Heartstone Spa

OK, full disclosure. Leah Darling is a very good friend of mine. But there’s one thing about reviewing friends’ services or products, whether they are professionals or artists. If you blow smoke when you talk about their offerings, it WILL come back to bite you in very sensitive areas. Accordingly, I only positively review things I wholly support.
Leah has always impressed me with her combination of subtle people skills, extensive experience & impressive education. She can tell you what’s going on with the physiology of a treatment she’s doing, and she’s also great at figuring out what a client needs. I’ve been for two different treatments at Heartstone – a pedicure, which converted my callused perambulators into entirely different mode of transportation, like swapping the farm pick-​up truck with a sporty convertible for the weekend. Sounds odd, but my practical side appreciated the reduced snagging when putting on a pair of socks, or the lack of pain when lacing up a pair of hiking boots. Foot care isn’t a luxury, it’s a maintenance requirement.
Most recently, I went for a facial. Yes, metrosexual experimentation, about 20 years late. There are lotions, and potions and masks, dead skin cell sluffing, tingling and glowing, and a number of stages and phases that need to be covered. As a facial skin-​care n00b, it was all a bit of a blur. Washing my face, either at the sink or in the shower, was a necessary preliminary to excess facial fur removal. And moisturizing has always been for the vain – except of course when skiing, in a boat, or on a mountain in bright sunlight. That attitude has got to change, or I’ll end up with Walter Matthau’s face, if it’s not already too late. My nose is well on it’s way… It’s just past Harrison Ford, with the final destination to the big time of Karl Malden & W.C. Fields…
Thanks Leah. It was both a pleasure, and an education.
Guys, consider it. Prevention is always a better value that restoration!