Like rock music, beauty care is an art form requiring intense study, regular practice, and the ability to string a guitar with hair clippings at a moment’s notice. Groove to a new look with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of spa and salon services at Milan Institute of Cosmetology. Choose between their Concord or Fairfield locations.

Milan Institute of Cosmetology's style students cultivate salon and spa skills beneath the guiding gaze of instructors in an array of image-enhancing services. The institute allows clients to bask in inexpensive beauty services administered by the beauty students who may become the superstar stylists of tomorrow. Paraffin manicures ($13 each) swathe hands in a hydrating paraffin elixir, which yields scintillating nails and velvet-soft skin. Basic facials ($20 each) thoroughly cleanse skin's every nook and cranny, leaving faces smooth and moisturized, and facial waxing ($5/area) banishes fuzz from unkempt lips or brows.

Each location sports a specialized menu of services, emphasizing different areas of body beautification. At the Concord location, skin can get more in-depth enhancement with age-defying microdermabrasion ($35) or impurity-ousting acne-cleaning treatments ($30). Reenact a favorite opera while donning the stylist's dramatic cape with the Fairfield location’s array of salon services, including haircuts and styles ($15 each), coloring ($35 for virgin hair), and highlights ($25 for one application).

All services performed by students under the instructor supervision.