Beauty & Spas in San Rafael

Drawing on more than a decade of experience, derma guru Zoe Alexander performs a suite of skin-centric services, from waxing to organic facials. She custom blends masks to suit each client's skin type, deploying ingredients such as raw organic honey, green clay, and organic apple-cider vinegar to combat fine lines, blemishes, and all colors other than green. Lash and eyebrow tinting add drama to faces, and waxing services from head to toe de-fuzz physiques for up to six weeks.

Jeneen’s Skin and Body Care tends to skin needs through a variety of services that cleanse, relax, and soften exteriors. With a strong concentration on anti-aging treatments, the day spa wards off signs of time with microdermabrasions, microcurrent facial toning, and deep PCA peels. All treatments are customized to the client’s individual needs, such as a desire to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, acne, or whipped cream after food fights.

Naturally Gorgeous helps beauty last through the ages with permanent-makeup application. Using nontoxic pigment, skilled aestheticians tattoo makeup to enhance features, fill sparse eyebrows, and replenish the color of lips that have sealed too many envelopes. Along with permanent makeup, Naturally Gorgeous performs medical skin-needling treatments for clients with blemishes such as burns, scars, age spots, and freckles. Other skin treatments include facials and peels.

Nina and Sonny oversee a popular set of pedicure chairs at Bayview Salon. The husband-and-wife team began working together 22 years ago, when Sonny left his job in technology and decided to pursue a more personable profession. He learned his trade fast, and when he talks about life in the salon it’s with an infectious enthusiasm. “I like the social life. I come and talk and do nails for the ladies.”

Sonny's colorful personality is matched only by CND Shellac, OPI, and Gelish polishes that make up the salon's collection, which is more than 180 shades strong. He and his wife beautify and polish acrylic, natural, and stainless-steel nails to a mirror-like finish and can even leave fingers extra fancy with silk-wrap nails or Sonny's signature French fills. Their services don’t skimp on the extras, either: shiatsu-massage chairs knead tension from backs during pedicures, which may also include detoxifying green-clay masks, hot-stone massages, and skin-softening lemon-sugar scrubs.

Treat yourself to the glamour you deserve at The Pampered Girl salon in Hayes Valley. Today's Groupon gets you a Joelle mani-pedi for less than the price of a pedicure alone. At The Pampered Girl, you'll feel like a French princess dressed like an English king. The salon's pink and white royal decor includes chandeliers, frilly and comfy overstuffed chairs, whimsical curtains, and Victorian-esque mirrors and wall accents. Manny and Peddy were the best of pals,Always workin’ on each other’s nails, ’Til Manny got drafted in that Revolutionary War, Now Peddy don’t see his friend no more.

Traditional busts of important poets and philosophers prove that the most important contributions to society are made from above the shoulders. Give future sculptors the perfect look to carve into your marble monument with a new color, cut, or makeup style designed by the cosmetological artisans at Sublime Salon. Today's Groupon gets you $100 worth of hair and makeup services for just $50. Pay less for your perfect cut (a $70 and up value), use your Groupon toward an expert partial highlight (a $140 and up value), or find out what it feels like to be a model in the makeup artist's chair (a $75 value). Call up the pretty girl from high school and schedule a lunch date—it's time to flaunt how hot you got.