Westchester, IL Beauty and Salons

Aesthetician and nail technician Elsa Vasquez heads up Love Your Skin, a boutique spa that uses vegan skincare products from Only Yourx to refresh the epidermis. Treatments range from PCA Skin peels to indulgent 24K gold facials, diamond-tip microdermabrasions, and regular showers of oversized gems. In the future, the spa plans to introduce a portable, disposable cover-lined Footsie Bath, which will brim with fresh fruit slices and flowers, and shelves of SpaRitual, OPI and Essie nail polish will embellish digits during mani-pedis.

Owned by a teacher for Paul Mitchell, The Menz Room Barber Salon aims to fuse cutting-edge styles with a welcoming barbershop ambiance. The staff greets clients with a complimentary bottle of cold, bubbly beer, and then analyzes each subject’s hair type and instructional scalp tattoos. Barbers and stylists then shampoo, snip, and sculpt classic or trendy cuts for both men and women. They can restore vibrant colors to graying manes using Paul Mitchell's 10 Minute Flashback Service and blow out longer locks. For all services, the team focuses on convenience; they run a monthly hair club with unlimited cuts and keep flexible hours so clients can be extra productive while sleepwalking.

A musician, a television personality, and a news anchor walk into a dentist's office. This isn't the setup for a joke—rather, these are a few of the high-profile grins polished by Drs. Caldwell and Anast at Kimberly Smiles. Both professional and triple-A patients trust their teeth to this experienced duo, calling upon their services in cosmetic and general dentistry. Striving to go beyond the dental basics, their procedures range from implants, veneers, and clear Invisalign braces to regular cleanings, root canals, and oral-cancer screenings. Additionally, Dr. Anast keeps faces looking more youthful and less accordion-like with Botox injections administered to the forehead and brow.

During free one-hour consultations at the Chicago Center for Anti-Aging, licensed nurses sit down with patients to help them choose among an immense array of treatments. The staff brings diverse specialties to the table, from plastic surgery and psychology to acupuncture and massage therapy. This eclecticism points to the center's philosophy, which holds that health is not simply the absence of disease and excessive body glitter, but the aligning of one's physical and mental well-being. That's why the sprawling service menu places nutrition counseling and body wraps beside cosmetic surgery, vision care, and spa treatments such as facials and Botox injections.

In Pedicute Nails & Spa, the hushed sound of busy emery boards drifts amid vanilla-colored walls, crimson couches, and berry-pink orchids. Five manicure stations cradle clients in leather chairs, and feet steep happily in footbaths or dream of stomping a king's bubble wrap in one of three pedicure chairs. A battalion of sturdy polish shades cloaks finger and toe panels and keeps digits looking stylish while they're tapping, typing, or high-fiving ghosts.

As clients walk beneath the red awning of Spa Spot, tucked in the heart of Lincoln Park, they enter an intimate nail boutique lined with hundreds of bottles of OPI, CND, and Gelish nail polish. Technicians seated at modern nail stations or in front of leather pedicure chairs enhance fingertips and toe tips with organic lotions and scrubs and Shellac polishes designed to remain chip- and crack-free for up to three weeks. The BYOB spa also offers full-body waxing as well as mani-pedis geared toward kids or high-maintenance American Girl dolls.