Beauty & Spas in Tempe Junction

Contrary to popular belief and science, healthy human nails aren't supposed to grow; they should remain static, glossy, and the color of your choice. But most of us contracted a disease from playground equipment that makes our nails grow at alarming rates, lose their luster, cease to be our favorite color, and become unattractively translucent.

Fuchsia lives up to its incandescent name: its hot-pink walls vibrate under shimmering chandeliers. The pink ceiling curves and cuts away to expose industrial chrome pipes reflecting the script of a neon fuchsia Fuchsia sign. Profiled by ABC's The Revolution, Good Morning Arizona, and magazines such as Everyday with Rachael Ray, the spa pampers its guests so thoroughly, it's earned a spot on Gayot's list of Top 10 Value Spas in the world.

Visitors call in or make online appointments to be bundled in body wraps, receive custom facials, or spruce up their nails. Massages take place in private suites where customers can tune into their own iPods, and hair-removal services prep parties for windstorms in velcro factories. The spa also contains a blow-dry bar, a makeup-artistry station, and shelves and racks of boutique apparel, accessories, and skincare products.

Deseret Aesthetic & Lifestyle Institute medical director Dr. Gregory Allen is a skin specialist who has contributed to FDA research and the FDA approval process. He now shares his epidermal expertise with licensed aestheticians and laser technicians as they apply permanent makeup and perform peels and facials. High-tech equipment abounds at the center, from a VeinGogh Ohmic Thermolysis System for eliminating spider veins to a CO2 laser for reducing wrinkles. Aestheticians rely on skincare products from Derma MD and Obagi, which soothe skin so that clients don't have to cut eyeholes in a receiving blanket and wear it as a mask. An elegant vibe radiates from the spa’s cream-and-black motif, which clients first encounter in a waiting room lined with cushy suede chairs.

Massage practice located in the corporate district in downtown Phoenix. ProActive Therapeutic Massage is an independent member of a team of healers at Dynamic Pathways Wellness Center (see http://www.energeticpathways.com). It is not a day spa nor is it associated with any resort. Massages are corrective in nature.

Kimberly, the founder of Kimberly's Facial Boutique, employs skills developed throughout her 25 years in the beauty industry and training at New York's Elizabeth Arden salon to expertly soothe countenances. Each one-hour session begins with a thorough cleanse, then continues with a steam, an exfoliation, and an extraction in which dead skin cells are shown the door like a butcher at a vegan bakery. Kimberly gently massages faces and indulges them with soothing masks before pampering hands and feet with a hot-rock treatment and moisturizing lotion.

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