Since 2009
A mansion with a few lives before this one.
Faces of South Tampa has been in aesthetics and skin care since opening in 2009, inside Bayshore Boulevard's Bigelow-Helms Mansion. Before Faces moved in, the house had lived a number of lives. Built by city council member Silas Leland Bigelow in 1908, it was sold to Dr. John Sullivan Helms in 1917 and became the first private hospital on Florida's West Coast: Bayside Hospital welcomed babies and cared for patients until 1927, when Tampa General Hospital opened on nearby Davis Islands. Helms' widow lived there until her death in 1974.
In 1990 the mansion was lifted and moved closer to Bayshore to make room for apartments behind it. The current first floor and the external stairs were added at the same time, and the smaller building, the Carriage House, was left intact.
Owners Mike and Jen Puleo opened Faces in the Carriage House, where the staff still provide facials, eyelash extensions, prescription-grade peels, dermaplaning, HydraFacial® and microneedling in one of three treatment rooms. In 2012 Faces expanded into the restored three-story mansion — nine treatment rooms, retail centers and room to unwind — and now owns and occupies all 12,000 square feet of the two buildings.
On the mansion's second floor are the injectable services: BOTOX® Cosmetic, JUVÉDERM®, Restylane®, Kybella®, Sculptra® Aesthetic, LED light therapy and NovaThreads®. On the first floor, the Device Facility — IPL, fractional skin resurfacing, laser hair removal and PicoSure® tattoo removal — dedicated CoolSculpting® and Ultherapy® rooms, and a retail skin care center with SkinMedica®, SkinCeuticals® and Obagi®, and mineral makeup from Colorescience® and Glo Skin Beauty.
When we started, we had this vision of what Faces of South Tampa would be, and everything centered on a model of impeccable customer service.
