Virginia Beach Beauty and Salons

Knockouts' decor mimics that of a boxing ring, but—unlike the real thing—you look better when you leave. Flat-screen televisions, cold and frothy tipples, and quality service round out the first-rate experience. With The Uppercut, you'll get a quick clipper cut, a thorough shampooing, a soothing head massage, a hot-towel treatment, and a nametag identifying you as "Movie Actor Harrison Ford." Attractive, skilled women perform all salon services, and they'll make sure you look dapper and clean to any follicle-judging female.

After stashing their belongings in lockers, visitors bundle themselves in robes and set slippered feet into treatment rooms as children play in complimentary daycare. Massage therapy, waxing, and facials comprise a classic spa menu augmented with laser contouring and hair removal therapies. When they're not wrapping patrons in seaweed toted to the shore in the pouches of seahorses, technicians draw detoxifying foot baths, perform ear candling, and tint eye lashes.

Blowout Salon’s purple accent walls contrast a primarily black-and-white interior. Cushy black leather couches and zebra-print chairs create comfortable havens where clients—men, women, and children—await tidying or beautifying services. Despite this elegant tricolored decor, the most stylish area of the salon is still its simplest: the salon chair, whose glistening black leather conjures thoughts of Elvis’s slick, beguiling ’do, the stunning silk of a tuxedo lapel, or the ability not to stand while getting your hair cut. At these cushy cathedrae, professionals shape, style, and color heads using products from brands such as Moroccanoil. And when the staff isn't snipping strands or applying keratin smoothing treatments, they can accent natural features at a makeup bar and wax away unwanted hair.

Owner Victoria Bryant flung open the doors of A Swedish Touch in 1997 when she was just 20 years old. Fifteen years later, her bustling and colorful salon brims with seasoned hair stylists and nail technicians, each artfully enhancing their clients' unique features. Amid the steel-grey walls and zebra-print furniture with hot-pink accents, stylists deftly snip, color, and style coifs with professional Redken products in front of sleekly styled beauty stations. Amid silver decorations, nail techs clip and buff appendage-enders before crowning them in elegant Tammy Taylor acrylics or glossy layers of CND Shellac polish, which is cured to a durable finish beneath a UV-powered lamp.

The relaxed, intimate feel of Blue Willow Skin Care reflects the warmth of owner and sole practitioner Gigi Walentiny, but belies her expertise as a facialist. Gigi is a registered nurse and licensed master aesthetician, and the only clue to her clinical background is the pristine cleanliness of the sage-green studio, whose floral-patterned armchairs and antique dressers suggest a welcoming living room. Your first conversation—to thoroughly review your health-history forms and skin-concern questionnaire—should reveal her rigorous background and skill at interpreting handwriting. She starts with a clean slate, generally cleansing the skin twice before nourishing complexions with medical-grade products, and scrupulously applies sunscreen before sending clients out the door. Gigi supports graceful aging by sidestepping cosmetic injections and time travel in favor of noninvasive rejuvenation therapies reliant on LED light, chemical peels, and mechanical exfoliation. Attentive to pleasurable details, she frequently pairs her aesthetic arts with aromatherapy and massage.

Chapel. Cathedral. Blusher. Birdcage. There’s a different type of bride behind each of those veils, and Behind the Veil Studio caters to all of them. Owners Liz and Samantha, along with stylist Aubrey, live to create the perfect day with their bridal hair-and-makeup services, which they perform in their studio or at ceremony locations including churches, meadows, and shotgun points. The stylists complete haircuts, color, and updos in addition to smoothing keratin treatments and facial-waxing services. Clients who opt for in-studio styling can let wedding-day jitters melt away inside the pastel blue-, orange-, and yellow-hued space, complete with flickering candles, fresh flowers, and catered hors d'oeuvres and dessert plates on request.