Oak and Lily Day Spa gets a little bigger
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MOSES LAKE — The Oak and Lily Day Spa has been tucked into a little corner next to the downtown end of the Alder Street Fill for several years, but now it’s expanded into a larger space.
“We’re going into our fifth year, (and) we just expanded into the other side of the building,” said owner Stephanie Perez. “We added new services and redid some of our services that we started with.”
Perez celebrated expansion Tuesday with a ribbon cutting, attended by the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce. The space she expanded into used to be a law office, Perez said. The building is an older one, built in 1961, according to county records, and Perez has had to make very efficient use of the space. There’s a small room right behind the front counter where she started out doing manicures and pedicures. In the expanded space, there’s a room with a zero-gravity massage chair that reclines all the way back and wraps around to massage your entire body, right down to your feet, Perez said.
Beside the chair is an infrared sauna, a transparent box just large enough for the client to sit in to “detox and sweat” as Perez put it.
“It heats up, a dry heat, to a certain degree,” Perez said. “It also has different color light therapy. There are several different lights, and they each have their own specific things that are good for your skin. They’re good for like pain, weight loss, eczema; there’s a whole variety of things that it can help with.”
The room next door is where Perez does waterless pedicures, she said. Rather than having the client soak their feet in water, she uses hot towels and scrubs, and an electric file to exfoliate skin from cuticles and heels.
“What’s nice about waterless is that you’re less prone to bacteria; you’re less prone to getting infections,” Perez said. “It’s good for senior citizens or people who have issues with sensitive skin or anything like that, because when you are soaking in the water, especially if they have jetted tubs, you’re circulating some of that bacteria that’s been through the pipes over time.”
Oak and Lily is a one-woman operation; Perez does everything herself, she said. She’s carrying on a family tradition; her mother owns a salon in San Diego, and two of her sisters also work there.
Perez has about 200 regular clients, she said. All her services are by appointment, which makes for more privacy for clients.
Oak and Lily’s location right next to the Alder Street Fill looks awkward to get to, but it’s not, said Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Debbie Doran-Martinez. There’s plenty of parking in the back; drivers just go up Broadway to Ash Street, turn right behind Danny’s Tavern, and there’s space behind the row of buildings.
“She’s in a great location for visibility,” Doran-Martinez said. “Everybody passes by here every day.”
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