Beauty & Spas in Town 'n' Country

Soft candlelight and soothing music waft through Body Angels Spa as licensed massage therapists and aestheticians pamper, calm, and beautify visitors in rooms modeled after a sultan's quarters. Individual clients, couples, and their strictly platonic imaginary friends sink into private treatment rooms during massages that refresh tired muscles with techniques such as cupping—the placement of warm, aromatic basalt stones atop zones of tension. Aestheticians sculpt nails, wax away unwanted hair, and refurbish faces with PCA skincare products. Airbrush artisans turn down skin's white balance during spray tans.

A quartet of specialists helm the Valrico day spa, wielding handpicked products from renowned brands such as Glo Minerals, Shellac, and OPI to pamper clients with a medley of services. The licensed staff members guide spa-goers to treatment rooms that glow with brightly hued walls in red, yellow, and purple, privately cocooning them for treatments including facials, massages, waxing, eyebrow threading, and henna tattoos. Makeup services prime faces with a professional look for a job interview or a glam style for a job interview to be a Poison roadie. For extra relaxing sessions in the tranquil confines, the staff offers packages for teens, brides, and moms.

Pandora Salons oversees a staff of stylists and aestheticians fulfilling their beauty-vocation callings. The salon boasts several independent workspaces where her brood of beauty-school hatchlings builds a loyal client base while personalizing their own roster of treatments. Through services such as hair coloring and UV-cured Shellac manicures, budding young beauticians gussy up and de-stress clients at their own stations that are each decked out in customized decor to reflect their unique personalities or a crippling fear of Barbicide.

Owner Deborah Conyers dedicates her spa to total-body relaxation, offering personalized massages and herb-enhanced skincare services. Therapists customize the massage menu to each individual's particular needs, soothing pinched nerves or vestigial wings with gentle kneading techniques, the application of deep pressure, or strokes that work to repair aching musculature after injuries or strains.

The salon’s aestheticians are well versed in the methods of reviving dry or aging complexions, drawing on an arsenal of anti-aging microcurrent technology, skin-resurfacing treatments, and a menu of facials and peels to address skin imperfections. Manicures and acupuncture treatments fill out the spa’s skin-centric service menu, working to deepen relaxation and help needles to get over their fear of humans. The spa offers guests a rehydrating menu of freshly prepared smoothies and juices following sessions, and excess pulp from drink preparation is used in the spa’s all-natural body scrubs.

For 13 years and counting, Angie Dittmar, owner of Palm Avenue Day Spa, has fixed her attention on making clients feel relaxed and beautiful. Dittmar regards her business as a "uniquely European" spa that fulfills each person's need for attention, pampering, and lotion. To this end, she employs a carefully selected team of beauty specialists. Stylists update hairdos with salon services, and skincare experts perform massages and facials as well as mani-pedis, waxes, and makeup applications.