ABB American Brazilian Body Waxing

I’m terrified always with trying new places, especially with the poor treatment u usually get in miami, u know what i’m talking about? The one that makes u feel not like they are giving u a service, but doing u a favor… Yeah, that treatment. But I live right up the street from this place so I decided to call for an appointment. Bianca, the girl that answered the phone to book my appointment wasn’t excited at all about the fact that I stated I was gonna be a first timer. How about u try and make the customer feel welcome on that phone call they made to try ur business? I know it might not be «your» business, but u represent the owner if u didnt know… She was very sarcastic and nonprofressional at all during our phone call. I almost hung up the phone while I was on hold, but I took a deep breath and decided that it isn’t the owner or aesthetician’s fault that the receptionist has poor customer service skills. I will go on with my appointment this weekend, but I am already mentally prepared for a bad experience as it started bad since the appointment phone call. I will however update this review and let u all know how it went. Fingers crossed.

My usual waxer was all booked and I had to get a Brazilian immediately and I remembered passing this place on Biscayne .I went ahead and booked an appointment and was nervous since I’ve been doing my Brazilian with the same person for years. I told my technician Herlene that it had been awhile and that I was really nervous and she did her best to keep me entertained and distracted! It was over before I knew it! Place is super clean and peaceful!

Traveling from Vermont and called for an appointment — was able to get in within the hour. Had to wait an extra 10 – 15 minutes upon arriving. The owner took me so I didn’t wait any longer and she was awesome! She’s a super friendly Brazilian woman who made me feel very comfortable. She uses gentle products and is very attentive to detail. The prices are great here and the service was excellent! I highly recommend this place and will return next time I’m in Miami.

Very very bad job!!! I made an appointment today. The lady with glasses was doing Brazilian wax for me. First. It was very painful. Second when I arrived home i saw that half of the hair still there. She did very sloppy job. I don’t know if she doesn’t see it or she just don’t wanna do it. Anyway i will never come back

This place is the best. They are always on time and the girls do a great job. Been coming here for 4 years and no complaints yet!

Great customer service! Patricia was super sweet. She made you feel very comfortable. I was out in under 30 minutes! Great quality wax. And Prices are extremely reasonable! Would definitely recommend!

Herlene knew I was uneasy and she kept the waxing entertaining. She was fast and didn’t do that tugging rookies do. I also liked she took great care for ingrown hairs. Excellent service.

I’ve been going there for a while now and I can definitely said that finding you «wax lady» is a most… I started with Julia which I did not like… She was to rough and didn’t really take the time to detail my wax… It was all over the place… I tried Giza which I really liked, she made me feel comfortable and gave me pretty much a facial down there… However she left… Now my favorite lady is Patricia… She is helpful, very helpful since I’m 9 months pregnant… She is soft and careful, detail oriented and very funny… Although I have great things to say about the place, I do not like the fact that I have send friends over to get wax with Patricia and they end going with Julia making them no want to come back again…

I called and made a last minute appointment for a Brazilian wax. It was a couple days before July 4^th, so I was expecting to be told they were full, but to my surprise the receptionist squeezed me in at the end of the day and told me they would take care of me.
I arrived 30 minutes before closing time and was the last client to be seen. My waxer, Patricia, made it immediately clear that I was an inconvenience to her and rolled her eyes when I told her I wanted a full Brazilian and not just a bikini wax. I get it, I was the last appointment of the day during what must have been a busy week. And I would never have bothered to write a Unilocal review (my first ever) if she had done even a decent job.
Clearly in a rush to get home, Patricia ripped off the hard wax before it even had time to dry. This resulted in her missing a TON of hair and irritating my skin. She even commented (TMI sorry) that I have very little hair and yet she still managed to miss most of it. I ended up paying nearly $ 50 (including 20% tip) for the worst Brazilian wax I’ve ever received.
Additionally, as others have commented, the salon has a weird smell and is very dingy looking, not at all like the photos posted here on Unilocal.I care more about quality service than I do about atmosphere, but it leaves me wondering why the prices are so high. Clearly it’s neither for service nor for atmosphere.
I gave them two stars instead of one because I hope this was a one-​time fluke during a busy week. Though I was grateful they took me at the last minute, I ultimately would have preferred being turned away and finding a new salon. There are many other places in Miami offering quality waxes at lower prices. I will not be returning to ABB.

Favorite place best job

I love ABB. I can’t wax my face because I have very sensitive skin. Giselle is the only person who has threaded my face and given me little to no irritation afterwards as where I usually have quite a bit of breaking out with anyone else. She usually does my bikini wax as well as Sally. They are both great, friendly, and efficient. They really know how to make me feel comfortable during this very uncomfortable service. I only give four stars because the front desk people I’ve dealt with besides the gentleman aren’t very friendly and the space could use an updated look in my opinion. But I highly recommend this spot to everyone!

It really means something that my first and only experience at this place was so bad that I took the time to write my first ever review on Unilocal.
My experience here deserves the 1-​star rating twice over.
First, I was immediately put off by the general atmosphere. There was an odd smell, and I felt somewhat uncomfortable. I was ready to maybe shell out a little more for what I knew would be a quality experience at European Wax Center.
But for some reason, I stupidly ignored my gut feeling, wrote it off as overall stress, and went through with the appointment. What a mistake.
This waxing was the most painful and drawn out one I have ever experienced. I’m not new to waxing and I am by no means a wuss when it comes to pain.
I have never, EVER bled during a wax appointment, but I did this time. It was probably because the wax was being tugged off in torturous little pulls without the skin being held taut first. It was just being yanked off one-​handed, causing my skin to be pulled away from my body.
The woman who I had my appointment with also made some remarks about my appearance that made me immediately feel insulted.
Whatever paper they use to line the seat/​platform you sit on will disintegrate if you sweat at all (which you will, because the experience will hurt more than you will expect it to). This revealed a dingy-​looking cushion underneath which left me vowing that I’d be showering as soon as I got home.
The entire thing was just so painful and tiring that when I left in a painful stupor, I didn’t realize that a huge portion of the waxing had not been effective. I went to wear a skirt to work and when I got outside, I looked down in the sunlight and noticed so many areas that hadn’t been waxed that I had to go back inside and change clothes. Worse, after only two days, I realized what had appeared to have been successfully waxed had simply broken the hair at the root. I might as well have just shaved my legs for most of it.
Here’s the second reason this place deserves 1 star: The manager.
At first, he took my complaint and offered to comp the exact same wax services at no charge. I was so impressed with his customer service skills that I conceded to booking another appointment with a different person and in a different room. I wasn’t able to wear skirts or shorts and wouldn’t be able to for another 3 weeks, but it couldn’t be helped at this point and I could only move forward.
I had to postpone the touchup because I was not feeling well and then had to leave for an overseas trip immediately after. Then I had to reschedule another time because I got sick AGAIN. Horrible. But eventually I was able to go back in for my appointment once everything was going right again.
I walked in and the receptionist told me that the manager, Joe, had put a note on my file that the wax was no longer comped but only 10% off because I had «waited too long to come back.»
Seriously? After a horrific, painful and humiliating experience with one woman, I was miraculously willing to give this place another chance purely because the manager’s initial response was so awesome. But because I «waited too long» for my touch up (because sure, I intentionally got sick, and purposefully waited around unable to wear skirts and shorts in this heat), I just basically lose my money? I never got to take advantage of the first wax because it was a joke in the first place.
This manager went back on what he promised without any notice until I take the time to show up. It’s unprofessional, disappointing, and grounds for me to go to my bank tomorrow and dispute the charge on the grounds that the service provided was unsatisfactory.
And now I’m going to post this review on Facebook, and anywhere else I can put it. I’ll also be sure to tell everyone I know never to go to this place.

Us girls have so many things we «need» to do to stay feeling sexy. Waxing wasn’t necessarily one of those things that made its way onto my list (call me the biggest, scary cat EVER!) But, when it gets to the point where spending your summer in Miami, a refusal of this kind could mean endless days spent in the shower shaving almost daily in order to be beach ready. Sounds like loads of fun, right? Wrong.
So, I bit the bullet and decided that as an almost 30-​year old, it was time to grow up a little and *dun dun dun* get a Brazilian bikini wax once and for all! I ran to my favorite online store (Amazon) and looked up the most reviewed numbing cream, ordered a tube of No Scream Cream, downed a few Advils, and made my way over to ABB Wax Salon.
What could have been the end of my life (I started a mental gratitude list as I lay on the waxing table, you know… in case I didn’t make it out!) and waited for Gisele, the nice technician who would be operating on me today. She made me feel instantly comfortable and told me it was useless to have bought and tried that cream (gooooo Amazon reviewers!) and that in fact, it could potentially make the wax process even harder. This was going to be awesome.
I must admit, it would have been so much easier if she’d just administered the general anesthesia I’d kindly asker her for ;-), but seeing as she was fresh out (shucks), she was extremely gentle and motivated every step of the way: «you’re doing great!» «It’s almost done.» Honestly, she did a great job and gave me some priceless advice for next time (yes, I survived and there WILL be a next time.
Ladies, give yourself the gift of a shave-​free summer and mosey on down to ABB. Make sure you ask for Gisele. Prices are really reasonable and the experience will in fact make you feel sexy in the sun (and most likely in the sheets, too!).

So $ 16 for eyebrow cleaning $ 20 eyebrow waxing what??? I don’t get it so I got there with an appointment thinking I always have my eyebrows done I don’t need them reshapped. Although the lady explained to me all they do for $ 16 is wax around the eye. If I want it shaped it is $ 20. What I am lost I don’t get it at a waxing place $ 20 for eyebrows with these reviews. They are crazy every place I have been if you look at all the comparable places charge $ 15 so when I looked on the website $ 16 was fine. I get there with an appointment and then left. Sorry I refuse to pay $ 20 because you rename the type of service for eyebrows. This is not a fancy salon but a waxing center.

This place is awesome! The staff is always extremely friendly and the owner is a sweet heart. This is the best place to get waxed. They are quick and efficient. All of
The girls rock and the prices are great. They have the best hands because it never hurts. My hairs grow back normal no funky business. I would highly recommend this place for a first timer just because they know what they are doing. I have been waxing since I was 13 and no place in Miami beats them.

Still think Shawnee (not Jade, oops) is the best waxer there — quick, relatively pain-​free, clean, and fun to chat with. However, it appears that she’s the only one who doesn’t double dip… boo.

I’ve been waxing since I was 13. I can say without hesitation that this is the best waxing experience I’ve ever had. Booking the appointment was very easy. The location includes parking and is very clean.
I found this business through a friend who described her experience as relaxing. Having never heard a waxing experience be described that way, I obviously had to try for myself. I have to fully agree that my experience was relaxing (which is a tough thing to accomplish when a stranger is yanking hair from your privates).
I had been on the hunt after moving to new part of miami and having terrible experiences at other salons (double dinning, dirty locations, infections, poor technique), I am so happy to have found this place.
One reviewer mentioned that they re-​use wax. That is total B. S and probably someone who works for the company they are plugging instead. At ABB they have a full room dedicated to sanitizing and warming the wax pots. I was surprised when my waxer brought in a fresh pot of wax to use on me. So happy they are as concerned with hygiene as much as I am.
All in all, this is the only place I will get waxed.

Glad to have discovered this gem over 2 years ago. Convenient location, great hours, affordable. What is not to love about ABB? Ask for Patricia when you book, she’s great!

I’m always looking to try new things and places. Even though I swear by Marra at Uni K in North Miami I wanted to see what the hype was about at ABB. I came in yesterday (Wednesday) and was serviced by Julia. I got three different areas waxed and I was holding my breath for that first peel but surprisingly it was less painful than I thought… And a couple dollars cheaper that what I’m use to paying! I will definitely be returning!

I had a truly wonderful wax at ABB’s Normandy location today. I’m from out of town and found this place on Unilocal,and I’m so happy I did! I’m returning to my town tomorrow and I’m going to see my BF straight from the airport. I was desperately in need of a same-​day Brazilian and they not only fit me in exactly when I needed, but also fit me in for a manicure and the best hard-​wax Brazilian I’ve ever had. My waxer, Diane, was super meticulous and really got everything. She even took out the tweezers and got the little hairs she couldn’t get with the wax — I’m now totally smooth down there and really happy about it :)
The prices are also great. I go to a place in Boston that is RENOWNED for only having $ 45 Brazilians, and this place is like $ 10 cheaper than that for a Brazilian on a regular day! However, since it was my first time being there, it was only $ 25!!! Seriously, this is an amazing price.
The atmosphere is absolutely wonderful, the little bungalow house it’s in is adorable and everything is immaculately clean, gorgeous, and well-​designed. You can tell they put a lot of love into it.
When I come back to Miami this is definitely where I’ll go, and if I lived here I’d be back every couple of weeks for a wax and a manicure!