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      • Lifestyles

      • This seaside health club houses a gym with top quality equipment, squash courts, swimming pool, yoga studio, sauna, spa, snack area and library. The highlight of this place is definitely the hydro pool, which is one of the biggest in the Middle East.

        Mada Bldg, Paris Ave, near Riviera Hotel
      • Catwalk

      • Pamper yourself from top to toe as this center offers everything to do with hair and aesthetics. You can also get botox and filling, which are not otherwise widely available in every clinic. Or indulge in a massage, peeling, tattoos or any other beauty must options.

        2nd floor, Block B, Val De Zouk Centre
      • Dessange Paris

      • This huge international hair and beauty salon mainly specialises in hair treatments with their own signature products. Sign up for a half-hour reflexology session or a Thai Massage.

        Sausalito Bldg, Furn El Hayek Str
      • Edde Sands Beach Resort

      • Don your designer bikini and stilettos for one of Lebanon’s big-name plush affairs. Eddé has bags of everything: beach, infinity pools, restaurants, bars, shops, private cabanas and a VIP pool, all set in tropical, well-manicured grounds. Try to make it there on a weekday when the crowds aren’t as large, nor the music so loud, for a sense of secluded luxury.

        Eddé Sands Resort
      • Grand Hills Spa

      • This luxurious resort has been designated to cater to your every need from body and beauty treatments and facial care to physiotherapy to Figaros' hair and makeup. They specialise in Thai massages, reflexology and Indian head massages.

        Grand Hills Village, El Matn
      • Institut Emma

      • A Ministry of Health licensed medical-aesthetic treatment center that offers physiotherapy, multiple skin care and repair treatments and electrolysis as well as the popular manicure, pedicure, facials and make-up.

        Rizk Plaza
      • Institut Figaro

      • A hair salon and aesthetic beauty salon offering laser hair removal, massages, nail care, waxing, henna tattoos and makeup. They also sell clothes, jewellery, cosmetics and perfumes and have a clinic offering physiotherapy, cellulite weight loss, solarium and spray tanning.

        Tara Maria Avella Centre, East Rd, before Printania Hotel
      • Jamalya

      • An excellent medical clinic for aesthetic surgery, laser/cosmetic dermatology, and psychological and spiritual wellbeing. Whether it’s fully-fledged plastic surgery you’re after, a shot of Botox or liposuction, the experts will meet your needs.

        11th Floor, Block C, Sodeco Sq, Damascus Rd, Sodeco
      • Polyclinic St Jean

      • This established medical aesthetic clinic has been around since 1995 and offers services like laser hair removal, physiotherapy and the VIP treatment for slimming and firming. Or try the Velasmooth anti-cellulite machine which all the stars have been using; you need 8-10 session at $50 each.

        3rd floor, Block B, St Joseph Medical Centre
      • Redline

      • This UK-branded beauty clinic is calming and chic. Guests have the chance to reap the benefits of the clinic’s signature Redline Super ESTI Deluxe machine, which utilises pulse electricity and infrared rays to decompose fat cells, increase your metabolism, rejuvenate your skin and relax your muscles.

        3rd Floor, Houdhoude Centre, Selim Slam Hwy
      • Sally Hansen Beauty Express

      • Take a break from shopping in City Mall and pamper yourself at this glamorous beauty salon that offers hair care, nail and facial treatments, body and facial waxing, permanent make-up tattoos and solarium tanning for men and women.

        City Mall, Basement 1
      • The Spirit

      • Deep orange walls, photographs of Thailand and golden ornaments decorate The Spirit; an established massage clinic that offers guests soothing and relaxing Thai massages.

        3rd Floor, facing LINA's Cafe, JM Plaza
      • Tips and Toes

      • Complete hand and nail care such as the express manicure-pedicure are for those who are in a hurry. Biomedical facial treatments, waxing, make-up, tattoo and body care are also on the menu.

        1st Floor, Al Moudabber Centre, near Century Park Hotel, Kaslik Main High Str
      • Top to Toe

      • Experience the difference at this aesthetic beauty centre where you can get massages, facials, manicures, pedicures, professional make-up and a good waxing. There are new lifting and anti-cellulite machines on site, and a Champagne brunch for customers every Saturday.

        Next to Sultan Brahim Restaurant, Antelias Hwy
      • In II Skin

      • You can get your body decorated here with anything from body piercings to tattoos and henna. If you’re sick of make-up, try their eyebrow, eyeliner and lipstick cosmetic tattoos. Or, if you shy away from the permanent, have no fear, wash-off airbrush tattoos are also an option.

        1st Floor, Monte Libano Center
      • Scream Body

      • Want to pierce your nose, tongue, belly button, eyebrow or some other body part? Here, you can do it all. Scream Body owner, Elie Haddad, was trained in the US and Canada and this parlour is Ministry of Health approved.

        President Rd, near BLC Bank
      • Shadow Tattoo

      • Fully registered and approved by the Ministry of Health, full body piercings (including the more intimate kind) can be done here. The artists also paint and draw with oil colours

        Jdeideh
      • Buttermint

      • The Buttermint space is calm yet funky, all red and black and cool artwork. Their menu contains such oddball delights as chicken mango chutney wrap and snickers cappuccino, with excellent breakfasts, and is a firm neighbourhood favourite.

        Piccadilly Str
      • Cafe Sho

      • A unique Asian menu – the ginger chicken and sweet chilli fish with ratatouille are well worth sampling, as is the piquant ginger crème brulée to finish up with.

        304 Monot Str, Monot
      • Galler

      • Chocolate lovers are blessed to have Jean Galler’s chocolaterie in town, finally. You will enter a luxury environment, to find traditional and exotic flavors of chocolates made from noble and natural ingredients. Delicious ice creams and cakes, refined teas and cocoa; it’s a world of edible delicacy.

        O&C The Fresh Market. Antelias Hwy