Beauty & Spas in Forest Hill

Icon Nail Spa's expert techs enhance manicures and pedicures with creative add-ons, such as aromatic flower petals or nail-whitening lime juice. In addition, facials open pores and hydrate faces, and salon services beautify tresses.

As the owners of The Art of Hair Salon, Hanh Tran and David LouSana share two concerns: helping their clients to progress in terms of beauty, and helping their stylists to progress in terms of knowledge. On most Mondays, Tran leads in-house classes that equip the salon's stylists with new skills and advanced techniques. The rest of the week is the stylists' proving ground, and they rise to their mentor's challenge by deftly chopping split ends, transforming hair color, and adding extra length with So.Cap. hair extensions. During these treatments—each of which includes a blow-dry and style—they rely on 100% certified organic hair color and products from Keratin+.

Not to be outdone, the salon's aestheticians wax away facial hair and enhance features with professional makeup applications. They tailor their treatments to individual clients, working with them to add seductive shades to eyelids and seductive mustaches to upper lips.

A 2009 Best of Citysearch winner, Joevir welcomes men and women into styling chairs for chic cuts and color treatments. Stylists with more than two decades of experience snip off split ends and add bouncy layers to long locks and add luminous highlights to enhance color and reveal secret vocabulary words wrapped around clients’ heads. Customers can also opt for argan-oil conditioning treatments to repair dry, damaged hair or shiatsu scalp massages to shoo away stress.

Hairstylist and licensed cosmetologist Peronica McNair has spent more than 15 years mastering the ins and outs of the beauty industry. At her newest venture, P M Studio Salon, patrons can relax in private suites as stylists pamper their tresses with precision cuts, custom color, and Peronica's specialty of repairing damaged hair with reconstructive conditioners or organic Chia Pet wigs that have been spotted on Milan's runways this spring. The salon also provides seamless weave treatments that can enhance the texture, length, and color of manes.

Co-owners Michelle and Celeste, whose friendship began when their sons played basketball together, decided to open Blinq Lash & Brow Boutique after discovering a shared interest in cosmetology. The boutique specializes in eyelash and eyebrow enhancements, including threading, tinting, and three levels of eyelash extensions meticulously applied one synthetic lash at a time. Each of Blinq’s licensed aestheticians and cosmetologists undergoes extensive training in lash- and brow-sculpting techniques to create eyes that can hail a cab with a single wink. The contemporary salon exudes feminine grace with its soft beige walls, scintillating chandelier, and small alcove of boutique clothing and accessories.

La Terre Salon is a J Beverly Hills concept salon where stylists sculpt coifs using J Beverly Hills products, and colorists tint and highlight strands with Pravana products derived from plant and flower extracts. Throughout her 13-year career, salon founder and lead stylist Irene has cultivated special expertise in color and formal styles, and her extensive experience—which includes a stint as a local Aveda instructor—has helped her to master hair of all types and textures, from curly and coarse to sentient and venomous. Conditioning services come in Rescue, Fragile, and Platinum levels, each of which restores shine to tired tresses, and a color gloss designed especially for men blends away gray scalp grass. Natural sunlight spills across the hardwood floors of the salon, where stylists conduct complimentary consultations so that clients can seek expert advice about maintaining their hair, using products, and sewing split ends back together.