As the body's glove, skin suffers wear and tear from earthly elements, shields innards from chilly snowballs, and sometimes gets left on the bus. Remember your epidermis with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $45 worth of salon and spa services at Aveda Institute Tucson.

A training facility for pamper proficients, Aveda Institute Tucson educates future scissor-wielders and skin-coddlers, while providing professional services at discounted prices. Student stylists practice their craft as they cut ($15), color (partial foil, $37) and trade stock options with fearless follicles. The botanical hair and scalp treatment ($25-$35) rewards heroic heads with an intensive conditioning treatment to repair strands, and massages deserving scalps, necks, and shoulders. Following treatment, a simple style shows off the results, while a hand massage prepares paws for comb handling and thumbs-upping.

Bribe your back for better posture with the Elemental Nature back treatment ($35), designed to purify and balance the spine's shield as it cleanses, exfoliates, massages your body’s binding. The Outer Peace addition ($20 extra) enhances the treatment, helping decongest clogged pores as customized refinement and treatment masks deport dirt and grime back to the cavernous trenches and mall food courts from whence they came. Clientele can indulge many areas of the body as students wet their toes in the additional learned realms of facials, makeup, and nail care.

Reviews

Fourteen Yelpers give Aveda Institute Tucson a four star average:

• It was great. I love my new do and I got to help out a student. – Amber S., 11/9/2010
• Amazing guest service – Katrina W., 1/9/2010