Spa Girls AZ

For 10 years, Arizona Spa Girls has made the spa experience more accessible for beauty and wellness enthusiasts worldwide. We have diligently built a comprehensive directory to literally thousands of Arizona spas and salons with descriptions, reviews, directions and insider tips. Every summer, we roll up our sleeves and break out the sunscreen to coordinate the annual Summer Spaaah Series events as well as host countless community events and contests. AZSpaGirls.com is a resource for exclusive spa and salon deals and insider spa news, and we will very soon be introducing a new way to make our deals even more accessible. To keep you glowing inside and out, we also have a syndicated beauty blog, home spa recipes, expert advice from local industry insiders, spa etiquette and tips and events. Arizona Spa Girls is the premier little pink book to feeling good inside and out!

It is with a heart bursting with gratitude and appreciation that I extend my thanks to all our supporters, advertisers, fans, followers, charity partners and honorary Spa Girls (you know who you are!) for 10 amazing years of spreading the message that the spa experience is not a luxury set aside for a fortunate few but for the “rest of us!” A special thanks to the Spa Boy for all his technical engineering and creating many (many, many!) versions of our websites, working long nights and weekends to keep our dream alive and empowering me to help others through our work.

Thank you all and wishing you peace, prosperity and endless good hair days! — Lisa

Since 2006, the Arizona Spa Girls team has coordinated close to 50 Summer Spaaah Series events throughout the hottest months of the summer to keep the industry alive during their off-season. The award-winning Series has raised more than $50,000 for Fresh Start Women’s Foundation and a made a believer out of many of our attendees.

Arizona Spa Girls had lots of other good things to celebrate this year including a mention in Women’s Day as a spa guide to the “best of the West.” Lisa Kasanicky was also featured as an expert source in Parenting Magazine.

Arizona Spa Girls founder, Lisa Kasanicky, was interviewed by ABC News on “How to Spa” on location at the Golden Door Spa in Carefree, Arizona. The segment featured the Spa Girl reluctantly exercising on a treadmill while the team got to do the heavy lifting as models for massages and pool lounging in the background. If you watch closely, you’ll catch a glimpse of the Spa Boy doing yoga. A very fun day for the AZ Spa Girls team!

That same year, Kasanicky was interviewed by Martha Stewart Living Radio host Betsy Karetnick and guest host Sunny Anderson on spa etiquette. The best part of the interview? Seeing “Martha Stewart” pop up on our caller ID at 4:00 a.m. that morning.

Arizona Spa Girls founder, Lisa Kasanicky, landed a gig to write The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Girlfriend Getaways for the Penguin Group. While the book focuses on fun, national travel destinations for female travelers (and definitely not idiots!), the book is sprinkled with inspirational messages softly nudging busy women to take time out for themselves and their friends for sanity’s sake. Not surprisingly, the book has one very fat spa chapter.

This year also brought Arizona Spa Girls foray into print with their first-ever mini magazine, the SpaBound Summer Passport. Part glossy, part coupon book, the SpaBound Summer Passport was an upscale print product with exclusive clip-and-go special offers from luxury spas and salons throughout greater Phoenix and Scottsdale. Sprinkled with entertaining and informative spa lifestyle articles, each page of the coffee table quality book painted an enticing picture of the rich spa and salon landscape that defines the Valley of the Sun. A future digital version is in the works!

Arizona Spa Girl founder, Lisa Kasanicky, was honored along with other Valley area innovators as one of the coolest people in Phoenix for her work as the “Spastress” by Phoenix Magazine. Very cool, indeed!

The website also continued to get a little more sophisticated thanks to the Spa Boy’s technical tinkering.

The Summer Spaaah Series is named the 2007 Event of the Year by International Festivals and Events Association-endorsed APS AzTEC Awards (for events under 20K participants). The series was also honored by the Phoenix New Times as the “Best Way to Get Pampered For a Good Cause” and has since racked up accolades with numerous press outlets. More good press.

Arizona Spa Girls also celebrated their five-year anniversary with a birthday bash at the Scottsdale Airport for spa and salon insiders. View photos.

With another slow, sleepy summer around the corner, the founder teamed up with a local women’s networking group to launch a series of “spa parties” that brought business to local spas and salons while supporting her mission to educate area residents on the health benefits of the spa experience and support a local charity. The Summer Spaaah Series became a hit and an annual, award-winning summer phenomenon! View photos through the years.

Arizona Spa Girls founder, Lisa Kasanicky, spreads the spa message as a contributor to various local publications. She served as spa editor for ITEM Magazine, a beauty columnist for The Arizona Republic’s family of magazines including 85255 and Arizona Woman and beauty editor for East West Magazine. Her work has been published in So Scottsdale!, Phoenix Magazine, AZ Magazine, Prime Living, Generation Health, Healing Lifestyles and Spas, ISPA’s PULSE and LiveSpa Magazines, Leisure Group Travel, Where and YES.

Dubbed a “chatty, informal guide to Arizona spas,” The Wall Street Journal featured the site as a top resource for scouting out relaxation spots. Arizona Spa Girls was also featured in bizAZ, Scottsdale Life and the Phoenix Business Journal as fun, new informational guide to beauty and wellness.

In keeping with the mission of making the spa experience more accessible to the general public, Arizona Spa Girls launched “Red Hot Specials,” a new section completely dedicated to mining out the best salon and spa deals across Arizona. Our goal was to create a resource where people could go before trying out a new salon or spa. SpaGirlsClub.com has since become the place on the web for top Arizona spa and salon deals and continues to be our most popular destination for local beauty and wellness seekers.