Financial Tips Spa Tipping: a Recession-Friendly Guide to Gratuities How much to tip at the spa can be fraught with anxiety, which kinda defeats the purpose of going. So we took the guesswork out of... by Alexia Brue
Nail Care Green Spas With Great Treatments, New York City’s Top of the Crop New Yorkers are inherently green. We live in apartments, not high carbon footprint houses, and take public transportation. So come Earth Day we can feel a... by Melisse Gelula
Nail Care Feet Accompli: the Brazilians Apply Their All-or-Nothing Approach to the Pedicure Brazilians seem to do everything a little better in the beauty world. We’re talking not only about their supremely thorough approach to waxing, but their similarly... by Melisse Gelula
Wellness Retreats Wellness Weekend: Kripalu The Kripalu center, a new-age landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, known for its beloved integrative-style yoga, its bland but healthy food (often eaten in silence), and its... by Alexia Brue
Holistic Treatment A Fertility-Enhancing Massage, With No Chocolate or Champagne Maya Abdominal Massage, a method with an admittedly eyebrow-raising name, serves a solid fertility-friendly service—it helps reposition the uterus. by Alexia Brue
Healthy Body Sauna Tips for the One Seeking a Superior Sweat Yesterday morning snow blanketed the city. Today icy wind is whistling from the Hudson to the East River. Why are we bringing you this weather report?... by Alexia Brue
Women's Empowerment Well+Good’s Guide to Spa Nudity: Your Right to Bare All Americans are perpetually baffled by how much to bare at a spa, while the French and Finns, Germans and Japanese, know exactly what’s appropriate and when,... by Alexia Brue
Clean Beauty Bi Bim Bath: Soaping up in the City’s Korean Bathhouses On 32nd Street, mixed in with the restaurants offering bi-bim-bop and Korean Barbeque, are several top-notch bathhouses, or Jjimjilbang. You can enjoy these bathhouses either as... by Alexia Brue
Skin-Care Tips Best NYC Spas for Gift Certificates This is the time of year when dozens of friends e-mail us asking where to get a spa gift certificate for their significant other. We may... by Alexia Brue
Clean Beauty Six Spa Treatments You Should Never Pay For Spa menus can be a minefield of so-not-worth-it treatments that promise far more than they can deliver, give you surprisingly little time with a skilled therapist,... by Alexia Brue