Massage Envy Spa Launches in Arizona

Gilbert claims stake to the first Massage Envy Spa in Arizona to offer face-saving facials. With dinner, flowers and a ribbon-tied token of affection, Valentine's Day can wreak serious havoc on your wallet. For a …

Valentine's Day Spa Specials and Packages

Spa packages, treatments and deals for the year's sweetest day. Whether you're a duo, shaking up the single life or crushing some time with your gal pals, spas are mixing it up this …

A Bride's Guide to Head-to-Slipper Beauty

From hair and skin to last-minute slimming services, a pre-wedding checklist of all things pretty! Your big day is nearly here and with the venue secured, cake ordered and dress picked out, it's time to think beauty. …

Face Appeal: Home Facial Peels that Keep You in the Clear

Home peels that treat dull, blemish-prone and damaged skin. We cleanse, tone and dutifully exfoliate. But when blemishes and pesky imperfections get the best of us, it's time for a …

Ultimate Body Boot Camp Announces the Return of the Ultimate Body Challenge

Take the Third Annual Ultimate Body Challenge! Grab your running shoes and workout gear because Ultimate Body Boot Camp is kicking off their third annual Ultimate Body …

Yoga Day USA

Breathe your way to bliss with Yoga Day events culminating on Jan. 23, 2010. Calling all yoginis! Saturday, Jan. 23 marks Yoga Day USA, a nationwide event focused on spreading good karma and …

Sweet Feet: How to Get a Great Pedicure

Tips and tricks for a totally relaxing pedi. It's hard to put a polished finger nail on it, but there is a difference between a so-so pedicure and one that knocks …

Spicing Up the Holidays: Spa Treatments that Celebrate the Season

Holiday spa treatments and packages to give and get! Baby it's cold outside! Break away from the kitchen and shopping scene and warm up to a wintertime spa treatment. We've …

Guys Guide to Last Minute Spa Gift Certificates

Last-minute guide to spa gift certificates at top Valley spas. Mr. Procrastinator, you've done it again. With just a few short days until Christmas and not a present for your wife, …

The Road to Healthy Skin

Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of healthy skin. November marked the return of National Healthy Skin Month -- an educational opportunity for the American Academy of …

12 Days of Spaaah: A Value-Packed Spa Hop Across Scottsdale

Survive the holidays with 12 days of spa and salon deals, freebies, giveaways and generosity! It happens every year. The holidays seem to suddenly bubble up on our calendars like Pop Rocks and send us scrambling …

Holiday Pass to Relaxation from Alvadora Spa at Royal Palms

Alvadora Spa kicks off the holidays with value-packed pamper passes. Alvadora Spa at the Royal Palms Resort in Phoenix is ringing in the season with two value-packed Holiday Fun and Holiday …

Delish Dish: Golden Door Spa Dinners at The Boulders Resort

Healthy gourmet cuisine served spa-side. If there's one thing we've learned as a spa know-it-alls, healthy food equates to much more than a plate of bean sprouts …

Breast Cancer 3-Day Walkers Get Sweet Relief at JW Marriott's Revive Spa

Special massage offer for Breast Cancer 3-Day walkers at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix. Nothing better than a deep tissue massage after extensive exercise, right? And after the dedication, training, …

Get in the Pink at Willow Stream Spa

Willow Stream spa at the Fairmont Scottsdale launches Power of Pink program While Breast Cancer Awareness month may have marched off the calendar, the march toward a cure goes on. With that in …

East Valley Beauty Haunts

Five hidden East Valley gems to head for facials. It's no secret that stress, sleepless nights and sun exposure wreck havoc on even the prettiest of complexions. November …

Recharge, Regroup and Rejoice: Celebrate Your Life Conference Brings Peace to the Valley

A weekend for your mind, body and spirit. With featured speakers ranging from renowned self-development educator Dr. Wayne Dyer to celebrated medium and author …

National Massage Therapy Awareness Week October 25-31, 2009

Massage clinics and spas across Phoenix and Scottsdale celebrate massage therapy week. The next time you roll out of bed with a kink in your neck, pain in your back or frazzled nerves beyond belief, skip the …

Pumpkin Peels and Scary Good Spa Deals

Give your skin and spirit a boost with these pumpkin-spiked skin and body treatments. October marks the month for jack-o-lanterns, crazy costumes and you guessed it, pumpkin-infused spa treatments. Chock …

Sweet Dreams

Solutions from the spa and beauty world for a more restful sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation, adults need an average of 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night. Easy for them to …

Think Minx: Minx Nails Ups the Glam Factor in Fall Beauty Trends

Is that polish or Minx? Only your nail stylist knows! Watch out tiny toe flowers with rhinestone centers, there's a new nail trend in town. And it's kicking traditional nail …

Jump in Feet First with Reflexology Week

World Reflexology Week Celebrates Healing Sept. 20-26. 2009 Going into a massage, most expect the whole shebang -- a full-body knead sprinkled with aromatherapy and topped off with …

Spa Avania at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Goes Pink in Celebration of Legally Blonde

Spa Avania Rolls out the Pink Carpet in celebration of "Legally Blonde, The Musical." In anticipation of the acclaimed "Legally Blonde, The Musical" coming to ASU Gammage Sept. 22-27, 2009, Spa Avania at …

$50 Spa Deals: Take a Beauty Break without Breaking the Bank

Ten beauty and wellness deals for $50 or less in greater Phoenix and Scottsdale. Chipped nail? Straggly strand? Or maybe a clogged pore or two? We've got you covered! For year-round beauty relief that …

Massage Envy Massage for the Cure: $35 Massages for One Day Only

Join the fight against breast cancer with a $35 massage on September 15 at Massage Envy clinics nationwide. Massage therapy goes much deeper than soothing music and a good ol' back rub. Recently, the National Institutes of …

Celebrate National Yoga Month with a Free Week of Downward Dogs!

Yoga studios nationwide offer a free week in support of a healthy lifestyle With long work weeks and busy schedules it's easy to let exercise and healthy living take a back seat. If you've been …

Seven Valley Makeup Deals to Glam up Your Look for Fall

Kiss up to fall with a new lipstick or long, flirty lashes. With back to school in full swing and cooler temps around the corner, revamp your summer routine with the season's …

Arizona Biltmore Celebrates 80 Years with $80 Spa Deals

The historic Arizona Biltmore Resort commemorates its 80th anniversary with special spa offers. The year was 1929. Stamps were 2 cents, Calvin Coolidge handed off the presidency to Herbert Hoover and the first ever …

Diet Chronicles: Demystifying New Medical Weight Loss Programs

From HCG diets to B12 injections, the skinny on the latest ways to lose weight. Sticking to a diet plan isn't easy, especially when stress-induced snacking and evil sweet tooth cravings sneak their …

The Blushing Bride's Guide to Glowing Skin

A pre-wedding plan for flawless wedding day skin. It's your day in the spotlight. Your red carpet moment. Your time to shine. And the last thing you need is a breakout or …

Summer Spa and Beauty Guide

Your head-to-toe guide to surviving the season's scorching temps. Nothing says summer like makeup streaking down your face, tiny beads of sweat taking over your upper lip and that …

Summer Resort Spa Specials

Cool off with a hot deal at a Valley resort spa Three digit-temps and endless sweltering days can only mean one thing: The resort spa summer specials are back! Here's …

Faux Glow Treatments

Valley spas serve up a healthy dose of pampering with glowing results. Slathering up in baby oil and basking in the sun is about as passe as snacking on a slab of white bread. And yet the …

Hair Care and Repair Guide

Banish lackluster locks with our guide to everything hair. Unruly curls got you in a tizzy? Hair so fragile your ponytail holder could snap it off? We've rounded up eight haute …

Mother's Day Spa Style

Spa treatments and gifts only a mother could love. From years of spending hours scouring the mall, boutiques and online to find my "I have everything I need" mom a gift …

Shades of Green

Going Green with Your Beauty Routine Leaf through any women's magazine or breeze down any beauty aisle at a local drugstore and you're likely to catch the …

Med Spa Guide

Your A to Z-ap guide to the latest in medical spa services. In the ever-changing world of beauty, it's no easy job keeping up with all the pulls, peels, pin pricks and nifty …

In the Name of Love

Celebrating Valentine's Day Spa-Side He comes but once a year. Cupid rides into town on his rose-laced chariot, spilling with sugary sweet heart-shaped …

Couples Therapy

Spice up your relationship with a spa treatment for two. We're still in deep denial over the demise of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt (and Vince Vaughn, and John Mayer and that …

New Year Spa Treatments

Kick off the new year by tuning in and tuning up the true you. Every January, the "new year, new you" sentiment chimes through the information pipeline like a prophetic alarm clock. …

Beauty Splurges Versus Steals

Ring in the New Year with a beauty routine that doesn't break the bank. Heading into a new year means breaking from routine and incorporating new products into your beauty regimen. But when do …

SpaGirls Holiday Gift Guide

Our top picks for gift of bliss and beauty! Us? Procrastinate? Never! Well, okay maybe a little. If you're anything like us, you've still got a holiday to-do list a …

Pretty Penny Pinching

Free and fabulous beauty events, amazing spa deals and bargains galore. And you thought glowing inside and out had to cost a pretty penny. Have we got good news for you! Fun, free and fab go …

Lash Flash

The newest crop of lengthening, strengthening and plumping mascaras that take batting an eyelash to the next level. Ask any woman which makeup product she wouldn't leave home without first applying, and our bets are on mascara. Mascara …

New Beauty

From hair accessories to skincare tools, we take a peek at the latest in beauty product innovations. According to our own non-scientific study, the beauty world churns out a new product every 4.5 seconds. Exaggeration? …

Beauty Schools: Pretty on the Cheap

In a pinch, aesthetics and massage schools offer affordable relaxation and beauty services. Beauty schools just aren't what they used to be. No overly coiffed, bubble-gum-snapping high school dropouts with bad …

Rules of Engagement

Getting hitched in Phoenix, Vegas or Los Angeles? The top places for brides and grooms to plan, primp and play. Legend has it that among the Ibos villagers of West Africa, tradition stipulated that a bride spend her engagement …

Drink to Your Health: Quenching Spa-Inspired Summer Sippers

Cool and refreshing drinks with a side of spa. Proper hydration is obviously an important aspect to staying healthy -- especially when you're knee-deep in sweltering …

Unleashing Spa-tacus

Men's spa treatments A blonde, a brunette and a redhead walk into a salon. "What d'ya you want?" blurts out the salon owner from behind her …

Soul Food

Soul food from the Golden Door spa kitchen. Nearly 50 years ago, the first Golden Door in Escondido, California opened its doors and redefined the spa as a …