Beauty & Spas in Petaluma

After completing her advanced aesthetics training at the Scuola d'Estetica Dorabruschi in Italy, owner Dolores De Alba brought her passion for skincare back to wine country, opening the complexion-focused blush a day spa with her husband and spa co-owner James. After entering the soft-colored salon, patrons slip into cozy robes and slippers and peruse a skin-perfecting treatment menu while sipping hot tea, volcanic mineral water, or champagne. Exotic ingredients pervade each treatment, with papaya, grapeseed, green tea, and rose clay extracted from Provence and sprinkled with rose buds helping technicians exfoliate skin, soothe musculature, and rebalance the body’s energies. The salon offers special packages for teens, brides-to-be, and men in need of TLC, customizing treatments to boost confidence or ease muscles sprained during staring contests.

Tiffany Kaiser, an aesthetician with more than 10 years of experience, performs eight facials, six peels, and three microdermabrasion treatments. Tiffany specializes in permanent makeup, a treatment that safely defines brows, lash lines, lips, and the forehead's SAT words. The center stocks a selection of Rhonda Allison–brand products for clients desiring to continue their skincare at home.

After witnessing a lack of personalized service in the spa industry, a trio of passionate entrepreneurs formed Lauthr Salon with the vision of individualized service and unparalleled attentiveness for every customer. The doting staff offers each client a complimentary beverage before wielding high-end beauty products from Bumble&Bumble, CHI Enviro, and YonKa during transformative facials, waxes, and hair services. This attention to quality and client comfort helped win the salon awards as Santa Rosa's Best Brazilian Wax and Best Nail Salon in 2009 from Citysearch. When they're not busy writing acceptance speeches, the beauty experts also lend their skills to brides- and bombshells-to-be with wedding- and boudoir-photography packages.:m]]

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Like a knife through butter, hairstylist Jenni Teague glides a razor and scissors across strands as she expertly trims and texturizes manes inside Muse Hairdressing, a salon featured on KRON 4’s Best of the Bay. Jenni applies 20 years of beauty-industry experience when transforming heads with highlights, lowlights, and single-process color treatments. Along the way, Jenni reaches for Kevin Murphy salon products, which blend renewable and sustainable components into strand-pampering formulas. Vegan or vegetarian product options also wait in the wings and inspire patrons to recite The Lorax immediately on contact with the hair.

Donna Davis, a critical-care nurse and aesthetician, borrows knowledge from her health-care background to craft custom treatment plans that enhance the appearance and health of her clients' complexions. The skincare specialist glazes faces with medical-grade products from SkinTherapeutic and hypoallergenic and fragrance-free elixirs from SkinCeuticals, gently slathering exfoliating substances over pores like a Renaissance painter applying cream cheese to a bagel. Those suffering from chronic acne or scarring may benefit from the Dadashie Acne System, with visible results emerging in as little as two weeks. Davis' medical expertise allows her to use higher percentages of chemical acids and pure and unbuffered substances, as well as to write recommendations for future skincare regimens in a moderately illegible script.