Dawn Delauise Skin Refinery

Its hard to choose is more exuberant and vibrant, the blonde powerhouse of energy that greets you at the door of the Dawn Delauise Skin Salon, or the glow from within as you walk out the door an hour later.

This is no traditional facial, but a blend of science and the hand of an expert. After a gentle but amazingly effective cleaning and scrub (which includes a little vacuum-like blackhead remover), Dawn wraps your face and décolletage in yucca-drenched clothes soaked with a concoction of vitamins and minerals, and covers the whole enchilada with a mask-like contraption that begs for Silence of the Lambs jokes. We watched in amazement as our skin literally drank in bottles of the stuff as galvanic current from the mask drove it deep into the layers of skin that needed it most.

The result?

Like giving your face a drink of water for an hour. Turns out the effects of dehydration when mixed with stress, toxins, and gravity really do a number on your skin, and although it felt a little strange at first, the result was staggering. All the little fine lines we walked in with seemed to have, well, disappeared into youth. If this is what it takes to feel and look refreshed like this, we’ll dress up like Hannibal the cannibal anytime. $125

Until you imagine a lineup... if you glance at the list of celebrities who rely on Dawn to keep them looking well rested... (christina applegate, sarah michelle gellar, for example), you realize that they are the ones you've subconsiously noted for their fresh-faced, wrinkle and blemish free complexions, even though you had never made the connection between their skin and their je-ne-sais-quoi...much like miss Delauise herself.