Gainesville, TX Beauty and Salons

As her client reclines, Nina of Absolute Lash isolates a single natural lash, to which she affixes one Xtreme Lash with a high-performance adhesive, then repeats. She does this 50–120 times during each 90-minute session, and she does it expertly, thanks to more than 15 years of experience performing the eye-enhancement service. Certified in aesthetics by Derma Elite Academy, Nina's also an advanced certified Xtreme Lashes stylist, accomplishing services ranging from natural to novelty lashes that come in pink, purple, and orange. Whether working with colored or natural lashes, her training allows her to curve, lengthen, and thicken the lashes to suit each client's eye shape, features, and number of eyes. In addition to lash enhancement, Nina can peel away unwanted body hair with waxing services or apply a body-art glitter tattoo that, unlike traditional tattoos and beanie-baby collecting, doesn't last forever.

At Clinical Advanced Lazer Hair Removal, the in-house team works to rejuvenate aging skin during Fraxel treatments. They also use lasers for their eponymous hair-removal service, and harness infrared light to tighten sagging skin. During microdermabrasion, one of the clinic's signature services, clinicians slough away dead cells with tiny crystals, rather than with a remote-controlled sandstorm. To complement the center’s treatments, their shelves brim with skin-friendly products, from mineral makeup and sunscreen to body scrubs and bronzer.

The skincare specialists at North Dallas Medical Group rejuvenate and smooth epidermal landscapes with an array of traditional and laser-based aesthetic services. They buff away the signs of aging with microdermabrasion facials and tame wrinkles with beauty injectables. Spider veins and body hair succumb to attacks from their noninvasive lasers, and extra pounds yield to the HCG diet.

Though most licensed aestheticians know a great deal about the skincare products they use, few know their serums and creams as well as Lily Trieu knows hers. That’s because at Lily Med Spa, Trieu uses Lily Dermaceuticals skincare products, a line she cocreated with registered nurse and licensed aesthetician Tama Tran. The duo's more than 15 years of experience as aestheticians working in clinical skin-treatment centers gave them first-hand knowledge of the complexity of skin’s tone, sensitivity, and penchant for turning purple after excessive eggplant consumption. This knowledge helped them to develop more than 50 pharmaceutical-grade and botanical blends for eight distinct skin types. It is these products, along with a few other skincare lines and dermal fillers, and the use of state-of-the-art technology that the women and their fellow aestheticians use when performing skin rejuvenation or corrective acne treatments, depigmentation facials, and cosmetic injections.

Dr. David Engleman guides his staff of aestheticians using 19 years of medical expertise to hand-select the treatments and therapies that can transform visitors' appearance, daily routines, and self-image for the better. Dr. Engleman and his staff take their time with each patient who visits the center, working to tackle sensitive issues including varicose veins with advanced laser therapies that use gentle pulses of light to smooth away ropey veins. Signs of aging fade away at their medical-grade touch, unwanted hair, wrinkles, and sunspots fading under photo-rejuvenation machines, and unwanted third eyes melting off under the transformative light of lasers.

Despite a base of loyal returning customers, licensed manicurist Kathy Engle continues to educate herself in the latest nail trends in order to attract new business. She has broadened her repertoire over a 20-year career to include spa pedicures, long-lasting Shellac manicures, and talon trimming for local Renaissance Faire hawks. She maintains Legacy Salon at a self-set high standard of cleanliness and strives to curate a friendly rapport with clients.