Places&Faces® | May 2012
Business Profile | Flawless Image
FLAWLESS IMAGE
In wonderful timbered building close to Ipswich’s stunning Waterfront, Flawless Image is renowned for its top quality beauty and spa treatments. Anne Gould speaks to its owner Sarah Gregory rom the moment you walk through the door there’s obviously something quite different about Flawless Image. It’s like a sanctuary away from the hussle and bussle of everyday life, allowing you to relax, recharge and be ready to face the world again. Little wonder then that owner Sarah Gregory is attracting clients and a reputation for excellence right across Suffolk and beyond. Sarah opened Flawless Image just over a year ago and now offers more than 60 treatments including facials, massage, body wraps along with manicures, pedicures, lash extensions and tanning. There’s also an Anti-Ageing Clinic, run by medical aesthetic practitioner Elizabeth Hunter for wrinkle relaxing treatments, fillers, facial rejuvenation and skin peels. In addition specialist treatments are available for men and permanent cosmetics are also on offer. Sarah says her aim is that the Flawless Image experience is right at the top end of 40 | placesandfaces.co.uk
the market and she uses luxurious products by Temple Spa that are unique to Suffolk and are actually manufactured in Hadleigh. “It’s a very exclusive brand and used by only a handful of select spas across the country and is only on sale in places like Harrods and Selfridges.” With 15 years management experience at Shrubland Hall and qualifications as a clinical aromatherapist Sarah says that she has exacting standards and knows that only the very best will do for her clients. That’s why Flawless Image goes the extra mile to make treatments really special, she says – so when you are having a facial for instance you’ll never be left alone by the therapist (while the face mask works) but will be treated to a soothing head, shoulder and arm massage as part of the package. And now, in addition to her premises in Fore Street, Sarah has expanded and opened a Flawless Image beauty treatment room at Seckford Hall too. Increasingly Flawless
Image is being called in for weddings – at Hengrave Hall, Woodhall Manor and Hintlesham Hall, and not just for make up on the day but for a series of pamper treatments over a number of months. Sarah also works with the Salthouse Harbour Hotel and Viking Mariners with Spa and Pamper Packages and for corporate clients, which have brought regular customers from further afield – including Cambridge, Frinton, Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds. “We’ve even had Flawless Image booked out for exclusive parties too where we bring in canapés and champagne from the Salthouse and then shut the door and let them enjoy.” For more information: www.flawlessimage.co 01473 211010