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Best Manicure / Pedicure

Gold Winner Spirit Spa Silver Winner ZigZag Hair Salon Bronze Winner Remedy Facial Bar & Spa Terri Lowe says the staff at Spirit Urban Spa are dedicated to education and understanding skin care—that’s what makes their mani-pedis the best. “The additions to our pedicures aren’t necessary standard in all pedicures,” says Lowe. For instance: Use […]

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Best Spa

Gold Winner Spirit Spa Silver Winner Remedy Facial Bar & Spa Bronze Winner Interlude Spa, Halifax Everyone needs a spa day once in a while, and Spirit Urban Spa can help you out. “Spirit is a place to reconnect with yourself, with your friends and with life,” says manager Terri Lowe. “It just kind of […]

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Best Hair Salon

Gold Winner Bowtique Hair & Makeup Silver Winner Stanhope & Company Bronze Winner Spirit Spa Tucked away in a loft above Barrington Street is Bowtique Hair & Makeup. The space,—all exposed brick, floor-to-ceiling-windows and tufted chairs—exudes an easy chicness, just like the long bob you came in to get. Staff here are the kind to […]

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Best Hair Salon

Gold Winner Bowtique Hair & Makeup Silver Winner Stanhope and Company Bronze Winner Spirit Spa
 Comfortable. Friendly. Honest. Those are the top three things that the talented crew at Bowtique credits for its spot at the top of this category. “I started a salon because I wanted a fun and positive place for my friends […]

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Best Manicure / Pedicure

Gold Winner Spirit Spa Silver Winner Remedy Facial Bar and Spa Bronze Winner ZigZag Hair Studio Spirit Spa on Hollis Street turns the spa experience into a luxurious spa dream. Blending modern design and historic views, Spirit Spa’s beauticians are prepped to primp your digits to the max. A foot massage is followed by cuticle […]

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Best Esthetician

Gold Winner Katherine Hanlon, Zig Zag Hair Studio Silver Winner Saskia Roch, Foxy Moon Hair Gallery Bronze Winner Allison Mullins, Spirit Spa “The best part of my job by far is the people,” says Katherine Hanlon, who takes home the gold for her aesthetics skills for the fifth year in a row. “I am so […]

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Best Spa

Gold Winner Spirit Spa Silver Winner Remedy Facial Bar and Spa Bronze Winner Imagine Salon & Spa As the fine Tom Haverford once said, “Three words for you: Treat. Yo. Self.” It’s a simple thing we don’t often take the time to do. Pawnee options include: Clothes. Fragrances. Massages. Mimosas. Fine leather goods. A few […]

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Best Spa

Gold Winner Spirit Spa Silver Winner Remedy Facial Bar & Spa
 Bronze Winner Interlude Spa, Halifax
 Whether you pamper yourself once a week or once a year, you’d do well to book yourself into a session at Spirit Spa. From a brow tint to all-out, full-day spa experiences, Spirit is in the business of making […]

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Best Hair Salon

Gold Winner One Block Barbershop Silver Winner Bowtique Hair & Makeup
 Bronze Winner Thumpers Salon and Spirit Spa (tie)
 The haircutting experience at One Block Barbershop is pure sensory pleasure. With R&B on the stereo, a haircut is preceded by a transformative head, neck and shoulder massage with aromatherapy, exciting photographs from regular salon shoots […]

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Best Massage Therapist

Gold Winner Nathan Wessel, Spirit Urban Day Spa Silver Winner Tara Patriquin, One to One Wellness Centre Bronze Winner Tricia Elliott, Remedy Facial Bar and Spa Spirit Spa’s Nathan Wessel has in the past won the bronze and silver, but this is his first year at the top. He of course does massage therapy, but […]

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Best Manicure / Pedicure

Gold Winner Remedy Facial Bar & Spa Silver Winner Spirit Urban Day Spa Bronze Winner ZigZag Hair Studio Treat yo self, people. Even though you’ll soon be wrapped snugly in gloves and thick socks, don’t neglect those cuticles, cutie. Remedy Day Spa treats those tiny little canvasses on the ends of your fingers and toes […]

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