Beauty & Spas in Santa Cruz

Skin Treatment & Acne Center's owner and lead aesthetician, Jenny Hodgins, enhances skin’s luster with a medley of facial and waxing services. The spa's earth-toned walls and accouterments ease clients’ minds as aromatic oils soothe noses and relax the senses. Whether providing clinical-grade care or catering to more casual indulgences, aestheticians assist guests in selecting suitable oils and masks for their skin.

When stylist Leslie Vasquez first opened Platinum Lounge back in 1999, she beautified the coifs of her growing clientele with only a short list of basic hair services. After the salon's 2004 relocation to its current space in Santa Cruz, Leslie expanded its staff and menu of services to run the pulchritudinous gamut from nailcare to makeup applications, waxing, and UV-free tanning. Now wielding 25 years of experience in her field, Vasquez leads experienced stylists as they re-invent coifs with her specialty hair extensions, all-natural Rene Futerer hair color, and smoothing keratin treatments. Manicures and pedicures pamper fingers and toes, and aestheticians customize hair-removal to each client's skin type with a choice of eight different wax formulas.

At Simply Skin Esthetics, owner Sue Bell and fellow skincare specialist Jennifer Heath each bring roughly 30 years of experience to every facial and waxing treatment they perform. As guests enter an eclectic yet relaxing studio sprinkled with antique furnishings, the staff encourages them to decompress with fruit-infused water. After appointments, Simply Skin's newly expanded gift boutique catches clients' eyes with SkinCeuticals skincare products and Colorescience mineral makeup, stocked alongside handmade jewelry, soaps, and vintage-inspired aprons. The shop also vends apparel, small leather goods, and customized gift certificates.

The team members at Glimmer and Glow specialize in tanning. Specifically, they offer UV tanning. They also operate a Sunrise 480 tanning bed, which provides relief for its occupants with streams of cool air. They round out their services with infrared body wraps, which promote weight loss through advanced technology.

The owner of White Lotus Wellness Center and a practicing aesthetician herself, Danielle Kriege has long believed in the transformative power of holistic bodywork and medicine. Her interest in whole-body treatments and alternative skincare led to her training as a master reiki therapist, and she continues to hone her cross-disciplinary expertise alongside a highly trained staff.

The spa’s team works collectively to bolster mental and physical tranquility with treatments for the body and skin. Swedish and deep-tissue massages headline the menu of body treatments, which also features detoxifying herbal body wraps, acupuncture sessions that break up traffic jams in the body’s energy pathways, and an infrared-sauna treatment that helps to rid the body of cellulite and incubating aliens. Custom facials and skin peels exfoliate the body’s all-important outer layer, and gentle waxing treatments swipe away unwanted hair from the face and bikini area.