Since starting Designer’s Edge Hair Studio and Bella Vita Garden Spa 15 years ago, owner Teena Twilley has always made it a top priority to ensure that her clients receive the ultimate in professional, personalized pampering. Last year, when many of those valued clients requested a space where couples could unwind with a massage together, Twilley not only listened, she didn’t rest until their wishes were granted.

With great pride, she and the dedicated staff of Designer’s Edge and Bella Vita welcome you to enjoy the serene ambiance of its sparkling new glass-enclosed solarium, a blissful haven featuring a fireplace, flowing fountains, soft lighting, aromatic scents and mellow music, with an entryway leading to Bella Vita’s inviting outdoor courtyard.
Discover the spacious comfort designed for couples to share a massage, pedicure, facial or other spa experience together. For a delightfully different evening out, try Friday’s new couple’s nights at Designer’s Edge and Bella Vita. Watch a sunset while enjoying a delicious, healthy dinner together; relax beneath the stars with a soothing massage or pedicure soak.

But there’s no need to wait for Friday night; special spa packages for two are available as a respite from your busy daily schedules, including the Romeo and Juliet (two 1-hour Swedish massages with Essence of Chocolate or Raspberry Oils, two Deluxe Spa Pedicures, two Deluxe Spa Manicures, and two lunches and a box of chocolates) and the Tea for Two (two 1-hour Swedish massages with aromatherapy oils, along with two Deluxe Spa Pedicures and Manicures and two lunches). Significant others, mothers and daughters, and caring friends can choose to enjoy the scenic sun-dappled splendor offered inside the solarium or a gentle breeze outside in the courtyard.

Not only does Designer’s Edge Hair Studio and Bella Vita Garden Spa offer the area’s exclusive setting for outdoor massage, it also provides the latest wellness and healing techniques available anywhere in the field. It is the only local providers of Thai Yoga Massage, which combines gentle, assisted yoga stretches with deep-tissue manipulation and stimulation of “marma” or pressure points to assist in realigning all levels of physical, mental and spiritual fitness. The stretch and pressure gently rebalance the body’s energy flow, and, according to a recent article in Massage Magazine, are considered beneficial to people of varying ages and degrees of flexibility.

Designer’s Edge and Bella Vita also offers Ionic Pedicure, a revolutionary procedure which gently detoxifies the body’s impurities through a process based on osmosis, adding the benefits of improved overall wellness in addition to a beauty and care treatment.

For velvet-textured, rejuvenated skin, Designer’s Edge and Bella Vita presents the newest procedure available, known as Dermafile. The Dermafile skin polishing and resurfacing tool, crafted from stainless-steel and finely crushed genuine diamonds, lightly polishes the skin by hand, removing the top layer of dead skin cells. This noninvasive, nonsurgical procedure is effective on all skin colors and types, requires no anesthetic, and can be performed during a lunch hour.

Designer’s Edge Hair Studio and Bella Vita Garden Spa wants to ensure that the ultimate in skin and body care can be maintained in the home environment, as well. It is the area’s sole provider of the exceptional Yonka line of aromatherapy products from Paris, now featuring an awesome line designed exclusively for men.

“I feel like we’ve created a leading edge,” said Twilley, referring to the array of innovative services available. Her 82 loyal employees, many of whom have been with her for over 10 years, get to know clients on an individual basis. Each practitioner receives continuing education in their field both to hone their skills and learn new techniques. Twilley keeps in touch constantly with the industry’s latest trends and offerings. But she considers keeping in touch with her clients’ needs her most important resource for success. “If you give 100 percent to your clients, you’re going to be successful,” she said. As a mother of five (three of her daughters have joined the business), Twilley has brought the special qualities of family into her salon and spa. “I try to treat people the way I’d want to be treated myself,” she said, adding, “We all deserve to be pampered.”

Maybe that’s why Designer’s Edge Hair Studio and Bella Vita Garden Spa has grown in both size and stature over the years. The new solarium marks the facility’s third addition, and the business was voted “Best Of the Eastern Shore” by readers of both The Daily Times and The Metropolitan Magazine, with special mention as best massage practitioner awarded to its own Jami Geise.

Stop in and enjoy a special Men’s Evening on Thursday, December 11, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., featuring 20 percent off the price of all services, products and gift cards.

Designer’s Edge Hair Studio and Bella Vita Garden Spa looks forward to bringing the best in wellness and beauty services to individuals, couples, corporate clients, bridal parties and others. Visit at 2407 E. Naylor Mill Rd., behind the Centre at Salisbury, at www.desalonandspa.com, or call 410-548-9010.