Best Beauty Salons in Canterbury
The best beauty salons in Canterbury cover brows, lashes, facials, waxing, massage and skin treatments, from quick brow counters in Whitefriars to award-winning independents and clinics. Nails and hair have their own guides, so this list sticks to the beauty side. Student tip: lash lifts, tints and brow lamination often need a patch test 48 hours before, so book it early if a ball or graduation is coming up.
- 10 places
- What each one is best for
- Website and Google Maps for each
- 1
Benefit Brow Bar at Boots
Benefit's Brow Bar counter sits inside Boots on Gravel Walk in Whitefriars, and brows are the main event. Book a brow wax and tint, a brow lamination to set them fluffy for weeks, or a quick lip and chin wax while you are there. Handy when you are already in town for a Boots run.
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Five Elements Beauty
Five Elements, in Lombard House on Upper Bridge Street, is led by a practitioner who has worked at five-star hotels in Hong Kong and London. The menu is classic spa territory: massage, facials, waxing, threading and tinting. Good for a proper reset after deadline week, or a gift voucher for someone who deserves one.
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Paradiso Hair & Beauty Salon
Paradiso is the girls' side of Chaps Male Grooming on Lower Bridge Street, tucked away from the barbers. Expect Tropic skincare facials, HD Brows, Lash Bomb lash lifts, brow lamination and Lycon waxing, plus massages including lymphatic drainage. Patch tests are needed 48 hours before lash and brow treatments, so plan ahead.
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LL Lashes & Beauty
LL Lashes & Beauty is run by sisters, both qualified therapists, from Orange Street (look for the door on the left as you walk into the car park). Lashes come classic, hybrid or volume, and the skin menu runs from dermaplaning and microneedling to Skinbase microdermabrasion and laser facials.
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Beauty by Millie Rose
Beauty by Millie Rose on Castle Street has a booking page that leans hard into relaxation. Choose deep tissue, Indian head or lymphatic drainage massage, or a facial from a 30-minute express to a deep cleanse or glow facial. Waxing plus lash and brow treatments round it off.
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The Beauty Studio
The Beauty Studio, formerly Kay's Beauty Studio, now has a brand new salon on Fairbrass Way in Wincheap, with free parking outside. Its booking menu covers lash and brow treatments, lash extensions, waxing, facials, massage and spray tanning. Worth the walk if you want lots of options under one roof.
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Thérapie Clinic
Thérapie Clinic in Whitefriars is the big-chain option, with laser hair removal for women and men top of the bill. The skin menu goes well beyond a basic facial, with microneedling, laser facials, Morpheus8 and skin peels for things like acne scars and pigmentation. Treatments start with a free consultation, so you can ask questions before committing.
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Mala Beauty Lounge
Mala Beauty Lounge sits inside Fenwick on St George's Street, and you can pick a drink to go with your appointment. On the beauty side it is all about brows and lashes: threading, tinting, brow lamination and Korean lash lifts, plus face waxing. Want facials or body waxing? Its sister salon, Mala Canterbury on St Peter's Street, handles those.
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Camomile Rooms
Camomile Rooms has been doing skin and beauty in Canterbury since 1992, and it was the first salon in Kent to offer CACI facials. Partner Alex won Gold for Waxing Expert of the Year at the British Hair & Beauty Awards 2025, so your bikini line is in safe hands. It also does oxygen facials, lash lifts and brow lamination.
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VK Beauty Studio
VK Beauty Studio on St Peter's Street takes lashes seriously: owner Viktoriya Kovalenko even sells her own VK lash supplies online. Book classic, hybrid, volume or mega volume sets, an LVL lash lift or brow lamination. There is also face waxing, deep tissue or sports massage and a stand-up sunbed for a quick glow.
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