There is exactly one head-spa bed in the studio, and while you’re on it, the studio is yours. No neighbouring chatter, no queue behind the curtain — a single therapist, a closed door, and roughly ninety minutes of warm water, steam and unhurried hands. Book an evening session and leave the city with dry, styled hair and nowhere you have to be.
Scroll slowly — the thread pours the same way the water does.
Tea poured, shoes off, phone away. Your therapist reads your scalp and skin under magnification and shapes the ritual around what she finds.
Three oil blends are passed under your nose — calm, restore or lift. The one your shoulders drop for is the one we use.
Slow pressure-point work across the crown and temples before any water — releasing the day first, so the rinse lands deeper.
A hundred slow strokes with a soft paddle brush — detangling, lifting oils, waking the scalp’s circulation.
A warm-water lather worked from the hairline back, twice over. Nothing hurried; the lather is half massage.
Warm water falls in fine threads from the full circle of the halo ring — a slow, weightless rain over the whole crown. This is the moment on every guest’s reel.
Kneading, rolling, acupressure — a full-hand massage under the falling water, tension chased from crown to nape.
A nourishing mask painted through in sections, then left to steep while the ritual moves to your face.
A hot towel wrapped over the mask and another across the brow. The quiet minute — most guests lose it here.
While the mask works, a gentle double cleanse for the face — the head spa is a skin treatment as much as a hair one.
Lymphatic sweeps along the jaw, cheekbones and collarbone — de-puffing, draining, coaxing the glow up.
Where Melbourne holds its tension. Focused work through the trapezius and the base of the skull.
Back beneath the ring — the mask rinsed away in warm falling threads, the water run a degree cooler to close the cuticle.
A soft blow-dry, a fresh cup of tea, and no rush to the door. You re-enter the city at your own speed.
Allow ~90 minutes. Arrive with dry hair if you can; leave with it washed, treated and blow-dried. The ritual suits every hair type and is a favourite gift booking — evening slots until 10pm weeknights.