2013 Top Spa Trends - Inclusive Wellness

The boomer generation was primarily responsible for fueling and financing the multi billion dollar anti-aging movement. They threw buckets of money at anything and everything that would help them turn back time in hot pursuit of redefining what aging really meant, and looked like.  As a result they placed great demands on cosmetic manufacturers and their products, spas and their treatments, and of course, plastic surgeons and their expanding list of procedures.

Fast forward to 2013.  A great percentage of boomers are now entering the world of senior citizen status.  Their money is now being aimed at wellness communities in an effort to treat other aging issues such as arthritis, hip and knee replacements, back ailments, heart disease and a whole host of disabilities.

The rapid increase of aging boomers is once again setting a very obvious trend - treatment and recovery programs for aches and pains. Spas are once again adjusting their offerings to accommodate this special demographic . . . after all, the boomer generation is big business. The definition of 'new age' is changing . . . the new age on everyone's radar for many years to come is anything to do with "grey power" and how to serve their very definite needs.

2013 Top Spa Trends - Color Self-Expression

Self expression gets a great big voice in the 'no guts, no glory' color craze of 2013. If you have something to say this year, say it with color. Be wild and free, trendy and cool, conservative and chic, or bold and beautiful. Bright red lips, simmering rich earth tones, smoldering deep blue metallics, neon brights, and for those shy souls . . . creamy, linen pastels.  

The big color this season is Poppy Red . . . big, bold, passionate, courageous, powerful, spirited red. Red lips, red hair, red nails, red eyeshadow, red fashion. Red, red, red.  Other colors making their way to the runways this year are grass greens, ocean blues, and vibrant fruit colors such as nectarine and lemon twists.

Ombre hair of varying lengths and colors, body art and tattoos, and nail art with shimmery 3D polishes, "tip art", or a picture perfect pale nail. Living in color has never been so beautiful.

2013 Top Spa Trends - Healthy Hotels

The pursuit of health focused spas and wellness treatments are a big trend for spas and salons in 2013.

Spas are a being designed to project healthy living by introducing more natureful surroundings, adding more natural light, utilizing colors to promote a healthy sense of wellbeing, playing music that promotes inner peace, sleep and relaxation chambers, detox and healing programs, spiritual retreats, and believe it or not, spas that require a complete electronic disconnect where all computers and phones are checked at the door.  Peaceful perfection.

SPA FINDER'S TOP SPA TRENDS FOR 2013

Spa Finder and their brilliant leader, Susie Ellis, released their 10th Annual "Top 10 Spa and Wellness Trends for 2013" forecasting the top direction of treatments predicted to have a tremendous influence on the spa industry over the coming year worldwide. Spa Finder's astute research has clearly shown that spas are not just for pampering their clients, but are working hard at contributing to the wellness community and its move toward acts of maintaining good health and healing.

Top 10 Spa and Wellness Trends

• Healthy Hotels
• The Mindfulness Massage
• Earthing
• Spa-Genomics...Telomeres and Beyond
• Authentic Ayurveda and Other Ancient Revivals
• Color Self-Expression
• Inclusive Wellness
• Label Conscious Fitness
• Men: From Barbers to "Brotox"
• Where the Jobs Are