MANicures and Facials in Fitzrovia

Ever look down at your hands tapping away at that keyboard and wonder whether your nails could do with a little TLC? Or could that face of yours do with a bit of attention – a bit of pampering – from time to time? Some professional skincare consultation perhaps, a rejuvenating massage or a good hydrating mask…

As part of our ongoing drive to deliver our customers head-to-toe perfection, we are soon to be offering a range of professional manicures and facials at our Fitzrovia store. Watch this space for more information, but in the meantime let us give you a taste of what will be on offer.

Danae will be performing Express and Luxury Manicures in the chair while you have your hair cut. The Express option takes half an hour and includes a hand massage and skin buff, filing and shaping of the nails, and cuticle removal. The Luxury Mani includes all this and an invigorating scrub for super smooth hands.

The Express Facial take thirty minutes and is also given in the Barber’s chair. This is a soothing and relaxing treatment that’ll fit in with your haircut appointment and leave you feeling super smooth and revitalised. The Signature Facial takes a little longer at 45 minutes, and it’s a more prolonged facial massage with added skincare consultation and a moisturising facial mask treatment.

Ask us in-store for more information about our upcoming treatments, and we hope you’ll book in with us soon. Go on lads, you’re worth it.

Pall Mall Barbers: A Head to Toe Service

Many of our customers often chat to us about the need for a quality shoe care service to help keep them looking sharp from head to toe. And since we always like to give the people what they want, we arranged some meetings with a few shoe polishers in town and are now pleased to announce that we’ve found the Jaunty Flâneur – the very best of the bunch. We’ve already done a couple of events with them in the past few weeks and the response to their shoe polishing service has been fantastic.

Our collaboration with the Jaunty Flâneur is a true meeting of minds: we’re both committed to delivering a great service using quality products. In the Jaunty Flâneur’s case, it’s about using a mixture of mink oil renovator cream to nourish the leather, and shoe cream to return colour to the shoes and get a shine from that all-important beeswax content. This is then topped off with a beeswax polish to protect against water and dirt, and to deliver that visual impact of a high shine.

Their polishing service is available from next week at the Fitzrovia store, so just drop your shoes in with us and then pop in and collect them a week later. Prices start from £12 for a standard polish and £24 for a glaçage (glass-like) polish. They’ll also be offering a full range of high quality cobbler services. If you’ve invested in a pair of shoes, using a good cobbler is a no-brainer and regular maintenance is the key to those kicks lasting a lifetime.

And for those of you keen to take care of your own shoes at home, we’re also working with the Jaunty Flâneur on a range of bespoke polishing kits to be sold in our stores. The kit should be dropping in the summer, so watch this space.

Just call us your all-round concierge service…

http://www.thejauntyflaneur.com/

Pall Mall Barbers in The New York Times

We were really chuffed to have been featured in John Freeman’s superb article on barber shop culture and the tradition of shaving in The New York Times Style Magazine recently. A true wet shave aficionado and a globetrotter like many of the guys and girls on our team, Freeman’s article invites the reader on a journey that stops off in Berber-style tents in the Atlas Mountains and tucked- away corners of Istanbul. He meets espresso drinking barbers in Beirut and vodka-pouring stylists in Manhattan. And then, he rounds off his article with the icing on the cake: us. Freeman says of our Fitzrovia store:

The tiles were gleaming white, the countertops granite and the barber’s brush was made of badger, not horsehair. My barber looked a lot like Stanley Tucci (must’ve been Elias…) but spoke with a South London accent… All I could feel was the gentle sweep of his blade, his occasional request for more hot towels. Time slowed down… all else was right with the world.

We totally agree with Freeman’s belief that visiting a barber shop, wherever you are in the world, is a reassuring ritual that connects us with others and reminds us that we’re all human and have the same basic needs. Popping into a barber shop for a wet shave is a bit like, as Freeman says, going out for a coffee or heading to a bar for a drink. It makes the world feel less alien, helps us ‘gain a foothold’ when we’re in unfamiliar places.

And getting a wet shave is good for the soul, too. Freeman’s had his fair share of shaves around the world and would happily trade an hour on the therapist’s couch for 45 minutes in the barber’s chair: “There’s so little we can actually control in this world, but even the unruliest beard can be managed.”

Amen to that. You can read John Freeman's full article here: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/yes-please-the-razors-edge/