American Fitness Professionals & Associates

By Jack Brooks

Lifestyle vacations are all the rage now — trekking, barefoot cruising, climbing, caving, and even more placid activities such as learning cruises, spiritual retreats, and even some medical procedures are now included as part of  travel packages. Cosmetic hair removal is also being offered in this exciting milieu.  What was once a routine series of electrolysis or laser depilatory treatments, consisting of visits to the all-too-familiar salon in your hometown, can become part of a relaxing, stress-relieving and rejuvenating trip to a unique and desirable environment. Most major resort cities feature “Destination Spas” that provide the more traditional waxing and facial oriented methods such as tweezing, as well as the laser and electrolysis methods geared towards body hair removal. When combined with other spa services, such as massage, Ayurvedic and holistic therapies, mineral baths, and specialty treatments like body wrapping or ear candling, you can literally experience a vacation of physical rebirth, emerging all shiny and new!

A Treat For Him And Her

There’s a wide variety of hair removal travel opportunities for vacationing couples who desire to share the experience of obtaining a smooth look along with a relaxed body and refreshed mind. Many spas offer complete grooming packages for couples, featuring a romantic atmosphere coupled with personal attention. They have intriguing titles, such as “Couples Retreat,”  “Lover’s Delight” and “Chocolate Decadence” that let your imagination run free in picturing the blissful experience. One spa even offers a means for each to signify their love to the other with a customized airbrushed temporary tattoo!
For the men there’s beard reduction, careful depilatory shaping of brow and hairlines, and the removal of excessive body hair on the back, neck and shoulders, as well as, to some degree, on the chest. Once the preference of competitive swimmers, a smooth masculine body has now become a male grooming standard and women’s preferences for their man’s appearance are certainly in agreement.
Women’s spa hair removal has a longer track record with decades of waxing and plucking preceding the more technical depilation methods using electrolysis and laser. Bikini line shaping and unwanted facial hair has been the usual feminine grooming goal, but now custom pubic hair shaping and other unique areas such as the neck and hands are getting increasing hair removal attention,   A comprehensive spa will usually offer at least the basic waxing for cosmetic hair removal and more luxury facilities are beginning to supplement that with sophisticated state-of-the-art equipment heightening customer comfort using cooled lasers for treatment.

In fact, laser hair removal is increasing as a spa offering at the rate of 5% a year and will undoubtedly increase more as their patrons ask for depilation in greater numbers. Unlike men and women’s unwanted hair, clearly spa depilation services are here to stay!

A Family Experience

An increasingly popular travel offering are father/son and mother/daughter spa packages. Although the son may not be a candidate for hair removal, certainly dad will be, and his son can learn about good grooming along with his dad and enjoy the other spa amenities, such as massage, skin therapies, and fitness programs. His need for hair removal will come soon enough and the education gained participating with dad will prove most beneficial.
Daughter will have much more opportunity to get the leg waxing or brow shaping that women are requiring at an ever-younger age. The attention and pampering, as well as the finished result shared eagerly post-vacation with girlfriends, will make the shared experience with mom memorable. This becomes a milestone that every mother wants to foster for her child as they journey through womanhood together.

America is one of the hardest working societies on the planet — there’s even a grass-roots movement declaring “the vacation is an endangered species” and urging working folks to “take back your time!”  So it behooves us to maximize our ever-shrinking vacation travel opportunities to achieve the best and most enriching benefit for our precious time. Returning relaxed, refreshed, groomed, and even recharged from a spa/salon vacation, whether single, couple, family, or even with a travel group will enable us to “take on the day” with more energy, chutzpah, and élan.