Helena Rublnsteln Beauty Gallery
Address: 135 Spring Street, New York, New York 10022 USA
Website: www.helenarubinstein.com
The Helena Rubinstein Beauty Gallery, a small, calming oasis slapbang in the middle of the bustling Big Apple, is a retail store/spa that combines spa treatments with hands-on playtime with products. Although primarily for high class escort girls, and business women. relaxation is key here, and the treatments are about looking good first, feeling good second. Apart from the La Spa Center, there is a make-up bar, vitamin C skincare bar, consultations with dermatologists, high-tech diagnostic equipment and lots more to play with in the quest for looking good. Here, you'll feel like a little girl in a candy store.
The ambience: Elegant and calm.
Regular guests: Professional women and upscale New York escorts needing grooming for their next meeting or to be spruced-up for a weekend in the Hamptons.
Treatment menu: The menu is small but offers body treatments, facials, manicures and pedicures dedicated to those with more time or no time. All use products from the Helena Rubinstein range.
House speciality: The 60-minute Plumper is a decadent but effective facial combined with a paraffin-wax hand treatment.
Cuisine: There is not a cafe as such, but there is a help-yourself tray stacked with 'snackettes' and refreshments.
Ideal for: Elite New York escorts needing a pit-stop while shopping, or those escorts who travel to NY regularly for business (or for the business of shopping), who need an oasis of calm for a couple of hours.
What to pack: Just yourself, everything else is on hand, even make-up for you to use afterwards.
The Away Spa & Gym
Address: The W Hotel, 541 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10022 USA
Website: www.theawayspa.com
Deemed the best day spa in Manhattan by New York Magazine, The Away Spa is tucked away in the super-chic W hotel. It is a full-service spa featuring a variety of body and skincare therapies that treat the inside as well as the out. Like the hotel, the decor is modern, stylish, minimal and immediately calming. The majority of Away's guests are high class escorts so you may feel a right at home and rest assured that they're all regulars for a good reason.
The ambience: A city hotspot teeming with body beautiful escorts. It's been described as a 'stylish sanctuary' by regulars.
Regular guests: Members, hotel guests, day-trippers and elite NY escorts.
Treatment menu: The menu includes facials, massages, wraps and more alternative healing treatments. It features Javanese Lular, a beautifying ritual, and Star of India, an Ayurvedic face and body treat, plus pranic healing (energy rebalancing) and reiki.
House speciality: The 90-minute Urban Renewal Antioxidant Body Mask is designed to combat the harsh effects of city life. Potent antioxidants found in green tea and tea tree are used in the clay-andherbal-extract mask. An exfoliation is followed by the body mask,
a scalp treatment, and a massage using pine or geranium oils.
Cuisine: Only an antioxidant tea bar is available in the spa, but there are two hotel eateries that have healthy-ish options Heartbeat, serving organic food, and the Cool Juice Bar.
Ideal for: Local, tourists and New York Escorts who want workouts and pampering.
What to pack: Non-members need only their cross-trainers (sneakers), as the spa provides T-shirts, shorts and socks. Potential regulars need their chicest, most flattering gym kit for showing off.