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The Rich and the Pore
At $750, The Grand Luxe Facial at San Francisco's Spa Radiance Costs more than twice as much as a meal for two at Gary Danko or Fifth Floor, arguably the city's top two restaurants. Nonetheless, even though the tab is about $500 more than that of the average top notch facial, there's no shortage of takers. The spa, in the wealthy enclave of Pacific Heights (Danielle Steel and Ann Getty reside here), performs the treatment six times a week on average.
Even the facial's creator, Angelina Umansky, won't say the service is a necessity, but she does say it was created out of necessity - for the spa's regular clients, many of whom go away for a season, "When they'd come back to the spa, they weren't happy with their skin," she says. "It needed recharging. A regular facial didn't give them their treat skin back and they wanted immediate results.
Spa Finder
May 2005
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