The Darling Den’s St. Paul Glow Up

Twin Cities–born Sara Baumgartner made a reputation for herself in Los Angeles, the place she labored with top-tier forehead artist Damone Roberts and gained expertise on the 4 Seasons in Beverly Hills, constructing a formidable record of superstar purchasers (whats up, Chrissy Teigen, Janet Jackson, and Package Harington!). However she all the time dreamed of opening her personal spa.

Final yr, she got here throughout a possibility to return to Minnesota together with her household in tow, and she or he jumped on it. Now open within the Schmidt Brewery campus in St. Paul (contained in the historic Rathskeller constructing) is The Darling Den, a holistic spa providing personalised skincare, waxing, and physique providers.

The menu consists of forehead and physique waxing, tinting, and natural facials designed for various pores and skin varieties. Baumgartner is all about going again to fundamentals to nourish pores and skin with food-and plant-based substances—like colloidal oatmeal and goldenseal—as a substitute of chemical substances.

In want of a pore pick-me-up? Check out her trademarked Blow Me Away, a hyperbaric oxygen facial utilizing air mixed with a hyaluronic serum to attain the deepest penetration of merchandise into the pores and skin to assist heal, raise, brighten, and stability. Better of all, her providers don’t break the financial institution—with forehead shaping beginning at $35 and facials at $75.

882 W. seventh St., St. Paul, 651-358-3916