5th Avenue Beauty Emporium is on Clarendon Street in Dublin 2, a short step from Grafton Street and the Powerscourt Centre. It covers a broad range — facials, waxing, massage, nails, and hand and foot treatments — in one of the busiest retail pockets in the country. Clarendon Street is walkable from everywhere in the city centre; parking means the Drury Street multi-storey.
7th Heaven is on Main Street in Carrick-on-Suir, covering facials, nails, waxing and brow and lash treatments. Carrick sits on the Suir at the Waterford border and is the smallest of Tipperary’s main towns, so its salons draw from Carrickbeg across the river and from the surrounding countryside as much as from the town. Main Street runs through the centre with free parking nearby, and the town is well positioned for anyone travelling the Clonmel to Waterford road.
A New You is also on Main Street in Carrick-on-Suir, a few doors along, offering facials, waxing, nails and tanning. Two salons on the same street in a town of about six thousand keeps pricing honest and generally means you can get an appointment somewhere at short notice. Carrick-on-Suir is the birthplace of Sean Kelly and sits at the foot of the Comeraghs, with the Suir Blueway bringing steadily more visitors through the town in recent years.
Abelia Salon is a north inner-city option on Upper Dorset Street, a few minutes from Parnell Square and the Mater. The salon covers a broad list: massage, waxing, threading, brow and lash treatments, nails, facials, makeup and pressotherapy, the last of which is less commonly offered around Dublin 1. Pricing sits below the Dublin 2 average, and the mix of treatments makes it practical for anyone wanting several things done in a single visit. Threading in particular is a strong point. Appointments can be made by phone or through online booking.
Aimi works from the Broad Street Centre in the middle of Waterford city, dealing in Shellac and gel nails, eyelash extensions, eyebrow waxing and tinting, and body waxing. Broad Street sits right in the retail core beside John Roberts Square, so it is walkable from anywhere in the city centre. Nail-led salons of this kind tend to be quicker for a straightforward appointment than full-service premises, where the therapist may be tied up mid-facial when you arrive.
Akara is a nail-led salon on Terenure Road North, close to the village crossroads and handy for Rathgar, Templeogue and Harolds Cross. Gel and acrylic extensions, manicures and pedicures make up most of the diary, with waxing, tinting, eyelash extensions, spray tanning and massage filling out the rest. The standout is the opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10am right through to 9pm, which is later than almost anything else in Dublin 6W and makes it genuinely usable after work. Closed Sundays and Mondays.
Alainn Beauty Rooms operates from the Glenroyal Shopping Centre on the Straffan Road in Maynooth and has been awarded five stars for its treatment standards. It is an IMAGE Skincare stockist, a professional line built around active ingredients and targeted at pigmentation, acne and ageing rather than general pampering. Alongside facials it offers holistic and massage treatments, waxing, brows, lashes and nails, all in private rooms rather than an open floor. The shopping centre location means free parking, which matters in a university town where street parking is scarce.
Now trading as Allure Beauty and Nail Spa, this salon is on Lower Drumcondra Road in Dublin 9, on the main northside artery between the city centre and Whitehall. Nails are a significant part of the business alongside facials, waxing, tanning and brow and lash work. Drumcondra is close to Croke Park and DCU, so trade fluctuates sharply around match days and term time.
Allure’s Ballina premises is on Tone Street in the centre of the town, offering the same combination of hair and beauty as the Castlebar branch. Ballina sits on the Moy in north Mayo and is the largest town in the county, serving a catchment that reaches into Sligo. Tone Street is one of the main commercial streets with parking within a short walk. Booking across both branches through the same system makes it straightforward if you split your time between the two ends of the county.
The Castlebar branch of Allure sits on Market Square in the middle of the town, running hair and beauty together. The group’s stylists have been recognised internationally for precision cutting and colour work, and the beauty side covers facials, nails, brows, lashes and waxing. Having a second branch in Ballina means a larger therapist pool across the county and better odds of an appointment at short notice than a single-premises salon can offer.
Out on the Beara Peninsula, Amanda’s Beauty Salon in Castletownbere serves one of the most remote parts of the county. The treatment list is deliberately broad because it has to be: nails, waxing, makeup, facials, tinting, henna brows, lash treatments, tanning, sunbed and electrolysis. For anyone living on Beara, the alternative is a ninety-minute drive to Bantry or considerably further to the city, which makes a full-service local salon genuinely valuable rather than merely convenient. Booking ahead is sensible given the small number of therapists.
Amy’s Beauty Nails is at Lurgans in Carrickmacross, covering nails, brow and lash treatments, waxing and facials. Carrickmacross is the largest town in south Monaghan, historically a lace-making centre, and sits close enough to the Louth and Meath borders that its salons draw from all three counties. Nail-led salons tend to be quicker for a straightforward appointment than full-service premises, and parking around Lurgans is easier than on the main street.
Anno Beautystudio is also on Tullow Street in Carlow, a smaller studio covering nails, brows, lashes, waxing and facials. Two salons on the same street keeps pricing honest and generally means you can find an appointment somewhere at short notice, which is not always true in a county town. Tullow Street has metered on-street parking with the shopping centre car parks close by if you are booking anything longer than an hour.
Trading in Bray since 2016, Arneta Aesthetics covers eyelash extensions, brows, nails, waxing, facials and makeup, and also offers electrolysis — the only method that genuinely removes hair permanently, and increasingly rare outside specialist clinics. Bray is the largest town in Wicklow and has a competitive beauty market, so salons there tend to differentiate rather than offer identical menus. The electrolysis is the differentiator here, particularly for anyone with fair or grey hair that laser cannot treat.
Artisan is a hair-led salon in Unit 4 of the Tower Shopping Centre on Tower Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Most of the work is cutting and colour — balayage, full colour, keratin treatments and permanent straightening — alongside braiding, weaves, extensions and wig installation, which is less widely available in this part of west Dublin. It is one of the few salons locally open seven days including Sunday afternoons, and the shopping-centre location means parking is not a problem.
A beauty salon on the Athlone Road at Ardsallagh More in Roscommon, opposite the county hospital, with a private car park at the rear. Established in 1992. The menu covers brows and threading, hair removal, facials and advanced skin treatments including chemical peels, dermaplaning and microdermabrasion, manicures and pedicures, makeup, tanning and body treatments. Late opening until 21:30 Tuesday to Friday.
Atlantic Beauty Salon serves Grange in north Sligo, the village on the N15 under Benbulben between Sligo town and Bundoran. Facials, nails, waxing and brow and lash treatments make up the list. North Sligo is thinly served for salons across a wide coastal area taking in Cliffony, Mullaghmore and Drumcliff, so a local option saves a run into Sligo town. Free parking, and generally better short-notice availability than the town.
Aura is a general beauty salon in Waterford city covering facials, nails, waxing and brow and lash treatments. Waterford has a compact city centre — the Viking Triangle, the quays and the main shopping streets are all within a few minutes of each other — which makes comparing salons genuinely practical here in a way it is not in a bigger city. Independent salons in Waterford tend to run on repeat local custom, so continuity of therapist is usually good.
Avene works from Carmody Street Business Park in Ennis over two floors, with nails handled on the lower level and facials and skincare above. Splitting the two is a sensible arrangement — nail work is noisy and social, facials want quiet, and most salons compromise by doing both in the same room. Carmody Street is a short walk from the town centre with proper parking at the business park, which Ennis town centre cannot match.
Bankz operates from Parkside on the Abbeyleix Road in Clonminam, Portlaoise, covering hair and beauty. The Abbeyleix Road side of the town is where much of Portlaoise’s newer commercial development sits, with free parking at the door — a real advantage over the tight town centre. Portlaoise has grown very fast on the back of the M7 and the Dublin rail line, and its salon market has expanded with it.
The beauty rooms at the Arklow Bay Hotel operate as a hotel spa rather than a high-street salon, which changes what they are good for: longer treatments, massage, and packages built around a few hours rather than a single appointment. Facials, nails, waxing and tanning are available as standalone bookings. Non-residents can book, and the hotel setting means access to leisure facilities is often bundled in. A reasonable option for a treat rather than routine maintenance, and useful for group bookings before an occasion.
The Dunshaughlin branch of Be Beautiful, at The Gables. Beauty treatments include threading, male grooming, gel and acrylic nails, advanced brows, lash extensions, facial and body waxing, tanning, massage and advanced skincare. Be Beautiful also has branches in Castleknock and Moynalty, each with its own phone number.
Beautique is on Austin Friars Street in Mullingar, one of the main streets running through the county town. Facials and skincare lead the offering, with waxing, nails and brow and lash treatments alongside. Mullingar is the administrative centre of Westmeath and sits on the Dublin to Sligo rail line, which has made it increasingly a commuter town — so evening appointments are the ones that book out first. Public parking is available a short walk from Austin Friars Street.
Beautique Beauty Studio is at Fashion City on Ballymount Road Upper in Tallaght, Dublin 24. Fashion City is a wholesale and trade complex rather than a high street, which means ample free parking and a quieter setting than a shopping centre unit. The studio covers facials, nails, waxing and brow and lash treatments, serving the wider Tallaght and Walkinstown area.