Courtney Akai Lash Boutique

For more than a decade, beauty expert Courtney Akai worked her magic on everyone from supermodel Naomi Campbell to Real Housewife Ramona Singer out of a studio in New York. In 2017, she quietly opened a small second location in Dallas. But the celebrity esthetician—once referred to by the New York Times as the “diva of eyelash extensions in New York”—deserves some fanfare.