hair and beauty in Scotland

For a clean-cut look, book into Sharp Scissors barbershop in Partick, Glasgow.

This rustic-looking spot has everything you need for the ideal male grooming session. The team have many years of experience between them, so you know that whether you pop in for a skin fade, haircut and beard shave or full body wax, you'll leave with exactly what you want.

Sharp Scissors is just over a 10-minute walk from Partick Station, and is not wheelchair accessible.

Head over today for a barbershop experience you'll want to repeat.

Welcome to my page.

I have a passion for hairdressing and want my clients to feel like I am with them every step of the way when it comes to looking after their hair.

After over 25 years training and working with high profile stylists both off & on Instagram, I have found my perfect location in the heart of Edinburgh's New Town at Connolly Hairdressing.

Joined by an amazing team who have trained in amazing salons such as Cheynes, Vidal Sassoon, Charlie Millar, Patersons S.A, my aim is to bring an intimate and personal hair experience to everyone who sits in my chair.

There is no better feeling than seeing the smile on my clients faces when they leave the salon looking and feeling like a million dollars.

I provide services for Balayage, Highlighting, Colour, Modern Perning & Demi Waves, Cutting & Styling as well as Hair Up services.

If your looking for Instagram worthy hair or just a regular trim, I would love to help make your hair dreams come true.

New Clients are always welcome, so get in touch if you have any questions about visiting me at the salon.

See you soon, Mary x

Hair by JFK is a renowned salon in central Edinburgh, famous for the skilful colouring and highlights on offer alongside classic cuts and blow drys.

Catering to both men and women, Hair by JFK has a real edgy feel with its bright and plant-filled space. As a dog-friendly salon, you're welcome to bring your dog along while you enjoy the ultimate hairdressing experience from the stylists.

Having been in the industry for over a decade, the expert team here really know what they're doing when it comes to colouring. Their range of colour options and combinations, from bleach and toning to full head highlights and tinting, mean that they can cater your look to exactly what you're after and ensure you leave feeling great.

They use the best products from Schwarzkopf, including a choice of ammonia-free colour, as well as Colour Blast and Fudge, to nourish your hair.

Based in the Newington area of Edinburgh, less than a 15-minute walk from Edinburgh Old Town, Hair by JFK has a number of bus stops nearby and a few on-street parking spots too.

We offer a holistic approach to our hair and beauty treatments

Where possible we use natural, organic, ethically sourced products, we have sourced many vegan and gluten free products also.

Step into the divine realm of Highlighted, where buff brows and lashes are crafted with meticulous care and expertise. This place specialises in creating masterpieces that will leave you feeling like a goddess. At Highlighted, they believe that your eyes are not just a mere feature; they elevate your entire face. Understanding this, the expert on hand treats each appointment with a unique approach, so let this talented technician elevate your eyes to heavenly heights, giving you the confidence to conquer the world, one perfectly arched brow at a time.

Nearest public transport:

Based just on Saughton Road, you'll find plenty of local connections in the surrounding area.
There is free parking on Saughton Road. There is a bus stop just a 3-minute walk from the venue and you can find free parking nearby.

The team:

With a delicate touch and an eye for symmetry, this glamour guru brings out your natural beauty and enhances your facial features. Whatever you desire, this skilled artist will customise a look that harmonises with your unique style and personality.

What we like about the venue:

• Atmosphere: Transforming, professional and friendly.
• Specialises in: Brows and lashes.

Come one, come all to Luxe Hair Studio, Edinburgh's hair grooming and colouring hot spot for men and women

Whether you're in the market for a quick trim, expert colour or a brave new style, stylist Cara and her 17 years of experience are the perfect match.

Add subtle colour with some highlights or transform your look with a full head tint and trust that your shine will last long after its appointment with the use of renowned products L'Oreal, Wella and Olaplex.

Lovella Beauty is a comprehensive beauty and aesthetics clinic located on Leith Walk, specialising in a diverse range of treatments from waxing and lashes to advanced IPL and relaxing massages. This modern and welcoming salon provides a one-stop destination for all your grooming and skincare needs, ensuring high-quality results in a professional setting.

Nearest public transport:

The clinic is exceptionally easy to reach, situated just a 1-minute walk from the Balfour Street Tram Stop. It is also perfectly positioned on a major bus corridor, with frequent services (including the 7, 10, 14, 16, and 22) stopping almost directly outside, providing seamless links to Edinburgh city centre and the Shore.

The team:

Lead specialist Anne is a highly experienced professional dedicated to providing a bespoke and comfortable experience for every client. She combines technical expertise with a friendly approach to ensure that every treatment, whether it's a precision wax or an advanced facial, is tailored to your specific needs.

What we like about the venue:

• Atmosphere: Professional, clean, and friendly.
• Specialises in: A wide array of services including IPL Hair Removal, Lash Enhancements, Facials, and Therapeutic Massages.

Welcome to Clare Arnold Therapies, a home-based in South Queensferry. Clare is a skilled and compassionate therapist offering a range of holistic treatments, including different forms of reflexology, gua sha and energy healing. With a client-focused approach, she tailors each session to individual needs, helping to relieve stress and tension and to restore balance. Specialising in natural well-being and healthy ageing, Clare uses techniques that promote circulation, relaxation and skin rejuvenation, supporting a radiant, youthful appearance. Her warm, professional manner ensures a calming experience that nurtures both body and mind. Alongside her treatments Clare also hosts workshops and women’s circles, creating a supportive space for connection, self-care and personal growth.

Nearest public transport:

The venue is conveniently situated close to plenty of public transport options, ensuring a hassle-free journey to the venue for all wellbeing enthusiasts.

The team:

The owner of the venue is at the heart of the business. With a passion for beauty and a commitment to customer satisfaction, they ensure that every client feels cared for and leaves feeling rejuvenated and refreshed.

What we like about the venue:

• Atmosphere: Clean.
• Specialises in: Cultivating a welcoming and comfortable environment where clients feel valued, respected and at ease, as well as providing expert advice and guidance.

Step into PURE Spa Lothian Road, Edinburgh, where wellness meets luxury. Thoughtfully designed with your well-being in mind, our spa is a peaceful haven offering a range of innovative wellness and spa therapies for both mind and body.

Our first ever spa, PURE Spa Lothian Road has been a favourite destination for spa and beauty treatments. Now, wellness and biohacking enthusiasts can explore cutting-edge therapies like Cold Water Immersion and Contrast Therapy, designed to enhance circulation, promote detoxification and accelerate recovery. We’ve also introduced the latest in wellness technology, including Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, which supports healing and energy restoration, and the Dry Hydrotherapy Massage Bed, offering deep relaxation and muscle recovery.

Additionally, experience the rejuvenating power of our Red Light Sauna, which uses infrared and red light to improve skin health, boost circulation and relieve joint and muscle pain. For a comprehensive recovery session, try our Compression Boots Therapy to support lymphatic drainage and enhance muscle recovery. For mental clarity and relaxation, our Therabody SmartGoggles help to improve sleep, reduce stress and tension headaches with a deeply relaxing eye and temple massage.

Nestled just steps away from Princes Street and Edinburgh's West End, our spa combines modern innovation with tranquillity. With numerous awards to our name, the best part of our work is seeing our clients leave feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, and smiling.

Our dedicated team of wellness specialists offers a full range of 'facial' & 'massage treatments, including custom wellness packages tailored to your needs. Whether you’re here for a solo retreat, a couple’s experience, or a group session with friends or colleagues, we’re here to ensure you leave feeling truly revitalised.

Experience our new 'individual and corporate memberships, Access Passes or enjoy wellness suite packages curated for couples and groups.

Enhancing one's natural beauty can feel empowering and at Ultimate Beauty, Edinburgh, that is the ultimate goal. With an extensive list of tried and tested treatments that'll remind you of the goddess you truly are. Perfect, for lovers of everything and anything beauty-related, if you're looking to be primped, preened, polished and pampered, then go ahead and spoil yourself with a trip to Ultimate Beauty.

Nearest public transport:

The venue is conveniently situated close to plenty of public transport options, ensuring a hassle-free journey to the venue for all beauty enthusiasts.

The team:

With tons of experience, this skilful technician will bring your visions to reality, as you emerge as the epitome of timeless elegance.

What we like about the venue:

• Atmosphere: Vibrant, modern and friendly.
• Specialises in: Cultivating a welcoming and comfortable environment, where clients feel valued, respected and at ease, as well as providing expert advice and guidance.

Indulge in your next self-care moment at Sita Beauty Salon, for brows, lashes and nails.

Nearest public transport:
Just a one-minute walk from Browns Lane bus stop.

The team:
Sita provides a wide range of treatments, creating ‘me-time’ moments that help her clients to look and feel their best.

What we liked about the venue

• Atmosphere: A relaxing space where clients can unwind.
• Specialises in: Nails beauty.

Fabznation is located on Elderslie Street, a few minutes away from Charing Cross train station, in Glasgow.

Offering a range of treatments from nail art to waxing this unisex beauty salon delivers by giving you the ultimate beauty makeover. Their beauty therapists are professionals, attentive to your every need they are known for delivering quality services at great prices.

Welcome to East Coast Waxing, Edinburgh. There are so many salons and therapists around these days and it can be hard to figure out your girl, yes, we all have our girls or boys for hair, nails and all our needs so here’s why you should consider East Coast. With 14+ years of industry experience the past six specialising in waxing and spray tanning so don’t worry honey, you’re in safe hands! They have the best quality products as they only use Lycon hot wax for all intimate waxes, underarms and even facial waxing, their spray tans are St Tropez and an array of nail products including CND plexigel so you are guaranteed the best quality always! The waxing takes as little as 20 minutes and spray tans that can be done in 15 minutes, there’s no reason you can’t fit treatments into hectic days. So whether you’re looking for on-point nails, lush lashes, baby-smooth skin or a gorgeous glow - book in, they got you boo!

Nearest public transport:

The venue is conveniently situated close to plenty of public transport options, ensuring a hassle-free journey to the venue for all beauty enthusiasts.

The team:

The owner of the venue is at the heart of the business. With a passion for beauty and a commitment to customer satisfaction, they ensure that every client feels cared for and leaves feeling rejuvenated and refreshed.

What we like about the venue:

• Atmosphere: Clean.
• Specialises in: Cultivating a welcoming and comfortable environment, where clients feel valued, respected and at ease, as well as providing expert advice and guidance.

Shiatsu • Deep Tissue • Back, Neck & Shoulders Massage

The City Zen Sanctuary offers professional therapeutic bodywork in Edinburgh, including Shiatsu, Deep Tissue massage, and Back, Neck & Shoulders treatments, supporting people with stress, tension, pain, and ongoing physical or emotional strain.

Clients book different treatments depending on what they need in the moment:

• Back, Neck & Shoulders massage for focused relief of tension and desk-related strain
• Deep Tissue massage for chronic tightness, restricted movement, or muscular discomfort
• Shiatsu for more holistic support, working with the nervous system, energy balance, and overall wellbeing

All sessions are tailored to the individual and begin with a short consultation. Depending on your needs, treatments may combine elements of different approaches to achieve the most effective outcome. Shiatsu treatments are usually received fully clothed.

Many clients come to the City Zen Sanctuary when they:

• Feel stressed, overwhelmed, or physically run down
• Experience recurring tension or pain that keeps returning
• Want more than a relaxing massage and are seeking therapeutic support
• Are looking for structured care rather than one-off appointments

While a single session can be beneficial, most clients see the greatest improvement through a short series of treatments, allowing the body to respond, adapt, and stabilise over time.

Nearest public transport:

Edinburgh Waverley station is just a 12-minute walk away, and there are numerous bus services from all across the city on adjacent Princes Street and George Street, so you'll have no problem getting to the City Sanctuary. Plenty of paid parking is available nearby, for those arriving by car.

The team:

Fully qualified and accredited Shiatsu Therapist and Deep Tissue Massage Expert Kathi is committed to working with clients seeking thoughtful, professional, and results-oriented treatment, all while offering an exceptional experience.

What we like about the venue:

• Atmosphere: Restorative, professional and welcoming.
• Specialises in: Shiatsu treatments that will leave you feeling rejuvenated, revitalised and deeply refreshed

Update your hair in an instant with Styling Hair By Katie within LMQ Hair & Beauty, Edinburgh. With a healthy dose of all the major colour trends, you'll find this house of hues has an extensive menu of colour services, with options in glossy tints, sun-kissed and autumnal highlights and the intricate hand-painted balayage technique. This is creative colouring done right. So, sit back, relax, and the resident scissor scholar will soon have you swooning over your luscious locks. Remember, brand-new hair is the ultimate power statement, plus looking good never goes out of style.

Nearest public transport:

South Gyle station is a 17-minute walk away.

The team:

This one-to-one service aims to leave you feeling so relaxed and comfortable that you can't wait for your next visit.

What we like about the venue:

• Atmosphere: Chic, professional and friendly.
• Specialises in: Hair, helping others look and feel their best by harnessing the transformative power of hairdressing.

Frances Henry Hairdressing is a spacious and modern salon based in the heart of Glasgow's vibrant Clydebank. This fresh and bright hair clinic is located nearby local bus stops.
The ambiance is friendly and upbeat with an experienced team, always on hand to provide a consultation to help find your perfect style. Quality products such as Bed Head and L'Oreal are used and refreshments are served during your visit.

If you're looking for a small but mighty salon to take care of all your hairdressing needs, then look no further than AG Glamour in Rutherglen, Glasgow.

In this glitzy and glam space, the friendly and knowledgavble staff are ready to provide you with top services. Give your hair a boost with a bouncy blow dry, change up your look with a full head colour and foils service, or fast-forward time with expertly-applied hair extensions.

The salon can be easily reached by public transport, with bus stops right outside, and Rutherglen train station only a 7-minute walk away. It is wheelchair accessible, and there is free parking nearby.

Revamp your hairstyle and create a more confident you at AG Glamour.

Cute Threading Nails & Beauty is a vibrant salon offering a selection of beauty favourites including manicures, threading, eyelash extensions and brows.

This perfectly pink salon is located in Clermiston, Edinburgh and offers free on-street parking nearby.

Pop in for a relaxing manicure, get ready for a special occasion with new brows and lashes, or let the expert threading team leave you feeling silky smooth and ready to face the world!

Free parking is available at the salon on the road outside and the venue has wheelchair access.

Feel #cute after a visit to Cute Threading Nails & Beauty.

The only Nora Bode salon in Edinbugh! At LuminOxy, you can experience the power of Nora Bode advanced OXY facial therapies — innovative treatments trusted by top aesthetic clinics worldwide. Gentle yet highly effective, OXY facials exfoliate the skin with a precision-controlled diamond tip, while pulsed oxygen pressure infuses active ingredients deep into the skin. The result? Immediate radiance, improved hydration, firmer texture and long-lasting rejuvenation.

Nearest public transport:

Shandwick Place (Stop SB) bus stop is just 4-minute away. There is also free parking but must be pre-booked..

The team:

With extensive knowledge in advanced skin care, Tania offers each client a personal OXY facial experience, combining precision, care and the latest technology to achieve visible, long-lasting results.

What we like about the venue:

• Atmosphere: Modern, relaxing and professional.
• Specialises in: Advanced OXY facials.

Conveniently situated minutes from Cartyne station in Shettleston, Beauty Station is a salon which offers a wide range of innovative, tempting treatments. This monochrome, retro styled venue is vibrantly decorated with a highly experienced, friendly team who will always provide a warm welcome.

There are a number of services to choose from, ranging from nail extensions to ear candling, body exfoliation to the world famous Shrinking Violet body wrap, all of which are carefully and meticulously carried out by the hard working staff. Visit today and you will certainly be spoilt for choice when visiting this gem of a salon.