Los Angeles Spa and Massage

Since opening its doors in 1984, Ma Maison De Beaute has devised a bevy of healing skin treatments designed to mend dermal issues both minor and severe. Eggshell-colored walls, furniture, and décor, illuminated by a sparkling chandelier and candlelit fireplace forge a luxurious atmosphere for spa services that range from relaxing pedicures to Velashape laser cellulite treatments, which use infrared light to recontour golf-ball-dimpled bodily surfaces to more closely resemble their smooth-talking ping-pong cousins. An expansive selection of skin products helps staffers tailor the six flavors of facial to suit each client's skin type, whereas artful waxing services remove unwanted fuzz and sculpt contoured, tidy brows.

At Beauty by Marina, steady-handed professional makeup artist and eyebrow-shaping specialist Marina enhances clients’ natural features with artistic daytime and evening looks for weddings and other special occasions. After consulting with clients, Maria sharpens ocular over-scores and finishes foundation with striking or subtle hues and vibrant shimmers to create dramatic looks for strutting down a red carpet, aisle, or airport moving walkway.

An aesthetician for nearly three decades, Danuta Kozlowski brings multiple dermal certifications and expertise gleaned from continuing-education courses with French beauty companies to each session of lavish skincare services. Massages and hydrotherapy pamper weatherworn hides with full-body treatments in private rooms, as well as with natural add-ons, such as mud and algae. Sweat sessions included with body treatments take place in a hardwood sauna, where bodies can clear themselves of lingering toxins and dated CD liner notes.

Owner Charlene Papastephanou of Ethereal Oasis combines results-oriented skincare with Eastern healing philosophies to knock down beauty blockages and empower clients through reiki and integrated energy therapy. Customized skincare employs Fenix products, the PCA skincare line, and natural botanicals to purify and exfoliate complexions. Clients seeking a spiritual makeover can enroll in energy-healing sessions to overcome limiting thought patterns, realize their full potential, and remember the location of the volcano where they lost their car keys. Tranquility prevails within the sea-foam-green lobby, and candlelit private treatment rooms lift spirits with natural light and merry statues of Buddha.

Before Bessy Lim had her first facial, her life was a succession of stressful, 12-hour shifts. Her first spa experience awakened a latent desire: she wanted to help others find the relaxation she had forgone for so long. With that, she left her stressful career, earned a number of spa certifications, traveled abroad to learn the various therapeutic techniques and ways to pronounce "microdermabrasion" of spas overseas, and finally opened Agua De Vida Spa. There, a corps of certified and licensed massage therapists team up with the spa specialist to mend tense muscles with massage, swaddle bodies in wraps, purify pores with facials, and primp hands and feet with nail services.

The beauty pros at FuWaa Spa tighten, shrink, and sculpt physiques with a panoply of noninvasive treatments. Devices such as the Zerona laser and Venus Freeze zap away troublesome fat cells and tone the body’s contours without the risks of surgery or cardio bullfighting. A tranquil studio hosts yoga classes that mold figures with strengthening poses and tush-firming asanas. Aestheticians coax away blemishes and reinvigorate complexions with a menu of facials and peels, and a team of experienced massage therapists and reflexologists drums new life into tuckered-out muscles.