Unique spa services come into Vogue

Beyond makeup and cosmetic treatments,Vogue Laser Clinic offers help to cancer survivors - By Shelley Widhalm, Loveland Reporter-Herald
Coming up with a short, bold name, the three women who started Vogue Laser Clinic in Loveland wanted to create a different type of spa experience.

“We just didn’t want to be your everyday spa,” said Stacy Dover of Loveland, a certified aesthetician and makeup artist at Vogue.

“We don’t rush our clients in and out of here. We don’t make back-to-back appointments,” Dover said.

Vogue Laser Clinic offers traditional spa services, such as facials, body treatments and waxing, but also has an array of cosmetic services that includes laser hair removal, chemical peels, microdermabrasion, cellulite and vein removal, sun and age spot removal, and permanent makeup.

Vogue — owned by Fort Collins resident Susan Kruse, a certified laser technician and aesthetician — opened in May 2008. Abby Charpentier of Loveland, a certified permanent makeup technician, aesthetician and makeup artist, operates Always Beautiful by Abby out of Vogue.

Kruse, Charpentier and Dover, founders of Vogue, met while earning their aesthetician licenses at Hair Dynamics, a beauty school in Fort Collins, and decided to start a business together. They found a 1,500-square-foot office space in Centerra.

The space is divided into several rooms, the first of which is a makeup studio, just beyond the front desk and lobby, where bridal, makeup and other types of parties can be hosted. Dover and Charpentier provide special occasion and bridal makeup, along with airbrush makeup, which lasts as long as 12 hours.

“We’re intimate, that’s a good word for it,” Charpentier said. “We each have a passion for what we do.”

Down the hall from the studio is the aesthetician or facial room where facials, waxing and body treatments, such as detoxifying mud wraps, are given. Candles, music and a water fountain add a soothing touch to the treatments.

“We all have our niche in what we like to do,” Dover said. “This tends to be my room.”

The last room at the end of the hallway is the laser room for cosmetic treatments, including body and facial hair removal that men, along with women, are using, Charpentier said.

“You’d be surprised at how many men are involved in taking care of themselves,” she said.

Permanent makeup also is done in the laser room. The makeup can be used to shape light, uneven or unshapely eyebrows, line and fill in lips, and line the eyes with permanent eyeliner, Charpentier said.

Another part of the spa experience is services for cancer survivors. Vogue partners with the Northern Colorado chapter of the American Cancer Society, which provides a list of survivors who cannot afford post-cancer cosmetic procedures. Vogue provides the procedures, which are funded through donations.

Hair Dynamics joined in the effort and donated 2,000 new wigs for Vogue to distribute to cancer survivors.

“We really want to get involved with the community and co-network,” Dover said.

Vogue also works with a national public service program called Look Good ... Feel Better, which provides, among other services, makeup and skin care products for cancer survivors.

Kruse, Dover and Charpentier travel to cancer and medical centers to teach survivors how to take care of their skin and how to put on makeup to offset appearance-related changes from cancer treatment

“What we’re doing is allowing women to have options. We try to find something that works for them,” Charpentier said. “We’re all about improving women’s lives.”

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This sounds like a good place for laser hair removal.