Beauty & Spas in Poway

After enjoying a refined smoke on the cigar patio, you relax with a complimentary highball in front of a pair of LCD televisions, catching up on the Padres game with the right eyeball and the last 20 minutes of Quantum of Solace with the left. Soon, an attractive stylist calls you to the most sophisticated barber chair on earth for a trim, a lingering scalp massage, hot face towel, and straight-razor shave. A lovely manicurist tends to your extremities before you slip your feet into your freshly polished shoes. This kind of treatment used to be reserved for the likes of Hugh Hefner—until the arrival of AlphaMale barbershop and spa.

Whether you need to relax, relieve stress, or manage pain or injuries, a massage at IPSB Massage Therapy Center will get the job done. For $45, today's Groupon side deal gets you one IPSB-licensed professional massage (a $60 value). Or if you prefer, for the same $45, you can get two one-hour student massages at IPSB for the price of one (a $90 value) with today's featured deal (click here for this option).

Today's Groupon prettifies any part—big or small, tall or short, blond or brunette, rhombazoid or trapus—at Haute Spa, an upscale salon and skincare spa in the Shelter Island area of Point Loma. For $35, you get $85 toward any relaxing, beautifying service.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Send this year’s stresses a friendly goodbye through the power of cleansing facials. For $35, today's Groupon lets you choose either a back facial or European facial at Hoda Spa. Certified in skin biology, reflexology (the care of your feet), and a host of other bodily therapies, Hoda Spa’s highly regarded aestheticians create a peaceful environment of healing and deep relaxation where your fear of sword-wielding barbarian children can melt away. Over time, relaxation lost its negative connotations, thanks in large part to muckraking journalists who revealed that many wealthy businessmen lived above ground in mansions, not in hollowed-out, overnight-work mines. Today, many Americans spend their non-working time laxing over and over again, sometimes in spas.

Unfurling a litany of cutting, coloring, styling, and waxing services, the knowledgeable stylists at Diesel Salon help clients spruce up their look. Continuing education keeps the salon’s coiffure-creators in the know, helping them deliver trendy haircuts for men ($30+) and women ($40+) alike. Single-process color ($50+) can morph redheads into brunettes, and a set of full highlights ($100+) simulates the handsome hair-bleaching effects of a summer on Venus. Prepare for parties by transmogrifying strands’ shape with a fancy updo ($55+) or blow-dry ($35+). When forehead-goatees finally fade from fashion, remove stray hair with a brow shaping ($20+/women or $15+/men) or upper-lip waxing ($15+), or combine the two services, starting at $30.

Your facial hair and head hair are thirsty for attention and previews of James Cameron's Avatar. Today’s Groupon will keep your head kempt with a $20 cut and shave at Floyd’s 99 Barbershop, a $45 value. Gussy up for December 18, 2009 at the barbershop CityBeat readers voted Best Barber Shop in San Diego. Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.