We have a strange attitude toward summer holidays. It’s sort of like a summer affair – we long for it, dream of it, and, when it finally happens, it’s over too soon and it’s back to routine. But one way to prolong that little bit of summer paradise and get ready for work and autumn is to pay a visit to the beauty salon. Unlike trendy boutiques and stores that tend to open with the arrival of autumn and winter collections, new beauty salons usually open in the summer. Summer visits to beauty salons are a good way to escape the sticky heat of the city streets and get a bit of useful relaxation.
If you want to always look as if you’ve just gotten back from Ibiza, a Caribbean island, or at least Sochi or Yalta, you don’t need to leave Moscow. The city’s salons offer everything you need for a summer break.
The Sati beauty salon, located in an old building on Pokrovka Ul., looks like a little piece of Italy with its old-style walls, paintings and black-and-white floor. The salon offers a wide range of procedures, including collagen masks using placenta. According to Tatyana Baranovskaya, the salon’s owner, the masks were developed by a Russian doctor, and only 1,500 of them are produced a month. Baranovskaya described them as "a unique product with a lasting effect that is fully absorbed by the skin."
Another of the salon’s offers is an exclusive procedure that produces the lifting and rejuvenating effect of Botox injections. Also available are dying, toning, coloring, perms and hair treatment all using Goldwell cosmetics. "Goldwell’s safe and healthful products come in a wide range of shades and are interesting in their application, as one bottle lasts for four or five dyes," said Baranovskaya. If you make a special reservation at Sati, you can find yourself in the hands of Sergei Usov, stylist to Laima Vaikule and many other VIP clients.
A successful beauty salon has to have a good atmosphere. The design at the Savanna beauty salon that opened in June is the work of talented architects, designers and decorators. This explains why the salon’s airy and comfortable premises have been used by well-known magazines for architecture and fashion photo shoots. Savanna offers men and women a full range of procedures for hair, face, body and nails. Besides esthetic cosmetology, medicinal cosmetology is also available. Try the latest innovations and equipment including photo-hair-removal and photo-rejuvenation using Quantum instruments, mesotherapy, skin and acne treatment, a spa zone, seaweed and salt procedures, procedures to revitalize tired legs and modeling procedures for the decollete area. Some people say that finding a good cosmetologist or hairdresser can be harder than finding one’s other half, and it can be even harder to find a beauty salon offering such a comprehensive range of procedures all under one roof.
The major chain Sun and City opened a new beauty salon, Sun Style, at its tanning salon in July. The new salon offers everything from manicures to mesotherapy, and its cosmetologists can help give you renewed assurance with painless procedures using the Oxy Megastation mesotherapy apparatus that gives effective treatment while also enhancing the skin tone of the body and face. But the salon’s pride is its body cosmetology, including anticellulite procedures. Nothing’s better for summer than trimming that bit of extra bulge off and looking great. And if you need a new haircut, Sun Style will take care of that too, and can even offer you its unique hair-care procedure, in which, first, a nourishing mask is placed on the hair before the client spends some time in the solarium. And once you’re done making yourself look exquisite, you can add some summer tan in the Sun and City tanning salon.