I didn’t just have a facial–I had one of the greatest 2-hour experiences of my LIFE!!–a facial with Mirsada! Mirsada surrounded me with a bamboo face hut and steamed my pores for about 1/2 an hour, while massaging my feet, then manually opened every single pore on my face and scooped out at least 2 pounds of stuff. You would not believe the intrigue involved in securing her top secret peel. I am beautiful. My pores are singing. My face is actually lighter. Several times she would shriek, “You have to see this, you have to see this, oh my god, you are going to love me, look, just look at this!!!” and then hold up the mirror to show me all the white and black heads that she was massaging to the surface and scooping away.
Mirsada and I go way back, when she was the housekeeper and I the gardener on a California Street penthouse. I made a little herb garden for her, and she would make lunch for me. We talked of love, her home in Bosnia, food. She then became my housekeeper. On her first day, she spent 8 hours just in the kitchen. When I came home she was slumped exhaustedly on a chair, but jumped up and excitedly exclaimed, “Whatever Mirsada’s hand touch–CLEAN!!” The backs of drawers were cleaned. Her thoroughness and love of work extends into her work as an aesthetician. She became so enamored of my and Bob’s home that after we broke up she quit cleaning. She came down into my studio crying and said, “When you and Bob talk, it is ART, your life is art… You and your hairy men, it is not art, it won’t last, and you, you are nothing.”
So it’s been a while since I’ve seen her, but now she’s created a little paradise on Post Street. You walk down a long dark hallway, and on opening the door to her salon, pass into a kind of heaven, with lovely sunlight streaming into a dazzling white room with orchids and candles placed artistically around a waiting area that is the single most pleasant space in San Francisco, the only tension from the perfection in the Feng Shui balance that she’s so marvelously achieved.
If you ever ever want a facial, do not see anyone else. See Mirsada:
Mirsada’s Skin Care at Spa Seven
1255 Post Street at Van Ness, Suite 493
(415) 756-7878
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