Treat yourself to a relaxing massage or facial, update your hairstyle or pamper yourself with a manicure at the following salons and spas in Notting Hill, all of which come highly recommended!

Beauty Works West
8-9 Lambton Place, W11 2SH
Website: www.beautyworkswest.com
Underground: Notting Hill Gate
A very wide range of treatments, the top tip is to go for one of their very thorough manicures or pedicures.

Espace Prive
1 Courtnell Street, W2 5BU
Website: www.espaceprive.co.uk
Underground: Westbourne Park
Another wide range of treatments on offer here, facials and massages are highly recommended.

Gina Conway Aveda Lifestyle Salon
62 Westbourne Grove, W2 5SH
Website: www.ginaconway.co.uk
Underground: Notting Hill Gate/Bayswater
Wonderful hair salon and spa offering a wide range of treatments that utilise the fabulous Aveda range. Hair cut and colour services highly recommended here!

hydrohealing
216a Kensington Park Road, W11 1NR
Website: www.hydrohealing.com
Underground: Ladbroke Grove
Recognised as one of the UK’s leading spas and wellness centres, the celeb favourite hydrohealing offers a very wide range of treatments to purify, replenish, balance and revive both body and mind. Treatments from their team of team of highly skilled therapists and practitioners include massages, facials, colonic hydrotherapy, anti-cellulite toning treatments, homeopathy, waxing and manicures and pedicures, with special maternity treatments and something for the fellas too.

The Life Centre
15 Edge Street, W8 7PN
Website: www.thelifecentre.com
The Life Centre is a friendly haven, where yoga, Pilates and natural therapies inspire well-being in the community of Notting Hill and for visitors from further afield – their community spirit lifts everyone practising and visiting there.

With an emphasis on having the best teachers, they offer a fantastic and varied choice of yoga styles, The Life Centre welcomes yogi’s of all levels with beginners’ courses, specialised pregnancy and mums & babies classes, and exciting workshops with resident and guest teachers whose experience and imagination brings a freshness to yoga on each occasion. If you’re new to the centre why not take advantage of their introductory offer: £25 for 14 days of unlimited yoga and pilates!

In promoting well-being The Life Centre also boasts an extensive array of therapies, including acupuncture, reflexology, massage and more. For more details including class styles, studio and therapy schedules please see www.thelifecentre.com.

Light Hair Studio
293 Westbourne Grove, W11 2QA
Underground: Notting Hill Gate
Notting Hill’s newest boutique salon, Light Hair Studio is home to Beverly Hills’ celebrity stylist, Daniel Bernard. The salon focuses on exceptional customer service and technical excellence – they’re proud to be the area’s colour and hair treatment specialist.

medspa beauty clinic
55-57 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JS
Website: www.medspabeautyclinic.co.uk
Underground: Notting Hill Gate
medspa beauty clinic is a small and friendly business which opened its doors in 2008; it is located next to Notting Hill Gate underground station (exit D) on the first floor of Calder Pharmacy. Their team of highly skilled beauty therapists and medical staff are trained to meet your individual skin care and body treatment requirements, ensuring you leave feeling relaxed, rejuvenated and confident, with an overall sense of wellbeing, while providing a truly bespoke experience. They provide a full range of beauty treatments including Bespoke facials using professional, high quality products, Hydrafacial, Nannic Lymphatic Drainage Treatment, Lycon Waxing, CND Shellac, Universal Body Wrap and Soprano Laser Hair Removal. They run monthly special offers and a loyalty program – please see their website for more details.

MYZ Beauty Boutique
20 Powis Terrace, W11 1JH
Underground: Westbourne Park/Ladbroke Grove
Newly opened in April 2014, the MYZ Beauty Boutique is brought to you by young entrepreneur Maryam Zandi who has a background in law and as a luxury fashion buyer. This inviting and stylish salon is staffed by talented and charming therapists, handpicked by Maryam from some of the UK’s most prestigious spas, and specialises in manicures and pedicures as well as massages and facials. In particular, the MYZ Beauty Boutique offers the revolutionary CACI system which shows measurable results after only the first treatment, re-educating your facial muscles to firm, lift and tone your skin – a treatment that’s suitable for both men and women. Check out Spotlight on: MYZ Beauty Boutique on our blog for a review of the salon!

Privet
214 Kensington Park Road, W11 1NR
Website: www.privetbody.co.uk
Underground: Westbourne Park
Privet is a luxury top-to-toe body topiary service for both men and women, located in the heart of Notting Hill. They employ a team of beauty professionals – or ‘expert gardeners’ – who believe that personal grooming should be an enjoyable affair. Their slick space is made up of three bespoke salon sheds, as well as a Tool Shed just for men (pictured); kick back and enjoy a treatment from their extensive list that pulls together the best of retro revivals with current trends to keep your face, body and bush neat and tidy. Or come and get rid of the winter blues by booking yourself into the Orangery where you can enjoy a sweep of St Tropez’s new blends! (They do, however, leave the vajazzles to Essex…) There’s a very wide range of treatments on offer, including Swedish and Deep Tissue massages; bespoke Murad facials; waxing for both men and women and laser hair removal using the latest soprano ice laser; and manis and pedis in their manicure garden.

Space NK
127 – 131 Westbourne Grove, W2 4UP
Website: www.spacenk.com/uk/home
Underground: Notting Hill Gate/Bayswater
As well as stocking a very impressive array of beauty product’s Space NK’s Notting Hill location is also home to a spa, offering facials, massages, body treatments and other grooming services. The Swedish massage here is especially good (and tough!).

Spa London
Kensington Leisure Centre, Silchester Road, W10 6EX
Website: www.spa-london.org
Underground: Ladbroke Grove/Latimer Road
Located inside the Kensington Leisure Centre, they have a wide range of over 50 health, beauty and relaxation treatments from leading spa brands of Elemis, Murad and O.P.I. Treatments include facials, massages, manicures and pedicures, prenatal treatments and other special packages, plus a thermal spa which includes a sauna, steam room, hydrotherapy pool, ice fountain and feature showers.

Strip
112 Talbot Road, W11 1JR
Website: www.stripwaxbar.com
Underground: Westbourne Park
The waxing salon that everyone (including the celebs!) raves about; they use a number of different wax types (chocolate-hazelnut, berry, lavender – all in specially themed rooms!) for a very effective yet incredibly gentle treatment. (Seriously – it barely hurts at all…it’s like magic!) Threading and eyelash/brow tints also available, as is laser hair removal. A very friendly place and top-notch treatment – highly recommended!

Urbanbliss
333 Portobello Road, W10 5SA
Website: www.urban-bliss.com
Underground: Ladbroke Grove/Westbourne Park
Urbanbliss is a leading multidisciplinary complementary health clinic in Portobello Road, West London, established for over 16 years. They offer more than 20 therapies ranging from Acupuncture to Reiki Healing, delivered by qualified and experienced practitioners. The therapists combine their unique skills to design a treatment tailored to your individual needs and help you achieve your recovery to health. They say: “At urbanbliss we’ve created a place where you can relax, take the pressure off, be pampered and get well. We’re here to help put you on your journey to better health and support you with our team of expert therapists. Rely on our dedicated practitioners to ensure you leave equipped to make the necessary changes needed for a new way of life.”