Sometimes you need to treat yo’self. Other times you need to take care of yourself. A spa day can serve both purposes.

Planning a relaxing day of self-care may seem indulgent, but it actually can have many health and wellness benefits. In particular, it can help reduce stress, which at this moment in time seems more needed than ever before.

You don’t have to go far — or leave town at all — to plan a totally comprehensive spa day. Berthoud is full of skilled practitioners and experts who can make you look and feel your best, whether it’s for the holidays, the new year, a special occasion, a photo shoot or just for yourself.

Here’s how to plan the perfect spa day in Berthoud, from your toenails to your hair and everywhere in between.

Start with a massage.

Get in the right mindset with a body treatment, like a massage.   Holistic Massage in downtown Berthoud offers a wide array of body treatments, such as Swedish massage (the best-known type) and deep tissue massage, as well as more specialized options, such myofascial release or a Kanzu Bowl Foot Massage. This Indian reflexology treatment involves a foot massage in a special metal bowl, while your eyes are covered in rose water pads.

Integrated Holistic Massage offers other unique therapy options that would make a great starting point for the ultimate spa day in Berthoud. Ask about the Essenian and Egyptian therapies (energy therapies) based on the “circuits of the universal life energy.”

The center also offers special aromatherapy treatments and can perform a “sacred anointing therapy.”

Get a Facial.

Next, it’s time to take care of your face. OnPoint Permanent in Berthoud offers facials, such as the ultimate 90-Minute Facial. This treatment includes a double cleansing, exfoliation, extractions, masks and a face, neck, shoulder and scalp massage. OnPoint uses the Sorella skincare line.

Get Your Hair Done.

For a town its size, Berthoud has an impressive selection of talented hair stylists and colorists. A local favorite is Salon Michelle, located near Hays Market.

You can also find stylists running small businesses out of their house or independent stylists, like Kassie Tipton at The Salon. She offers standard hair offerings, as well as extensions, straightening, blow-outs, updos and styling. 

Then there’s a relative newcomer to town, Sirenhouse, located downtown. Sirenhouse is known for doing excellent men’s cuts, but it is not only a barber shop. It is also a full salon. It even offers custom, hand-tied hair extensions (using real human hair) created by Studio Boom.

Do It All.

Rustic Rose Beauty Lounge is a full-service salon that can also do your hair, and it also offers manicures and pedicures.

This spa’s list of services is extensive. It also does eyelash extensions (including fun colors), brow tints, lash lifts, facials, dermaplaning, massage, waxing, LED light therapy and cupping. One of the more interesting offerings here is called “nano channeling,” which deeply penetrates products deep into the skin, without using needles.

Get Your Make-Up Done.

The final step to your Berthoud spa day is to get your make-up professionally done. Some at-home beauty consultants, like Coleen Lyman, who sells Mary Kay, can help you pick out colors and learn how to apply make-up like a pro. Lyman has lived in Berthoud for 30 years.

Want a more lasting option? Berthoud’s own OnPoint Permanent is a cosmetic and esthetic tattoo studio in town.

“Our goal is to allow you to spend less time getting ready in the morning, so you can spend more time focusing on your health, happiness and family,” OnPoint writes on its website.

Hillary Sai Bacigalupo heads up this studio, which offers microblading the eyebrows and brow and lash tinting. Beyond permanent make-up, OnPoint also does waxing, lash lifting and more.