Lily of the Valley salon—beauty treatments in Little Italy

The rose garden, the fine exterior woodwork, and the location itself—a historic century house at College & Palmerston—tell you this is not going to be anything like a typical salon experience.

Step inside, and the décor is an agreeable blend of Indonesian, Chinese and Western. Sit back for a new hairstyle or an esthetic treatment, and you know you’ll soon be back for more.

The boutique salon Lily of the Valley has achieved a rare balance. On the one hand, an exotic yet utterly inviting sense of comfort. On the other, friendly staff members who are free of pretense, yet extremely competent and professional.

‘Beauty Without Attitude’ is the salon’s tagline and operating philosophy. And it runs deep. The hairstyling/colouring staff listens carefully to clients. If you’re not sure what you want, they are ready with great ideas that suit who you are, or wish to be, and they have the expertise to get it right. And every cut from Lily’s keeps on looking fabulous for many months afterward.

Manicure clients perch like royalty watching the fashion promenade ambling along College St. below them. More intimate services like pedis and waxing are discreetly performed in a beautiful anteroom looking out to the stone gates of Palmerston Blvd.

Pedicures at Lily of the Valley are an exercise in absolute relaxation. Clients recline in a teak and water buffalo-leather Javanese planter’s chair that overlooks a shady garden. And it’s up to you whether you chat, read or sleep through it.

If you’ve considered a Brazilian wax but have an aversion to extreme pain, relax. Lily’s girls have perfected the Brazilian—theirs is second to none, in terms of lack of agony, totality of hair removal, and helping the willing-but-hesitant feel comfortable about trying it. And the newly Brazilianized tend to experience notable upgrades to their love lives.

All in all, a session at Lily of the Valley will leave you looking gorgeous, feeling terrific, and at a surprisingly reasonable price.

Lily of the Valley - Hair, Nails, Bali Body Treatments
496 College St. (2 blocks west of Bathurst at Palmerston Blvd.)
416-913-3854 • lilyofthevalley.ca