Many of you have heard the whispers that big things are coming for The Urban Spa… well you’re right!
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As a Hair Salon in Peterborough, The Urban Spa offers a wide variety of haircuts and styles.
Long Bob
This long bob features extremely loose waves giving the hair just enough bend to make it look natural.
How To Style:
Classic Chignon
This elegant hairstyle is parted deeply to the side and swept back into a classic chignon.
How To Style:
Loose Waves
This long hairstyle is parted to the side and styled mostly straight. It has extremely loose waves on the midshaft, leaving the ends straight.
How To Style:
Assymetrical
This short and sexy asymmetric hairstyle is parted to the side and style straight with just the perfect amount of texture.
How To Style:
One Sided
Wearing hair to the side and over one shoulder gives off a really pretty and feminine vibe that is perfect for spring.
How To Style:
To make one of these beautiful hairstyles yours check out our hair services menu and book an appointment with our amazing Hair Designer, Shea Bailey!
**Editor Note** This article was published by the American Board of Certified Haircolorists Newsletter and we thought it was so wonderful and informative that we would share it for our readers. The Urban Spa is proud to have recently started carrying Olaplex! Learn more about our hair services here.
Olaplex: Knock Offs or Knock Out ?
The debate is over as far as we are concerned!
Just as we indicated in our February newsletter, as predicted, there would be numerous “me too” products coming to market making similar claims to Olaplex. We have now heard of 10 brands worldwide entering the category. It’s easy to understand with Olaplex growing to a reported 70,000 salons in the USA in 6 months.
After many of my members emailed and asked my opinion… I decided to obtain samples and conduct my own independent tests to find out the truth and save my members and others from walking into a snake pit. I once had my own doubts about Olaplex. I even expressed the opinion that Olaplex was a rip-off. But after using the product for many months, I know that the chemistry is real and that you can do more as a colorist with Olaplex then without Olaplex. This is good for everyone in the color business.
I took four hair swatches from the same ponytail and bleached them using Blondor and 40 volume for 50 minutes for maximum effect. I followed each manufacturer’s instructions precisely. The photograph below is after four shampoos. colorpHlex is on the far left, next is good old fashioned mineral oil, b3 Brazilian Bond Builder is next, and Olaplex on the far right.
I will say that after the first two shampoos, all of the swatches were in pretty good condition and it was difficult to tell the difference. The b3 and the Mineral Oil left the hair most shiny after the first shampoo which made me very curious. But after the fourth shampoo, it was clear that the other products were not holding up and seemed to prove to be nothing more than oil and silicone. They were only temporarily coating the hair thus creating an immediate shine, but unable to build or link broken bonds with any degree of quality. The hair felt dry and fragile. At best, they would be better served to call it an additive for shine. Anything more is a far stretch of the imagination. The Olaplex sample maintained its integrity and was the clear winner. We also performed similar tests on live models and Olaplex was always noticeably and significantly superior. The more compromised the hair was, the more Olaplex outperformed the rest.
What concerns me is that they are making the same claims as Olaplex. They do not achieve what Olaplex does. I was so impressed with the results I had to call Dean Christal himself to ask what Olaplex had that the others do not? He said, “We have a real Chemistry that has multiple patents in the works.” It must be so because in my long career I have never seen anything that has worked as well as Olaplex. The rapid growth of Olaplex is also proof that I am not the only one that is seeing the difference. It would be a shame to see a bunch of knock off brands hurt this category that is becoming so important to colorists around the world. These are just my opinions from tests that I have conducted. I encourage everyone to do the same.
Andre.
It’s that time again where we go BIG and spend all of our energy on our current clients by rewarding them with awesome promotions! Take some time with you daughter or friends or family during March break! All services below earn Double Points for Urban Club Members. March Break Promotions are not valid in combination with other offers or promotional gift certificates (bridal show, birthday, Perkville). Minimum Age for spa services is 10 years old.
To book these services, please call 705-741-1212 or email us booknow@urbanspapeterborough.com
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Every woman’s nightmare is dry hair. Yikes.
Hair Salons in Peterborough Ontario recommend the Diamond Oil series by Redken. This is a complete home hair treatment for dry hair that gives salon-level results and outstanding diamond-like shine.
You can finally reclaim your hair’s lost shine and strength!
Why Diamond Oil by Redken
Redken is world-famous for its professional, effective hair products.
Dry, damaged hair is a concern many women have and the Diamond Oil Hair Treatment is the solution hair stylists and women have been waiting for.
Hairdressers Peterborough swears by the Diamond Oil range by Redken for a few reasons:
Top beauty salons Peterborough recommend Redken’s Diamond Oil as a proven and effective way to regain the radiance and robustness of healthy hair. The Diamond Oil is the most complete product range for dry and damaged hair to date.
Diamond Oil Shampoo and Conditioner
These two basic hair products are essential in getting the shiny, healthy hair you always wanted.
The hair salons Peterborough approved shampoo gently cleans your hair and scalp from build up dirt and strengthens it from the inside out. This way, further hair breakage is prevented and your hair split ends do not deteriorate.
Redken asserts that with the Diamond Oil series your hair becomes 3 times stronger and 2 time more shiny.
Immediately after shampooing your hair, apply the Diamond Oil Conditioner to offer your hair the much sought-after moisture your hair will absorb and the conditioner will help seal.
The Diamond Oil conditioner not only detangles your hair, it also replenishes their lost shine and rigor.
Diamond Oil Facets Intensive Treatment
Redken offers exclusive hair care with this deeply nourishing hair mask. This intensive Diamond Oil treatment is sealing in moisture and other nutrients so that your hair is healthy and shiny again.
Further damage and breakage are reduced and your hair is once again more lively and radiant.
Experts in hair Salons Peterborough argue that the intensive treatment by Redken’s Diamond Oil range is a results-driven product that delivers on its promises.
This mask offers a protective oil layer for your hair, preventing further damage and dryness. This is a hair-savior for many women with severely damaged hair due to color treatment and other chemical processing like perm and extensive bleaching.
Diamond Oil Shatterproof Shine
Our expert hair dressers Peterborough reassure that if you use the Intensive treatment by Redken along with the 
Shatterproof Shine leave-in oil, the results will be astonishing.
The Shatterproof Shine
Our Peterborough hair salons experts recommend the Shatterproof Shine leave-in oil because of its hybrid technology that locks moisture into your hair, prevents damage, and visibly improves your hair’s natural shine.
The leave-in oil consists of polymers and natural oils that reduce hair damaged caused by hair brushing and styling. Your hair are instantly more radiant and healthy-looking, while the natural oils like coriander oil and sunflower oil work their magic sealing in essential nutrients for repairing damage and strengthening your hair even more.
Diamond High Shine
Every woman wants radiant hair. Styling and over-processing your hair makes this nearly impossible. Redken however, has designed the Diamond High Shine series to offer you irresistible hair glow despite hair breakage and damage.
Our beauty salon Peterborough recommends the Diamond High Shine because it:
The most noteworthy High Shine product by Redken is unanimously the Diamond High Shine Airy Mist.
An innovative hair mist that adds grandiose shine and radiance to your hair, while ensuring your hair looks weightless, silky, and healthy.
Your hair will feel airy and silky to the touch and will have a diamond-like shine.
For more information on how the Diamond Oil product range can help your hair reclaim its lsot radiance and diamond-like shine, come to our Hair Salon Peterborough, open Sunday!
At The Urban Spa, our Peterborough hair salon offer the seal of approval to Redken’s revolutionary Diamond Oil series for the rigorous, unprecedented care it offers to damaged, dry hair.
Check out our current promotions and seasonal menu. We promise you will be impressed.
Styling and frequent color treatment of your hair can result in hair breakage and damage. Especially if you have long hair that is over processed, breakage is almost inevitable. The best hairdressers in Peterborough offer the solution to stop hair breakage when you decide to go from darker to lighter hair.
Hair breakage is something women dread and do their best to avoid or minimize. No one wants hair that’s so brittle that they break with a single brush and have lost their glow, and structure.
When it comes to hair breakage, every little ritual you engage in from how you wash your hair and dry it to how often you color treat it can be a make or break deal (pun intended).
Here are a few solutions you should try to minimize hair breakage and still get that caramel blonde you’re dreaming of.
Coconut Oil Hair Massage
Massaging your scalp and your entire hair with this nourishing oil will deeply replenish it and help strengthen your distressed ends. Our hair salon Peterborough recommends applying coconut oil to your hair 2 times a week as it will gradually make your hair less prone to split ends and breakage.
Wash no more than 3 times a week
Use dry shampoo and style your hair with accessories to go through your second and third-day hair. If you absolutely must wash your hair day in day out, use a sulfate-free shampoo. It doesn’t contain any harsh detergents and it’s gentler on your skin.
Know your hair type
It’s tempting to use a creamy volumizing hair mask on your thin hair, but this will make it super oily and heavy. The key is to only use hair products that have been made for your hair type. This way you ensure you get the most out of it without sabotaging their potential for more health and richness!
Condition your hair with hairstylist approved products
Avoid heat-based styling at all costs. It might be easier said than done, but there are plenty of hacks you can try to avoid the curling iron and the blow-dryer.
Braid your wet hair the night before and wake up to gorgeous, coveted wavy hair. Use a volumizing shampoo to add depth to your listless hair.
Our Beauty salon Peterborough guarantees that going heatless-styling for a few weeks will do wonders for your hair and significantly minimize hair breakage.
All these little ritual changes will add body and bring back the lost rigor and health of your hair. This way you have primed it for Olaplex, an advanced solution for going blond without damaging your hair.
How Olaplex is different
At selected hair salons Peterborough in Ontario you can get lighter hair without damaging it. This is possible thanks to Olaplex.
It is an innovative new way to offer you the blonde you so badly wanted without compromising your hair’s health. The majority of hair dressers Peterborough are not aware of this miraculous new tool and so they make do with conventional hair treatment products that damage their clients’ hair beyond repair.
Olaplex consists of three unique products that have only one aim; to give you the blonde of your dreams without risking your hair’s health.
In our hair salons Peterborough you can get balayage, highlights, or go all-out blonde without worrying about the result drying out or damaging your precious locks.
Cutting-edge technology that takes good care of your hair
Going from darker to lighter hair shouldn’t feel like a punishment for your hair. That’s why two chemistry Doctors teamed up with Olaplex to create products without silicones and oils.
The result was three single-ingredient products that bond together your hairs during any treatment giving you healthy, strong, glowing hair.
Olaplex Bond Multiplier
The Olaplex Bond Multiplier is added to your highlights lightener to ensure your hair is not damaging during the foil process.
Olaplex is directly mixed with your lightener and bleach and its sole aim is to protect your hair from the harsh effect these have on its structure, shine, and health. Our beauty salons Peterborough experts use Olaplex when providing color treatment to ensure your hair is not only protected but even healthier than before the chemical treatment took place!
The Olaplex Bond Multiplier can be used in many occasions:
Olaplex Bond Perfector
To ensure zero damage for your hair, Olaplex brings to professional colorists the Olaplex Bond Perfector. This is the second step in the Olaplex way of hair coloring. The bond Perfector is not a conditioner, it’s applied to your color-treated hair once it’s been colored, rinsed and toweled-dried and helps to strengthen and preserve the hair bonds that have been created thanks to the Olaplex Bond Multiplier.
It’s applied generously on to almost dry hair for 10 to 20 minutes. The Bond Perfector deeply nourishes your hair. At our hair salon in Peterborough, open Sunday, you can get the Olaplex two-step treatment and see for yourself how this revolutionary, zero damage coloring tool is what all women have been praying for.
A handful of hair salons in Peterborough can offer you a hair coloring service that not only doesn’t damage your hair but it also is the springboard for healthier, stronger locks. You don’t have to worry about hair damage and breakage when going blonde, not when Olaplex exists!
Hundreds of women have gotten the hair color of their dreams and now enjoy the liberating reassurance that their hair is damage-free despite being color treated and bleached.
Our Hair Salon Peterborough specializes in contemporary hair styles and offers you unique service; let’s discuss your hair concerns and give your hair the special treatment it deserves today.
Use our online booking system (24/7), give us a call at 705-741-1212 or email us booknow@urbanspapeterborough.com
A new hair style or hair colour is the perfect way to express a can-do attitude and embrace this year full of poise.
Our dedicated beauty salon, one of the most-trusted hair salons in Peterborough, Ontario presents you 5 must-consider hair trends you should try this year.
Let go of your inhibitions and try out a new look! You never know what a hair makeover might bring your way; new fling, a raise, a new job offer.
If you think braids are so last year, you’re mistaken.
Braids are here to stay. Only this year are sassier than ever. Forget all about your pristine fishtails and complex French braids. This year you will wear your braided hair in the most deconstructed, naughty way.
Peterborough Hair salons consider this a huge trend for the spring and summer, so why not embrace it early?
It’s super easy to get this hairstyle, but if you need a bit of help why not visit our Hair salon Peterborough, open on Sundays too!
If you’re into more challenging braid styles, like the waterfall and the mermaid braids visit our beauty salon in Peterborough.
Your grandma probably disapproves. So is your mother more likely. But, who cares?
This coming-undone, loose and messy ponytail is the new way to wear your hair this spring and summer. Woke up with I-look-like-a-mess hair? Embrace it. In a few seconds, you can tame your mane and look chic.
If we’re talking effortless hair trends, this is it.
A loose, looped-under ponytail that actually looks like you did put a bit of effort to it in the a.m.
Hairdressers in Peterborough swear by this style. It’s quick, fast, and makes you look like a million dollars. It is a zero preparation hairstyle and it works best with second-day hair because it’s easier to work with.
Embrace those hair wisps framing your face and if you feel like it, work your hair into the most loose, fun ponytail. Gently let it hang on your shoulder. Voila!
The great part is that if you have hair extensions Peterborough, then your hairstyle will look even more impressive with all that lushness adding more depth and zing to your hair style.
A low ponie is a fun ponie!High ponytails add elegance and a classic simplicity no other hair style can compete with.
Low ponytails on the other hand are first of all, big this season and second, they’re super easy to do and the result is astonishingly impressive! A low ponytail gives you plenty of options to wear it; tousled and teased at the crown, or super sleek with zero flyaways.
Use a dash of dry spray on second-day hair to increase hair thickness. Loosely grab your hair and work them into a low ponytail. Once secured with a hair elastic, grab a second one but don’t go all the way, leave some of your hair looped under.
Using your fingers lightly tease the hair that frame your face, increase the volume a bit at the crown and using a volumizing hair spray set it all in place.
This is much easier to do. Work your bedhead into a loose, lived-in ponytail at crown height. The effect you are after is, My hair is fab and I know it. Pull apart hair strands here and there to ensure you get this lazy, after-party look.
This year is all about laid-back ponies and braids.
Stop wearing your hair straight and worry about them being always sleek and perfect. Embrace their unruliness and get a more laid back style. You will see how much more fun and liberating you will feel. For more hair trend tips and hair styling let our expert hair dressers in Peterborough give you some recommendations.
Our Hair Salon Peterborough specializes in contemporary hair styles and offers you unique service; let’s discuss your hair concerns and give your hair the special treatment it deserves today.
Use our online booking system (24/7), give us a call at 705-741-1212 or email us booknow@urbanspapeterborough.com
As a team, we set big goals and as a team we celebrated those big goals. Here’s a quick run down of our 2015 staff party with ‘in-action’ photos.
We started in Peterborough with an the Amazing Race – Urban Spa Edition where the team did various fun road blocks and detours all the way to our first destination Ottawa, Ontario.
Here you will see two team members celebrating a Stanley cup finish to an outdoor hockey match.
Here’s you’ll see the team posing with their snow men.
Using a ball of warn the team was creative in taking stylish photos with random strangers.
Here you’ll see us doing random acts of kindness helping random strangers pump gas.
Once we got to Ottawa, we had an exquisite dinner at Bier Markt and then we we’re off to the Ottawa Senators Hockey Game in a style limo!
And here we are as a team having a blast at the game!
After the Sens game we had a great time dancing the night away at Fat Tuesday’s (a duelling piano hot spot) in Ottawa.
We started the day with some R&R and then put on the skates for a great skate on the Rideau Canal, the worlds longest skating rink!
We then headed over to North America’s largest spa on record; Le Nordik – Spa Nature. Just because we all work at a spa doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy going to the spa! It was AMAZING! The hot, cold and relax cycles are epic. The 1 degree water to cool you off sure get the heart going!
The spa was amazing and we rented a chalet for the night and made a feast. A Swiss traditional dish called “La Raclette”. It was great food, great fun and we toasted to our 2014 success looking excitedly at 2015 and the possibilities.
Day 3We headed back to the spa in the morning for 3 more hours of fun then grabbed an Ottawa classic for lunch. Garlic Shawarma! We headed back home and now we’re ready to take on 2015.
Normal business hours resume as of today, Tuesday Jan 20, 2015. Call us 705-741-1212 or book online.
The holidays are a time of giving but what if you can give someone an AWESOME GIFT and you also get a little something for yourself.
Here’s your chance to do good and do well
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you can avoid the traffic jams
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you avoid holiday shopping craziness
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you can enjoy a Starbucks Latte on us
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you’ll be the “awesomest” gift giver ever.
Until December 24th at 3pm, we’re offering a 20% bonus on gift card purchases.
What this means is when you buy a $100 gift card you will get an additional $20 gift card in esthetics and hair gift card for FREE!! 
We think you should buy the gift card as the gift and use the additional 20% for yourself! Or you can gift that too… it’s up to you!
BIG BONUS!! As if this wasn’t enough, for every $100 gift card you purchase you will get an additional ballot in our HUGE Holiday Draw where you can win a Pampered Woman Day Spa Package Over $250 Value, could be yours FREE!
The Pampered Woman Spa Package includes:
Over $250 Value, could be yours FREE. Will be given away FREE to a lucky winner!
Call us 705-741-1212 or come visit us at 388 Rogers St. to take advantage of this huge gift card sale.
You may also want to check out our seasonal specials at The Urban Spa in Peterborough
As a Hair Salon in Peterborough, The Urban Spa offers a wide variety of haircuts and styles.
Bohemian BobThis season is all about a heavier bob, using blunt bangs and soft waves to create an ageless style.
How To Style:
Blonde BobSoft ends and slight face framing take a traditional bob to the next level this season.
How To Style:
This haircut plays with the gentle aspect of a longer bob, but stays fierce by keeping the hair off the face.
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Longer, disconnected shapes through the top portion of the hair and tightness to the sides keep this short haircut aesthetically pleasing.
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