Beauty & Spas in Toledo

Stylist Ashlee Griggs zips throughout the Toledo area to glamorize gaggles of women in their own homes or carefully trims and tints tresses within the mint-green walls of her home base, Texxture a Salon. Before sculpting strands, Ashlee consults thoroughly with the client, poring over hairstyle photos and taking stock of each strand's tendency to curl during awkward first dates. An experienced Tigi colorist, Ashlee carefully calibrates highlights or all-over color, adding depth and shine to monochromatic hair. After color has set, Ashlee snips hair into a face-framing shape and locks it into place with a blow-dry and style. With help from new partner Erica Miller, Ashlee also whips out styling tools and makeup brushes to glamorize faces with an armada of liners and powders, which embellishes facial features for demurely posed wedding photos or showdowns with facial-recognition software in nearby grocery aisles.

Founded by a team of pulchritude professionals, Herbally Radiant's products nurture façades, lips, and bodies with natural and certified-organic ingredients. Silky skin creams, rejuvenating cleansers, and moisture-rich lip treatments help patrons battle the effects of aging and problem skin without undergoing medical procedures or sneaking into time portals. Herbally Radiant has also partnered with Shahnaz Husain, an internationally acclaimed beauty expert who combines precious metals, such as gold and platinum, with herbal ingredients for luxurious pelt treatments. Herbally Radiant's products, many of which proudly proclaim their vegan and paraben-free status on their labels, sail into jars in USDA- and OTCO-certified-organic facilities, ensuring that the dermis-soothing ingredients are as pure as a baby snowflake.

As her spa’s name suggests, cosmetologist Angie believes that spa services should do more than simply pamper: they should renew and reenergize the body for life’s daily tasks. Angie’s staff of aestheticians, cosmetologists, and nail technicians shares this philosophy in its treatments that range from classic massages and facials to waxing and hairstyling for men and women. To keep up with their industry’s ever-changing trends, staffers enroll in continuing-education classes that cover fashion, styling, and how to decipher the complex literary schemas in popular magazines.

At its locations in Maumee and Whitehouse, Hair Chiasso sates beauty appetites with a full spectrum of hair, skin, massage, and nail services. Colorful bottles of Redken products sit against the dark mocha tones of the salon, calling out to clients with specially developed protein technology and precise pH balances. The Hair Chiasso team also uses the exclusive Redken Chemistry hair system, which is designed to repair strands that have been weakened by flat irons, chemicals, and nesting hummingbirds.

Drawing on 10 years of experience, owner and expert airbrusher Kathryn Swope lends bodies a rich tan without UV lights using all-natural tanning solutions at her new store location in Perrysburg. During a personalized consultation before each session, Kathryn chats with visitors to determine the most suitable hue for each skin type. She'll then swathe epidermises in a nourishing pretanning elixir that hydrates skin for optimal color and an even, all-over tone devoid of streaks, splotches, or unintentional pentagrams. Wielding her airbrushing equipment, Swope bathes bodies in a mist of aloe-based solution that reacts naturally with skin to create a convincing glow.

Skin Laser & Day Spa’s board-certified cosmetic surgeon helms a team of aestheticians and medical personnel dedicated to improving clients’ appearance and confidence with technologically enhanced therapies and beauty brands such as Bed Head, SkinMedica, and OPI. Elegant ivory and red hues drape the spa’s pedicure area where clients’ feet swim through the black basins attached to pedi thrones, whereas cool blues and greens bring a sense of calm to private treatment rooms where technicians treat skin with noninvasive IPL lasers. Skin Laser staffers also perform waxing, facials, and airbrush-makeup applications that hide imperfections with sheer or opaque coverage that can last up to 24 hours without smearing, smudging, or running off with a Joan Rivers Halloween mask.