Raceland, LA Beauty and Salons

Peppermint and pure sugar cane are on the menu, but they're not for eating. The peppermint fragrances a warm footbath, and the pure sugar cane acts as scrub for lips or tongues with no self-control. These indulgent ingredients appear in various services at Serenity Day Spa and Gifts, where guests can spend up to a full day relaxing and beautifying with spa packages that combine mani-pedis, facials, and massages. Body-contouring wraps detoxify while they tighten and tone skin, and specially designed facials address the common skincare concerns of men, women, and teens.

At Bella Salon & Spa, visitors can acquire quality salon services and an expertly trimmed head of hair without hiring a master chef to chop locks into a sushi-shaped coiffure. Bella’s experienced stylists are deft at maintaining all styles of hair, including duct-taped shag carpeting, and provide every visitor with friendly and helpful service. Before a single split end is terminated, the friendly snippers will analyze your face shape, hair texture, and personality to bestow upon your brain-case a flattering new cut that complements your best features and daily routine. The conditioning treatment, punctuated with an indulgent scalp massage, strengthens wussy locks, adds moisture, and amplifies your mane's volume. Patrons will be able to kick back and relax while soaking in the welcoming ambience and sleek décor, which features lustrous wood floors and smile-inducing frontal-lobe pleasure lasers.

The expert technicians at SUITE Boutique use a high-energy laser that will safely pass through epidermises of all types to directly target follicles, effectively removing unwanted locks. Unlike giant lasers used to sear one's initials onto the moon, these friendly beams are comfortable, fast, and sized appropriately for human use. Customers are invited to choose one area for lazing from the following: chin ($900), upper lip ($900), both underarms ($1,800), and bikini line ($1,200). You can also upgrade by applying the Groupon's value to one of three higher-priced services—including the back ($2,400 up to $3,300, including shoulders), legs ($4,200+ for full legs)‚ and a Brazilian ($2,700)—and paying the difference. Once you've chosen a body region, you must use all six treatments for that area.

A classic barber pole and a line of cozy leather chairs await you at Lion's Den Salon, where gents of all follicular needs stop in for a chop, a chat, and a chance to chill out. Beyond receiving the haircut that you desire, you'll also receive the stress-reliever package, which includes a heated towel draped from chin to brow and temple to temple, melting down stress and reducing it into a stress vaccine. The package also gets you a thorough shampoo and conditioning with an indulgent scalp massage and shoulder massage. The friendly head-shapers and stress-shakers will offer a personal consultation regarding any lingering scalp issues and a complete grooming, detailing, and finishing using the salon's official arsenal of product lines, including the infinite masculinity of American Crew, the top-notch hair-loss prevention of Therapy G, and the intangibly immeasurable power of a comb-and-tissue-paper kazoo.

After honing her skills on the East Coast at the academies of Vidal Sassoon, Goldwell, Bumble and bumble, and Redken, master stylist Brenda McField found herself pulled south, to New Orleans. In addition to rejoining her husband’s family, Brenda wanted to help rebuild the city after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, just two years after the hurricane tore through the city, she opened Mariposa Salon & Spa, a Paul Mitchell Focus salon. Since then, Brenda and her team of hair artists have styled locks for the glossy pages of New Orleans Bride magazine and CUE magazine, as well as the runways of a Guess fashion show and a Chloe Dao fashion show.

Mariposa's bilingual stylists also craft sophisticated looks for clients walking down sidewalks instead of runways. Celeb-inspired styles let clients ask for The Beyoncé and walk out with sleek, smooth, and straight locks, or The Gisele, which translates to the loose, beachy waves usually only achieved by supermodels living in sandcastles. The stylists also battle the New Orleans humidity with blow-drying techniques and GKhair hair straightening. Mariposa’s nail artists brighten fingertips with chip-resistant Shellac polish, and aestheticians craft custom facials and wax away body hair with tea-tree cream wax.

A wildly successful alternative to traditional day spas—its more than 300 locations blanket 36 states and half a dozen countries—Planet Beach is a futuristic relaxation station where state-of-the-art machines administer all the spa and tanning services. These friendly automatons sometimes replace familiar treatments, as in the Luminous facial, a light-based service that delivers blemish-busting results similar to those of a conventional facial. But other equipment maps out new spa territory entirely: the Hydro-Derma Fusion chamber moisturizes the whole body with nutrient-rich steam in order to offset the effects of a dry climate or a rear-end collision with a salt truck. Other machines whiten teeth, spray tan skin, and massage muscles.

Planet Beach operates on a gym-style membership system, meaning that members purchase packages or pay flat monthly rates. As members spend more time at the spa, they get to know the helpful assistants who are always on hand to demonstrate how to use the equipment without activating its ability to cry.