All-inclusive beauty solution: A chat with Vincent Ho, Managing Director of Kimarie Group

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Kimarie & Hannan
Address:115, Jalan Maarof, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tel: +603 2202 3232

Decorated with marble columns and crisp white interior accented with black and gold, the luxurious 115 Kimarie & Hannan outlet in the heart of Bangsar is a combined effort by Hannan Medispa and Kimarie Salons, which delivers a total beauty solution that offers the best of hair, beauty and nail services under one roof. It aims to provide “affordable luxury” by redefining customer experience.

As far as the interior design goes, the owners decided to keep the existing layout since it coincidentally matches with the Kimarie & Hannan aesthetic. In order to understand the concept behind this premium boutique, Metropolitan Home has spoken to Vincent Ho, Group Managing Director of the Kimarie Group.

Can you tell us about how you conceived the idea of this place?
Basically it’s a one stop, and all-in beauty outlet. There are a lot of hair salons around and medispas, and nail parlours, but all are in different places. At most you’ll be able to find two out of three. Here, we have all three under one roof, which is more convenient for women (and also men) in Malaysia. It’s not a new concept overseas, but in Malaysia I think we’re the first to have a head-to-toe outlet. From hair, facials, skincare and even body. We have body sculpting, fat melting and fat freezing. Fat freezing is a treatment where we use radio frequency to freeze the fat. It is a technology we brought over from the US. The frequency itself is meant to reduce the production of fat cells and encourage collagen production in its place. It’s very high-tech and definitely one of the latest in the industry.

Did you have any trouble deciding on the location?
Not really, when we both sat down we agreed that we wanted to be in Bangsar. That’s also why we named the outlet 115, in comparison to Kimarie or Hannan the prices are just slightly higher.

What brands do you carry at 115 Kimarie & Hannan?
For our hair treatments, we’re collaborating with Matrix as a flagship outlet, but for machines we import from South Korea like the Janus II machine, it will analyse your needs based on the science on you skin. Unlike 90% of our competitors that will analyse by guessing your skin type then recommending your treatment, we use all scientific parameters to plan the right course of treatment. Because a lot of people get misdiagnosed without the proper analysis. As for cosmetics, we use an in-house brand from Hannan Medispa.

So how does Kimarie come into play?
115 is a combined outlet for Kimarie & Hannan. Kimarie has 8 outlets now and Hannan has 25, so combined we have over 30 outlets. Hannan is a friend, he’s not my partner. We decided to come together combining his expertise with mine, that’s how we came up with 115. I’m from Kimarie, we’re more hair oriented while Hannan specialises in the Medispa side of 115.

Could you explain to us what your services do?
You can use this for a v-shape face, what we call face countering, and skin tightening around the neck and across the belly. You can see the face contouring from the first session, but you might need 6 to maintain it. But for body it would require more. It’s non-surgical, so we don’t have any needles or incisions. It’s all cosmetic enhancements, there is nothing medical about our procedures.

How much of a difference is it between the prices in your individual outlets and the prices at 115?
As a combined effort we aim to be affordable luxury, I would say we’re priced 10-20% higher than the regular Kimarie.