Salons in Truckee

North Lake Massage & Skin Care taps the talents of Kristen Cocca Pepin, a former certified athletic trainer, and Bethany Lambrecht, a licensed aesthetician, to create an oasis for relaxation and rejuvenation. Kristen, Michelle, and Corina offer a variety of massage modalities, which range from Swedish and deep tissue to ashiatsu oriental bar therapy—an ancient Eastern Asian treatment that utilizes bars, creams, and oils that target inflammation and initiate pain relief. Bethany, Roxy, and Kris offer Bioelements facials that are customized to each client’s skin needs and include a retinue of cleansing and rejuvenating applications. Other services at North Lake Massage & Skin Care include airbrush tanning, infrared sauna, and waxing.

Each Body By Laser clinic pairs cold-laser technology with holistic health practices to help patients lose inches and keep them off. The treatment gets its magic from cold lipolasers, which are designed to gently shrink fat cells by dislodging their contents so that they can be fully discarded through the body's natural metabolic process and series of tiny secondhand stores. Each one-hour treatment series wraps up with a consultation on diet and exercise, along with a quick session atop a whole-body-vibration platform engineered to burn even more calories.

Like art-house films and fish-flavored popsicles, these procedures are not intended for everyone; females who are pregnant or nursing should not undertake the treatment, nor should patients with active forms of cancer. Should any complications be discovered during Body By Laser's initial screening, the company will issue a refund.

The Tangles Salon & Day Spa staff has transformed a charming home into an inviting beauty parlor. Between its cherry-wood floors and earth-toned walls, stylists, nail technicians, and a medically certified aesthetician ply their respective trades. Despite the quaint atmosphere, the staff incorporates the most modern techniques to achieve stylistic satisfaction. Hair stylists cut, style, and color locks with JKS products that bring a touch of European glamour to their client's hairdos, otherwise achieved with a pasty admixture of hairspray and baguette crumbs. The aesthetician revives skin tones and effaces blemishes with facials and microdermabrasions, and the nail tech adds fine touches to extremities with gel nails and a dazzling array of colored polishes. Feather and Babe hair extensions, hair chalking, and eyebrow-waxing services also play their part to help clients reach their aesthetic goals.

Amelia Main specializes in makeovers, transforming her human canvases with complexion-brightening treatments or eye-popping lash extensions. So it's fitting that her home salon, Salon 7, has undergone a makeover itself. Though now it comes to life with the sounds of chit chat and the hums of razors, the barbershop-inspired venue once rang with sirens as Reno's 495 Firehouse.

Today, the site gleams with hardwood floors, and has been given a new face decked in local art, which echoes the artistry Amelia puts into each of her services for both men and women. She tailors a roster of facials to her clients' skin, and works to combat the signs of aging with chemical peels and microdermabrasions. She further beautifies faces with makeup applications, and can teach ladies her makeup techniques much more effectively than the professor at clown school ever could.

A brushed metal sign atop a cabinet of top industry products sets the stage for the experience at Pacific Sun Tanning Company—a contemporary tanning salon rated No. 1 by the readers of Reno News & Reviews for the last five years. The salon's UV specialists undertake Smart Tan's comprehensive certification before bending the sun's radiation to their will, learning the ins and outs of ray exposure, selecting ideal skincare products, and discerning which compliments will coax Helios into sharing his private stash of solar beams. They can also eschew the sun entirely and bestow beachy glows through custom spray-tan services. The popular tanning facilities and the staff's enthusiastic demeanor have expanded into six locations throughout the Reno and Sparks.

After a single glance and a quick discussion, Josie Searles has your next haircut figured out. More reliable than a prediction from Miss Cleo, she tailors each look to best complement a client?s face shape, skin tone, hair texture, and grooming routine, using Bumble and Bumble products. She works with both men and women, using scissors and razors to remove unwanted length, and enhancing manes with all-over color, face-framing highlights, or an ombre fade effect. Her hair extensions can add up to 2 feet of length to locks, and keratin treatments smooth curly and frizzy hair. When not at the salon, Josie styles models for such shows as Lacoste, BCGB and Vera Wang at NYC Fashion Week.