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Dianna GWhere do you go to for your Spa Treatment (Sydney)?
September 12th 2007 00:10
There is a beauty salon I’ve been going to in Sydney the past ten years. While they don’t offer the ambience (more often than not, you’ll find yourself in something no bigger than a cupboard, lying on a towel-covered patio chair next to a rack of shoes) or service (never book for more than two people as they tend to leave the ‘excess people’ waiting outside), this place offers the best value for money when it comes to facials. For around $55, you get a facial with a heavenly shoulder massage and the treatment can last up to 2 hours, depending on your therapist.
But lately, I’ve been getting a little put off by their service. Blinded by their massages, it never occurred to me just how bad their service was until my sister finally made a point of telling me that the therapists at this particular beauty salon make her feel like complete crap everytime she gets a facial. Usually sleeping through most of the treatment, I’d been exempt from the hard-selling and the tactless comments but I made an effort to stay awake as my sister and I found ourselves getting our treatments in the same room. Staying awake was probably helped when they stuck me on the patio chair while my sister was lucky enough to get the only bed in the room. In the next 1.5 hours, as I pretended to sleep, I listened in on my sister’s therapist selling her every product they must have had on their window display outside while telling her constantly, tactlessly and sharply that she had ‘very crap skin’ and for them to make her skin look remotely nice and smooth, she would have to go for the $200 facial. When I made a slight move, my own therapist’s voice boomed above me, giving me the same spiel. I grew up not liking to say I can’t afford things. My mum had always taught me that whenever I go into a store, ask the price of a jacket to find out it’s something like $5000 to always keep a bland expression. It’s called saving face. But when the therapist went on about the seventeenth product and I mentally calculated that I would have to spend $1300 in one day, I couldn’t help but sit up and practically shriek, “Geez, I’m not made of money, you know!” And what did I get for it in the end? A small cut at the end of the treatment from a brutal blackhead extraction.
So which beauty salon in Sydney would you recommend?
My wish : a beauty therapist who can keep their mouths shut
So which beauty salon in Sydney would you recommend?
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I love Karma Medispa in Sydney's Neutral Bay.....but it's still quite clinical in some respects. Especially since it's run by a nurse who does 'injectables'. And no I don't get any before you ask!
If you really want to indulge, head to the Golden Door in Cypress Lakes, Hunter Valley. They are quiet, warm, and all they care about is you having a relaxing and enjoyable visit. You get a robe, and tea, and amazing service.
Time to change your beauty therapist I think Aimzster!
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Chic, my friend went to Golden Door in HV and she said it was the best salon she ever went to. Unfortunately, I hardly ever go to Hunter Valley
I know *sigh* I've been scouring the directory looking for another beautician. Argh!
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I had a facial and waxing up at Crows Nest several months ago and the therapist was great, telling me about my face map and explaining everything.
As you read in my recent post, Ella Rouge is where I'm at now for the convenience of location and the rewards program. I've been to Ayurve in the city too, though they are pricey. Jobonga was great for a couple massage (in the same room). Jurlique on George St is a place I won't go to, after I bought my dad a gift voucher and being tired on the day of his massage, he fell asleep and told me that the therapist left the room and came back just to wake him up. $150 for sleeping in their room! Absolutely ridiculous.
I like to try a new place for each treatment, I can't believe you've been going to the same one for 10 years!