with sunflower, castor, and jojoba oils. They permanently straighten locks with a formula that contains organic ylang-ylang. They also use a semipermanent smoothing treatment composed primarily of plants and nonpetroleum minerals. Haircuts, special-occasion updos, and 250 brushstrokes round out the menu of services.

After a decade spent working in public relations, teaching fitness classes, and playing bass in a rock band, Stacey Suzanne Overstreet longed for a career that would let her impact others on a more personal level. She followed her dream, and opened staceyO studiO - Massage & Esthetics Wellness Spa. Now a licensed massage therapist and aesthetician, and recently returned from advanced wellness training in India, she treats her clients with carefully planned, custom spa services inside her candle-lit studio, nestled in Gold’s Gym.

She sets a soothing tone for personalized massages with soft lighting and music, hot towels, and exotic aromatherapy scents. As she kneads her visitor's muscles with gentle or deep pressure, she may moisturize their skin with Epicuren Discovery oils and lotions, scaring away worries more swiftly than a threateningly brandished tea candle. She also exfoliates dead skin cells and smoothes blemishes using microdermabrasion treatments and PCA chemical peels; and nourishes skin during more than 14 facials that incorporate ingredients such as pumpkin, ginger, volcanic clay, and ground crystals.

Divine Massage Therapy induces a multisensory, full-body feeling of tranquility by combining tension-melting massages with soothing music, soft lighting, and scented essential oils. Beyond basic relaxation massages, specialty treatments include a Fire and Ice massage that transitions between warm and cool stimuli to ease pain. Raindrop therapy sees the therapist sprinkling the skin with 12 essential oils to mimic the relaxing feel of gently falling rain, then massaging them into the skin to create a tingling sensation that mimics the relaxing feel of a gentle jellyfish kiss. During each massage, guests can rest their eyes on work from local artists, such as oil paintings by Rob Shaw, which they may purchase to take a piece of the studio’s serenity home with them.