Recently I spoke with Bianca-Rae Tustin, Business Manager at new Wellington beauty salon Beaute on Taranaki. The experience inspired me to take better care of my skin by investing in some new skincare products, and I am blown away by the difference it has made! Check out my piece on this new salon, published in Wellington Women Magazine, out now. If you take anything away from this article, let it be a desire to treat your skin with the tender loving care it deserves - you will not regret it.
Your skin is your body's largest organ, so it pays to take care of it. At newly launched salon Beauté on Taranaki, they make it their business to look after your skin and beauty needs.
Beauté on Taranaki is very central and easy to find (right next to Les Mills gym) and offers the whole package; from expert skincare to hair styling, massage, and waxing. This salon is a one stop shop for feeling beautiful head to toe.
Beauté opened on August 1st 2011 and is the second beauty business for owner Sian Adamson. The first, Beauté Skin Bar and Beauty Therapy Clinic in Dunedin, won Best New Business 2011/2012 at the New Zealand Beauty Indusry Awards in June this year. Sian, who trained as a pharmasist and owned her own pharmacy before opening Beauté, is based in Dunedin. Here in Wellington, Beauté Business Manager and Sian's niece Bianca-Rae Tustin takes care of business.
The team at Beauté on Taranaki are committed to continually improving in the areas of customer service and education so as to give every customer the best treatment possible.
“Cusomer service is really important to us,” Bianca explains.
“What we're wanting is a 5-star service.”
Sian and Bianca's vision for Beauté is that everyone would walk out feeling like a million dollars.
“We want our client's experience to be very warm and inviting, but also very professional. With us, someone can have their hair done, have a facial and get their makeup done and walk out feeling really beautiful.”
While offering a full range of services, Beauté's speciality has to be skincare.
“Our therapists are great at everything we offer at Beauté, but our forte is skin health. Each therapist has a wealth of knowledge to draw on about how the skin works and what would benefit it,” says Bianca.
Stocking a range of high end, beautiful products including Dermalogica, Beauté has also just brought skincare brand Environ on board.
“Environ is Vitamin A based, and if you're looking for something really results driven for your skin, it's the most amazing product. It can help from acne scarring to really dry, dehydrated skin,” explains Bianca.
When it comes to hair, Beauté is also top of their game, using excellent quality Kerastase, L'Oreal and INOA products to give the best results. All of Beauté's stylists have a wealth of experience and have been in the industry for a number of years.
One of the most popular hair requests is blonde coluring, Bianca explains; “our stylists do fantastic blondes. They have taken a lot of people from dark to blonde recently which is quite a process, but one they do so well.”
Something else Beauté do a lot of is weddings.
“With our weddings it's great as our salon is big enough to cater for the whole wedding party. We will block out time for them to all come in at once, and they can have the whole service,” says Bianca.
Beauté put on champagne and nibbles for their wedding parties as well; all part of the whole experience at their salon.
When it comes to beauty treatments, Beauté use organic, Fiji made brand Pure Fiji. The salon offers a Pure Fiji Experience, something quite different from other beauty clinics. Including a foot soak, foot scrub, lower leg massage and upper body massage, this is a beauiful treatment.
“And the product smells amazing,” Bianca smiles. “Anyone who smells Pure Fiji just falls in love with it.”
Sian, Bianca and the team have made sure that Beauté is accessible to everyone by offering some great specials and incentives, including the Beauté Student Club. If you're a part of the Student Club you can secure great deals on the most popular treatments at Beauté including $40 for a brazilian wax (normally $64), $40 for a spray tan (normally $59) and 15% off any hair colour service during certain times of the week.
“The Student Club has gone really well in Dunedin, obviously with a large population of students down there, so we thought we would offer the students the same thing here in Wellington,” says Bianca.
“It makes it affordable for them to come in and get the treatments that they're after.”
Specials aren't just for students though; if you're a new customer you can register on the Beauté website to receive $20 off your first service, and if you refer a friend to the salon you will receive $10 off your next visit. You can also sign up for a free 20 minute skin analysis valued at $49 where a beauty therapist will give you solutions for your skin care concerns such as dark circles around the eyes, dryness of skin, blackheads, skin sensitivity or even if you're just unsure of how to use certain products.
There are constantly other new specials and promotions happening at the salon which you can find out about on their website and Facebook page.
“Once you're a customer you can also register with our online booking service,” Bianca goes on to explain.
Conveniently, you can hop online and go through each day to see which stylists are available, check what your past treatments were or find something different, and book everything over the website.
“It means that if you haven't had a chance during the day to call us, you can sit down at night and just jump online and book,” Bianca says with a smile.
For a salon that only opened in August, Beauté on Taranaki has been growing very quickly.
“We've been having about 100 new customers a month,” says Bianca, “with an average of 700-800 customers per month in total.”
At Beauté on Taranaki you won't be treated like just another face in the crowd however; the team want you to leave their salon with that “wow” feeling, having had your requirement completely fulfilled. They are very confident in their services and provide a 100% money back guarantee, not just for services but products as well.
