Beauty & Spas in La Vergne

Stylist to high-profile politicians and celebrities, Rodney Mitchell draws from years of experience crafting runway coifs and prepping photo-shoot 'dos for well-known names such as Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, and Shania Twain. His expertise is the source of inspiration and knowledge for his team of 17 stylists, whose experience ranges from Paul Mitchell degrees to 20 years of styling experience. Within Rodney's modern rustic salon, guests await top-notch service by lounging in wood chairs, flipping through magazines, and gazing at painted wall art waiting for the day’s lottery numbers to pop into view. The staff summons visitors to individual salon stations in front of large mirrors where stylists trim tresses, add texture with color and highlight services, and tame manes with keratin smoothing treatments.

Recently settled into its new location, Studio 21 Salon and Spa staffs its ranks with technicians dedicated to pampering clients with quality hair and nail services. Skilled technicians gently strip unwanted strands from facial features during waxing sessions, and piggyback perms allow stylists to infuse strands with curls while on the back of a fellow stylist. Along with cuts for ladies and gents, the team transforms tress hues with color and highlight treatments, and augments each mani-pedi with a massage and a calming soak.

Veteran stylist William Edge wields 20 years of experience as a platform artist and world traveler to lead the staff at his eponymous family of salons, spread across Texas and Tennessee. At each location, teams brandish an arsenal of all-natural Aveda products forged from plants and environmentally friendly ingredients found across the globe. Equipped with such powerful conditioning and coloring supplies, they curtail unruly locks with shaping, shading, and retexturing services, and enhance radiant tresses with spa services, such as massages, facials, and makeup applications. Additionally, the salons’ seasoned crew helps hone future stylists’ skills at Prodedgy, its own training salon for emerging talent.

Before opening Selkin Laser Center, Dr. Robert Selkin honed his refractive marksmanship as a fellow at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, an educational partner of Harvard Medical School. He has logged more than 65,000 LASIK procedures in his prolific career, with other doctors, many of his own staff members, and professional athletes included in those numbers. This expertise and experience, combined with an office outfitted with of high-tech equipment from Bausch + Lomb, Orbscan, and Zyoptix, has garnered Dr. Selkin rave reviews from his patients and protest letters from local monocle manufacturers.

Bearing extensive training and certification from Lavish Lashes, Ooh La Lashes’ Candis expertly applies each synthetic lash to eyelids for plump, full lash lines that last for up to four weeks. Using the same gentle bonding agent that doctors use to suture wounds, Candis adds subtle length to natural lashes or creates flirtatious winks powerful enough to alter the jet stream of a paper plane's flight path. Partial sets add a hint of length to eyes for a glamorous cat-eye look, and one- to two-week touchups fill in lashes that have naturally shed since the full application.

At Essentials Wellness, Dr. Samuel Botta and aesthetician Cindy Ramsey work together to provide physician-supervised facial treatments with medical-grade products. Patients can glide across gleaming wooden floors to the waiting room, where they'll be met with plush couches and a flat-screen television. After enjoying some coffee, they can revel in a variety of facials, including an oxygen-treament, vitamin C, or acne facial. They also can experience a trichloroacetic-acid (TCA) peel, pumpkin peel, or body peel or slough off deadbeat skin cells with microdermabrasion.