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Best place for cosmetic surgery

  1. Skinworks, 3568/3578 West 41st Avenue
  2. False Creek Healthcare, 555 West 8th Avenue
  3. Fairview Plastic Surgery Centre

Best place for a non-surgical makeover

  1. Skinworks, 3568/3578 West 41st Avenue
  2. The Vanity Lab
  3. Sephora

Best place to get waxed

  1. Stripped Ladies & Gents Wax Bar
  2. Dona Lucia Esthetics, 2813 West Broadway
  3. Sugarbox Waxing Boutique

Best laser hair-removal centre

  1. Arbutus Laser, 106-2025 West Broadway
  2. Skinworks, 3568/3578 West 41st Avenue
  3. Urban Body Laser

Best barbershop

  1. Barber & Co.
  2. JD's Barbershop, 235 Abbott Street
  3. Man Cave Barber Shop

Best hair salon

  1. Suki's
  2. Brush Salon
  3. the dye lot

Best salon for a pedicure/manicure

  1. Pure Nail Bar
  2. Joy Ride
  3. Charm Nail Spa

Best place to get a facial

  1. Skoah, 1011 Hamilton Street
  2. Spa Diva
  3. Breathe Spa

Best spa (chain)

  1. Spa Utopia Health and Wellness Center
  2. Willow Stream Spa, 1038 Canada Place
  3. Absolute Spa

Best women's-clothing store (independent)

  1. Aritzia
  2. Spank
  3. Front & Company, 3772 Main Street

Best men's-clothing store (independent)

  1. Boys'Co
  2. 8th + Main, 2403 Main Street
  3. Motherland

Best place to buy jeans

  1. dutil. denim, 303 West Cordova Street
  2. Aritzia
  3. Hudson's Bay

Best bridal store

  1. Bisou Bridal, 440 West 2nd Avenue
  2. Blush Bridal & Special Occasions, 1189 Hamilton Street
  3. Truvelle Bridal

Best local designer-clothing store

  1. Oak + Fort
  2. Nicole Bridger, 14 Water Street
  3. Devil May Wear, 3957 Main Street

Best vintage/consignment/second-hand clothing store

  1. Front & Company, 3772 Main Street
  2. Value Village
  3. Turnabout Luxury Resale

Best shoe store (independent)

  1. John Fluevog, 837 Granville Street
  2. gravitypope, 2203 West 4th Avenue
  3. Umeboshi, 3638 Main Street

Best fashion-accessory store

  1. The Latest Scoop
  2. Plenty
  3. Blue Ruby Jewellery

Best baby/toddler store

  1. West Coast Kids
  2. Crocodile Baby, 2156 West 4th Avenue
  3. Lusso Baby

Best custom-jewellery store

  1. Cavalier, 217 West Hastings Street
  2. Era Design, 1795 Venables Street
  3. The Sonja Picard Collection

Best eyewear store

  1. Bruce Eyeware, 219 Abbott Street
  2. Bailey Nelson
  3. Eyes on Burrard/Eyes on Twelfth

Best department store

  1. Hudson's Bay
  2. Nordstrom Pacific Centre
  3. Holt Renfrew, 737 Dunsmuir St.
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