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Otylia Roberts Waxing at Gielly Green, Marylebone

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Gielly Green has been one of my favourite London salons for a while now. A stylish venue with careful and charming staff, it is a lovely place to have your hair done and pamper yourself from head to toe with the extensive beauty treatments. The Marylebone salon is extending its services and now boasts a long list of hair, face and body, nail, brow, beauty and waxing treatments.

Cheerful and smiley Otylia Roberts is a recent addition to the team. Polish born and nurse-trained Otylia moved to the UK in the 70s, she headed up the team at Harvey Nichols, and gained a reputation as the best Hot Waxer in the UK. In her long beauty career, spanning over 40 years, she has set up two companies and won numerous awards. She now brings her expertise to Gielly Green.

I was lucky to experience her mastery first hand when I went into the salon a few weeks ago to have a Brazilian wax with Otylia. Using plenty of talcum powder and chatting constantly throughout, this usually painful ordeal became a fun girly meeting. I usually sweat and swear throughout but with Otylia I felt completely at ease. She was casual and friendly but keen to do a good job.

I’m sure Otylia could wax in her sleep, in 30 minutes she perfected my bikini line. A trip to Otylia once a month should be an appointment in every girl’s diary.

More information here.

http://www.giellygreen.co.uk/

Gielly Green, Hair Salon, Marylebone

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Gielly Green is already firmly established in my little book of ‘favourites for London’ – the salon is luxurious, calming and welcoming. I have visited once before for an amazing facial (see my write up here), this time I was reviewing the hair services. The salon spans two floors kitted out in the newest equipment and decorated with comforting mocha brown furniture.

I was seated in a comfy chair, supplied with magazines and offered a hot drink which arrived promptly in a pretty glass. First I was due a half head of highlights with Tanya, a lovely quiet girl who seemed confident of what she was doing. My dark roots were becoming unruly, so we decided to tidy them up with some natural creamy blonde highlights just to lighten the look. Tanya was efficient and careful making sure she achieved the best outcome for my hair.

Gielly Green has recently created their own range of Organic hair products using fine natural ingredients and these were used to repair and enhance my hair. I was also treated to the Spa Mist II Treatment, a special new hair treatment that GG has collaborated with Takara Belmont to create. A deep conditioner was applied and massaged into my hair and scalp before a strange white cap was put on my head. This stayed on for fifteen minutes, it kept the moisture in while heating up; an ultra fine mist is released penetrating deep into the cuticles with an exceptional, long-lasting final result. Gielly Green has the most relaxing washbasin chairs I have ever experienced, I very nearly fell asleep while a stylist massaged my head.

Simone, who then blow dried my hair, is a true artist, and a mean exponent of the common gadget, the hairdryer… with a determined look on his face he used it like a power tool, changing the setting like gears on a motorbike. I have never had someone take so long blowdrying my hair – moulding and shaping, he is a master of technique and styling. The results were amazing, I looked like I’d walked straight out of Hairspray the Musical with my big wavy blonde hairdo!

As always, I left Gielly Green a very satisfied customer, this salon is ultra smart yet the staff ensure it is still very friendly and comfortable. Most importantly they make sure it is a lovely place to spend the morning.

Visit the website to book here.