Beauty & Spas in Portsmouth Heights

Finder’s Keepers Body Piercing focuses on performing high-quality body modification. Its piercers are licensed through the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, and they use exclusively high-grade, biocompatible, implant-grade jewelry. They focus on proper sterilization and technique so intensively that they even offer an apprenticeship program, licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Piercers Jessi, Jessica, Jordan, Kimberly, and Sheena keep portfolios online so that potential piercees can preview their work. In addition to using dermal anchors and piercing popular spots like the ear cartilage, navel, and tongue, the experts at Finder’s Keepers can also pierce below the belt.

Living up to its name, the physician-supervised Skin Renaissance Clinic gives skin a new lease on life with a full slate of laser and facial treatments. A registered nurse wields Matrix IR technology to blast wrinkles, and slough away imperfections with microdermabrasion and chemical peels. They cull from Obagi and SkinMedica products to lavish faces with anti-aging serums, tapping into the skin’s self-healing and homework-deflecting properties.

Though eyelashes are quite small, learning to apply them can be quite a big undertaking. Each aesthetician at SOHO Lashes has endured numerous hours of training through Xtreme Lashes, learning how to darken and lengthen eye fringe in a manner that is comfortable, natural looking, and safe for the eyelashes. Available in various lengths and colors, the synthetic strands are applied one by one using a lightweight, waterproof adhesive that doesn't touch the skin. And since the false lashes are bonded to the real ones, they fall out in accordance with the natural growth cycle. Depending on the desired fullness, application can take anywhere from one to two and a half hours to complete; though afterward, clients can look forward to saving time each morning since they won't need to apply mascara or perk up limp lashes with a daily pep talk.

In addition to applying lash extensions, the aestheticians enhance features with more traditional cosmetics and remove unwanted hairs with waxing services. Groups of gals can come in for bridal makeovers or to get ready for other big events, such as school dances where everyone just stands around awkwardly.

Shelves of tanning lotions wrap around walls the color of warm sand in Sun Lounge Tanning’s salon, where friendly staffers foster deeper skin hues with UV-free spray tans and SunDash tanning beds. The boutique’s spray-tanning tent provides privacy for patrons in the care of techs certified by Smart Tan. Inside the warm confines of SunDash lay-down beds and standup capsules, UV light bulbs shine across epidermises to grant golden glows and proof of completed sandcastle-demolition shifts. The shop's knowledgeable crew is always on hand, presiding over color-enhancing lotions and oils, including the product line from the cast of Jersey Shore.

Owner Victoria Bryant flung open the doors of A Swedish Touch in 1997 when she was just 20 years old. Fifteen years later, her bustling and colorful salon brims with seasoned hair stylists and nail technicians, each artfully enhancing their clients' unique features. Amid the steel-grey walls and zebra-print furniture with hot-pink accents, stylists deftly snip, color, and style coifs with professional Redken products in front of sleekly styled beauty stations. Amid silver decorations, nail techs clip and buff appendage-enders before crowning them in elegant Tammy Taylor acrylics or glossy layers of CND Shellac polish, which is cured to a durable finish beneath a UV-powered lamp.

At Tan Oasis, bronzing professionals Jane and Mike Castello oversee a diverse fleet of tanning beds, pair each patron with a model that meets their preferences, and help to slim silhouettes and fight cellulite with infrared Fit Bodywraps. Inside Oasis, the 1,000-watt ultrapressure lamps of a Velocity bed darken limbs, the cooling breeze of the Ovation bed’s foot fan cools toes, and Norvell custom sunless spray tans imbue skin with a golden glow. Pre- or postsession, tanners can work to smooth skin and banish toxins with infrared Fit Bodywraps, spending 60 minutes lounging inside a cozy cocoon. The staff also equips sun worshippers with lotions from brands such as Australian Gold and Devoted Creations, flip-flops, and bathing suits for exploring coral reefs burgeoning in the bathtub.