Beauty & Spas in Santa Fe

Keith West-Harrison can't squeeze his job title on one line of a resume. Yes, he's an aesthetician. But he's also a lifestyle coach, celebrity beauty advisor, humanitarian, and self-proclaimed "eco-urban shaman." In 2009, New Mexico Business Weekly included Keith's name on its annual "40 Under Forty" list, celebrating his entrepreneurial excellence and achievements at his airy, urban spa, Great Face and Body.

Amid gleaming hardwood floors, international decorations, and lots of black leather, the team at Great Face and Body caters to the skin needs of all ages. Specialists freshen frontages with both preventative and restorative facials, ranging from 20-Something treatments to the None-of-Your-Damn-Business facial for clients 60 or older. Services employ only organic and sustainable beauty products, which Keith and his posse develop and handcraft in the store using many locally cultivated ingredients. The spa also integrates 5,000-year-old Native American, African, and Ayurvedic wellness principles to provide a challenging tongue twister to any reporters who stop by for interviews.

At the three locations of Sun Care Spray Tan & Skin Care Salon, customers use sunless spray booths, light therapy, and tanning beds to help get toned and bronzed. Beds of varying strengths and Mystic Tan booths allow customers to add color to their skin without napping on freshly painted benches in the park, and beds filled with pink-glowing bulbs help to tone skin. The salon's red-light therapy aims to painlessly promote circulation, fortify cellular walls in order to increase firmness, and banish eczema, stretch marks, and acne.

ABQ Hair Studio exalts clients to new beauty heights by way of expert skin, hair, nail, and olfactory pampering. Ride the express rails to radiance with a 30-minute facial ($40), which will open, cleanse, and comfort your pores with naturally derived products. A skilled aesthetician will then shape your brows ($20) with architectural precision before a personalized make-up application ($30) adds drama to your favorite facial features without subjecting the rest of your body to a soap-opera casting call. Finally, recline in a soft chair as the Caribbean spa mani-pedi ($95) lavishes tingling bubbles on your finger and toes with rogue-like excitement.

Cloud Nine's hour-long Custom Massage is a hybrid muscle mediation that fuses Swedish, shiatsu, joint mobilization, and deep-tissue massage. The massage incorporates moist heat paks to allow the deeper work needed to relieve tension hiding inside bone caves. For those who can bear to let chocolate rest on their mug without offering their face to trick-or-treaters, Cloud Nine's 45-minute Organic Chocolate Masque feeds the skin antioxidants and gently exfoliates using organic cocoa powder. Cloud Nine's hour-long Twinkle Toe Salt Scrub drowns your oft-neglected floor pounders in a warm bubbly foot soak, massages out stress points, and douses them with nostril-arousing aromatherapy.

Blvd. Day Spa & Salon's experienced team of hair stylists and nail technicians creatively cut, color, and caress their clients' keratin until it purrs in satisfied contentment. The salon offers a wide variety of tress treatments, including haircuts (starting at $35), hair coloring (starting at $45), perms and relaxers (starting at $65), and extensions (price determined upon consultation). Makeover your mitts with one of Blvd.'s nail services, such as acrylic nails (starting at $35) or an express manicure ($15), or sweetly treat your tootsies to a spa pedicure ($35) or paraffin wax ($15). The salon offers five different facials ranging in price from $45 to $100, sure to help put even the backwardest of faces on the best fast track to forward. Check the company's website for a full list of services, prices, and descriptions. All services are by appointment only, so call ahead to schedule your visit with a makeover maestro.

Hermosa Massage's licensed muscle manipulators aim to release the curative potential of massage with each customized session. Owner and handmaster Lauri Norton has specialized in treating pain with medical massage techniques and Chinese meridian therapy since 1984. As such, Hermosa’s massages dig deeper than just simple relaxation in order to address traumatic injury, as well as chronic pain caused by physical exertion, an unbalanced posture, and attacks by ghosts of heavyweight boxers. At the beginning of each appointment, clients can team up with a therapist to design a kneading regimen that will ease tension resulting from recent deadlines, performance reviews, or wisdom teeth layoffs. During each massage, sinew soothers cull strokes from various traditional styles including Swedish, deep tissue, and medical massage. Each 30-, 60-, or 90-minute treatment strives to restore the body's natural ability to heal itself by increasing circulation and opening up subsidiary clinics in outlying appendages.