Beauty
The Next Best Thing to a Global Getaway
Vacay plans worth writing home about: A globe-trotting perfumer and restaurateur debuts a line of cool fragrances inspired by twenty of the world’s most scintillating ports of call.
Beauty
Vacay plans worth writing home about: A globe-trotting perfumer and restaurateur debuts a line of cool fragrances inspired by twenty of the world’s most scintillating ports of call.
Give your chi a kick in the pants. Head to a local spa for a treatment that aids digestion, decreases bloating, and enhances organ function.
The Design District welcomes its first workout studio. Fusion Fitness classes range from Tight Tush Tuesday (feel those glutes!) to Bi’s & Tri’s Thursday for sculpting long, lean arms.
Look more polished with crazy-cool nail art by a local artist. She can paint anything you please, so use your imagination (or, even better, use hers).
Bid that muffin top a fond farewell. Get physical at a new La Brea Avenue studio, which specializes in two custom workout regimens guaranteed to make you fit fast.
Shape up at the La Brea Avenue fitness studio known for its customized workout, The Mash Up, which burns calories in record time. An upstairs lounge, where you can refuel with Larabars and herbal tea, is the icing on the (low-fat) cake.
This just in from the department of good clean fun: A Brooklyn bath line (with a funny thing for cats) whips up double-duty soaps, shampoos, and creams pure enough to eat.
When your sink is clogged, call the plumber. When your body is clogged, call in a five-day cleanse, nutrition consultation, and dose of healthy-cooking classes.
The fitness and weight-management consultant offers personalized workouts and dietary regimens to fit your schedule. One-hour private or group sessions can be held at a studio, at a park, or in your home.
Request a look you could never manage yourself (bold red lips and an impossible braided runway pouf), or go simple with natural makeup and hair commercial-quality waves.
In his gimmicky-sounding-but-awesome-in-real-life musicology massage, Swedish Institute-trained therapist Edan Harari choreographs strokes to mimic the rhythms of house, R&B, indie, metal, and more.
Michael Dueñas and team get down to business with beautifying treatments. Curly hair and color are specialties, as are unruly kids with unrulier hair.
When a regular run on the treadmill just won’t do, opt for yoga suspended in midair, swinging on a trapeze, candlelit stationary biking, martial arts-infused yoga, pole dancing, or a ski-inspired sweat fest. Feeling the burn in Miami is anything but boring.
Weights and treadmills aren’t really your thing, but that body isn’t going to tone itself. Give the elliptical a rest and sign up for cardio kickboxing, trampoline classes, or Brazilian jujitsu instead.
It’s the nerve center for cyclists rights and bike-commuting initiatives, including defensive cycling classes for riders of all levels.
Be a triple threat this summer with Mary Meyer Life Fitness beginner-friendly clinics. The courses sharpen skills at open-water swimming, running, and biking in hours flat.
Strap into the silks at AntiGravity yoga, and stretch, swing, and flip from three feet off the ground. Caution: You may fall head over heels for this class.
Think it’ll take more than a measly gym membership to get you in shape? Call on Seattle Health Coaches to customize your healthful living strategy (meal plans, cooking lessons, training sessions).
Sculpt a lean, firm physique with the help of isometrics, interval training, and dance-inspired conditioning.
Certified personal trainers bust your buns in the comfort of your home with programs that range from strength and toning to private yoga to group workouts.
Perfect your sun salutation atop a paddleboard in Shilshole waters during a two-hour class. A brief preboarding shoreside lesson serves beginners well.
Hire a hoofer and tour the city on two feet. Opt for 5k or 10k courses personalized for your running level. Set the pace and see the sights.
When you’ve mastered the art of yoga on solid ground, shake things up a bit. Find balance as the waters of Biscayne Bay ebb and flow while you strike basic yoga poses atop a paddleboard. The hour-long class takes sun salutations out of the studio and into the sun.
Ring boxing and kickboxing classes bring out your inner Million Dollar Baby. Martial arts, Brazilian jujitsu, and CrossFit up the badass factor at this gritty (yet welcoming!) gym founded by martial artists and pro fighters.
Fresh Air Fitness’s killer morning and evening workouts on the beach at Golden Gardens make fat boys (and girls) slim. Boot camp mixes cardio, weight training, and functional fitness with outdoor elements.
If by-rote circuit training has you scaling the walls, head to the massive indoor climbing center for private and group lessons on basic belaying moves and advanced techniques. Come summer, you can take your newfound skills outside for daylong group excursions.
Don’t worry what your mom and dad think: It’s not that kind of class. The art of pole dancing is a serious core workout. Tone arms, abs, legs, and build confidence as you propel yourself around the pole. Add a group of girlfriends to make stumbling about in stripper shoes all the more fun.
Classes for dancers of all levels. Relearn ballet positions or expand your repertoire with jazz, funk, or hip-hop. Wear layers; the studio heats up quickly.
The first rule of Ring Boxing Club? Everybody talks about Ring Boxing Club. The popular, female-friendly gym puts you through the paces as if you were a real professional boxer — think speed bags, shadowboxing, and even the occasional sparring.
Self-supervised and climbers in training are invited to explore the crevasses and caves of the nation’s largest climbing wall.
Jenni Blafer loads her spray gun with custom blends of pure botanicals, walnut extract, and sugarcane derivatives, designed to subtly enhance your skin tone in 30 minutes flat.
Nontraditional yogis find their grooves in classes like Gentle Flow, Fire Flow, Bikini Boot Camp, and the beloved Metal Yoga, where owner/instructor Neda Honarvar stretches you out to ambient metal music.
Soma Training’s half-marathon programs, running clubs, and support groups make it a cinch to stay motivated. Private and semiprivate sessions help with other fitness goals, like weight loss and strength training.
Tibetan yoga therapy sessions start with a short breath exercise and end with you on a mat as Hamilton skillfully adjusts, realigns, and presses tension away.
Start your day off on the right foot with a Good Morning Ride, a high-energy cycling class backed by an inspiring playlist.
In coaching pavement pounders — both seasoned and newbie — owner Beth Baker organizes group runs, teaches proper technique, and makes running a blast. Get acquainted at a Free Friday run on Alki.
The light-and-art filled studio offers break-dancing classes as well as aerobics and more. Laundry service, a sauna, and minted water extend the workout euphoria.
Multiple saunas, a coed hammam, the full-service spa, and slow flow yoga are relaxing. Classes like Core Fusion Barre, Core Fusion Cardio, and Core Cycling are anything but.
You’ve always wanted to be a dancer (or just have a body like one). Make it happen with a workout on a ballet barre designed to burn fat, tone muscles, and remove excess junk from your trunk.
Drop-in sessions allow initiates to Zumba to try out this popular dance fitness class. CocoFitness also offers nutrition and cooking classes.
The state-of-the-art university health center welcomes the community to exercise and learn new skills at classes such as Tri It Now for wannabe triathletes.
Top-notch trainers transform your body at the Buckhead studio created by easy-on-the-eyes Dolvett Quince (The Biggest Loser). Drop in (and drop pounds) with Pure Energy — an ass-kicking combo of cardio, strength training, ab work, plyometrics, and stretches.
This jamming jump-rope group hosts sizzling summer camps for kids, weekend workshops for rope warriors, and open jump evenings for adults. (Say that ten times fast.)
Here’s a kick-ass prescription for fitness, courtesy of a workout inspired by Thai kickboxing. It’s a surprisingly rigorous program for a church basement, but God moves in mysterious ways.
The colorist makes house calls and can take credit for the locks of some of L.A.’s biggest and brightest. Her product line is made from all-natural ingredients like wheat germ, jojoba oil, and calendula extract.
Go from putt-putter to tournament pro with personalized, high-tech swing instruction. The training regimen includes small-group workshops, individual lessons, video swing analysis, and real-time play on championship courses.
The woman-owned bike shop kits out casual cyclists, commuters, and serious gearheads. It also hosts Sunday rides for all levels.
They say that pretty is as pretty does. But nailing it takes a whole lot of know-how. That’s why we’ve created a virtual vanity of the best hair, face, and body products and gadgets on the market.
If your fitness routine (or lack thereof) calls for variety, lunge for the 10 Pack, a card accessing ten classes from the creme de la creme of studios (Core Fitness, West Coast Workout, Atlanta Hot Yoga). It’s designed to kick body boredom and whip you into shape.
After nearly two decades at the Watergate Salon and stints at Erwin Gomez and Toka, the hairstylist and Milan Fashion Week vet finally opened his own beauty haven. Here’s what to expect.