New South Memphis Spa and Massage

Within the cream-colored walls of her eponymous spa, aesthetician Blake Hays Green beautifies clients' visages with a variety of treatments, from basic facials to microdermabrasion.

Since opening its doors to the public and closing its portals to other, more dangerous dimensions in 1998, Rochelle Health & Wellness' staff has helped over 10,000 individuals lose weight and feel better about their skin and body. Multiple types of body wraps, including chocolate mint, tummy, and half-body wraps, help shrink waists when paired with detoxifying teas and cardio DVDs. In addition to fat-fighting treatments, aestheticians administer peppermint facials and nonsurgical face-lifts that work to rejuvenate sagging skin.

Merle Norman Day Spa and Boutique's beauty specialists are the three graces of the Merle Norman brand, whose American-made tonics have nourished skin since 1931. Owner Shannon Burroughs Mangrum leads the trio with more than a decade of experience and two diplomas folded into an imposing origami saber. Relying on her clinical aesthetics degree from Jon Nave University, she safely blends rejuvenating chemical compounds into five types of facial peels, and mans mechanical devices that gently exfoliate dead skin or cover it in bronzer. Her degree in permanent cosmetics from the Texas Institute of Permanent Cosmetics focused on the OSHA and CDC safety guidelines for an art that helps those with allergies, loss of motor abilities, or a lack of free time create enduring beauty. Associates Alyssa and Maura lend their nimble fingers to more conventional makeovers that will wash off after nights out under a waterfall, as well as treatments that create smooth skin all over the body and relaxed muscles underneath.

Body Beautiful Studio’s menu of services not only focuses on keeping clients looking luminous and svelte, but also emphasizes the importance of good health and whole-body well-being. Rather than relying on the potentially harmful UV rays emitted by tanning beds, the studio’s airbrush tanning technicians instead engulf bodies in a mist of botanically based solution, creating an even, sun-kissed hue free of orange streaks, unlike carrots shot out of a T-shirt cannon. Body Beautiful’s full-body infrared treatments use far-infrared technology to relieve aches and contour silhouettes. As the gentle heat elevates metabolisms and helps release pent-up toxins, it can also improve skin tone by minimizing the appearance of cellulite.

Karen Tappin's namesake spa has a kitchen. The kitchen has no food or frying pans; instead, its shelves brim with jars of shea butter, jojoba oil, and apricot-kernel oils, which skincare gurus use to create nourishing hair and skin products before their customers' eyes. As the serums are brought to life, a team of aestheticians puts them to work, rejuvenating clients' skin with a range of customized facials and body scrubs. While soaking feet from atop the spa’s black leather pedicure thrones, clients can contemplate whether to leave their finger- and toenails naturally bare or don colorful polish, Shellac, silk wraps, french tips, or adamantium Wolverine claws. The beauty haven also soothes bodies in private treatment rooms, where experts melt tension with soothing massages and hydrotherapy treatments amid the space's shades of black and white.