Gold Winner Heidi Rofe, Beauty Starts Hair Silver Winner David Keoughan, Breathing Space Hair Bronze Winner Teresa Fisher, Thumpers Salon In January 2011, Heidi Rofe decided to quit working for other people and opened a salon, Beauty Starts Hair, right in her Fairview home, and “98 percent” of her clients followed. Obviously, the effort is […]
Breathing Space Hair
Posted inNews + Opinion
New massage therapy at Breathing Space Hair
Massage therapist Melanie Wheaton worked previously at Total Kneads Massage Therapy in the north end but now has her own practice, the delightfully named mel practice massage therapy. “I am now located at 1529 Birmingham Street [shared studio space with Breathing Space Hair] and welcoming new and returning clients.” Wheaton is a registered massage therapist […]
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Hair Salon
Thumpers keeps taking the prize as best hair salon, and if you walk in there, you’ll understand why. All they do is hair. It’s not a spa or a retail operation—though they do carry a few quality products from brands such as Bumble & Bumble—they’re a salon, and hair is their business. And if you’ll […]
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Hair Stylist
A reader likes David’s skill. “David has been in this business for a lifetime. If you want a cutter with style, combined with technical adeptness, then David will give you the best head in town.” First Runner-up: Teresa Fisher, Thumpers Second Runner-up Evyeneia Manalakos, Foxy Moon Hair Gallery
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Yoga Studio
Open for a year, the hot yoga place has been winning over the people of Halifax in droves. It turns out they’re especially popular with students and a few prominent musicians in town, including Jenn Grant. They recently finished a 30-day challenge, getting clients to do yoga every day for a month, and soon the […]
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Hairstylist
“I’m out of the rat race,” says Brenda Stone from the tranquility of her own salon, a studio space right next to Woozles that she shares with one other stylist and an aesthetician. After 14 years as a stylist, she’s figured it out: it’s the quiet environment that appeals to her customers, and running her […]
Posted inLifestyle
How to live for free all summer
It’s summertime and the spending’s easy. The temptations of big-name concerts, eating out, weekend getaways and cooling off with an ice cold beer—or more likely, beers—on a patio, are even harder to resist when the sunshiny weather has got you giddy. When you haven’t got much to work with, you’ve got to decide what’s worth […]