Creemore salon promotes self care, rejuvenation
A new salon in Creemore offers a place of rejuvenation and relaxation along with full beauty services.
Stylist Vicki Green is assembling a team of health and beauty practitioners at Utopia Green Salon. The name references a place one would want to visit and Green’s surname of course, but is also a nod to the natural and organic products she uses and sells.
The salon is decorated using neutral tones and barn board reclaimed from a barn in New Lowell.
“The idea is to have the natural inside and out,” said Green, “to bring nature back in.”
She offers haircuts, colour, facial waxing and hair extensions.
“With all that we do for others, self-care is important. We deserve to be pampered as well,” said Green who worked from home in the Collingwood and Blue Mountains area for the past seven years and has recently moved back to Creemore, where she was born and raised.
Her great grandmother worked in the beauty industry and that inspired her to take that career path. She studied art, design and cosmetology at Georgian College and has taken many other beauty related courses.
Green said she decided to open a salon in Creemore, “to get back to my roots, per se.”
To round out the services offered at Utopia Green Salon, Green has hired two full-time employees. Sydney McIntyre is doing nails – manicures, pedicures, gel nails and polish – in addition to make up application, eyelash extensions and facial waxing.
Sydney Gallant is also coming on board to offer crystal healing and reiki.
Gallant will be doing energy healing sessions in a private room at the back of the salon. In crystal healing, crystals are placed on the body (over the clothes) in a way that helps to relax the body and open it to its own healing abilities, said Gallant. She said it is meant to bring balance and release blocks in the body’s energy system. With reiki therapy, the practitioner channels energy through the body to promote healing. Gallant said they can be used to augment western medicine in the treatment of emotional, physical and chronic discomfort and both techniques involve very little physical contact.
Green plans to add another health service and is in the process of hiring another stylist so the salon can extend hours into the evenings.
She plans to be an active member of the community and says she looks forward to supporting initiatives at NCPS, where one of her children attends school, and other local clubs.
For more information about current and future services offered at Utopia Green Salon, along with the hours of operation and pricing, visit utopiagreensalon.ca.
The salon is located at 6 Caroline St. W., Unit 1. Walk-ins are welcome. To book an appointment, call 705-466-6386 or e-mail contact@utopiagreensalon.ca.
Trina Berlo photo: Utopia Green Salon owner and hair stylist Vicki Green is flanked by reiki practitioner and crystal healer Sydney Gallant (left) and Sydney McIntyre, who will be doing nails and make-up.
