Beauty & Spas in Niceville

Niceville, Florida, goes Hollywood at The Cutting Room Salon & Spa. Beauty specialists work together to make each guest look and feel like a celebrity, performing pampering salon and spa services. Beauty offerings include everything from haircare and nailcare to relaxing massages and facials.

Dr. Steven F. Weiner, a Johns Hopkins–trained, board-certified head, neck, and facial plastic surgeon, established The Aesthetic Clinique as a non-surgical and minimally invasive practice performing cosmetic procedures with the help of four full-time aestheticians and a registered nurse. Patients consult with the doctor, who draws on 17 years of Botox experience and his status as a Platinum Provider of Botox, to target pesky wrinkles in areas such as foreheads, upper necks, brows, lips, and cotton dress shirts. The entire procedure usually takes only 5–10 minutes, but effects do not become apparent for up to five days. Results of the treatment may last three–six months, allowing patients to pose as intrepid teenage sleuths for an unprecedented amount of time.

New Image Laser Clinic’s Dr. Charles Barniv—a family-practice physician—and laser technician Hina Patel remove hair, spider veins, toenail fungus, and facial wrinkles with a Laserscope Lyra i laser. The complex laser treats these beauty woes while a self-cooling device ensures the surrounding skin remains safe, comfortable, and cooler than an ice cube wearing a necklace with the word ice written in diamonds. Dr. Barniv and Patel also ward off signs of aging with Botox and Juvederm dermal-filler injections.

A wildly successful alternative to traditional day spas—its more than 300 locations blanket 36 states and half a dozen countries—Planet Beach is a futuristic relaxation station where state-of-the-art machines administer all the spa and tanning services. These friendly automatons sometimes replace familiar treatments, as in the Luminous facial, a light-based service that delivers blemish-busting results similar to those of a conventional facial. But other equipment maps out new spa territory entirely: the Hydro-Derma Fusion chamber moisturizes the whole body with nutrient-rich steam in order to offset the effects of a dry climate or a rear-end collision with a salt truck. Other machines whiten teeth, spray-tan skin, and massage muscles. Planet Beach operates on a gym-style membership system, meaning that members purchase packages or pay flat monthly rates. As members spend more time at the spa, they get to know the helpful assistants who are always on hand to demonstrate how to use the equipment without activating its ability to cry.

For 24 years, Karin Petersen has been transforming looks with her signature precision cuts. In addition to precision cuts, the Paul Mitchell master colorist specializes in corrective color, highlights, and lowlights, as well as in creating natural-looking length with hair extensions. She also prepares brides for their big days with hair and makeup either at the salon or onsite. La Renaissance Salon welcomes waiting guests in the cozy environment before they head back into the salon, which features antique-style private rooms for each styling station. La Renaissance Salon has their pick of premium products, selecting from brands such as Paul Mitchell, Enjoy, Kenra, and Alfaparf Milano.

Licensed aesthetician Ivone Smith has studied cosmetology in the United States, Honduras, and Spain, building her knowledge in the beauty industry and filling her passport with stamps and smudges of nail polish. At Get Glamourous by Ivone, she translates that international experience into hair services, facials, and head-to-toe makeovers that encompass a range of treatments. Smith employs the Moroccanoil and Schwarzkopf lines to nourish hair, and natural products by Pevonia to balance and hydrate skin.