Beauty & Spas in Patterson

It was her own daughter's struggle with skin allergies that inspired Tracie Slough to enter the skincare profession. Not wanting to depend on steroids to keep the rashes in check, Tracie did some research and found another way to help her daughter—as a licensed aesthetician. Today, she puts that same amount of passion into helping her clients look their best. From among her many services, she minimizes the appearance of redness or hyperpigmentation with specialized facials, and practices waxing techniques that yield minimal pain and a lot of hair.

The staff at Versailles Salon & Spa pampers and primps guests with haircuts, skincare, mani-pedis, and massage services. On the salon side, the beauty squad fuels its artful approach to glamour with products from Scruples, Pureology, and Joico. Inside the spa's private treatment rooms, therapists perform specialty services, such as raindrop-therapy massage, which coats weary bodies in organic essential oils to ease muscle tension, bolster the immune system, and banish stress to the island of misfit emotions.

Laura's collection of fragrant lotions soothes the senses during her therapeutic manicures and pedicures. These treatments are customized with balms that hold specific restorative benefits in scents such as pumpkin spice, peppermint rub, and coconut lime. As part of the therapeutic lifestyle Valley Paramedical Skin and Health Care promotes, Laura’s colleagues cleanse pores with a range of facials and chemical peels that leave complexions glowing brighter than a lab coat made of comet dust.

More than 30 years ago, aesthetician Lucille Parker founded Valley Paramedical Skin & Health Care as a holistic haven for women. As the decades passed on, Parker began to notice more men coming in search of her alternative therapies. Now, she and her staff—which includes a reflexologist, manicurist, and massage therapist—educate clients of any gender and age about their bodies and how to heal them.

Parker helps erase skin issues including fine lines and acne with her specialty treatments that call upon nonacnegenic cosmetics, such as plant-based serums and enzyme masks. The staff also runs metabolic nutritional counseling, which can include recommendations for Metagenics supplements and the center’s six-step lifestyle program called First Line Therapy, Whole Body Health. The program focuses on teaching clients how to live a therapeutic lifestyle by eliminating toxins, decreasing body fat, reducing daily stressors, and never, ever running with scissors.

At Valley Paramedical Skin and Health Care, patients gain empowerment by learning how to live therapeutic lifestyles through programs and treatments based on principles of good health. Kelli Davila plays an important role. As one of Valley Paramedical’s massage therapists, she helps patients reduce stress, mitigate achy joints, and eliminate toxins. To accomplish this, she kneads muscles with long, flowing strokes and rests heated stones or overheated Game Boys on guests’ sore spots.