Beauty Review: Top Notch Hair and Beauty, Eccles – Manchester

Every so often we all need a pamper. The pressures of daily life get too much and just getting away from it all for someone else to look after you for a change can make such a difference. I’d usually visit a spa for this kind of treat but tried out Top Notch Hair and Beauty in Eccles a few weeks ago to see if they offered anything remotely similar.

As you enter from the main Eccles high street the salon looks like it is just a hair dressers. Styling chairs line the wall with a nail bar situated at the back of the salon. What you won’t see is the tranquil treatment room upstairs where you can get Dermalogica facials, eyelashes and waxings, to name just a few of the treatments on offer. Candlelit you could be anywhere in any spa and it is wonderfully calming considering the bustling street outside.

I chose a gel manicure that was done with immense detail. It didn’t help that the dark grey colour I chose turned out to be quite opaque so needed at least 5 coats to be even! Many a beauty therapist would have given up at a few coats but not mine, she was adamant it was going to be perfect! After my manicure I had a facial using the calming Dermalogica range. I’ve always been a fan of a Dermalogica facial and this one didn’t disappoint. I do find the products work so well with my skin leaving it feeling refreshed, squeaky clean and radiant.

After my facial I was whisked back downstairs for my hair to be blow dried. I have very fine hair that does not like to keep a curl so it was quite testing of me to request a curly blow. This wasn’t an issue for my stylist. After she had washed and roughly blow dried my hair she painstakingly used the little round brushes like many others to get the curls in place before rolling them and pinning whilst they set. I’ve had this blow dry many a times but never has the stylist gone to this much effort to keep my curls intact.

The result was beautifully bouncy curls that lasted all day and well into the next despite being slept on. I know where to come next time I have an event to attend and need to look my best. The tranquility of the treatment room upstairs makes this the perfect option for a bit of time to get away from the world and enjoy some me time.

I visited Top Notch as a guest and was not asked to pay for my treatments.