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Skincare and beauty clinic in the Broadmoor stretch of No. 3 Road, serving south Richmond rather than the downtown crowd. Facials, waxing and skin treatments booked by phone, with free parking outside the door.
Facials, waxing and skin treatments make up the list at this Broadmoor clinic, booked by phone, with free parking outside the door. Sparkle Beauty Clinic sits at 10111 on the stretch of No. 3 Road running south of the city center, where the towers stop and the road feels narrower even where it is not.
South Richmond has its own service economy and no particular interest in driving north for an hour in a treatment room. That is the entire logic of a clinic at this address. Retail down here turns into low plazas with their own parking, serving the houses behind them, and the clientele is largely people living within a few kilometres.
Skin treatment is a category worth asking questions about before booking anything beyond a straightforward facial. Ask what products are used. Ask what the aftercare looks like, and be clear about what your skin does and does not tolerate. That holds at any clinic anywhere and is not a comment on this one. A good practitioner will answer all of it on the phone without being asked twice.
Parking without a meter is not a trivial advantage in this city. Anything at the north end of No. 3 Road means a parkade, a rate and a walk at either end, which adds up in money and in irritation before a mid-length appointment has even started.
In the Broadmoor neighbourhood of Richmond.
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