Author: Rama

Most of us think of a pedicure as a treat, something you book before a holiday or a wedding, then forget about for months. But feet do a huge amount of quiet work, and in a place like Dubai, where sandals and open shoes are the norm for much of the year, they take even…

Most of us wait too long. We tell ourselves the hair looks fine, the roots aren’t that bad, the ends will hold out another month. Then one morning the mirror disagrees, usually right before something important. The truth is your hair sends signals long before it reaches that point, and once you learn to read…

Dubai summers are hard on hair, and not in a subtle way. Between the beach days at JBR, the endless hours in hotel and villa pools, and the sheer force of the sun bouncing off every surface, hair takes a beating from about May onward. By the time the weather starts to soften in autumn,…

There is a particular kind of woman who walks into our salon on Meydan One Street and says, almost apologetically, “I don’t really do makeup, but I want to look put together.” She wants to roll out of bed, splash her face, and already look like she made an effort. Lash lift and brow lamination…

Most women who sit in our lash chair for the first time say some version of the same thing: “I want them to look full, but I don’t want people to know I’ve had anything done.” That single sentence is why the classic-Russian-mega debate exists. The three styles are not better or worse than one…

Two women can walk into the salon asking for “the smoothing treatment” and need two completely different things. One wants her thick, frizzy hair to stop puffing up the second she steps outside. The other has fine, over-processed hair that snaps when she brushes it, and frizz is the least of her worries. Keratin and…

You leave the salon with the exact shade you asked for. The balayage is soft, the toner is perfect, the shine is unreal. Three weeks later you catch yourself in the bathroom mirror under bad lighting and the whole thing looks flat and brassy. Sound familiar? It happens to a lot of women here, and…

A client came in last month convinced her hair colour was fading too fast. She’d changed her shampoo twice, bought three different serums, and nothing helped. The real problem wasn’t the colour at all. Her scalp was parched, her ends were brittle, and years of Dubai sun plus daily AC had quietly stripped the moisture…

Most women I meet at the salon carry their stress in the same place. Right across the shoulders, tight up the neck, a hard knot sitting under the left shoulder blade. They laugh about it, roll their shoulders once, and then admit they have felt it for weeks. Sometimes months. That tension is not just…

Two women can sit in the same chair, ask for the same length, and walk out with results that behave completely differently over the next month. One set survives a beach holiday, a move, and three loads of laundry without a chip. The other lifts at the edges by day ten. The difference usually comes…