Millcreek, UT Beauty and Salons

Like a string quartet summons beauty by dragging horsehair across catgut, the quartet of savvy stylists at The Red Poppy Salon wield Redken and Pureology products to tame wild manes and craft beautiful coifs. Within their ruby-hued studio, they tend to a spectrum of aesthetic dilemmas with cuts and coloring services for men and women. Staff stylists Deb and Kenzie can extend tresses with full and partial weaves or lift away unwelcome fuzz with a dollop of wax.

Ray Francom's barbershops evoke a bygone era with their antique cash registers, vintage barbershop signs, and old-fashioned smooth lather shaves with hot towels and straight razors. Above the checkered floors of his second location, ceiling murals, chandeliers, and high wood beams watch over wisps of falling hair. In both locations, Francom combines classic barbershop trimmings with modern styling acumen, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as well as his three barber brothers.

Francom's hand-selected staff has a wide range of experience and specialties, including beard design and precision cuts for men, women, and children. Each trim ends with a hot-lather neck shave and mechanical shoulder massage from a vintage barbershop machine.

Beneath Image Studios' honeycombed ceilings and mod chandeliers, vivid contemporary art and sleek swivel chairs deflect mists of hairspray amid dancing combs and buzzing razors. Here, seasoned stylists Jared Keys and Mandi Black call on a combined 20 years of experience to transform tresses in their private studio, which they’ve befittingly dubbed Black Keys Salon. The pair's nimble fingers and keen scissors turn dull locks into alluring 'dos, and products by Arrojo, Bumble and bumble, and Davines help them curl, straighten, and color hair with vibrant highlights and washes of all-over color.

Each week, new clothing arrives through the doors of Blue Bird Style & Design, complementing the boutique's seasonal décor, gift baskets, and knick-knacks with stylish trendiness. Glittering jewelry accents blouses and fluttery dresses, and modish purses and handbags cherry-top brand-new outfits. A vast array of decorations, gift parcels, and baby toys make homesteads more welcoming and equip shower guests with thoughtful tribute. Custom-designed floral pieces bring out the vibrant colors of nature through silk, dried, and preserved flowers, forming charming centerpieces for dining rooms or effective decoys for rogue swarms of bees.

Drawing from 15 years of work in the nutritional-supplement industry and a PhD in nutrition and food sciences, Dr. Dejia Zhang brings an acute health consciousness to the treatments at JC Laser & Medical Spa. When he’s not busy publishing papers or flying to Hong Kong to deliver lectures on health-food markets, Dr. Zhang and his team nourish and beautify skin with high-tech procedures. They perform microdermabrasions, apply dermal fillers, and whiten teeth to match the new bathroom tiling. They also tend to hair by tinting brows and lashes and removing unwanted bristle with lasers or wax.

The staff at File-U-Fancy strives to create nail artistry that looks beautiful and wears well. Nail tech Erica McComb specializes in durable acrylic nails and Shellac gel polish that resists chipping for up to two weeks. She and the team can also triple-prime nails and finish traditional mani-pedis with a long-lasting gel topcoat. They enhance treatments with products such as fragrant cucumber massage lotion, a brown-sugar-and-honey scrub, and a marine mineral bath that readies feet for walking along the beach or rappelling down the side of an office building.