Beauty & Spas in Maplewood

Sneak away from daily stresses, busy streets, and average-tasting popcorn in favor of an afternoon escape with today’s Groupon. For $45, you’ll get three and a half hours of extensive beautification with the Pretty Me package at Haven Salon, a cozy retreat tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Uptown Minneapolis. Running From: Ghosts or monsters Potential Haven: Boarded-up old mansion

Nourish winter-worn skin with today's Groupon. For $75, you'll get a 90-minute Korean spa ritual at Sabai Body Temple, one of the city's best spas according to Citysearchers, who voted it Best Minneapolis Massage in 2009. The hour-and-a-half experience will cleanse, stimulate, restore, and renew seasonally parched skin.

As your first line of defense against the outside world, your skin is hard to catch off guard when it's always on the lookout for falling icicles and fire. Treat your skin to a surprise party full of waxing and facials. With today’s Groupon, $45 gets you $97 worth of waxing and/or facial services at pH OREM Skincare.

Correct the creaks, clacks, and uncomfortable transversal twists of a bothered back with today’s Groupon. For $35, you’ll get a one-hour therapeutic massage (a $75.51 value) at Artifex Manuum Spa and Gallery, a soothing sanctuary in the Wedge. Unlike most spas, Artifex doubles as a gallery for locally created arts and crafts and doesn't have a wacky jerboa who's always hopping by to give advice and delightfully misunderstand common proverbs.

The Refinery boosts bodily morale with a bundle of rejuvenating spa treatments, all administered by a professional, experienced staff. With the spa package, serene seekers can pacify all of the body’s fibers, follicles, and subterranean volcanoes, starting with a muscle-mollifying Swedish massage, a 30-minute knead that untangles knotty tendons and reduces everyday and interstellar stress (a $33 value). The pampering package continues with a 30-minute express facial that refreshes skins with a steam, light exfoliation and a customized mask crafted from invigorating Dermalogica products (a $33 value). Hands and feet, meanwhile, find solace in the express mani-pedi, which cleanse, files, buffs, and polishes weary paws for smoother, photo-op-appropriate appendages (a $51 value). The day’s body coddling commences with a professional haircut, a follicular denouement of luxurious shampooing, snipping, and basic styling (a $35 value).

Aveda Institute is a beauty school that will smooth and soothe whatever section of your surface area aches for tending, from your freshly sore Olive Oyl tattoo to the love-bite scars from your pet gull. During your session, the Institute’s future superstar stylists and cosmetologists will tend to you with incredible detail while using Aveda's organically derived, bio-safe products. A botanical hair and scalp therapy ($35) douses winter-weary follicles with a deep moisturizing and strengthening hair and scalp treatment, followed by a scalp and neck massage, shampoo, and blow-dry. Otherwise, put your best face forward with an Aveda facial ($45) or makeup application ($15), or pamper your handy arm paddles and toe holsters with an Elemental Nature manicure ($15) and pedicure ($20). Maintain the grounds of your scalp lawn with a shampoo, haircut, and blow-dry ($15), style ($10), and gloss ($10), while pulling weeds from other parts of the body with a waxing ($10–$35).