Best of Philly

Best Facial

2025 Best Double-Duty Facial

ForCynthia Healing

Longtime aesthetician Suzy Zelley blends skin care and the mystical in her light-filled studio, tucked in the back of her bohemian home in Yardley. Zelley begins the 90-minute wellness experience by nourishing your skin with her targeted approach — enhanced by high-tech tools like LED light therapy — and then performs Reiki, working with your body’s energy to promote healing and reduce anxiety and pain. You’ll leave with glowing skin and a rejuvenated spirit. Read More »

Website

2024 Best Facial for Busy People

The Cat Nap Mini Facial at Herban Skin Therapy

Don’t let the duration fool you: This 40-minute facial involves serious skin care. With 20 years of experience under her belt, Kristen Bauers Alvarez steams, cleanses, exfoliates and hydrates your skin — and massages your upper body, to boot — with the utmost care and organic products, some of which she’s crafted herself. It makes coming back to reality that much easier. Read More »

143 West Walnut Lane, suite 204, Philadelphia, PA Website

2024 Best Facial Haven

Hygge Facial Spa

At this Rittenhouse spa, inspired by the Danish word loosely translating to “coziness,” owner and aesthetician Tia Pinizzotto and aesthetician Bri Crosson deliver curated, uber-relaxing facials using high-quality brands like Naturopathica and Circadia, plus additions like dermaplaning, gua sha and micro-channeling at no extra cost — so you can simply float off the warm, cushy bed with your dewy glow. Read More »

1601 Walnut Street, suite 400, Philadelphia, PA Website

2023 Best Luxe Facial

Kári Skin’s 24-Karat Golden Hour Facial

Designed by Kári Skin founder Tirzah Blair and introduced this past January, the Golden Hour facial stamps a 24-karat gold serum into your upper dermis (it doesn’t hurt!) for firming and plumping, then maximizes your red-carpet-worthy glow with a gold-leaf hydration mask. Move over, Botox: This is the new royal face-lift. Read More »

325 Cherry Street, second floor rear, Philadelphia, PA Website

2022 Best Luxe Facial

Franklin’s Secret at W Philadelphia Away Spa

Eighty minutes of pure facial bliss: a botanical steam, two masks for exfoliating and soothing, all the face-care works (serum, cleanser, toner, vitamin C eye treatment), a massage with a rose-quartz roller, and a bonus hand and foot coffee-sugar scrub — all enhanced by products from local vegan skin-care brand Franklin & Whitman. It’s Philly’s best-kept beauty secret. Well, until now. Read More »

1439 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA Website

2022 Best Facial for Getting Out All That Gunk

OVME’s Hydrafacial

There’s something ASMR-esque about seeing a container of dirty liquid that’s basically been vacuumed out of your pores — which is exactly what you’ll get with the HydraFacial at Ovme. Expect celeb-status exfoliating, extracting and cleansing that leaves your skin radiant and sans all that nasty buildup. Read More »

925 West Lancaster Avenue, number 140, Bryn Mawr, PA Website

2021 Best Facial, But For Your Back

GLO Body Sculpt & Spa

Step one: pore-opening steaming cleanse. Step two: exfoliating scrub for dead skin. Step three: massage with detoxifying mask, rejuvenating moisturizer and optional hot stones. You won’t be able to see it, but trust us: Your back looks amazing. Read More »

526 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA Website

2021 Best New Place for Facials

Kari Skin

Don’t let the light SoCal vibe fool you: There’s serious skin care happening here. Tirzah Blair and her team of top talent use an arsenal of tools to customize treatments to your skin’s unique needs. And that glow, that lift, will last for weeks. Read More »

325 Cherry Street, 2nd Floor Rear, Philadelphia, PA Website

2019 Best Group Facial

Skin Haus

Forget mani/pedis: The setup at this open-concept facial bar (side-by-side reclining facial loungers) makes “going for facials” the best way to indulge with your girlfriends. Read More »

1238 South Street, Philadelphia, PA | 267-273-0594 | Website

2019 Best Facial for Sensitive Skin

Cole Wellness Spa & Salon

Owner Kristy Cole put so many refreshing creams and masks on our skin during an hour-long rosacea/sensitive facial that we lost track of which one was papaya and which one was rose. But our skin looked so pore-less, we can’t wait to go back. Read More »

101 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA | 610-688-7546 | Website