Best Spa Salons In Aptos

“There are not words beautiful enough to express my experience with Theresa at Saving Face Skin Solutions. I walked into her adorable salon space and immediately felt a release of tension and stress and a welcoming of kindness and compassion. Not only is her esthetician style lovely and gentle (the most gentle extractions I’ve ever experienced!) but her personality exudes love and generosity. She went out of her way to help me in a difficult time, to help me feel beautiful when my skin was not previously in a good place, and I left there feeling so relaxed yet energized, full of gratitude and hope all at once. She took care of my skin to every possible extent—I have never in my life received such care and kindness all at once. She is a gem right here in Aptos and I urge you to pay her a visit!“

“PLEASE READ, MASSIVE WARNING ABOUT A MASSAGE THERAPIST NAMED DIANNE. I had a massage appointment with Dianne recently. I should have known things were off when I mentioned my next vacation was Mexico and she stated you had "to be careful in PLACES like that", seemed like an odd way to reference the country. Later in the massage she mentioned being on a Fox News show as a caller to talk about how we should arm teachers. (With no law enforcement or education background, just with the usual inconsiderate/ no real experience rhetoric of the far right entertainment news.) I was appalled and pointed things from funding, training, going up against a magazine gun and her response is that "it's better than you cowering in corner with kids", this was far from a pleasant, relaxing massage. At this point I got off the table and started dressing and let my morals be known. Apparently she loves the current administration, loves what ICE is doing, E files are hoax, etc. She made my massage uncomfortable and disturbing; I'm Mexican American, and found her comments about Mexico and ICE very telling about how she feels about others who are different than her. I also got to hear how she finds HBCUs racist. Ummm what? And a few others comments that were clearly putting other groups of people down. I did speak to the owner of the spa. She was apologetic about the experience and offered a massage with another person to make up for it. I put 5 stars because the location is nice and I'm not trying to hurt the business but I think it's fair to warn people about the experience I had with Dianne. I would never book another appointment with her. I would not recommend anyone who spews racist, xenophobia and propaganda-like comments. Besides the hateful rhetoric that I felt was targeted to me as a Latina and educator, the massage was mediocre until I got up after being disturbed by her comments; I had to remind her twice about a light touch and no feet.“

“Nice place and nice area. Cute salon very clean, local soquel shop. Thanks for following up.“