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.

Before moving to Florida to open Spa 98, Gabriela Voiculescu trained in Bucharest, Paris, and New York, and cut her cosmetology teeth as the owner and therapist of three highly rated med spas in Georgia. The savvy skin therapist holds licenses in three states—New York, Georgia, and Florida—and appeared on Good Morning America as a beauty consultant. Her latest pampering project, Spa 98, offers results-oriented skincare treatments that enhance exteriors with Gabriela’s own G Formula line of cleansers, moisturizers, exfoliators, and Father Time repellents. Hair-removal services include LHE hair reduction as well as full-body waxing with a French formula specially designed for sensitive skin.

The SlenderSmiths staff works to unwind clients’ minds as their bodies do the opposite. Nondehydrating body wraps, ranging from premium mineral wraps to electrotherapy, help boost weight-loss efforts with immediate slimming results, as the wraps attack cellulite. Along with body wraps, the staff performs nonsurgical face-lifts more effective than Pee-wee's scotch-tape face regimen. Other spa services include massages, facials, nailcare, and waxing.

For 24 years, Karin Petersen has been transforming looks with her signature precision cuts. In addition to precision cuts, the Redken master colorist specializes in corrective color, highlights, and lowlights, as well as in creating natural-looking length with extensions. She also readies brides for their big days with hair and makeup, whether at the salon or onsite at the bounce house hosting the ceremony.

La Renaissance Salon welcomes waiting guests to cozy up in the lobby’s cushy armchairs before they head back into the chic chocolate-toned salon, which features ornately framed mirrors and antique-style armoires at each styling station. Karin has her pick of the salon’s premium products, selecting from brands such as Redken, Pureology, Moroccanoil, and Wella.

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.

A sense of humor, along with a commitment to fighting exercise boredom, fuels the instructors at Dance Trance Santa Rosa Beach. They know their hand signals may look a bit goofy, but they'd prefer to use these signs rather than interrupt the flow of a song to shout instructions or suggestions for dance-crew names. Dancers burn fat and build lean muscle while bopping around to the studios' original choreography, which ranges from jazz to funk to latin to pop, and undergoes frequent updates to keep workouts from getting stale.