At Dove Spa’s new Toronto location, it wasn’t the clinical atmosphere, comfy robes or rows of products on offer in reception that made a lasting impression (although these factors were welcomed!). It was this quote, scrawled across one stark white wall: “it’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.” Fitting, as Dove spa definitely does all it can to make sure your beauty captures someone’s attention.

Apart from being a skin spa that pampers your body and quells your facial concerns, there are literally lists of services on offer ready to whip you into a most noteworthy, and surely attention-grabbing state. From spray tans (with one of my favourite bronzing lines, St.Tropez) to make-up application and lessons, to IPL hair removal, eyelash perming and tinting, waxing, manis and pedis, gel nails, colonics, reflexology, ear coning, and even teeth whitening. In fact, one day at Dove and your Visa bill may be hogging your own attention, along with a flash of your newly pearly whites in the mirror.