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Sally's Spa

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Sally's Spa

Whenever you're on the bottom rung of a job, it always seem like your bosses lounge around, doing whatever they fancy while trying to make your life harder minute-by-minute. Not so in Sally's Spa because even when you do have a staff to rely on, you're left doing most of the dirty work.

You play Sally herself as she establishes a global beauty empire. Each level chronicles a day in the salon as you take in customers, leading them from station to station inside to be washed, chopped, dyed and bathed to perfection.

Your spa starts off simple, with just a couple of different stations to oversee. As you work your way up, new services are introduced to tax your fingers. You can help things run smoothly by purchasing better equipment, hiring staff and installing new methods of keeping your patrons happy while they're waiting such as magazines and aromatherapy candles.

Aside from the salon services that break out into quick mini-game interludes whenever a customer sits down for a chop/dye/soak, you're pretty much doing the same throughout the game: hurriedly shifting customers around, trying not to let anyone get to feel too neglected. Despite this repetition, the basic experience of Sally's Spa is a positive one.

Although it captures the sense of being rushed off your feet, the rhythmically repetitious nature of the game is actually rather soothing. Glossy graphics make trotting across the globe with Sally a pleasure, too. In short, Sally's Spa is just as enjoyable on iPhone as it was back on mobile, which is a good thing.

Sally's Spa

A quality production that soothes as it gets you rushing all over Sally’s virtual shop floor, Sally’s Spa will suck you in – even if you’d never dream of frequenting the real-life equivalent
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