Day Spas in Spring Valley

FX You Salon's staff of professional aestheticians and therapists listens to your needs and can fulfill them with a range of services and treatments. From the comforts of their chic, 5,000-square-foot salon space, FX provides endeavors in hair artistry, nail care, facial treatments, and massages to energize a body and its outer fashion. Haircuts breathe new life into a person's head ($50 for women, $30 for men), while a manicure heals damage caused by finger traps ($25), a pedicure in a private pedicure room makes socks blush in toe-ful admiration ($45), and a 60-minute European facial exfoliates skin to its healthiest sheen ($65).

A wildly successful alternative to traditional day spas—its more than 230 locations blanket 36 states and half a dozen countries—Planet Beach Contempo Spa is a futuristic relaxation station where state-of-the-art machines administer all the spa and tanning services. These friendly automatons sometimes replace familiar treatments, as in the Luminous facial, a light-based service that delivers blemish-busting results similar to those of a conventional facial. But other equipment maps out new spa territory entirely: The Hydro-Derma Fusion chamber moisturizes the whole body with nutrient-rich steam in order to offset the effects of a dry climate or a rear-end collision with a salt truck. Other machines whiten teeth, spray tan skin, and massage muscles.

Planet Beach operates on a gym-style membership system, meaning that members purchase packages or pay flat monthly rates. As members spend more time at the spa, they get to know the helpful assistants who are always on hand to demonstrate how to use the equipment without activating its ability to cry.

At Dolphin Court Salon and Day Spa, beautification experts cleanse the body of tension and exterior imperfections with massages, body treatments, hair and nail services, and waxing. From stylish cuts to highlights and blowouts, the salon team knows their way around ladies’ locks. The spa team also applies a fleet of facials—with clever names such as Firming Pumpkin, Rescue Me, and Phantom—to rehydrate and cleanse the face faster than a sponge dipped in Gatorade.

As a cooperative of independently licensed massage therapists, Let’s Wrap tends to the body’s innermost needs. Its titular service swathes clients in the specialized silicone treatment pads of the Formostar body wrap, which uses infrared heat to help boost metabolism, thereby contouring the body and diminishing cellulite. Meanwhile, therapists ease muscular tension with Swedish, deep-tissue, and hot-stone massages. Each of the two locations offer a few different services, allowing guests at one to savor detoxifying steam sessions whereas those at the other bask in rejuvenating red-light therapy, which helps treat skin suffering from rosacea, acne, and an inability to stop at traffic intersections.

A deluge of gold and mahogany hues beckons clients inside Salon Nouveau, where Schwarzkopf Professional technical advisor Vanessa Nockein-Yelenich has employed her expertise and a team of specialists to deliver plush hair, skin, and nail services since 2002. Complimentary consultations inform stylist strategies, whether customers seek a Brazilian blowout to forge gleaming locks or lash extensions for an unforgettable game of seven minutes in heaven with a butterfly. Waxing services fight fuzz wherever it roots, and Gelish nail polish dries to a long-lasting finish in a complete prism of color options.

Mark Cottle, owner of Kaya Beauty, draws on 17 years of experience as he helms a staff that includes a former professional dancer, a Redken master stylist, and a veteran hairdresser who's spent more than three decades in the industry. Educated at the Vidal Sassoon Academy in L.A., Mark has also educated others by participating in Sexy Hair Concepts cutting exhibitions. Every year, he and his team apply their skills at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Mark and his crew greet clients with much more than just hair services, performing mani-pedis, deep-tissue massages, Peter Thomas Roth facials, and soufflé body scrubs as expertly as they highlight and smooth hair. They invite visitors to sip on coffee in the salon area—where an expanse of handsome brick frames the stations' mirrors—on fruit-filled water in the spa serenity room, or on fruit-filled coffee in the surrealist area.