: What can symbolize both beauty and relaxation? I am looking for a symbol that suggests beauty, and connotes relaxation as well. The context is that I am making an icon for a spa and salon

@Alves566

It's naturally a bald head. A person who has bald head must be free of all worry of coming or ongoing loss of hair. Draw it without any drops of sweat to make the impression of relaxation stronger. Give a little egg like shape to it. That's because nothing is more beautiful than a sign of new birth. To make it be apart of somehing cooked, insert a little egg tooth that has penetrated trough and just about starting to expand the route for the upcoming birth.

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@Harper654

Oh man this is a year old but I instantly had an image cone to mind. I'm sure your site is up and running by now with an icon you're quite happy with, but I picture a basic outline drawing of a woman with her hair up in a towel wrap and cucumbers over her eyes. The towel showing she's just freshly cleaned (cleanliness/beauty closely related) and the cucumbers are pretty stereotypical for spas and relaxation. You could even do a splash of colour with a green face mask and blue towel for calming colours.

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@Cooney243

I simply tried to draw something which can touch your subject , i made this graphics in 30 min so please let me know if you like it

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@Welton168

When you're designing it keep in mind the psychological research that has gone into colors and their effects on mood. Here's a great often cited research paper that tacks colors to moods: citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.407.2395&rep=rep1&type=pdf
It seems to be common that blue and green seem to be the most calming and positively received colors.

You can go to scholar.google.com and search more about the emotional response of colors if this isn't satisfying.

Here's a link that in short and among other things, says that realistic looking plant/foliage heavy visual stimuli produces a calming effect and has with success been previously used for therapies
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660240/
I'm a very logically thinking kind of guy so that's why I took a hard psychological research route but I like what I've found and hopefully you do too!

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@Eichhorn212

A gently angled flower stem (with flower) with a location marks for a leafs. Location marks suggesting searching/mapping, flower for beauty and the gentle angle suggesting relaxation. Colors and typography appropriate with that concept. But that's just one idea.

The process to reaching these ideas and concepts though is similar throughout any design process. You get the requirements and then you start the ideation process, identifying symbols, visuals, colors, typography, and other elements that might work in a solution. A lot of this ideation process is simply resource gathering, thinking, sketching, testing, and really, playing. You are flexibly experimenting to find ideas and concepts that will work and address the project/problem requirements. Once you have a few strong concepts you move on to a more constrained process of developing design comps which present the best concepts in a more formal presentation in preparation for feedback. Feedback leads to further iterations, development and refinement. Usually of the core concepts already identified, but sometimes leading to further concepts. And thus the process moves on from informal to formal, unconstrained to constrained, raw and undeveloped to developed and polished - until eventually the final design is arrived at, approved and implemented.

If at any point in the design process - but ideally near the beginning before formal decisions have been made - you're not happy with the concepts, take a break and go do something else. Subconsciously your mind will still work on the problem while you go do something relaxing and this can often lead to flashes of inspiration that would not be possible otherwise. Have a small notebook and pen/pencil handy though so you can capture those ideas.

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@Si6392903

Water is a good symbol to represent relaxation; The sound of the flows, rain, purifying and refreshing effects are all things that brings a lot of positive relaxing feelings.

Then for beauty, I think the hair of a woman are also an easy symbol often associated with beauty.

So what I could see is a mix of these 2 symbols together (see file attached, just a draft of copy/paste graphics from the web, nothing original). I'm just not sure this is really a symbol since it's 2 symbols combined together. And if you're looking to create an icon, it may not look very clear at a small size.

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Another path you may want to explore is the Zen style and the soft rocks that are often used in spa salon as well.

The way they are relaxing is because of how it automatically reminds people about the "zen culture" but also maybe remind some people about the spa treatments using these rocks. The shape can also bring to mind the water and wind that soften them.

For the beauty part, these rocks have an interesting symmetry that is pleasing to look at and they are also often piled up in a way that I personally find full of beauty. Probably it's its simplicity that makes it so interesting in fact.

These rocks could be easier to recognize than my previous suggestion if made into a graphic for an icon. The sample attached might not be perfectly good for an icon but there are tons of nice pictures online that you may find better for this use.

I hope this helps!

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@Jamie315

The concept of a relaxed-looking female with styled hair/make-up seems appropriate in my mind. Something along the lines of this icon from thenounproject:



She has a beautiful appearance, and looks quite relaxed as well.

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@Jennifer810

Ying-Yang symbol. Baby blue and white.

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@Karen819

Here are some ideas that pop to mind from the words:

I think the best representation that describe both types of business is a women.


A Women line art profile of there head with elongated curves. This could easily incorporate a line that goes along the outside to make a circle as well. Depending on the size you're making, it may be hard to see something like this at such small sizes.





A single leaf (example from font awesome)
Rocks placed on each other
Water drop
Water Ripples
A Lilly pad on ripple water
A Wave
A sun
Abstract Yoga pose (Where a person is crossing there legs)
Stick in Jar thing (Idk what it is called but we have one in our office)





A candle
3 pieces of long grass


In my opinion I don't think you have to pick something that is so finite that represents both categories to a "T". The reason I bring up these words is that they remind me of something clean & healthy, or a transformation.

You may also get inspiration from the company name itself. Some logos I have seen in the past create a unique design out of the first letter in the company name.

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@Si6392903

One that comes to mind is a piece of cucumber, you know that generic image of a woman with a face-pack on and cucumber eyes relaxing next to a spa pool....

A cucumber slice vector/cartoon would fit nicely as an icon.

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@Annie732

Can I suggest to use a cat image? I don't aware of other examples of extreme beauty which possess the best relaxation in its genes....

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