Windsor, CA Spa and Massage

After completing her advanced aesthetics training at the Scuola d'Estetica Dorabruschi in Italy, owner Dolores De Alba brought her passion for skincare back to wine country, opening the complexion-focused blush a day spa with her husband and spa co-owner James. After entering the soft-colored salon, patrons slip into cozy robes and slippers and peruse a skin-perfecting treatment menu while sipping hot tea, volcanic mineral water, or champagne. Exotic ingredients pervade each treatment, with papaya, grapeseed, green tea, and rose clay extracted from Provence and sprinkled with rose buds helping technicians exfoliate skin, soothe musculature, and rebalance the body’s energies. The salon offers special packages for teens, brides-to-be, and men in need of TLC, customizing treatments to boost confidence or ease muscles sprained during staring contests.

Lincoln Avenue Spa stocks only high-quality herbs, oils, and skin products for its services. Calistoga has garnered fame for its mud baths, so Lincoln Avenue Spa takes advantage of its locale with Moor mud and body mud treatments. Their jacuzzi baths and massages relax the corpus, and exfoliating salt scrubs leave skin as soft and radiant as a feather boa set aflame.

A visit to Elements Skin Care & Massage Studio is as much a treat for the eyes as it is for the senses. In each of the spa’s spacious chambers, the stark geometry of dark wood furniture complements the flowing lines of a sheer curtain, a linen-draped massage table, or a single potted orchid. These aesthetic pleasures only serve to enhance the sensory decadence that the staff of skin specialists, massage therapists, and nail technicians grant their clients. A slate of 10 facials —including a signature service that treats not only the face to a massage, but the feet, legs, back, and scalp as well—help stave off blemishes and fine lines with Bioelements products. In private massage rooms, therapists call on several modalities to ease tension with hot stones, firm pressure, or pregnancy-appropriate strokes, as reflexology foot treatments ease tension stemming from tight shoes or arguments between toes. Feet can also bask in the spa’s many pedicures, which go beyond standard nail-salon services to incorporate heated lava shells, warm neck wraps, and even complimentary martinis.

At Touch Face & Body Studio, licensed aestheticians employ award-winning Peter Thomas Roth products in services that polish and primp clients. During facials, patrons perch upon cushy salon seats and select from six rejuvenating treatments, such as the Touch signature peel, a deep clean that aims to reduce signs of wrinkles, fine lines, and sun damage to produce third-grade picture-day-perfect skin. Touch Face & Body Studio also specializes in eyelash extensions and uses its spray-tan system to bronze sun-parched bodies.

Harnessing the beauty-boosting powers of Mother Nature’s delicate touch, Hot Shots’ cast of beauticians helps visitors realize their aesthetic potential with Aveda products enriched with natural ingredients. Their array of salon services⎯including Aveda conditioning treatments customized to each client’s hair and scalp⎯updates outmoded coiffures to modern styles, while skincare services use Aveda’s nourishing salves in facials and peels that target epidermal maladies. Visitors can also indulge in the spa’s island-inspired Caribbean mani-pedis, which soothe hard-working appendages with a pressure-point massage for the hands and a warm seaweed mask for the feet.

Guided by socially conscious principles for more than 30 years, Aveda produces a full line of natural beauty products carried at nearly 7,000 salons and spas. Popular gorgeous makers, such as Shampure shampoo and witch-hazel hair spray, deliver on Aveda's commitment to well-rounded earthly beauty with eco-friendly packaging cradling ingredients derived from the world's finest and least selfish plants.