San Francisco Beauty and Salons

Inspired Skin Care's convenient location on Buchanan Street makes the quick service an easy errand in the middle of any busy day (with an appointment). While scraggly eyebrows can send mixed messages to strangers in cafes and bus stops, a well-maintained set of brows opens up clear channels of facial communication that inspire people on the street to approach you, claiming to be your high-school football coach.

Lonni's Punani wins the hearts and hides of its customers through quick and delicate treatments of a body's most tender areas. Services such as waxing and brow and lash tinting are available for ladies and sirs. Bring baldness to a woman's bikini line ($35), underarms ($20), lip ($10), or chin ($10), or to a man's chest ($35), shoulders ($20), back ($50), toosh ($45), and more. Women can turn to Brazilian waxes ($65) just as men can achieve manzilian smoothness ($75), and anyone can enjoy the more northern treatments of a pleasant lash and brow tinting ($35). Lonni's Punani is open Wednesday–Saturday by appointment only, so call ahead.

A one-woman show, Felicia Gelardi’s Skin Care offers top-notch epidermal services with personalized precision and undeniable attentiveness. Felicia uses only the finest products from carefully selected fresh plant extracts, which contain no mineral oils, lanolin, sodium laurel sulfate, artificial colors, fragrances, pore-clogging ingredients, or unfair-trade diamonds from Martian mines. Services offered include corrective peels, waxing and tinting, and customized facials.

At Rosewater Skin Care, a team of skincare experts and massage therapists share a common dedication to helping clients relax and look their best. Aestheticians apply cruelty-free Dermalogica products to faces during cleansing steam extractions and exfoliating peels, giving clients a youthful glow without asking them to don a beard of fireflies. The scent of aromatherapy oils fills the air inside the sunny spa, where gauzy white curtains and birthday-cake-blue pastels provide a backdrop for gentle massages and efficient waxing.

The Pure Skin's experienced owner and aesthetician, Renata Martins, specializes in Brazilian-style waxing but takes pride in her ability to restore radiance in a variety of ways. Have your pores prettified during The Pure Skin facial, a 60-minute customized treatment that cleanses, tones, steams, and exfoliates, finished with a relaxing neck and shoulder massage ($85), or use this Groupon toward a more intensive 75-minute Ultrasonic Beautifying Facial geared to improve the appearance and health of mature skin ($115). Limb paddles are pampered during soothing and exfoliating hand and foot treatments, both of which include hydrating masks and luxurious massages ($35/hand, $45/foot). Unwanted hairs can be weeded from nearly any bodily zone with Renata's prided waxing treatments ($10–$65). The Pure Spa uses a combination of hard and soft waxes depending on the treatment area, ensuring proper precision and minimal discomfort.

Laser Genesis facials harness the crystalline power of laser technology to stimulate collagen across the face's entire topography. The brisk, 30-minute laser treatment is a non-ablative form of photorejuvenation that turns dull skull masks vibrant and puts a flush back into pallid cheekbone padding. Results are evident after just one treatment, reducing pore size and exfoliating the skin into a glowing head beacon. Repeated treatments further dim fine lines, reduce redness, and fade scars like the memory of a lost love handle; meanwhile, facial veins and uneven skin texture become smoother than jazz. The quick procedure typically has no downtime.