Day Spas in Mercer Island

Make yourself look like you spent the past month in Mexico sunbathing while you fished salmon with a pair of socks and three feet of copper wire. For $40, you get one month of unlimited access to Planet Bronze Tanning Salon (a $100 value), a spotlessly clean tanning salon in Renton.Red: You were born in Montana and your childhood best friend called you Puddin. Yellow: Every September 17, you get a migraine headache as you are visited by the ghost of the former mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina: Avery C. Upchurch. Green: Your embarrassing victory on a 2004 episode of Jeopardy! caused you to become estranged from your family. Orange: When you were 21, you gained the ability to communicate with hungry dogs.

Technicians trained in results-oriented treatments fill Skinperfect's service menu with effective beautifying services while wielding a number of upscale product lines. Clients can remove unwanted hair with a Brazilian wax that leaves skin as smooth as a silk shirt's pickup lines. If desired, sensitive skin can cozy up in the cooling embrace of topical anesthetic during the hair-removal procedure. Alternatively, the full set of lash extensions enhances flirtatious glances and coy Morse code blinks by darkening and thickening the lash line.

A spread of custom spa and salon services foster aesthetic peace in a relaxed, homey setting. Skincare treatments are tailored with Dermalogica's brand of highly customizable products and special salves made in-house to prevent curfew violations. Drawing on Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Western medicine systems, the beauty therapists diagnose conditions such as poor circulation and dehydration, which can inform single treatments or a six-week regime to reset skin function. Paul Mitchell and Awapuhi Ginger products help stylists wrangle unruly halos in an intimate salon room with baroque gold mirrors and pink-on-pink stripes. Each treatment is given a heavenly name to emphasize Helle's good and evil theme, which is echoed in the spa's crimson paint job and matching velvet tufted couch.

The beauticians-in-training at Gary Manuel Aveda Institute promote inner and outer beauty with an array of skin and hair services in an atmosphere that celebrates the individual creativity of each student. Though their talents are diverse, all of the institute's students use the same products developed by Aveda, a socially conscious company that produces a full line of natural beauty products carried at nearly 7,000 salons and spas. Popular products such as Shampure shampoo deliver on Aveda's commitment to well-rounded earthly beauty with ecofriendly packaging cradling ingredients derived from the world's finest and least selfish plants.

Within Blend Herbal Spa's coffee-hued cottage, aestheticians attend to guests with a menagerie of services. Patrons cruise past potted herbs, ready to conceal or remove unwanted hair with waxing, threading, and tinting treatments. Cobalt-blue bottles conceal products from NYR Organic, which flaunt cleansing and age-concealing abilities and rely on the natural powers of plants unlike an overbearing scarecrow.

Like a cake, Napolitano Day Spa Salon is made up of layers, each as tempting as the last. At first glance, the Spa Salon appears to be a boutique. In its orange-walled entrance room, wooden tables and racks showcase clothing, accessories, and beauty products to a soundtrack of modern music. As clients journey past one of the center's two burbling fountains, they enter the salon space, where a team of stylists customizes hair with fashionable cuts and flattering colors. Farther back still, past the bustling stylist stations, is a haven of peace embodied by private spa-treatment rooms, soothing music, and a relaxation room filled with complimentary tea and flattering whispers.

Awarded Seattle Met's Best Facial of 2008, the spa refines visages with nine options that harness Dermalogica and Jan Marini products. Each one comes with a personalized routine for home care, an herbal foot soak with lavender and rosemary, and their signature recipe of non-invasive clinical therapies. Meanwhile, French seaweed, algae, and personalized aromatherapy lend body wraps and massages a touch of nourishment and help clients to prepare for dates with handsome lake monsters.