Pascagoula, MS Spa and Massage

Staff members at The Fairhope Salon and Spa pamper their clients with natural Aveda hair styling products and organic spray tans. In addition to hair cuts and color, the technicians also offer spa manicures and pedicures with OPI polish and massages enhanced with hot stones.

The experts behind Nou Veau Salon & Day Spa pamper men and women alike amid artsy accoutrements. A plush couch and velvet wing-backed chairs complement a swirling painting, accented by eclectic knickknacks and a vase full of wavy pink sticks plucked from the Earth's feminine side. Therapists soothe sore muscles with techniques including deep-tissue and prenatal massage within a private room with a rustic, exposed-brick wall.

Tackling outer beauty, nail techs season hands and feet with herbs acquired from spa's tidy white shelves before slathering nails with OPI nail polishes. Likewise, highly trained hair stylists treat 'dos to professional products by Goldwell, Bumble and Bumble, and Privé, and aesthetic specialists enhance natural beauty with Matis facials and makeup lessons.

In addition to providing day-to-day appearance maintenance, Nou Veau's experts tend to brides with haircuts, mani-pedis, and makeup, rendering them beautiful enough to attract flocks of adorable, wide-eyed wildlife to gather round their feet.

Waxing therapist Simmi Taylor at Eimaj Spa & Salon, who mastered hair removal during a stint at the Aveda Institute and through speed-waxing classes at the International Dermal Institute, depilates skin with a pain-minimizing technique that prevents hairs from weeping.

After graduating as one of Fortis College – Mobile's top massage therapy students, Jen Adams began combining her extensive knowledge of reiki and aromatherapy with massage therapy to help clients relieve stress and remedy health issues. As a licensed massage therapist with more than 1,000 hours of clinical experience, she expertly pampers clients with the strokes and kneads of various massage modalities, including Swedish, neuromuscular, craniosacral, and lymphatic drainage. Clients may customize their massage sessions with a number of add-ons such as a footbath, ear candling, or kinesio taping—designed to ease muscles fatigued from overexertion or overzealously directing people to the beach.

Beyond the business day, Jen Adams lends her superpowers to the community as a volunteer massage therapist for Hands for Heroes, an organization that provides therapeutic bodywork to military veterans.

In 2004, husband and wife duo Monica and David Spencer had a vision for an upscale, yet casual salon and realized their dream in Monica's Nail Salon and Day Spa. Their clients can order services ala carte or opt for a package, to let staffers revitalize their entire bodies with a combination of stress-relieving facials, mani-pedis, and massages, which can soothe them in a way only treasured stuffed animals can. The salon also offers a variety of products from brands such as OPI, China Glaze, and CND.

At Bella Sundries Wellness Studio, heated massage tables and skilled therapists await to relax sore muscles and restore a sense of well-being throughout the body with services ranging from Swedish to reflexology and reiki. Owner Tonya Ben Mansour boasts 14 years of massage experience, holds master-level status in neuromuscular therapy, and has reached level 10 in most video games, making her nimble hands particularly suited to sussing out deep-seated stress. The studio also extends its soothing savvy to problems that are skin deep as aesthetician Sarah Lawrence cleanses and calms complexions with refreshing facials and sequesters rogue facial hair with waxing services.