Tiny silver lamps hang from the ceiling of a luxurious spa equipped with sleek, smooth, silver cupboards and tables.

Another stylish salon and spa has opened up in the desert, but this one is right at the entry of Indio.

The Hair 2 Toe Salon and Spa opened in June in East Jefferson Plaza in the 80-100 block of Highway 111 in Indio, and residents are starting to take notice.

Channy Pimentel, 33, of Indio went to the salon Sept. 25 to get a full-body massage. She described the salon as “very modern and organized.”

“I think it's great to have something like this here instead of having to go all the way to a hotel for similar treatments,” she said. “It's very comfortable, modern and chic. It's so great.”

It's about time the growing city had a stylish salon and spa, owner Antonieta Gonzalez said. She opened the Hair 2 Toe with her brother, Rafael Gonzalez.

“We deserve to have something nice and something that is not expensive,” she said. “We want to bring something that the people of Indio deserve.”

The salon and spa offers hair services starting at $30, manicures, pedicures, waxing services, facials and makeup applications, Rafael Gonzalez said.

The inexpensive services are surrounded in luxury, he said. Visitors can wait for their services on stylish chairs while watching a flat-screen television and snacking on complimentary coffee and organic fruits.

The cupboards swivel to hide all of the styling instruments when not in use, Gonzalez said. There are even places for women to hide their handbags.

Pedicures are done on massive massaging chairs in crystal bowls.

The private spa room is for more than 100 kinds of spa treatments with organic products, Gonzalez said.

The Gonzalez siblings decided to open the spa last year.

Rafael Gonzalez was a licensed stylist and makeup artist who owned a salon in Mexico City called Palm Springs from 1996 to 2001. Antonieta Gonzalez had suggested that name because she was attending high school in the United States and loved the city.

“It was a disaster, by the way, because people couldn't pronounce the name,” she said, laughing.

Socioeconomic problems in Mexico led to the salon's shutdown, Rafael Gonzalez said. He said his salon was robbed several times. Finally, he decided to shut down the salon in 2001 and move to the United States.

After learning English at College of the Desert, Gonzalez went back into the field and worked for salons in La Quinta.

“People come to salons because they want a change, something to raise self-esteem,” he said. “It's important for me to make them happy, at least for the moment.”

The Gonzalez siblings decided to open their salon last October, Antonieta Gonzalez said. They considered opening the salon in La Quinta, but the Indio residents decided they wanted to be part of the city's changing image.

“It is becoming a really nice place to live and have a business,” she said. “The whole city is changing, and that's great, and we are a part of it.”