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Celebrating Beauty for the Senses

Beauty for the Senses is an intimate boutique salon, focussed on attending to the art of beauty therapy.

Our serene space welcomes you to step away from your busy mind and be enveloped in our tranquil serenity.

Andrea, salon owner, dame of the beauty industry and one of Melbourne’s best kept secrets, focuses on creating an environment that tends to beauty in every sense. She channels energy into every aspect of the beauty journey and every detail of the experience. From the calming aroma, to the quality product ingredients, every therapy session is conducted with a masterful balance of knowledge and intuition from the heart.

Our philosophy is to fuse the very best in service, nature, expertise, therapy, product knowledge and professionalism.

Melt into the sensory experience as our attentive therapists tend to your unique beauty needs.

Beauty for the Senses takes a personalised, respectful, relaxed and good humored approach to ensuring clients enjoy their therapy experience. In turn we have relished in our share of accolades and glowing media exposure over the years. With a clientele that spans high level professions and everyday occupation from surgeons, journalists, professional athletes, through to stay at home mums and retirees, we pride ourselves on providing relaxation and comfort in confidence. Our loyal clients know they can rely on us day and night.

The five luxurious beauty areas have been created to evoke comfort and relaxation during your time while attended to by our warm & highly skilled team.

In an industry brimming with beauty experts Andrea has graciously tended to her beloved and loyal clientele for nearly 2 decades.
Her passion for the traditional art of beauty, has her regarded as a dame of the industry in beauty circles. The owner has developed her respectful approach and unique talents by accumulating expansive knowledge and experience.

Leaning on the traditional methods fused with knowledge of new developments in effective, natural and science based products her approach to beauty therapy is educated and intuitive.

Education is at the heart of each new step she takes in honing her skills. Her passion for accumulating knowledge of ingredients, philosophy, story, key benefits which ensures each individual is tended to with educated choices.

Whilst Andrea is trained step by step in a vast range of therapeutic disciplines, she takes an educated intuitive approach to their application.
Drawing her own conclusions and piecing her approach together with consideration for each individual clients needs.

Before any technique is available in salon Andrea places herself on the therapy bed, applying the attitude that “if it doesn’t feel good on ‘my skin’ it doesn’t get used.

Show full list of training:

Certifications

  • Dr Spillar Biocosmetics
  • Epicure
  • HUSH – mineral makeup
  • Fabou Tan – organic
  • Dead Sea Derivatives
  • Dr.R.A Eckstein
  • Dr’s Formula – MD formulations
  • EmerginC
  • Thalgo – Certificate (2 day program)
  • Thalgo – Certificate of Distinction (6 day discovery program)
  • Thalgo –
  • Mer & Sens – diploma in hot and cold stones
  • Jeanne Gatineau Paris – Skincare & Makeup
  • Decleor Treatment, Method and Skincare
  • Ella Bache – Product knowledge
  • Skinstitut – Product knowledge
  • Adele Givoni Institut de Beaute

Publications

Accreditation

  • Advanced Association of Beauty Therapy – internationally recognised by Cidesco

Awards

  • Thalgo – annual awards – Victorian Esthetician of the year – 1996
  • Thalgo – multiple winner of Excellent Perfomance Apr / Sept / Dec 1996 / Apr 1997
  • Doctors Formula – Outstanding achievement 2000

Which encompasses therapies with origins around the world:

  • French
  • American
  • German
  • Australian
  • Middle Eastern
  • Mediterranean
  • India
  • Japanese