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Personal services
The help only you know you need
Asheville, do you feel as good as you look? If so, we're betting you've availed yourself of some of the services below. Whether you're getting styled at Beauty Parade, getting buff at the YMCA or getting loose at Sensibilities, you know where to go for that extra personal treatment.
Charley Castex, readers say, is the go-to guy for psychic insight (though you, dear voter, are no slouch yourself -- the often penned "me" finished second in this category). And when it comes to getting tattooed and/or pierced -- as common a personal touch as can be found in Asheville -- once again you've chosen the all-female staff of Man's Ruin.
If you're neither feeling good nor looking like it, well, no more excuses: Read the list below, then get out there and do something about it.
-- Jon Elliston
Hair salon/stylist
1. Beauty Parade
783 Haywood Rd., Asheville, 257-4073
2. (Tie) Ananda Hair Studio
22 Broadway St., Asheville, 232-1017
2. Wink
18 Brook Street, Suite 103, Asheville, 277-4070
3. Marc Edward & Co
1 Page Ave # 119, Asheville, 252-3000
Gym
1. YMCA
Various locations, Asheville, 251-5909
2. YWCA
185 S. French Broad Ave., Asheville, 254-7206
3. Biltmore Athletic Club
711 Biltmore Ave., Asheville, 253-5555
Massage Therapist
1. Sensibilities
59 Haywood Street, Asheville, 253-3222
2. Laura Anthony at Sunshine Massage
713-4375
3. (Tie) Tyson Sampson at Plush / Arthur Scheiss / Grove Park Inn / Guenevere Seastrom
Psychic
1. Charley Castex
2. "Me"
3. (Tie) Zak Yancey
3. Angela Moore
Spa
1. Grove Park Inn
290 Macon Ave., Asheville, 252-2711
2. Sensibilities
59 Haywood Street, Asheville, 253-3222
3. Asheville Oasis
73 Merrimon Ave., Asheville, 257-2570
Tattoo/Piercing Parlor
1. Man's Ruin
857 Merrimon Ave., Asheville, 253-6660
2. Ace of Spades
506 Merrimon Ave., Asheville, 225-7969
3. Empire Tattoo
83 Patton Ave., Asheville, 252-8282
