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Guests leave the notoriously spartan Ashram in Calabasas, California, with three things: mindful eating habits, stronger leg muscles and Amanda Pulcine’s cell-phone number. The massage therapist works at the Ashram three days a week and also makes house calls in the Los Angeles area, treating such clients as Dan Aykroyd. Every few months the Wisconsin native flies to New York, where she works her magic on Dita Von Teese and Frédéric Fekkai, among others. Mixing craniosacral and shiatsu massage techniques with cupping treatments, Pulcine, 36, tailors her sessions to each client’s needs. “‘The Mechanic,’ as I call her, straightens out my compressed body within a half-hour session, during which I sound like a freshly unfrozen woolly mammoth coming back to life,” says Aykroyd. “It hurts, but it works.”
Amanda Pulcine
Los Angeles, New York
310.738.4475
habitforminghands@gmail.com
When Lady Gaga still answered to the name Stefani, Ronen Marciano was her go-to guy. Now the 37-year-old Israeli-born stylist tends to men with enviable manes (singer Alejandro Sanz and designer Yigal Azrouël) and Upper East Side bohémiennes in search of tousled, not lacquered, ’dos. Equally adept at long and short cuts, he focuses on balance and making sure that each strand “falls into the right place in the right way.” Blowouts are not about stick-straight styles but rather achieving loose waves. “Give a woman hair with movement, and she’s going to look a little softer,” Marciano says. “Even if she’s a killer.”
Ronen Marciano
OC 61 Salon, New York
212.935.6261
oc61.com
