Best Of 2025

Best of Orlando 2025: Health, Beauty + Wellness

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Doctors, nail salons, hairstylists, tattoos and gyms!

If you, the discerning horror fiend, want to justify your love for the genre with a commitment that goes beyond a subscription to Shudder and repeat visits to Halloween Horror Nights, have we got the tattoo artist for you. Orlando's Kali Mari, owner of Amaranthine Tattoo Studio on Edgewater Drive, specializes in the creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky all done with artistry, precision and flair.

Amaranthine Tattoo Studio, 3541 Edgewater Drive, instagram.com/kalimari

If you're already thinking about the perfect hairdo to complement your outfit for EDC, get Educe Salon on the horn and ask to speak to Anna Bonadonna. This stylist to the stars can transform your hair into a construct of dizzying architectural wonder, a pool of sinewy braids or a lush shag. (Or anything in between!)

Educe Salon, 1901 E. Colonial Drive, instagram.com/hairdazed_

Orlando-based professional body piercer Megan Davenport is ready to lend a little glitz and glam to your piercings. The in-demand artist, working out of the women-owned Aurum Veil Adornment on Turkey Lake, will adorn your new piercing with dazzling high-end jewelry: think implant-grade titanium, niobium, glass and gold.

Aurum Veil Luxury Piercing, 5907 Turkey Lake Road, Suite 112, instagram.com/meganmodify

If Manic Panic is a little too humdrum for your increasingly avant personal aesthetic, hairstylist Emily Velasco has you covered. Velasco, part of the ArtistryxCreative group at Sola Salon SoDo, works in vivid and brash colors on any hair, in any combination — they've even done plaid hair. You're only restricted by your own imagination! Velasco also crafts custom wigs with human hair, if you can't sport your dream 'do 24/7.

Sola Salon SoDo, 752 S. Orange Ave., instagram.com/emily6artistry

The medical estheticians at MurgaSkin, the medical spa founded by Dr. Eddie Irfan Murgasen and Ahmad Ayyash, pride themselves on having created an "inclusive space" as part of their practice — and they really have. The queer-owned and queer-friendly business balances beauty enhancement with inclusivity and education.

MurgaSkin Labs, 4016 Edgewater Drive, murgaskinlabs.com

1st Place: Sugar and Spice Esthetics, instagram.com/sugar.spice.esthetics

2nd Place: The Ritz-Carlton Spa, Orlando Grande Lakes, ritzcarlton.com/en/hotels/mcorz-the-ritz-carlton-orlando-grande-lakes/spa
3rd Place: Zen Space Wellness Studios, zenspacewellness.com

1st Place: Park Smiles Dentistry, dentistwinterpark.com

2nd Place: Oviedo Family and Cosmetic Dentistry, oviedodentists.com
3rd Place: Your Oviedo Dentist, youroviedodentist.com

1st Place: Sand Lake Dermatology Center, sandlakedermatology.com

2nd Place: Derrow Dermatology, derrowdermatology.com
3rd Place: Advanced Dermatology, advancedderm.com

1st Place: Lindsay Forkin, Couture Med Spa, couturemedspa.com

2nd Place: Raine Orza, Sand Lake Dermatology Center, sandlakedermatology.com
3rd Place: Erica Icovitti, Sugar and Spice Esthetics, instagram.com/sugar.spice.esthetics