Beauty & Spas in Greenbelt

After spending years in skincare and aesthetics, Leila Espari decided to take her experience and certifications and open her own business. She stacked her staff roster with such professionals as a board-certified plastic surgeon, a waxing specialist, a laser technician, aestheticians, and licensed massage therapists. The cozy day spa offers services such as massage therapy, lash extensions, and hair removal via laser, electrolysis, waxing, or threading. Other skin-smoothing treatments include facials and micro-polish peels that gently exfoliate the skin to remove dead skin cells and flakes caused by dry skin or aggressive cereal eating. A special tissue massager reduces the appearance of cellulite and dimples.

At The Shop Salon, stylists shear and color locks with Bumble and bumble products, nourish damaged hair with masks and creams, and banish frizz with a nano-keratin relaxer. While transforming manes, the hair experts draw on techniques they glean in ongoing-education seminars, and afterward, they impart the necessary skills to help clients maintain their new styles at home. They also craft elaborate chignons and curls to ready brides-to-be for their wedding or for evenings spent recreating their wedding with wig-wearing teddy bears. While undergoing their makeover, clients lounge in a space that could double as a dance studio—a wall of mirrors reflects light from a wall of windows, illuminating dark wood floors, glowing cube lights, leather couches, and potted fronds.

Though her passion for glamour goes all the way back to her early childhood, it wasn’t until Jeanice Bouvier Davis leapt into Manhattan’s Robert Fiance Hair Academy that she began to realize her true obsession. After graduating with honors, Davis went on to train with industry leaders such as Aveda and Paul Mitchell—groups that allowed her to build a solid understanding of how to properly serve a multicultural clientele. Armed with a varied set of skills, she eventually took another bold leap by opening Bouvier International Salon in 2004. Situated directly across from the Eastern Market Metro station, the salon gives Jeanice and her diverse team of male and female stylists the chance to focus on a variety of high-end services, from artful cuts and curls to relaxers and keratin treatments.

Dr. Alan Terlinsky is not only a physician with multiple board certifications—including in internal and bariatric medicine—he's also an active sports and outdoors enthusiast. He shares his belief in the restorative powers of nutrition and exercise at Nu-LIving Optimal Wellness & Longevity Center, where he helps his patients achieve their individual weight-loss and age-management goals. Drawing on specialties including hypertension, anti-aging medicine, and hormonal changes, along with more than 23 years of primary-care experience, Dr. Terlinksy takes a head-to-toe approach with each patient.

In addition to Zerona laser treatments, physician-supervised nutrition and exercise plans, and bioidentical hormone therapy, Dr. Terlinksy offers a service known as concierge medicine. This trend in healthcare allows patients to spend much-needed time in the office of their primary-care physician, resulting in more individualized care and a deeper understanding of how stethoscopes work.

The styling studio's philosophy is summed up by the word "Kennedy," which does not reference a particular person but rather a lesser-known definition. According to the club's creators, a Kennedy is "the ultimate gentleman," and they adhered to this ideal when designing their clubs as masculine, stylishly classic answers to typical salons. Amid clean-cut decor and hardwood floors, guests receive haircuts and treatments à la carte or as part of a membership package. Proprietary products let clients maintain their gentlemanly panache at home or soothe the family dog after its daily shave.

The skilled massage therapists at Sole Zones Reflexology & Massage deploy their healing hands across backs, limbs, and feet, easing aches and pains amid their tranquil, spa-like facility or bringing their soothing services to clients’ doorsteps. Their therapeutic massages utilize customized Swedish, deep-tissue, and chair modalities, each of which focuses on improving circulation while unknotting French-braided muscles. Built on the belief that reflex points in the hands and feet are connected to the body’s system of organs, Sole Zone's reflexologists are able to further encourage physiques to relax, rebalance, and self-heal by stimulating specific nerve endings during 30- to 60-minute reflexology sessions.