The Hive Beauty

It’s been a really lovely week here, with lots of really great conversations, fun transformations, and lots of happy guests who share their gratitude with us and it just makes us both so overjoyed to be here and be able to create a space for you all that feels welcoming, informative and safe🙏🏼

We have been through so many life transitions with you all over the years, and are truly appreciative of our beautiful community 🥲

We love our job🧡
Thankyou for allowing us to continue to do what we love 🧡🧡🧡

Wishing all of guests a beautiful weekend!

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If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit🧡

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We 👏🏻are 👏🏻BACK!
Feeling refreshed, recharged and ready to jump into the year!

A new treatment menu on the way, updated pricing, exciting new VIP package prices arriving, a newwwwwwly revamped Hive, and some fresh new neighbors that we can’t wait to introduce to you, are amongst some of the surprises we have in store for 2023 🙌🏻🤩

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely faces again and making this year another incredible one for us all😊🙏🏻

The Signature Mask Kit is a beautiful ritual to gift for Christmas 🎄

It includes
-MV Signature Mineral Mask
-Ceramic Mixing Cup
-Super Soft Mask Brush
-Organic Compress Cloth

For only $95 as our Christmas special, it’s usually valued at $117🧡🤩🎄

A benefit packed, mineral drink for the skin, great for skin’s experiencing sensitivity, congestion or irritation.

A softening, balancing and refining self care ritual ✨

Purchase via Online Store or In-salon 👏🏻
We have 6 left 🙌🏻

Your reviews give us life!
And help others to find us 👏🏻🤩

Thankyou so much to everyone who has taken the time to Google review our little hideaway ☺️☺️☺️

Thankyou Nat for the review 😍😍

We are so grateful to be able to do what we do 🧡

You might have heard us ramble on about the ‘Barrier’ before, but what IS our skin Barrier and why is it so darn important? 🤔

Our skin’s Barrier is located at the outermost layer of our epidermis that acts as a sort of waterproofer and protection mechanism.

It’s role is to protect our skin and body from the external environment, keeping the good things in and the bad guys out 👏🏻

For skin nerds out there, it’s made up of 🌸lipids (oils)
🌸corneocytes (dead skin cells)
🌸urea (a nitrogen metabolising compound)
🌸NMF (natural moisturising factor)
🌸Filagrinn (a protein that helps to make NMF)
🌸Microbiome (good and sometimes bad bacteria)

Without a healthy skin barrier intruders like toxins, harmful bacteria, chemicals, pollution and irritants would be able to pe*****te and cause a fair bit of free radical damage🙏🏻

A healthy skin barrier will have a smooth, calm complexion and feel hydrated and not easily irritated, however when it becomes compromised we can see the opposite happen - redness, dryness, dehydration, tightness, irritation. Products you normally use that are usually totally fine can end up causing sensitive reactions 😣

A compromised barrier can occur for a number of reasons like some medications, stripping cleansers, over-exfoliating, overuse of active ingredients like AHAs, BHAs and Retinol, having super dooopper hot showers or common culprits such as our climate, going from the warmer months to the cooler, being in heated, dry and low humidity indoors to the super cold outdoors 🥶

THE GOOD NEWS!
There are ways to get our barrier back on track actually by simplifying our skincare and choosing calming, soothing ingredients to help nourish and repair so we can build up those natural lipids again 🤩

Ingredients like Jojoba Oil (most likened to our natural sebum so absorbs very well), Vit E, Hyaluronic Acid are a good place to start as they mimic the natural oils found in our skin and can get us on our way to a healthy happy complexion again 🙌🏻

For more educational sessions book in for an Initial Consultation to LEARN about your skin and put the power back in your hands 🧡

We love a cosy, restful morning with 😌

Hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful start to their long weekend today☺️

We are open today until 3 and tomorrow til 2, if any product pickups need to be organised drop us a line at 0431328112💪🏻

New to The Hive?
Let me introduce myself!

My name is Lucy, I’ve been working in beauty for nearly 17 years now, which feels absolutely WILD to say because I still feel like I’m 23😂

My love for skin started when I was treated for severe acne at 14.
I was immediately prescribed Roaccutane by a dermatologist and then proceeded to flake and dry out over a 12 month course, which got rid of my acne, but seemingly made me lethargic, depressed, jaundice(poor liver function) and my acne scarring seemed more pronounced.😖

The acne was gone and I was STOKED, and wanted to give back confidence to people too like I had just experienced🙌🏻

I studied my Cert 3 of Beauty while juggling high school, competitive cycling, a salon traineeship, dating and regular life as a teen!
I was lucky enough to work at a salon that had very intelligent, curious and educated beauty therapists who recognised the benefits of in-salon treatments as well as the importance of education about health. Forever grateful to the lovely Brigitte who owned a salon in South Yarra at the time (and now owns a successful salon coaching business!) for taking a chance on this little 14 and 9mths old trainee!

I became very interested in the skin, and how our bodily function, gut function, homecare, medication , micro biome and emotions relate to skin health, I completed my Diploma of Beauty, and have since then devoured as many short courses, brand trainings and online learning as I can, and still continue to this day to learn and grow my knowledge.

I believe in educating my clients, and giving the power back to the consumer in an industry filled with misdirection, greenwashing and celebrity endorsement. As well as providing a safe space for my community’s relaxation, reconnection to self and rejuvenation.

Outside of Beauty therapy I am a creative DIY loving, surfing, social butterfly that loves putting on big dinners and loves a good adventure in my campervan ⛺️ 🚐
I love personal development and
will never stop chasing the best version of myself for my loved ones, my friends and my clients ❤️

Pop in and see me (or the lovely Mel!) sometime soon! 👏🏻🙏🏻

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Hi folks!
We are closed this week until 27th as we are both in Kakadu exploring!

As we have very little reception we will be replying to txts and emails when Mel reopens the salon on 27th.

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Lucy and Mel

Every review helps new guests find us so we can share our offerings with those who need it 💪🏻

Thanks so so much!

If you would like to leave us a review, click the link in our Bio and scroll down!👏🏻

Welcome to the new faces that have joined us recently! Here is a little recap about our journey here at The Hive🌟

Our little space started out in April 2016, from an idea to do things a little differently, more ethically and authentically, in what we now affectionately refer to as ‘Harry Potter’s cupboard’. 😂

A weeny space we rented in the back of a hair salon, when we were just in our conception phase😆 Gotta start somewhere!

A tiny but impactful space, we grew quickly and got to welcome so many of you into our world before eventually outgrowing the 2m by 3m cupboard 😆.

After finding a run down old apartment just off Clarendon street on gumtree we called in the troops (thanks family and friends!) waved our magic wand 🪄and said HELLOOOO to the new Hive 🙌🏻

Before we knew it, 2019 had rolled in and we’d taken on a new busy bee to expand our tribe 🙌🏻 Welcome Melanie!

We expanded our range of ethical and active cosmeceutical brands, and increased our offerings by introducing Skin Needling and a variety of new Chemical Peels to help our guests in need of stronger skincare and rejuvenation 💪🏻💪🏻

Then the pandemic hit and ground our business to a halt (ah sh*t)…so we hit the books! 📚
We did online study and expanded our knowledge about Gut health, emotions and their effects on the skin, our nervous system, stress, inflammatory disorders, nasty chemicals in SPF’s and much more! Brain overload and ready to make some changes when we FINALLY reopened!

Arrive at 2022 after a well deserved holiday, we hit the ground running, revamped our space (and ongoing!) bought an LED machine that we had been dreaming about for 3 years(and saving for! Holy cow they are expensive!) and Mel went full time🙌🏻

Nowdays we specialise in Skin treatments and Brow shaping, particularly Acne skins, we have a client base of over 1200 guests who we see regularly, we have over 17 years of expertise between us and are thoroughly excited for what the future holds for The Hive!

A new face coming soon maybe?😏
New offerings?
Stay tuned 😜
And Thankyou for joining us!

🐝 Hive Beauty News flash 🐝

Many of you have now met the incredible part-time powerhouse that is Mel and due to increasing demand Mel will now be doing extra days with us 🙌🏻

She now has more time for you to experience her amazing magic hands, extensive skin knowledge and incredible attention to detail 🙏🏻

WED- 12 til 8
THUR - 12 til 8
FRI - 10 til 6
SAT - 9 til 2

Late night appointments are filling up at least 3-4 weeks in advance, and Saturdays will surely follow suit very soon!

Click the link in Bio to book in some time for yourself 😌