![](https://images.nymag.com/shopping/bestbets/friday/bb070413_198b.jpg)
Posted April 13, 2007
Sometimes the best beauty treatments are performed in a no-frills space, without corny elevator music or tasty fruit plates. Former Tracie Martyn staffer Joanna Vargas ventured out on her own and now performs an amazing anti-aging Triple Crown facial—a fancy name for an oxygenating lifting treatment. Vargas’s high-tech machine, organic products, and smooth touch make the experience comfortable, but more important, there’s an instant change in skin texture and appearance. Your face is de-puffed from the lymphatic drainage and muscle toning, and your skin is left with a youthful glow. If you want to tone your body along with your face, do the Tone Up Treatment ($200) at the same time.
$250 at Joanna Vargas Skincare, 501 Fifth Ave., nr. 42nd St., Ste. 707; 212-949-2350.