Beauty & Spas in Woodstock

With its plush leather couches and chairs, rich mahogany tables, antique-style lamps, and dark rugs embroidered with leaf patterns, the relaxation room at Invigo Day Spa resembles a cozy den. It’s a place where guests waiting for a massage, facial, or body scrub go to unwind before their treatments and sip a cup of Octavia Tea Company's loose-leaf relaxation teas. Once visitors leave this calming room, they're led into the capable hands of one of the experienced massage therapists and aestheticians for further relaxation.

Using products from the all-natural Pevonia Botanica skincare line, the beauty experts perform 15 facials and peel treatments designed to treat issues ranging from dehydrated skin to clogged pores. They also shroud bodies in wraps infused with water lilies, green tea, mango, and aromatic Moor mud, and massage therapists knead tension from muscles using seven modalities. Each massage includes aromatherapy, hot towels, and at least three compliments about your hair.

At Mind & Body Day Spa, staff members eschew fluff and pretensions to stay focused on their main goals: to help clients relax and see beautifying results. Their customized skincare treatments harness plant-based ingredients such as pineapple enzymes and pumpkin extracts, giving complexions a natural glow. Alternatively, back massages, scrubs, and wraps extend relaxation throughout the body, much like remembering that you definitely did turn the death ray off before you left the house. Spa packages combine services for more complete pampering.

Like the receipts, crumbs, pennies, and lint that linger in the depths of your purse, dead skin cells and dirt can clog your pores and form a dingy, dead-face mask over your own beautiful mug. Today's side deal dumps your face purse upside down, shakes out the crumbs, and vacuums up the grossness. For $75, you get an hour-long microdermabrasion treatment at Spa Du Jour, a $150 value.

The experienced aestheticians at Ageless Remedies zap away unwanted hairs with four laser hair-removal treatments. Fuzz-fighters can remove the filamentary hitchhikers anywhere from the eyebrows to the toes (see sidebar), henceforth foregoing the tedious tasks of shaving, waxing, plucking, or blowtorching body parts. Prices vary depending on treatment area, from $700 for a quad-pack of lower-back lasings to $243 for small areas such as the chin, lip, ears, and fingers. Ageless Remedies' spread of laser technologies can accommodate all skin types, ensuring that by the fourth treatment, all clients will be smoothed down and ready for Speedo Fridays.

Today's side deal to Renewed Image gets you three deluxe laser treatments for $184 (an up to a $1,795 value). Zap the hair from its hirsute hiding places on your otherwise aerodynamic body, rejuvenate your skin to reduce lines and discoloration, erase the inky mistakes you once thought permanent, and blast cellulite using the same laser light you use to blast Stormtroopers. Your Groupon can also be used for non-lasery treatments such as microdermabrasion, chemical peels, or mineral body wraps.

Though they’ve earned multiple nominations in Best of CitySearch categories such as Hair Extensions and Hair Weaves and Hair Straightening and Relaxing, the influence of Soho Salon’s staff reaches far beyond their doors. The team has also cultivated hairstyles and looks for local photographers, fashion designers, and magazines, as well as the film and theater industry.

These aestheticians gather their influence from current hair trends in cities around the country, but aren’t limited by urban aesthetics. Using approaches customized to each client, they perform cuts for men and women, correct DIY color mistakes, and add a glossy sheen to tresses with double-process color and foil highlights. In each service, they use only high-end products—such as Kerastase, Moroccanoil, and Kevin Murphy—that they deem acceptable for strengthening hair or erasing stubborn shampoo stains.