Beauty Temple Salon & Day Spa

I don’t know who, but someone intimately involved with The Beauty Temple, would write such over-​the-​top review. However, I pass this place like foursomes a day. I always thought it was a front for something. They spent years renovating it. Workmen were never there. Once completed it was never open and a padlock remained on the gate. Now I see Soya bought it. Fishy rom start to finish.

The Beauty Temple Salon and Day Spa is pretty self explanatory, given the name. It’s a salon with a full range of services. But… the real beauty of this temple is the amazing building and interior décor. It’s a stone coral building decorated inside and out like a zen garden/​voodoo church. There’s a sunken couch area with hookahs on the shelf. Buddahs and other East Asian style artwork on the walls. Huge doors that look like they are transported straight from a gothic cathedral. Truly, this is an amazing space.
What’s especially amazing is the fact that you can rent it for events. My fiancé (now husband) and I rented it for our August wedding. The contact person there is Sabrina and she was incredibly helpful throughout the whole process. Some of our family had some doubts (Beauty Temple? Is this a Buddhist monastery? Synagogue? Wait, you’re getting married in a beauty salon?!?), but in the end, the event was amazing. All the moveable hair and nail stations were moved to a storage room, and Sabrina set up some tables to cover up the hair washing sinks on one side of the room. She let us use some fancy chairs that were in the space, and these became the VIP seating section for our parents. The room can seat about 50 – 60 fairly comfortably, and the air conditioning is run using a pump water system from the water out back. The AC kept the place very cool and all our guests (including me, the bride, in a heavy gown) were very comfortable. The whole place looked stunning, with spotlighting on the various pieces of art. There is even a little balcony area (reached via a tiny winding staircase) where the guitarist could sit and play for the guests. There are also 2 separate rooms, one where I was sitting before the ceremony, and one through which you could reach the bathroom. There are back doors to the building, and basically, the ceremony was such that I walked in from the back and down the aisle to the front of the building, where the huge front doors framed us for the ceremony.
This is an amazing building and I am so glad we found it for our special day. I would really love to see this part of the neighborhood attract more clientele, as it’s perfect for a small wedding. Down the street is a large public parking lot, and a bit further down are a few charming shops and restaurants, including a florist (who we hired for our wedding flowers), hair salon, and restaurant (where we held the reception). The only thing to watch out for are the mosquitoes! We got married in August around 6pm, so mosquitoes were to be expected, but be forewarned. I got 10 bites in less than 10 minutes! If you hold an event there in the summer, bring plenty of bug repellent.