Werribee, the hydra facial is a flat $100
Hydra facial for Werribee, where the figure you read is the figure you hand over
Werribee is not short of places to have your skin looked after. What is harder to find is somewhere that settles the price before you walk in. An hour-long hydra facial here costs $100, booked as one visit. No consultation appointment to pay for first, and no course of six to sign up to.
One postcode north, about fifteen minutes
Werribee sits in 3030. We sit in 3029, the next postcode going north, at 260a Sayers Road in Truganina. Most people make the trip up Derrimut Road, through Hoppers Crossing and Tarneit, turning off where it meets Sayers Road. In ordinary traffic that is a quarter of an hour.
The salon stands on its own rather than sitting inside a shopping centre, and it has a car park immediately outside. That sounds like a small thing until you have circled a centre on a Saturday with an appointment in four minutes. Here you park out the front and walk in.
If the drive is the part you are weighing up, the honest advice is to make it count. One appointment holding three treatments is worth fifteen minutes of road. One appointment holding a single brow thread probably is not, and Wyndham Vale neighbours tend to reach the same conclusion.
A salon, not a clinic, and that is a real difference
Werribee has skin clinics, and clinics are good at what clinics do. Before you drive anywhere it is worth being clear about which of the two you actually want, because the two words get used as though they mean the same thing.
What is not done here, said plainly
No laser hair removal. No anti-wrinkle injections or dermal fillers. No microneedling. No medical-grade peels. If what you are after is on that list, a clinic closer to you is the right answer and you will be told so. Nobody here will steer you toward the nearest thing on our own menu instead.
What is done here is done by hand
Threading, waxing, facials, henna and bridal preparation, by someone who has been doing it since 2008. A $100 hydra facial is the one piece of equipment in the building, and even that is a suction wand rather than anything medical. The rest is cotton thread, warm wax and hands.
The price is decided before you arrive
All thirty-two treatments carry a published figure, from a $4 upper lip to a $120 full body wax. You can put two salons side by side on your phone and compare them properly, which is awkward to do when one of them quotes after a consultation. Whatever the site says is what the counter says.
Being talked out of something is normal here
If you ask for the hydra facial and your skin would be better served by a $50 D-Tan, that is what you will be offered, at half the money. A salon fifteen minutes away only works as a habit if the first visit was straight with you.
What people drive up for
Skin work is the usual reason for the trip. Brows tend to get added once somebody is already here.
Questions from Werribee
How long is the drive to the salon from Werribee?
Around fifteen minutes in ordinary traffic. Werribee sits in postcode 3030 and we are in 3029, the next one north, at 260a Sayers Road in Truganina.
Most people come up Derrimut Road through Hoppers Crossing and Tarneit and turn where it meets Sayers Road. There is parking immediately outside the door, so the last part of the trip is not spent hunting for a bay.
Is this a skin clinic?
No, it is a beauty salon, and the distinction is worth having clear when you are choosing between the two. The work here is done by hand: threading, waxing, facials, hair henna, face bleach and bridal preparation.
There is no machine pointed at your face beyond the suction wand used during a hydra facial.
Do you offer laser, injectables or microneedling?
None of those. No laser hair removal, no anti-wrinkle injections, no dermal fillers, no microneedling, no medical-grade peels.
Werribee has clinics that do that work properly and they are the right place for it. Describe what you are after when you call, and if it needs one of them you will hear that rather than be sold the closest item on our own list.
How much is a hydra facial, and does anything get added at the end?
$100 for the full hour, and nothing gets added. That buys the cleanse, the exfoliation, the suction-assisted extraction and the hydrating serum.
There is no consultation appointment to pay for beforehand, no package of six to commit to, and no tray of products wheeled out at the end. The full description is here.
Why would I drive out when there are salons in Werribee?
Two reasons, and if neither applies to you then Werribee is closer and you should use it. The first is that every one of the thirty-two treatments carries a published price, so the comparison happens before you book rather than after.
The second is that the person holding the thread has been doing this since 2008, and will tell you when something cheaper suits your skin better than what you asked for.
Can I have more than one treatment in a single visit?
Yes, and from Werribee it is the sensible way to do it. Pick everything you want at the time of booking and one longer appointment is set aside, so a facial, brows and a wax run straight into one another.
Booked separately, the same three treatments cost you three drives.
What days and hours are you open?
Six days a week, Monday through Saturday, nine in the morning until six in the evening. Sundays are closed.
Saturdays fill before the rest of the week does, so a Saturday trip from Werribee is worth securing ahead rather than leaving to chance.
Fifteen minutes, and the price is already settled
260a Sayers Road, Truganina VIC 3029. Also serving Tarneit, Hoppers Crossing, Wyndham Vale, Point Cook, Williams Landing, Laverton and Deer Park.