London beauty tip: a good waxer is hard to find – but I know one!
By: Alexa Williamson
For those who are looking for a good waxer in London
and also somewhere to get a painless Brazilian/Hollywood done!
Going on holiday soon where bikini-wear is required, I decided instead of epilating (as usual) to get everything waxed (as it also saves a lot of time over epillating – ie having an expert wax you for like full leg, brazilian, underarms and eye brow/lip chin takes between 45-75 minutes versus two hours of epilation, in my experience, to do your legs and bikini area).
Beauty Essence Soho – great for waxing
So, called up Beauty Essence in Soho, (which looked nice when I passed by and also offers loads of treatments – at slightly high-end, yet still reasonable, prices) and booked a full leg (£32) and Hollywood wax (£47 – same price as Brazilian there). Frankly, I thought the Hollywood was a bit expensive, as one can get either that or a Brazilian done for between £25-35 elsewhere. But, I wanted to do it right away so I went with Beauty Essence and paid £71 for full leg and Hollywood (they give you a 10% discount for booking the two treatments together).
You get what you pay for
From visiting Beauty Essence, I can say, you get what you pay for! My excellent therapist was a Japanese woman named Sumi, who knew exactly what she was doing so that the Hollywood was painless (and there was quite a bit of hair to take off where I’d had a Brazilian before). She used a thick, beeswax-type lavender wax* for the Hollywood. And, she rightly claimed that it hurt less than the thinner waxes, which you use strips with. However, for my legs, she used a thinner tea tree wax, with strips.
Yup, I’d definitely go back again
The whole experience took 45 minutes and when I have the money and inclination, I’ll go back again as there are several branches in London and they do early and late hours before/after a typical 9-5 work schedule. Also, would love to go back and try their beauty treatments after the excellent quality treatment this past time – plus they do really good special offers, which are listed on their website.
* Sumi also told me that there are hundreds of waxes available now for this kind of thing and that she’d used chocolate and ginger waxes before. I asked how can chocolate wax benefit your skin and she said, it was used more because it smelled nice!
Further information:
Beauty Essence Soho – tel: 020 7734 9734
57 Poland Street, London, W1F 7NW – map
Beauty Essence (official site)
