

While you do have to make sure backlogs aren't created by neglecting one area of the salon, and also look out for customers who are getting impatient and are about to walk out, you can quite easily get through levels by repeatedly clicking on customers. The way the game works - you click on individual customers to move them to the area they want to go next, then click on them to order Sally to carry out their treatments - doesn't really take much effort. But - despite its draw - you can't help but feel that it doesn't really test your gaming skills very much. As you buy more waiting room chairs and beauty stations in the shop, your salon is transformed - from small seedy high street outfit to a place busier than Asda on a Saturday afternoon, and building up your virtual business is strangely compelling.įor this reason, it's very easy to get absorbed in Sally's Salon.

New salons bring a new layout to learn and new treatments, such as hair colouring and manicures, which - in turn - bring in more customers. After completing a certain number of levels, Sally moves onto a whole new salon.
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You can also upgrade Sally's salon completely.

In the shop, you spend your cash on all sorts of salon upgrades, from heated waiting room chairs to keep customers happy while they sit, to salon assistants who can wash and dry hair and make coffee, removing the need for you to waste your own precious time doing it. The game is also has a fair amount of play incentive in the form of a shop you can visit after successfully finishing each level. It uses quirky cartoon visuals similar to games like Grey's Anatomy and Las Vegas Nights and as your clients pass through your salon's various stations they emerge with mohawks, purple hair and tanned skin, which is endlessly amusing to see. But this game is nowhere near as vacuous or dumb as you might imagine a game about a beauty technician might be.įor starters it looks good. Sally's Salon has plenty of competition - and I'm not talking about Tracy's Salon down the road, I'm talking games such as Diner Dash 2 and Cake Mania 2 which already offer a fix of quick-fire customer serving. The faster you can move people through your salon, the more customers you can fit in and the more money and tips you rake in. Those hearts gradually erode the longer they're left sitting in the waiting room, waiting for a blow dry or standing at the counter wanting to pay. The customers steadily flocking through your door have a limited patience threshold, illustrated by five hearts above their heads. Sally's Salon puts you in charge of a beauty salon and all that goes with it - that's cutting and dying hair, filing nails, shaping eyebrows and tanning clients a fetching shade of orange, in case you've never ventured inside such a place.Īs in similar games, none of this is as easy as it sounds. Now here's a game tailored more at aspiring Victoria Beckhams.

We've had management games that get you serving sushi, pizza and cakes to an ever growing queue of impatient customers.
