West Little River, FL Beauty and Salons

Transform Age Management helps clients stuck in the middle of their aesthetic journey, providing cosmetic solutions that transcend the results possible with traditional skincare regimes, but stop short of surgery. Executive director and founder Sasha Parker draws upon 25 years of experience spent working as a nurse, assistant surgical administrator, and medical aesthetic trainer to helm a team of doctors and registered nurses who help clients look and feel their best. The collection of beauty services ranges from hydrafacials, peels, and age-fighting dermal fillers to laser therapies that can remove unwanted hair, tighten facial skin, or etch important dates into the brain. If one’s compass does point to the surgical route, clients can find direction from board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. F. Leigh Phillips, who performs everything from abdominoplasty to full and partial face-lifts.

Dr. Yelena Pakula practiced as a medical doctor in Russia before changing fields and continents more than a decade ago. Now an acupuncturist licensed by the state of Florida, she runs Vita-Health Acupuncture and Wellness Center, a clinic for nonconventional healing and aesthetic medicine. She and her colleagues—including another expatriate physician from Brazil—perform acupuncture and herbal treatments, along with massage therapy and colon hydrotherapy. Their beauty menu includes treatments to laser away body hair, contour the thighs and stomach, and rejuvenate complexions after one too many ghost sightings.

Dr. Lior Elkayam M.D. helms Medical Beauty's dedicated crew as they push clients over their beauty-goal finish lines with the help of custom beauty-treatment plans focused on non-invasive, technologically enhanced facial treatments. Whether their clients' goals include erasing sunspots with an IPL photofacial or evicting unwanted strands with laser hair removal, the staff of Medical Beauty ensures each procedure forgoes the use of needles, surgery, or nosy aliens in need of a subject to probe. While the center's treatments may not be invasive, they are certainly potent, some of the more advanced therapies including the Venus Concept (MP)² system, which harnesses the power of radio-frequency waves to help reduce cellulite and sagging skin, and the acne-fighting powers of the Isolaz laser.

It’s hard to say what’s more impressive: Dora Salazar and Maria Pana’s skincare knowledge, or their collection of passport stamps. The licensed aestheticians and paramedical experts have traveled across Europe, Brazil, and the United States in an effort to hone their craft, and it shows. Dora, for example, draws on her diverse medical background to clear up acne, treat rosacea, and lighten up hyperpigmentation with clinical-grade products. In addition to facials and exfoliating microdermabrasion, the team enhances skin with Perfector treatments that use nanotechnology to boost intercellular communication. This improved communication ramps up cells’ output of collagen and reduces the number of microscopic inboxes clogged with snail mail.

Victoria Ruben believes beauty shouldn’t be temporary. After founding her permanent-makeup business 20 years ago in Paris, she decided to further her aesthetic mission by opening a cosmetology and beauty school to share her refined technique with others. Today, Victoria combines her expertise with the latest tattooing equipment to fine-tune faces in her Florida studio. Her precise yet painterly touches of color can simulate all the hallmarks of a professional makeup application, from defining brows to subtly shading lips to drawing distinguished monocles.

Professional waxing specialist Dalia De Paz is the driving force behind Dalia's Wax Services. Armed with soft wax, hard wax, or ultra-gentle vegetable wax, Dalia can evict unwanted hair on both men and women from a range of areas including the face, body, and bikini zone. While waxing is Dalia’s specialty, she also treats clients with additional pampering services such as mani-pedis, spray tans, and pretreatment pep talks from a museum wax figure.