Bellisima Salon - Monrovia

Glossary of Services

BODY TREATMENT
A body treatment, spa treatment, or cosmetic treatment is non-medical procedure to help the health of the body. It is often performed at a resort, destination spa, day spa, beauty salon or School.

Body treatments are essentially a "facial" for your whole body. It is just as important to cleanse, exfoliate, and hydrate the skin on your body as it is the skin of your face.

MASSAGE
Massage is the practice of applying structured or unstructured pressure, tension, motion, or vibration — manually or with mechanical aids — to the soft tissues of the body, including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, joints and lymphatic vessels, to achieve a beneficial response. A form of therapy, massage can be applied to parts of the body or successively to the whole body, to aid the process of injury healing, relieve psychological stress, manage pain, and improve circulation. Where massage is used for its physical and psychological benefits, it may be termed "therapeutic massage" or manipulative therapy.

Hot Stone Massage
- Hot stone massage is a specialty massage that uses smooth, heated stones. They are often basalt, a black volcanic rock that absorbs and retains heat well. It is a deeply soothing, relaxing form of massage. The heat helps tight muscles release.

Swedish Massage
- The classic technique that relieves muscular aches and pains and achieves a deep relaxation. The Swedish also helps to maintain muscle and soft tissue at optimum efficiency.
- Swedish massage is designed to increase circulation and blood flow.Oil, cream, or lotion is applied on the skin to reduce friction and allow smooth strokes.
- It uses a firm but gentle pressue to improve the circulation, ease muscle aches and tension, improve flexibility and create relaxation.

Shiatsu Massage
- Shiatsu is a pressure-point massage designed to regulate the flow of life energy in the body. Pressure is applied by thumb, fingers, palms or feet to the body's surface to stimulate healing of body and mind. Shiatsu produces deep relaxation, increases energy levels, and brings the body back to balance.

Reflexology
-Reflexology is a treatment where the therapist works primarily on your feet. The theory behind reflexology is that there are "reflex points" in the feet, hands and ears that relate to specific organs and glands in the body. Practitioners believe that stimulating those reflex points promotes health in that organ via the body's energetic pathways.

Deep Tissue Massage
-Deep tissue massage is a type of massage aimed at the deeper tissue structures of the muscle and fascia, also called connective tissue. Deep tissue massage uses many of the same movements and techniques as Swedish massage, but the pressure will generally be more intense. It is also a more focused type of massage, as the therapist works to release chronic muscle tension or knots (also known as "adhesions.")

Cellulite Reduction
- The non-invasive treatment breaks down the fatty deposits that collect between the skin and the muscle, while increasing the blood flow to the affected areas, greatly reducing the appearance of cellulite.

Pregnancy (after 3 months)
- This soothing massage with essential oils is designed to focus on relief of pregnancy related discomforts. Relax, reduce stress, increase oxygen supply, and stimulate circulatory and lymph systems.

Sports Massage
- Sports massage is designed to help atheletes prepare their bodies for optimal performance, recover after a big event, or function well during training.
- Sports massage is also good for people with injuries, chronic pain or restricted range of motion.

MAKEUP DESIGN

Make-up is an important aspect to improve an artists look on camera or as part of the process to help create convincing characters that tell a story on screen. Whatever the scale of production the make-up team are responsible for making sure that all artists have an image and make-up appropriate to the production content and individual need.

PARAFFIN TREATMENT

The paraffin treatment begins by submerging hands into a warm wax distributed over the skin's surface. Hands are then covered until the form mimics a silky glove of wax. Next, hands are placed in toweling mitts. During this rest interval, the wax relaxes muscles and is allowed to deeply penetrate pores promoting hydration. When all coverings are carefully removed, hands are left supple and smooth.

Waxing
Waxing is a temporary method of hair removal, which removes the hair from the root. New hairs will not grow back in the previously waxed area for three to eight weeks. Almost any area of the body can be waxed, including eyebrows, face, bikini area, legs, arms, back, abdomen and feet.

Waxing is accomplished by spreading a wax combination thinly over the skin. A cloth or paper strip is then pressed on the top and ripped off with a quick movement against the direction of hair growth. This removes the wax along with the hair and dead skin cells, leaving the skin smooth.

FACIAL
A facial deeply cleanses and maintains the skin by exfoliating dead skin cells. The goal of a classic European facial is to maintain smooth, clear, well-hydrated skin. It's the second most popular spa service after massage.

European Facial
-A deep cleansing treatment for dry, normal or oily skin. Includes: steam, exfoliation, extractions, deep relaxing facial massage, hydrating and cleansing mask.

Mini Facial

Paraffin Facial

Vitamin C Facial
For those challenged by age, gravity, hormone fluctuations, environmental damage, and lifestyle stresses, this facial has been designed for clients seeking more supple and youthful skin. SkinCeuticals, a pioneer in topical vitamin C research, formulated a professional-grade Vitamin C Firming Masque that exfoliates the skin and neutralizes oxidative damage in this treatment. This effective procedure tightens the skin, replenishes hydration, minimizes redness, and promotes cell renewal. When combined with microdermabrasion or photo light laser treatments, clients experience a marked improvement in diminished wrinkles, improved suppleness, and increased collagen production.

Collagen Facial

Aromatherapy Facial
- Plant extracts and essential oils are applied on your skin for nutrition and stress relief. The aromas simultaneously hydrate the skin. The extracts and essential oils are chosen according to to your individual skin type by your therapist.

Seaweed Facial

4-Layer Facial

Skin Fitness for Men
- An excellent treatment specially formulated for men's skin, including facial massage. This treatment is designed to clean hydrate and protect sensitive skin.
- This specialized facial addresses a man's specific skin needs including the prevention of ingrown hairs, soothing razor burn and correcting damaging results from daily shaving as well as sun exposure.

Teen Facial
-The healthy approach for younger skin. Deep & professional cleansing to eliminate black heads, unclog pores, purify and balance teenage skin.
- Effective deep pore cleansing treatment designed to treat blemished, oily and sensitive teenage skin. Facial includes deep pore cleansing with steam, extractions, mask and acne control serum.
Acne Away

THREADING
Threading is an ancient method of hair removal that is still used in parts of the Middle and Far East. Thin, twisted cotton threads are rolled over eyebrows, untidy hairlines, mustaches and so on, plucking the offending hair. In Western countries, threading can still be found being performed in beauty salons. Unlike other methods of hair removal such as plucking or waxing, threading is much healthier for the skin and does not result in ingrown hairs.

Practitioners use a pure cotton thread. They generally twist the hair and threading pulls out a whole row of hair, as opposed to tweezing where only one single hair is pulled out. Threading is often preferred to tweezing because of the naturally straight lines of hair removed by the thread. It is pulled out from the follicle. Some women focus particularly on the area between the eyebrows [1], thus interrupting so-called "unibrows". Side effects can include folliculitis, a bacterial infection in the hair follicles, skin reddening or puffiness, and changes in skin pigment.

SPECIALIZED SKIN CARE SOLUTIONS

Microdermabrasion
- Microdermabrasion is a mechanical form of exfoliation that uses a powerful vacuum to spray microcrystals of aluminum dioxide across the skin's surface. This procedure removes the outermost layer of skin cells (part of the stratum corneum) and stimulates cell growth in the underlying dermis.
- Microdermabrasion helps give a smoother, fresher appearance to the skin. It is also used to diminish the appearance of sun damage, fine lines and wrinkles, enlarged pores, and coarse-textured skin
- Microdermabrasion is a skin-freshening technique that helps repair facial skin that takes a beating from the sun and the effects of aging.
- This special exfoliation treatment polishes the skin, accelerates cell renewal process, improving skin texture, reducing pore size, smoothing fine lines, clearing and controlling acne, lightening pigmentation, and reducing sun damage. The best results are achieved through a series of treatments, followed with a recommended maintenance program.

Chemical Peels
- Chemical peel uses a chemical solution to improve and smooth the texture of the facial skin by removing its damaged outer layers. It is helpful for those individuals with facial blemishes, wrinkles and uneven skin pigmentation.
- Formulated from active cosmeceutical ingredients including retinoic acid, alpha hydroxy acids, and resorcinol, this is one of the safest, strongest single session chemical peels available. This procedure provides a safe peel with minimum “down time” and dramatic improvement after the first treatment. Benefits include reduction of age spots, freckles, hyper pigmentation and appearance of large pores. Due to active ingredients, clients are advised that redness and peeling may occur 2-5 days after treatment.

PCA PEEL
- This peel is designed for the special needs of mature, ethnic and sun-damaged skin. Effective for reducing appearance of age spots, acne scars, fine lines, freckles, superficial hyper pigmentation, and pregnancy related pigmentation.

Intensive Lifting Treatment

Pre & Post-Laser Treatments
Lasers are medical devices used to treat a variety of conditions, including unwanted hair, uneven pigmentation, and broken capillaries. The word laser is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation." Lasers use a direct beam of radiation that penetrates the deeper level of the skin, called the dermis, and creates a reaction.