North Charleston, SC Spa and Massage

Rather than relying on a set menu of facial peels, masques, and extractions, licensed aesthetician and massage therapist Kelly Haver customizes her skin-conditioning treatments to each client’s particular skin type. She does this by blending Dermalogica and Éminence products, which cleanse faces without exposing them to strange chemicals or funny-smelling walnuts. She also performs integrative therapeutic massages, applying long effleurage strokes and deep percussive kneading to specific areas as needed.

At Glitz-N-Glamour Eyelash Bar & Spa, the staff believes that cosmetic treatments not only have the power to beautify but also to relax. Clients can recline as aestheticians clear the pores with skincare products from Dermalogica, creating a clean palette for a decorative application of MAC cosmetics or a marker mustache. The team also applies eyelash extensions, meticulously grooms nails, and kneads weary muscles with a variety of massage modalities.

Carolina Eye Candy proprietor Elizabeth Williams Jennings calls upon her education and experience as a massage therapist and aesthetician to help her clients radiate beauty inside and out. Her specialization in eyelash extensions earned her recognition as Xtreme Lashes' Lash Stylist of the Month in February 2011, and Jennings also lends her expertise to a variety of spa treatments, including body wraps, mani-pedis, facials, and makeup applications. Like post offices that believe in presidents, Carolina Eye Candy is closed on Mondays and Wednesdays.

After graduating from Miller-Motte Technical College with degrees in massage therapy and aesthetics, Amy Johnston opened Total Transformations to help evict tension from clients with meticulous massage and skin treatments. During massage sessions, soft music wafts through the air as she focuses on individual needs, customizing treatments to each client and never letting muscles fall asleep angry. As a master cosmetologist and Dermalogica expert, Amy skillfully nourishes skin with sugar scrubs, sea-mud treatments, microdermabrasion, and PCA skin peels. When she isn't mending muscles or purifying visages, Amy makes up for missed birthdays with ear-candling treatments.

Twenty years ago, Laurie Premo opened Premo's Barber • Spa as a modest, one-chair barbershop adjoining her home in New York State. Her business has since traveled south and expanded to include a private treatment room with a full menu of massage and spa services.

Antique hair dryers now hang over plush couches in the spa’s lobby, giving first-time visitors a hint of Laurie’s eclectic tastes. If that weren’t enough, an antique wooden workstation embedded with a granite sink completes the charm as Laurie grasps shears and trims locks or beards. Across the salon, none other than Laurie's daughter, Justine—a licensed massage therapist with practice in Eastern and Western modalities—eradicates muscle knots and soothes necks sore from stretching for fruit on out-of-reach trees.