Beauty & Spas in Southchase

Co-founders Spooks "Spooky" Joya and Legion Avegno preside over a chorus of humming needles at Fallen Sparrow Tattoos, where a team of talented, professional artists customizes bodies with unique tattoos and piercings. After serving in apprenticeships under some of New York City’s most renowned inkers and pulling his first tattoo needle from an immovable stone, Spooky continues to decorate skin with pristine line work and elegant scripts. Co-artist Legion sits beside Spooky in the hygienic studio as he converts clients’ half-formed ideas into colorful sleeves or black-ink tuxedo jackets. Piercers Billy and Tyler work alongside their tattooing counterparts, busily bedecking bodies with custom surface and deep-tissue piercings.

With 35 years of experience, the medical staff at Progressive Wellness Center leads patients in reimagining their current state of health. Weight-loss programs centered around HCG help clients turn bulky bodies into slimmer, stronger silhouettes, and aesthetic injectables work to tighten slack skin or shoo spider veins from appendages. Alternatively, IV nutritional therapy invigorates the body's absorption of nutrients and the brain's absorption of the subtext in the last episode of Barney and Friends. To keep patients happy and relaxed before and after appointments, Progressive Wellness Medical Center maintains comfortable seating and a café area stocked with healthful shakes, as well as organic coffee and green tea.

Having perfected her craft at such prestigious locales as New York's infamous Plaza Hotel salon, Laurie brings her 19 years of experience to her nail-trimming station in Split Endz Hair & Nail Studio. She believes in staying ahead of the latest trends in nails, waxing, and trend setting, "keeping it fresh, new, and fun" as she pampers her guests during manicures and pedicures. When she's not coating nails in no-chip, mirrored Shellac formulas, this award-winning technician frees eyebrows, lips, teeth, and sensitive areas from unwanted hair with waxing services.