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Chocolaty nirvana

UNCLUTTERED SPACES To relax you

A relatively new and eye-catching feature of Bangalore’s changing urban cityscape is the proliferation, even in the most unlikely corners of the city, of funky signages announcing the opening of salons and spas, a pointer doubtless to the burgeoning beauty business.

Recession be damned. If anything, the general economic and job crisis has made more urgent the need to look good: women and men, young and old, stream into newly opened parlours, salons and spas to experiment with the latest beauty formulas and services.

Pittstop Salon and Day Spa, on the busy New BEL road, is one amongst these new generation salons. It has an unusual and contemporary range of beauty and anti-stress products and services.

But in addition – and this is what perhaps gives it a very distinct edge – it offers these in an ambience that is truly mood-enhancing.

The salon occupies 3,000 sq ft of open and uncluttered space. In fact, apart from the facial and massage rooms, the rest of the salon is open, airy and with plenty of natural light streaming in through a floor-to-ceiling glass wall. You are lathered/massaged/manicured/coiffed even as you gaze into the branches and sun-dappled leaves of a rain tree framed by a glass wall.

Pittstop’s offerings are many, although their signature items are the O3 + facials and the range of chocolate-based treatments: body massages, facials, manicure and pedicure.

The O3+ facial is designed for sensitive and mature (a euphemism for old and tired) skin in which a skilled young beautician gives your face, neck and shoulders a one-and-a-half-hour workout, so to speak, including massages with collagen serum and a thrermoprotein lifting solution for under-eye bags. The effect is felt as much within as without and lasts for days. Highly recommended, even if it costs Rs. 2,500 (as against an ordinary facial that costs Rs. 800).

And ah…the chocolate delights! Chocolate contains essential oils that re-hydrate, soften, soothe and nourish. At Pittstop, I try the chocolate pedicure. It complements the O3+ facial that has already sent me into a nirvana of relaxation. Now for the feet. The thick brown chocolate paste is used as an after-pedicure scrub-cum-massage of the calves and feet. The chocolate pedicure costs Rs. 600, against the normal pedicure for Rs. 450.

Pittstop is owned by Poornima Shetty and is every bit her creation. “I have always been a parlour person. I found that most parlours were small and cramped, so I conceived of a neat and spacious place where my clients could also de-stress.” She has lots of new ideas churning on how to enhance Pittstop’s services.

So when life gets to you, take time off at Pittstop.

Pittstop is located at # 16 Jaladarshini Layout, near M.S. Ramaiah Hospital, above Levi’s Store, New BEL Road. Call 42107601 or 98863 27073.

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