5 Reasons Why You Will Love Us!

1) Our Environment

We have worked hard to create a beautiful, unpretentious, and comfortable nail salon for you to relax in. Get cozy on our living room couches while you get your manicure and watch an episode (or two) of your favourite show. Or pull up a chair at the bar with a girlfriend and have a good schmooze.

Get comfortable, hang out. Make yourself at home. We are glad you stopped by.

2) Our Timing

With all due respect to our spa sisters, despite the fine services they provide, we simply don’t have time anymore to spend the afternoon in a robe, drinking cucumber water and getting a pedicure in a tranquil spa environment.

That’s why we base our service times and appointments around the schedule of the dashing diva. We will get you in and out within an hour for a manicure and pedicure combo. At the same time, you are welcome to lounge for as long as you like after your service.

No appointments necessary. We are happy for you to book an appointment, but we also want you to feel comfortable walking in if you just happen to be in the neighborhood and in the mood for a mani.

We love being spontaneous! Walk ins are always welcome!

3) Our Cleanliness

We take pride in providing our customers with a chic and immaculately clean environment. That’s why we take great care in the cleanliness of our space, the training of our staff and the services and products that we offer.

The nail industry in Canada is essentially unregulated, leaving the door open for many nail salons to offer their customers service in an unhealthy environment - often using unsanitary tools and implements. Not only can this be an unpleasant experience, it places you, the customer at risk for any number of diseases and health risks.

4) Our Price

We have intentionally created an entry price point that doesn’t discriminate against any diva. Our goal is to provide you with the luxury you deserve at a price every girl (and guy) can afford.

Although we have a wide range of service prices, our base $45 mani/pedi combo ensures that you will be able to pamper yourself without breaking the bank.

5) Our Values

We all make sacrifices for beauty – but there is a difference in compromising your feet for a night in a 3 inch heel, and exposing yourself to the dangerous chemicals that are often found in beauty products. We take your well being seriously, as well as our planet’s, and carry products that are as gentle on the environment, and your health, as possible.

In our Rouge Boutique you will find a wide array of natural products from essential oils and organic soy based candles to clothing and gifts that inspire the greener side of life.
Oh, and one more thing.

We don’t do Acrylics!

(Yup, you heard it right.)

Why?

Because they simply aren’t good for you.

There is a reason why pregnant women are not recommended to have acrylics, and the staff that apply them wear masks. They are simply not healthy for you (or our staff).

“But, I can’t live with out my acrylics!”

Yes you can. We promise that with regular Rouge manicures, we can make your nails look beautiful. We will work with your natural nails to help make them be strong and beautiful - so you don’t need artificial nails. They destroy your nail beds, making nails thin, brittle and dry. There are also gel alternatives that we can introduce you to that are far better for you (and our staff)

(We do use fiberglass for repair purposes only.)

About the Owner:

Dubbed Vancouver’s “PR queen” by the Globe and Mail, Rory Richards has run a successful PR & Events firm in BC for many years and is a dynamic force in Canada’s PR and entertainment scene.

But a trip to Montreal in 2008 to see Leonard Cohen perform changed everything. Not only could she not find a place to ‘properly’ get her nails done, she fell in love with Montreal.

“The Hommage to Leonard Cohen was what really sealed the deal. 100,000 people out to celebrate an icon, his lyrics rolling up the sides of buildings, a lone trumpet player on roof top, people dancing in the streets. I had never seen anything like it. I thought, these are my people!”

The thought of moving to Montreal (where she knew no one) to start a nail bar still seemed…totally crazy. But, she rationalized; it could be start of a great adventure. And indeed it is…

It is a pleasure to meet you.