NORTH ANDOVER—DaVinci Salon and Medi Spa opened in North Andover 0n Feb.23, with a snip from ceremonial scissors provided by the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Along with five master stylists, Da Vinci’s staff includes six medical estheticians and three registered nurses to help customers look their best.
Doreen Legendre, who owns DaVinci along with Brian Rowe, has been in the beauty business for 35 years and also owns Allure Hair Studio and Spa in Plaistow, which has been in existence for 28 years.
“That is also a full service salon,” Legendre said.
DaVinci is located in Signature Commons, the new retail complex on Osgood Street, in front of Princeton Apartments.
Legendre, who also worked at the former Egocentric salon on Park Street in Andover, took care with the design of her new spa and likes the way it looks.
“We want to give the Newbury Street feeling without the Newbury Street price,” she said.
With her years of experience, Legendre knows how to perform many of the services that her salon provides, but hair is her specialty.
“I stand behind a chair,” Legendre said. “Can I do facials? Yes. Can I do nails? Yes. But I don’t choose to do them.”
DaVinci also offers hair restorations and extensions, massages in specially designed chairs, laser treatments and facials, and dermal filler.
The latter is a liquid injection that restores fullness to areas where someone’s face has “sunken in.” Some customers want filler applied in their lips, but it shouldn’t be confused with botox, although both are administered by nurses.
“Botox is for wrinkles and lines, filler is for volume,” Legendre said.
The salon offers a variety of laser treatments, which mostly either remove skin or change its pigmentation, said medical esthetician Cindy Sturgis.
“It’s more popular now more than ever,” Sturgis said.