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Basic nail services in an otherwise lacking stretch of Midtown.

This solo acupuncturist treats women’s health and fertility issues, plus acute and chronic illnesses in both sexes.

This low-key day spa specializes in state-of-the-art exfoliations and treatments geared toward lasting benefits for the complexion.

This intimate hotel spa comforts clients with aromatherapy massages, Dr. Hauschka facials, and seasonal crushed-fruit scrubs.

This bright subterranean spa offers a long list of services, from body treatments to haircuts and color, most notably, targeted facials.

This minimalist one-room skincare spa incorporates Babor products containing plant lipids, herbal extracts, and sea elements in its eight thorough facials.

The second Manhattan Bliss outpost offers the trendsetting brands signature services and vibe in a sleeker, smaller location.

The second Manhattan Bliss outpost offers the trendsetting brand’s signature services and vibe in a sleeker, smaller location.

Artistically painted highlights, perfectly plucked brows, and high-impact lashes are the draw at this efficient Midtown salon.

With model clients like Lauren Bush and Rachel Hunter, Lilly Rivera has perfected her natural-looking airbrush-makeup technique.

This style institute specializes in the kind of edgy, of-the-moment looks spotted in magazine fashion spreads and parading down the catwalk.

Office workers with bad backs and cricked necks come to this small Chinese bodywork center for no-nonsense tui-na and targeted reflexology.

This veteran salon specializes in unisex haircuts, color, and styles, for a song.

This rubdown-refuge may not look fancy, but the prices can't be beat.

Conveying runway innovation and magazine-page looks to Midtown and downtown clienteles.  

Clients who crave big-deal cuts and highlights (but not big-deal attitude) seek out the Emmy-nominated celebrity stylist's intimate, low-key salon.

Dov creates edgy, new looks for clients without taking away from their natural beauty.

An ex-ER doc who specializes in alternative treatments, via nutrition, acupuncture, and mesotherapy.

The conceptual shop of former sculptor Danielle Malka elevates shaving accoutrements to art forms.

Built in 1911 to provide public showers for the city’s working poor, the renovated center has a lap pool, a basketball court, and an indoor track as well as its own minimalist takes on weight and cardio rooms.

A protégé of dry-cutting master John Sahag, Eiji Yamane wards over a team of seventeen stylists and nine colorists at this enormous, loft-like salon, which boasts a client list that includes Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sarah Jessica Parker.

See the profile of this barber shop in Manhattan.

A consistent and rigorous East-meets-West massage style eclipses the utilitarian setting at this busy Midtown spa.

See the profile of this beauty store in Manhattan.

Expert services and exclusive Japanese conditioning treatments attract clients from around the world to this elegant salon.