Total Beauty Experience
2929 Arden Way, Sacramento; (916) 481-7994; www.totalbeautyexp.com

At 10,500 square feet, Total Beauty Experience helps bring out everyone’s inner beauty queen. There’s a full-service salon, with 15 hair stations, five treatment rooms and a nail studio, where you can get everything from a cut and color to a facial and makeup application. The retail side carries close to 900 professional product lines for hair, skin and nails, as well as bath and body products, candles and fun gift items. Staffers are always on the floor to answer questions and track down products, and there are free monthly seminars on skin and hair care.