Land O' Lakes, FL Beauty and Salons

The doctors and medical support staff at Adora Body Sculpting Clinic help patients attain their ideal figures with a menu of cosmetic-surgery procedures. The staff boosts confidence levels with fat removal, lifts, and tucks and snubs its smooth nose at Father Time with chemical peels, wrinkle fillers, and laser facials. Bodies feel free to bare all after laser hair removal and tattoo removal.

When Vicky Lysenko took over Bliss Facial Spa, she quickly realized the challenge she’d signed up for. With no experience in the skincare industry and only the advice of her cosmetologist daughter, Lysenko was overwhelmed by the time and energy it took to maintain a high-quality spa. Today, two years and more than 150 regular visitors later, Lysenko and her team of aestheticians have proven their mettle. To achieve this success, Lynsenko seeks out only the best staff members; in addition to training and ability, she looks for aestheticians with interpersonal skills and a team mentality. Lysenko also keeps her spa on the cutting edge of cosmetic technology. In addition to performing traditional spa services with products from Image Skincare and Éminence Organics, the staff at Bliss swiftly corrects blemishes and jostles circadian rhythms with FDA-approved light-therapy treatments. Lysenko recalls light-therapy clients who arrived with severe acne or fallout from poorly performed chemical peels. After a series of treatments, their faces were evidence enough of the technology's mending power. “It’s incredible how fast and how well [they] healed,” she gushes. “We really have a lot of faith in that light.”

After establishing their careers on opposite ends of the globe, sisters Dawn and Kathy came together to pour 35 years of combined experience into Beauty on Broadway Salon. Working side by side, the sisters give regular folks the red-carpet treatment by doling out specialty services including mani-pedis and permanent makeup. A resident hairstylist transforms tresses by performing everything from simple bang trims to Brazilian keratin-smoothing treatments. To reface faces, the salon also hosts an aesthetician with more than 20 years' experience, who administers ultra-hydrating and anti-aging facials that help fight free radicals and reverse damage from pie fights.

Helmed by board-certified medical doctor Yvette Suarez, Bella MedSpa's crew of body rejuvenators proffers treatments such as Botox, IPL photo rejuvenation, and Vaser LipoSelection. Med-spa services grant svelte frames with smooth-shape cellulite therapy, and minimally invasive fillers such as Juvéderm and Radiesse plump puckerers and even fine lines.

Skincare services dole out products from Obagi and lashes from Latisse, a medication applied directly to eye fringe that works to gradually darken and lengthen lashes, rather than attempting to brighten and shrink heads. When coupled with weight-management programs and Vaser's ultrasonic LipoSelection, skin treatments provide a full-body refurbishing. Dr. Suarez also helps clients to take control of their lives with hormone-replacement therapies for men, women, and androgynous teddy bears.

Most people believe beauty requires pain. But at Timeless MD Spa, a team of experienced technicians strives to make sure its advanced aesthetic services deliver serious results with very minimal discomfort. Board-certified technicians carry out this mission using their experience as laser specialists. Timeless MD Spa is also a Syneron instructing center, skilled at training facial surgeons and technicians in the ins and outs of administering and performing advanced aesthetic treatments using FotoFacial RF, Refirmé, and Matrix IR systems—systems the doctor employs in her work at Timeless MD Spa. Patients can smooth cellulite with VelaShape treatments, which also shape the body's contours noninvasively. Many of the spa's treatments can work together toward a single beauty goal; VelaShape can be used in conjunction with Vaser liposuction to heighten the smoothing, slimming effect. The beauty haven is also outfitted with Obagi skincare products, which are used during customized facials and exfoliating peels.

Hearing the words "carve and slice" in the same sentence as the words “beauty treatment” probably brings to mind painful plastic surgery, but at TranZitions Hair Salon, it's actually a service for your curls. Ouidad-certified stylists perform the carve-and-slice technique to cut down on the unwanted volume that causes a "pyramid look" while still defining and plumping up your ringlets. It's one of a select few Ouidad procedures at the salon, which also employs products from Paul Mitchell, Goldwell, Kenra, Redken, and other high-profile brands. The hair mavens administer treatments that range from custom highlights and complex updos to a 15-minute bang trim, a far chicer way to keep your hair out of your eyes than installing an awning on your glasses.

Besides their cuts and color applications, the staff also performs waxing, makeup, and nail services, which can include extras such as an aromatherapy hand massage. Additionally, skincare specialists exfoliate complexions with facials and microdermabrasion.