Hula Nails

Time Out says

Fri Aug 10 2012

Georgiana Amador worked at Mac for many years, which might explain why, when opening her own beauty parlour in Clerkenwell, she took a full-colour approach: an antidote to MAC’s trademark all-black packaging and decor. Hula’s boudoir style beauty rooms are gloriously decked out in Hawaian wallcoverings, with plush velvet sofas and burlesque flourishes (airbrush tans are dried off with a feathery fan, while beauticians have a distinctly Dita Von Teese air about them). The salon specialises in luxurious grooming rather than skincare – so customers can come here for chocolate lycon waxes that leave a trace of glitter on the skin, and super-longlasting bio gel manicures, rather than facials and massages. Nail treatments take place in the window of the parlour, so you can gossip as you watch the media types go by, while waxes and spray tans are in cosily decked-out backrooms. Despite only just opening, there is a good buzz about the place, probably due to a solid fanbase garnered from Hula Nails’s initial months as excellent mobile beauticians. Now it’s their clients’ turns to do the travelling – and it looks like they’re very happy to do so.