Dear Clark, left, by Elizabeth Lavin; J.T. Osgood, right, courtesy of Songbird Society

In the March issue of D Magazine, you’ll find a wealth of beauty 411, including our editors’ picks for the best ten salons in town. This highly edited list excludes plenty of savvy salons that we simply didn’t have the space to list, but when you’re looking for a guaranteed good cut and color, you can count on these.

The Do Cut and Color
The tiny, industrial-chic space is full of personality, with vintage Chicago brick walls, repurposed concrete countertops, and bright pops of color, including cherry-red blow-dryers. read more…

Osgood O’Neil
The Osgood O’Neil beauty empire, established in 1998, simply never disappoints. Each of its three locations sports a modern yet earthy feel and a consistently talented team of stylists and colorists, to whom clients are fiercely loyal. read more…
cut, $55 to $100 (varies by stylist)
color, priced upon consultation

Dear Clark
This one-stop-shop on McKinney, helmed by co-owners Holly Dear and Kaycee Clark, boasts a strong roster of stylists, colorists, and even a full-service med spa offering the seriously rejuvenating Intraceuticals Oxygen Facial, among other treatments. read more…

Salon Lucien
Hitting the salon should feel like a luxury, and it does at this Park Cities spot, where the chandeliers sparkle, the water served is infused with cucumber, shelves brim with the very best products, and solid treatments are offered a la carte. read more…

The Songbird Society
Manned by hair veterans Richard Hayler (formerly of Richard Hayler Colour Salon) and J.T. Osgood (formerly of Osgood O’Neil), The Songbird Society is well-known among the hair obsessed. (Sea of Shoes’ Jane Aldridge is a fan.) read more…

Hair by Charlie
Charlie Price spent seven years in Manhattan doing hair for editorial shoots, and he returns twice a year to create Fashion Week runway looks for the likes of Billy Reid. But don’t let his bona fides give you the wrong impression. His soulful Design District salon is decidedly pretension free. read more…

Salon Pompeo
The salon, always buzzing with blow-dryers and chitchat, is spacious, equipped with 20 stations to accommodate 40 stylists, each of whom is skilled at both cut and color, so there’s no need to book multiple appointments. read more…

Tru Salon
In an airy cottage on a leafy Uptown street, hair savant Tanya Carpenter has created a buzzing salon with a knack for attracting top talent, including a cadre of French stylists chatting in their native tongue while they expertly snip your locks (adding a serious dose of chic to your regular trim). read more…

Blanc Salon
Owner Scott Witmer, a former Toni & Guy art director, has styled the famous heads of stars like Fergie, Nicole Richie, Adam Lambert, and, as of late, Molly Quinn from ABC’s Castle. But despite Witmer’s client list, the salon feels surprisingly down to earth. read more…

Muse the Salon
This 5-year-old hair spot on Henderson Avenue maintains a sophisticated setting, a laid-back vibe, and a talented team of stylists. Founded by hair gurus Cris Baadsgaard and Garrett (yes, just Garrett), Muse offers a variety of services using top-notch products (like Oribe) at surprisingly reasonable price points. read more…

photography courtesy of spaweek.com

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and if you’re thinking of skipping the customary flowers and candy, we’ve tracked down major deals at some of our favorite Dallas spas. Treat your sweetheart to a day of luxury, indulge together in a few side-by-side treatments, or maybe even save some of that pampering for yourself.

EQUINOX SPA

Deep Tissue Massage, 3-Pack
Three intensive massages to be used within one year of purchase. ($294)

Chocolate or Strawberry Facials, 3-Pack
Rich chocolate conditions and moisturizes skin; strawberry evens complexion and reduces signs of aging. ($396)

Deep Tissue Massage and Chocolate or Strawberry Facials,) 3-Pack combination package ($690

THE SPA AT THE RITZ-CARLTON

Royal Retreat for Two
50-minute massage in the VIP couple’s suite, followed by Deluxe Manicures and pedicures (with champagne, of course). Couples who book their retreat for Monday-Wednesday in February will also receive complimentary bathrobes. ($600 per couple)

SPA HABITAT

Green Peace for Two Massage
Side-by-side couple’s massage, featuring hot stone therapy. ($200/50 minutes, $270/80 minutes)

Peace and Love Spa Package
Green Peace for Two Massages (50 minutes), Organic Foot Rituals for two, Little Green Facials for two. Allow 2.5 hours. ($490 for two)

HIATUS SPA & RETREAT

Love on the Rocks
Signature 90-minute couple’s massage with hot stones and aromatherapy, followed by Spa Pedicures and champagne. ($439 for two, $379 for h-circle platinum members, $399 for h-circle gold members)

Recipe for Love
One-hour couple’s massage, scented aphrodisiac body wraps, chocolate, and champagne. Allow 75 minutes. ($298 for two, $177 for h-circle platinum members, $207 for h-circle gold members)

Sugar Kisses
Hiatus Massage, Focus Massage with customized aromatherapy, and exfoliating Body Glow Express treatment. Allow 2 hours. ($179, $143 for h-circle platinum members, $153 for h-circle gold members)

STONEBRIAR SPA

Affection
45-minute Relaxing Massage with aromatherapy, and Deluxe Manicure and Pedicure. Allow 2 hours. ($170)

Devotion
Relaxing Massage, Seasonal Eminence Facial, Spa Ritual organic pedicure. Allow 3 hours. ($279)

Passion
60-minute couple’s Relaxing Massage and two Spa Ritual organic pedicures. Allow 2 hours. ($340)

Chocolate Kiss Eminence Facial
This organic facial treatment pumps your skin with antioxidants, and the moisturizing properties of chocolate will leave your face super smooth. ($109/60 minutes, $129/75 minutes)

THE WOODHOUSE DAY SPA

Send Your Love
50-minute Swedish massage and Organic Sugar Scrub Pedicure. ($145)

Valentine’s Retreat
25-minute neck, back, and shoulder massage, Reflexology foot treatment, Woodhouse Signature Minkyti Facial, and Agave Nectar Pedicure. ($275)

Getaway to the Woodhouse
80-minute Volcanic Stone Massage, Woodhouse Signature Minkyti Facial and Pedicure. ($345)

Destination: Woodhouse
Woodhouse Escape (a sampler of seven different spa treatment favorites), brightening facial, Signature Pedicure, and an Agave Nectar Manicure. ($345)

Red Velvet Manicure or Pedicure
50-minute treatments using a combination of sparkling oil, sweet cream salt scrub, a chocolate mask, and the spa’s famous Whoopie Cream Shea Butter, plus your favorite shade of nail polish. ($45/manicure, $65/pedicure)

Red Velvet Massage
50-minute massage using deliciously scented oils, like the cinnamon-infused Red Hot Sparkling Body Oil and the Butter Brûlée Whole Milk Soak. ($95)

Red Velvet Body Treatment
This treatment includes a sea salt exfoliation, followed by oil-infused hot towel wraps, and your choice of moisturizing cream or oil. Allow 50 minutes. ($100)

COOPER SPA

Alluring Chocolate and Rose Facial
This facial includes antioxidants and enzymes to freshen your face and reduce fine lines. Allow 75 minutes. ($125)

Irresistible Body Treatment with Chocolate and Roses
An 80-minute treatment including a cinnamon vanilla body scrub, a chocolate mineral mask, and rose petal massage lotion. ($150)

Tickled Pink Pedicure
Buttery nectar milk soak, whipped honey salt scrub, hot honey wrap, and polish. Allow 65 minutes. ($65)

FACELOGIC

Permission Men’s Skin Care Facial
Give your guy the gift of good skin with this treatment, which uses masculine skincare products by Permission. ($59)

Eminence Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry Facial
A 50-minute treatment for glowing skin. ($69)

Bikini Wax Specials
4 Brazilians for $180, or 4 bikini waxes for $125. Buy either of these packages, and the spa will give you a free bottle of PFB Vanish + Chromabright, which fights ingrown hairs and prevents discoloration.

ZASPA

Love Me Tender Couple’s Swedish Massage

This relaxing treatment is offered in the spa’s exclusive Couple’s room. ($110/50 minutes, $140/80 minutes)

Into the Deep Couple’s Bath

Enjoy 45 minutes in a deep soaker tub with your loved one. ($75)

KOFFEE DAY SPA

Love on a Budget

30-minute full-body massage, followed by a chocolate foot scrub and soak. ($150)

Infinite

60-minute hot stone massage, hot stone foot scrub, rub, and foot soak, and a full-body scrub made coffee, coconut, honey, and sugar. ($330)

Love U

30-minute full-body hot stone massage, a mini facial, and an organic oil foot rub. ($260)

V SPA

Sugar Kiss Body Glow

50-minute full-body exfoliation, using sugar cane crystals and vanilla bean, for smooth, glowing skin. ($95)

Romancing with Stones Massage

50-minute treatment with hot stones and chocolate or rose massage oil. ($100)

Chocolate Kiss Facial

A 50-minute anti-aging treatment, which includes a chocolate mask and a chocolate butter cream hand massage.

Champagne and Roses Manicure or Pedicure

Enjoy a warm neck wrap, rose-scented soak, Champagne and Rose Scrub, Butter Cream hand/foot massage, and your choice of nail polish. Allow 50 minutes. ($50)

Sweetheart Package

Hot Stone Massage, Classic Facial, and V-Spa Pedicure. Allow 2.5 hours. ($284, including gratuity)

Hugs and Kisses Package

25-minute Express Massage, Express Facial, Express Manicure or Pedicure. Allow 75 minutes. ($154, including gratuity)

LUXURY ON LOVERS

Flawless Diamond Facial

A luxurious brightening and hydrating treatment. ($198)

Champagne & Roses Facial

Extracts from champagne grapes and Bulgarian roses will moisturize and replenish your skin with antioxidants. ($98)

Chocolate & Cherries Antioxidant Facial

Rejuvenating treatment to smooth and hydrate skin. ($98)

Cleopatra’s 24-K Gold Rejuvenate Racial

A gold-infused facial for a radiant complexion. ($125)

Luxury “I Love You” Package

Champagne & Roses Facial or Chocolate & Cherries Facial, Intraceuticals Eye & Lip Treatment, 60-minute Integrated Massage, and gift of Lisa’s Extreme Body Cream. ($278)

Jessica Mitzner is a ShopTalk intern.

photography courtesy of The Hair Bar

The Hair Bar is opening doors to its newest location on Monday, December 17. And to reward you for giving them a try, they’re offering complimentary beauty treatments throughout the week. Book now for a slot between Monday, December 17 and Friday, December 21, and your blowout or makeup application is on the house. While you’re scheduling, you might as well peruse the other menu options which include everything from hair and lash extensions to makeup house calls. Choose your time slot wisely; you’ll want a little extra time post-blowout as the salon is nestled in a shopping center alongside Merge boutique and Pinkberry. A girly trifecta.

Drybar in Highland Park (photography courtesy of Drybar)

As of today, you can officially do everything at NorthPark Center. Drybar has opened its newest location in the heart of our shoppaholics’ heaven.  It’s kind of big deal. Physically, I mean. It’s the largest Drybar in the country so far. Find it gleaming between Macy’s and Dillards. An exterior entrance faces Central and a valet stand’s waiting for you out front so you so don’t mess up your new ‘do hiking a 5k to your space in the parking lot.

In celebration of this occasion, the girls of Jackson & Flagg, Drybar’s local PR team, is offering up a three-pack of their famous “coasters” (aka blowouts) to use at your leisure. Perfect for upcoming events, parties, holiday festivities, and some good ol’ “me” time. To win, enter here. We’ll draw one winner on Monday. Good luck!

It’s on par with the Ritz-Carlton’s spa in terms of friendly concierge, amenities, and cozy quiet room. There’s even a lounge for men and women to mingle (good for couples’ spa days) and a ladies only lounge. Plus, there are plenty of amenities, including steam and sauna rooms and rows of products for showering post treatment. The menu includes massages, facials, manicures, pedicures, full body treatments, and a few fun seasonal treatments, like a Vanilla Ginger Massage and the Spike Pumpkin Pie mani/pedi special. But I highly recommend a facial. With Mendy Boisseau, lead aesthetician at the spa. Skin Authority invited me in for a complimentary treatment on the house, the Microderm Transformation Facial. It’s a pricey little bugger at $225, but it includes a relaxing cleansing and facial massage with Skin Authority goodness, a skin brightening round of intense exfoliation using the diamond tip microdermabrasion–which utilizes a diamond chip-encrusted wand for sloughing off dead skin cells and a vacuum feature to suck up the dead cell cemetery–a mild-but-effective gycolic peel, and lastly, a slathering of skin-soothing products and layer of Skin Authority SPF.

Microdermabrasion is loved for its visible effects of lightening and brightening, unclogging pores, and reducing the appearance of acne scars. I love it for the resulting baby soft skin that makes me feel like I’ve had a face transplant. But here’s where I think the real bang for the buck comes in: Mendy, my facialist, kept it both relaxing and informative. She put me in a trance with her face and neck massage, then gave me all the pointers I could possibly ask for. Instead of attempting to sell me product, she taught me how to put them to better use. She explained each step of the treatment process so I understood what was happening to my face and explained how skin cells work. She helped me rework through the appropriate skin care regimen based on my skin type, age, and aesthetic concerns.

I left her table giddy, relaxed, and excited for my complimentary glass of wine in the quiet room, but armed with a few new tips for caring for my new face at home. The best of both worlds. I highly recommend the experience at this spa and a trip under the able hands of skincare guru Mendy Boisseau. I’m looking forward to my next visit to Atlantis, I mean, the Gaylord Texan.

Sign up soon because the evening is limited to the first 75 who RSVP by October 22, 2012 at 214-922-4820.

photography courtesy of Lily Med Spa

September is National Hunger Action Month, and Lily Med Spa is doing their part to raise awareness. Tonight, from 3 pm to 6 pm, the spa is offering champagne, wine, and hors d’oeuvres, as well as special prices on Botox, Juvederm, photo facials, MicroLaser peels, Jane Iredale makeup, and more. For every treatment purchased, Lily Med Spa will donate a meal to the North Texas Food Bank. While services must be purchased during the event to receive the special prices (and have a meal donated), they can be redeemed at a later date. Take advantages of these prices, which will let you feed your ego as well as someone in need.

Margaux Anbouba is a ShopTalk Intern.

Drybar's Uptown location in the Shops at Highland Park

Just in time for fall event season, Drybar’s NorthPark Center location opens in early autumn. The beloved, $35 blow dry-only salon (which won both our Readers’ and Editors’ Choice awards in our Best of Big D issue) will serve blowouts, scalp massages, and cocktails. Stay tuned for exact opening date.

photography courtesy of Joanna Czech

Her name’s Joanna Czech, and now, lucky for us, she lives in Dallas and works at Neiman Marcus downtown. You may have already heard the chic beauty genius is operating in Big D, but have you booked yet? Here’s why you need to pick up the phone:

1. Her current clientele includes Cate Blanchette, Uma Thurman, Christy Turlington, Kate Winslet, and more. (She was Kim Cattrall’s personal skin and wax girl during Sex & the City movie filming.)
2. Treatments are customized. Rather than booking a one-size-fits-all service from the menu, she’ll analyze your skin and recommend a facial that is the perfect fit for you.
3. She knows what she’s doing. (She studied biology and pre-medicine in Poland.) If you’re interested in what’s happening to your face, she’ll walk you through each step of the process, explaining why she’s applying this cream and how that machine works.
4. Her playlist is interesting. It’s nice to have a break from The Nature Store soundtrack. (Not that I don’t like simulated rain sticks.)
5. You can make it a one-stop shop. On top of facials, she’s a real eyebrow guru (I’ve turned my brows over to her), waxing expert, and, if you make it a full day with her, you can snag her for a mani/pedi, too.

Thanks, Anna Wintour, for recommending Joanna to Ken Downing so our faces could have a turn under her skilled hands. This skin savvy will cost you (facials begin at $250), but it’s worth every penny. Call Neiman Marcus’ Michael Flores Salon with Cerón to book.

photography courtesy of Bliss

We’ve got three boxes of Bliss’ new That’s Incredi-‘Peel’! glycolic resurfacing pads to give away. The spa, famous for it’s cheeky cosmeceuticals that aim to slim, tighten, and smooth, has created this box set of 30 individually packaged pads that act as little overnight facials to reduce fine lines, wrinkles, and dark spots. From Bliss:

We’ve reinvented the ‘peel’ with these convenient, single-step, no-rinse peel pads, engineered with innovative technology that gradually releases powerful levels of exfoliating glycolic acid throughout the night for serious skin renewal without the harsh irritation. Plus, they’re packed with soothing witch hazel and licorice extract and hydrating glycerin for extra-gentle results. Finally, the secret to smooth, even, radiant skin is ‘revealed’!

To enter to win this giveaway, click here. Good luck!

(from left) Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, Kelly Osbourne's new take on gray, and model Cindy Joseph's famous gorgeous gray 'do

A friend is looking to grow out her gray locks with grace. Bye-bye, dye. Hello, sophisticated salt and pepper hair. We’re on the hunt for a Dallas hair expert that understands the process of going gray in style and we’re taking suggestions. Know of anyone? Leave it in the comments section. We’ll report back with our findings.

Kelly Belter is a shopping intern.

Watermelon nail art not included. (photography courtesy of beautybloggingjunkie.com)

It’s the 50-minute Watermelon Lime Pedicure at V Spa:

Cool off with a complimentary watermelon slush to sip on. Relax while your feet soak in the refreshing scent of Watermelon. Rejuvenate with a lime zest sugar scrub and moisture application. Choose your polish.

Who doesn’t love watermelon, pedis, and slushies? (If you seriously don’t, ignore this post.) This pedi sounds like heaven. It’s just $50 at V Spa on their new summer menu.