Beauty & Spas in Hollywood

After watching several of her relatives, including her grandmother, fight cancer, Terry Tribble noticed that many stores geared toward women fighting cancer had an impersonal, industrial feel. When she opened her own shop, she wanted to create a boutique feel where women like her grandmother could feel pampered. She stocks her shop with rows of fashionable wigs, colorful accessories, and post-mastectomy products. As a certified mastectomy fitter with hundreds of hours of training, she offers expert advice to help women reclaim their curves with confidence.

To restore brows lost during cancer treatments or save women the hours lost to putting on their face, she also applies permanent makeup, lining lips and eyes as well. Her skills recently earned accolades on the LiveWell Network's show Mirror/Mirror.

"You want it to be more natural," she says. "When you wake up Monday morning, you don't want to look like you're going out to the club. I specialize in bringing out that natural beauty."

Terry's boutique is painted in bright red and yellow hues, and she's scattered butterflies throughout. To her, they represent transformation. "When my clients walk in the door, they feel like a caterpillar," she says. "When they walk out, I want them to feel like a butterfly."

The licensed aestheticians at Rose Face & Body Contour draw on more than 30 years of combined local and overseas experience to enhance appearances and help clients stay abreast of current cosmetic trends. The skin-focused team attacks uneven complexions and blemishes from all angles with a slew of anti-aging treatments, specialized peels, and deep-reaching exfoliation measures, including microdermabrasion. For bodies that can’t seem to shrink after exercise, dieting, and sleeping in sardine cans, nonsurgical liposuction and body contouring offer less invasive alternatives to traditional medical procedures.

Image Medical Spa’s team of doctors and aestheticians fights the effects of time’s ceaseless march with customized skincare treatments, medical-grade procedures, and vitamin-infused facials. Facials restore overly dry, oily, and glow-in-the-dark skin, while heavy-hitting Botox injections intimidate wrinkles, keeping them from foreheads and mouths for months as a time. To purge furry patches, aestheticians wield medical lasers or warm up waxes that whisk away hair to leave behind more shapely eyebrows or mysterious crop circles.

When he's not writing articles in celebrated medical journals, appearing on radio and television, or delivering lectures across the globe, Dr. Ayman El-Attar treats faces and bodies with his natural-looking cosmetic surgeries. At Derma Laser Centers, which he founded in 2002, Dr. El-Attar performs numerous nonsurgical procedures that rid skin of acne, remove tattoos, and eliminate unwanted hair and veins. Alternatively, his surgical procedures transplant hair, transfer fat to different body regions, and reduce breasts without scarring.

In addition to cosmetic surgeries, Derma Laser Centers' personnel pamper guests with facials that incorporate elements such as an antioxidant vitamin C firming mask, which exfoliates skin more effectively than daily orange-juice baths. He also smoothes skin with microdermabrasion and reinvigorates clients with body treatments that include lavender and an antioxidant grape-seed scrub.

There is no follicle too wispy or fuzz too peachy to avoid the professional waxen masters at European Wax Center. Before your defoliation, you'll be slathered like so much beef brisket with the Center's calming cleanser and a pre-depilatory oil that fights irritation and redness. A very special, alcohol-free blend of polymers and beeswax is specially designed to uproot hair with nary a pang of pain. Afterward, your newly smooth skin will be pampered with an ingrown-hair-and-breakout-despising solution.

At Just Wax It, the technological advances of a med spa marry the rejuvenating and beautifying traditions of a classic spa. Founded by master waxer Mendy Moses, the relaxation haven has hung its smooth, bristle-free hat on its waxing specialties, rendering flawless bodyscapes with a pain-reducing grade of brazilian blue wax. In a short time, such services have earned the spa accolades, including a finalist slot in Citysearch’s 2010 Best Bikini Wax poll. Yet beyond rendering smooth skin, the spa has a broad spectrum of treatments, pampering guests with mani-pedis, body wraps, and facials that nourish complexions with vitamin-rich serums and masks customized to treat each face's distinct issues and resemble its favorite superhero.

With a board-certified plastic surgeon as its medical director, the skin spa harnesses the latest tools in medical and cosmetic technology. Fillers such as Botox and Juvéderm smooth wrinkles lining the eyes and lips or help lift brows for more youthful appearances. Aestheticians can also use the precise power of lasers for anti-aging services or vein removal, and nonsurgical liposuction with CoolSculpting can target hard-to-exercise areas around the waistline.