Life's hard. Upon juggling between work, school and your personal life I'm sure many of you, like myself, needs a short pampering session to reward yourself and forget all about your daily troubles for just a while. That's where spas come in.
{This is not a sponsored review. I went to this spa on my own accord upon purchasing a Groupon Deal recently.}
Located in the alley of Tudor court Shopping Mall and Tanglin Mall is a beauty and wellness spa which offers services from relaxing facials, deep tissue massage, body contour and nail services.
Le Petit Spa145 Tanglin Road, Tudor Court Shopping Gallery, #02-01/04
Singapore 247931
Personally, I feel that the location is quite secluded considering that the entrance to the spa requires one to go through a fire escape- like stair well. On top of that, in the progress of locating the spa, unaware of the fact that it's entrance is outside Tudor Court Shopping Gallery, I stumbled into Tudor Court puzzled at the 'missing' spa. Thereafter, I overshot the place and went into Tanglin Mall just to realize when I backtrack that the spa is right before Tanglin Mall.
From that experience, one would have easily inferred that the spa is not located at a very prominent area. Thus, do note that the spa is located outside of Tudor Court Shopping Gallery and not inside. You have to use an external metal staircase at the side to access the spa.
Decorated with posters of promos all over the stair well, one can easily be inform of what services and promotions they are currently having without having to climb two flights of stairs to realize that this spa is not for them.
With that, up the metal staircase we go. Aside from the beautifully designed hanging lights, I would definitely suggest some greenery to be placed on the exterior to clothe this bare and naked stairwell.
Source - This is a rather dated picture from their site. The place actually looks much cosier.
Upon entry, one would be greeted by the counter and three arm chairs for manicures and pedicures.
Right beside the entrance, is a cosy waiting area filled with a flat screen television, two arm chairs, a variety of products and nail polishes and a stand filled with chocolates.
As, it was rather empty when I arrived - 4ish pm, there's no need for any waiting required. Since I already book an appointment for Classic Manicure and Pedicure, Foot Soak, Hydrating Mask, & Foot Scrub ahead of time, this speeds up the process of them knowing what services I was looking for. I was then asked to remove my shoes and ushered to the manicure and pedicure section.
One of the manicurist served me a glass of cold water with some orange slices in it while the other gave me a palette of OPI nail colors to choose from. I would say I'm a person who love pastel colors and upon glancing their palettes, I am rather bummed for I would say that most of the colors seemed to be more suitable for working adults who like darker colors or shades of red.
Nevertheless, I did manage to finally choose my colors, a bright Baby Pink for my tingling toes and a see through color with pink and white confetti with white 2D flower for da nails.
I have to admit, their armchair is really soft and comfortable especially with the trickling sound from the miniature waterfall and soft classical music, it's definitely a great environment for one to relax and enjoy their mini retreat.
With two person subsequently doing both my manicure and pedicure at the same time, I feel like a QUEEN. Amazing.
The classic manicure session is actually quite short. Just a quick buffer of the nails, some polish and an arm massage and it's done. Takes a maximum of 15 minutes for my nails. Not much complains though cause after years of not doing pedicures, I realized that my feet have a lot more problems then my hands.
Although I like to comment that since I've chosen a transparent colour, I would definitely like the white tips of my nails to be evenly distributed. However, it seems like my manicurist were more focus on getting my nails buffed in a perfectly curved shaped and she did achieve it! However, the tips of my nails were still rather uneven and since I only realised such unevenness after the final coat of paint, there's pretty much nothing my manicurist can do then.
The classic pedicure session which includes the foot soak, foot massage and foot mask made me wonder why have I not do this more often. I absolutely love the foot massage. It felt like I was in heaven. 10 out of 10.
My nail care and nail art was perfect too. Just look at the details of the cats. There's even whiskers and some furry part on the tail!
Whereas for the foot mask, I was expecting a simple hydration mask. However, since they introduced to me their new brightening mask, I thought, why not?
Prices for add ons:
Nail Art: $28 - $56 (Depends on how much your manicurist quote you)
Brightening Mask: $28 -$60 (Depending on how much your manicurist/ masseuse quote you and the promotion they are having)
P.s. The brightening mask is hot.
All in all I would rate the manicure session 3 IreviewUread smile. I totally fall in love with my pedicure cum massage and mask session but I felt that my manicure session was a little too quick on my account. A factor which I dislike would be the fact that management openly discuss about their companies' matters in front of their customer. Although it might not seem as much of a big deal, but as a customer I feel that that conversation actually do contribute to one's experience at the spa.
Putting that aside, I would definitely recommend for one to go to Le Petit Spa for their pedicure and foot massage if they don't mind spending a little more for the luxurious services and cosy environment.
Total time in the spa: Almost 1 hour 50 minutes.
Opening hours: 11am to 10pm on Mondays to Saturdays and 11am to 8pm on Sundays and Public Holidays.
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