Skin Medics, Metairie

Among Skin Medics' luxurious trappings, including handcrafted wood elements and vintage-looking furniture in soft white colors, aestheticians get skin glowing with similarly luxurious ingredients. There are caviar and gold facials, vitamin C facials paired with seaweed, and yogurt body wraps. They also sun-kiss bodies with airbrush tans and paint medical-strength chemical peels onto faces.

Those who need extra skin help can turn to Dr. Edmond Wood, the owner of Skin Medics, who smooths wrinkles with Botox. He has been performing aesthetic procedures since 2002, and he even learned his Botox-injection technique from the pioneers of Botox.