Beauty & Spas in National City

For $35, today's Groupon gets you $100 worth of services at Halcyon Aveda Salon. This upscale La Jolla salon offers haircuts, styling, coloring, texturing, and custom airbrush spray tanning. Trust Halcyon’s experts with your hair: regulars have loyally followed these stylists from their previous salons to Halcyon (with pit stops at the stylists' homes). Customers praise the stylists' friendly demeanors and abilities to give you exactly the cut and style you had in mind. Take the style in your mind, and put it on the outside of your mind and onto your scalp—that's what Groupon is here for!

After enjoying a refined smoke on the cigar patio, you relax with a complimentary highball in front of a pair of LCD televisions, catching up on the Padres game with the right eyeball and the last 20 minutes of Quantum of Solace with the left. Soon, an attractive stylist calls you to the most sophisticated barber chair on earth for a trim, a lingering scalp massage, hot face towel, and straight-razor shave. A lovely manicurist tends to your extremities before you slip your feet into your freshly polished shoes. This kind of treatment used to be reserved for the likes of Hugh Hefner—until the arrival of AlphaMale barbershop and spa.

Whether you need to relax, relieve stress, or manage pain or injuries, a massage at IPSB Massage Therapy Center will get the job done. For $45, today's Groupon side deal gets you one IPSB-licensed professional massage (a $60 value). Or if you prefer, for the same $45, you can get two one-hour student massages at IPSB for the price of one (a $90 value) with today's featured deal (click here for this option).

Though they don't serve food, the professionals at Healing Arts Massage & Wellness Center do oversee a buffet. Their Massage My Way package lets clients pick from a menu of enticing modalities and add-ons, including aromatic essential oils, warm stones, and hot towels. This muscle-sating feast functions as just one draw to the relaxation haven, where practitioners believe that massages should be a recurring investment. To help encourage repeat visits, they've also created special services such as the Island Escape, a tropical-themed treatment that adds mango-scented oil, coconut-lime foot-massage butter, and a scalp massage to Swedish or deep-tissue kneads. Visitors can even pose for a custom airbrush spray tan to complete their beachy, stress-relieving session.

Of course, guests can also elect to keep appointments simple with a single modality. In addition to classic massage styles, the calming techniques of craniosacral therapy and the pinpointed pressures of reflexology alleviate the body's more focused tensions. Licensed acupuncturist Robin Kohler often pairs her trade with massage appointments, striving to correct energy imbalances within each physique.

The center has fostered restfulness for more than 20 years and exclusively employs licensed massage therapists rather than relying on students or friends who give very encouraging back pats. Situated a mere three blocks from the ocean, its locale mirrors the serene atmosphere behind its doors.

Today's Groupon prettifies any part—big or small, tall or short, blond or brunette, rhombazoid or trapus—at Haute Spa, an upscale salon and skincare spa in the Shelter Island area of Point Loma. For $35, you get $85 toward any relaxing, beautifying service.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Send this year’s stresses a friendly goodbye through the power of cleansing facials. For $35, today's Groupon lets you choose either a back facial or European facial at Hoda Spa. Certified in skin biology, reflexology (the care of your feet), and a host of other bodily therapies, Hoda Spa’s highly regarded aestheticians create a peaceful environment of healing and deep relaxation where your fear of sword-wielding barbarian children can melt away. Over time, relaxation lost its negative connotations, thanks in large part to muckraking journalists who revealed that many wealthy businessmen lived above ground in mansions, not in hollowed-out, overnight-work mines. Today, many Americans spend their non-working time laxing over and over again, sometimes in spas.