Beauty & Spas in Orangevale

It's hard to rival Marilyn Monroe's beauty, but Monroe Salon Spa's stylists and aestheticians can help make clients look like their most glamorous selves. Monroe's range of services includes specialty hair design—including extensions and retexturizing treatments—capable of totally remaking a client's everyday look. These heavy-duty beautifying skills are why TLC's A Makeover Story visited the salon to make over two friends before their 25th high-school reunion. The stylists also enhance ocular aesthetics through eyebrow waxing services. When they are not styling tresses in-studio, Monroe Salon Spa's team is tending to bridal parties and creating on-location wedding looks, such as up dos and side-swept buns.

A trained and experienced staff of nine helms East Sac MedSpa, doling out skin-resurfacing facial treatments fortified by advanced technology and a dozen types of relaxing massages. As soon as clients walk through the doors, a friendly staff member will offer them a beverage—a soft drink, coffee, wine—and lead them to one of three treatment rooms. Inside, an aesthetician analyzes skin type and condition before prescribing the most appropriate procedure, such as a glycolic peel, microcurrent face-lift, or LED photofacial, to eliminate signs of aging, acne, or biting children. Alternatively, visitors can opt for a relaxing Swedish, deep-tissue, or reflexology massage performed by a certified massage therapist.

Because many of its services produce the best results with repeat treatments, East Sac MedSpa creates an incentive to return by offering visitors the chance to become spa members—a status that includes complimentary chair massages, birthday gifts, and invitations to monthly wine parties.

Named after the colorful bracelets that jangle on the wrists of many Indian women, Ruby’s Bangles gives its patrons an opportunity to partake in ancient Eastern beauty rituals. In the spa, aestheticians use eyebrow threading techniques inspired by Egyptian beauty rituals to remove unwanted hair. Skilled henna artists can transform hands and feet with dramatic plant-ink designs. The store's boutique boasts a wide selection of Indian-inspired jewelry, including bindis, necklaces, bangles, and hip chains for belly dancing or keeping prank-prone jeans from running away.