Verve

I have been there twice. Once for nails and once for a blow out. In terms of Pittsburgh services, it’s one of the more expensive for both to get these done. And I will say that my manicure and gel was the worst I’ve ever had. And the blow out I had was the worst I’ve ever had. I told them they were taking the gel out too soon and that it would come off when they did the final wipe off step. They assured me it wouldn’t, but it did. They gave me a discount. My blowout looked like a third grader did my hair. Totally unpolished, out of style, and just over all ugly. I showed the hair stylist of my hair from a day earlier from a different salon downtown who did a blowout and asked her to try and fix it. While she happily tried, she did not have the ability to even come close (the only reason I went to this salon was bc my other one was booked). I would never go back, even if the services were free because I could do a better job myself. Save yourself the time and money. Don’t go.

Was looking for a nail salon close to the hotel I was staying at and Unilocal helped me find this one. Great ambience, great color selection and friendly staff. The price wasn’t bad for the service and I would definitely go back again!

I moved to Pittsburgh almost 2 years ago and tried numerous salons. I had difficulty finding a place that I felt actually knew how to deal with my curly, frizzy and some days unbearable hair.
My boyfriend surprised me with a spa day after a long work week. It was AMAZING. My favorite part about the whole experience was my stylist, Jamie. I was a little nervous at first because she said she was going to blow dry my hair straight and not us a straightener. After only a short time, I looked at my hair and was shocked that she was able to actually get my hair perfectly straight!
I strongly recommend going to Verve 360! Ask for Jamie :)

I was really excited to find The Verve, since I work 2 jobs downtown and they have such convenient hours. A multi purpose salon/​spa — I was stoked for my visit which I was sure would be the first of many.
I ordered a 30 minute massage, which was confirmed by email. Filled out the form online before my appointment, showed up early. My appointment was at 5, the masseuse came down around 5:05 or 5:10 which was fine. The environment in there is nice enough to wait a few minutes.
My massage was good, comfortable, really relaxing. I had never had a massage before so I won’t comment on it much since I don’t have anything to compare it to. The masseuse was nice.
However, when I went up to the register, I was informed I had received a 50 minute massage. At that point I looked at the time and realized that yes, it had been 50 minutes. They proceeded to make me pay for a 50 minute massage, even after noting that yes, I only ordered the 30 minute! They didn’t even offer me anything, just said «she must have upgraded you because she thought you needed it.» I was very pissed to hear that, if that was the case she should still have asked me if that’s what I wanted.
I thought that was extremely unprofessional and conniving of them. So, I won’t be back for any service what so ever. If you go, make sure you get what you’re expecting.

I started visiting Verve 360 and Doc Jeff the chiropractor after meeting him at a friend’s backyard get-​together, and come here primarily for the chiropractic and the massage services. However, the space also has a salon on the first floor and a yoga studio for classes for yoga and aerial yoga. [I believe that’s what it’s called]
The location is lovely and convenient, directly downtown for those who wish to get a quick adjustment on their lunch break in. The front desk service is very pleasant and helpful when making appointments in person and on the phone. Additionally, you are able to make appointments via email for which you receive online confirmation, will send you a reminder when you haven’t visited in a while and pleasant with happy holiday wishes. I like this a lot.
Doc Jeff himself is a quite a happy character. Vibrant and charismatic, he makes you feel right at home before he delicately and precisely breaks your neck ehm… I mean adjusts you back into place. I have a habit of breaking my body on a semi regular basis. Also, he will email you relevant information regarding supplements and fitness explanations so you have an idea of how you got yourself tangled up wrong, and show you stretches to help your flexibility. He will also scorn you when you don’t do your stretches at home, which is me… every single time. [and I wonder why I’m broken].
In my case, Jeff has gone above and beyond when I call him from an emergency neck pain from doing headstands at crossfit and woke up at 6:00am unable to turn my neck, he made sure somebody with the right skills was able to meet me as soon as they opened and arrived himself directly from a weekend in Cleveland [this was Monday morning] as soon as he could rather than in the afternoon. Above and beyond, because that’s the kind of friend he has become.
If your insurance allows, be sure to schedule in a massage afterwards. Jeff will prep your masseuse on what he just adjusted to compliment your adjustment, which is great. The masseuses themselves are lovely, each girl/​guy having their own style. I just had one recently that stretched your muscles while she worked out the pain, which I absolutely love [see, if someone else did it, I would do my stretches every day!].
Definitely have and will continue to recommend to my friends.

Stopped by Verve 360 Studio today after having a nice pedicure, manicure at their Salon, down town Pittsburgh! Never knew they had a fitness Studio upstairs. I noted all kind
of fun classes they were offering and some great promotion on the black board behind
reception. When asked, they offered me to take a tour of the studio!
So, I went upstairs where their fitness studio is. What a great space, loved all the exposed
bricks, interesting equipments, all kind of fun stuff, and got to sit and observe a class, led by
I believe her name was Mona, that looked like fun! Later I learned it is called Booty bar!!!
Great ambiance, didn’t smell like most fitness places. I spoke to Mona, she told me a bit about the different classes they were offering, told me about a number of exercise equipments, unfamiliar to me… One was for what she referred to as aerial classes, machines for Pilates and she also said they have a great hip hop class coming up. I have done yoga and pilates before, all these other classes seemed really interesting and am excited to try them out!!! So am thinking of taking advantage of the promotion they are running!
They also offered massages, in addition to tons of other services… I’ll start with signing up for some of the classes for now!

I travel a lot for work. When I come in town I always stop and get my nails done so I look fresh for my meetings on Monday. I was sent to this location by the hotel property where I was staying. The interior is unique and the nail color selection was impressive. However, I always try to find the positive in my experiences. The staff was extremely young and polite. Now let’s get serious. I paid $ 80 dollars for a manicure that really looks terrible as well as an express pedicure with out polish. I feel like throwing up for spending my hard earn money for the service because I still gave a 20% tip because I felt sorry for the lack of talent. My hands were never soaked in any liquid nor were moisturizers applied. My cuticles were cut without any loosening. I was so surprised by this style of service. So my cuticles are sore, we’re not treated properly and then they put cuticle cream on after they cut them. So today they are red and irritated. I definitely will not recommend this place and if you are use to NY style manicures stay away because this is nothing like it.

Hair, Nails, MakeUp, Massage, Facials, Wellness all around with the offered fitness classes and personalized services also available. Great locally «Woman» owned business that just keeps growing!
I highly recommend this salon for any or all of your needs… also mention my name as a referral and get special deals on services/​products. **(Not to be combined w any other offers)**
Wedding parties, out of towners welcome, locals favorite!
Great staff, professional-​friendly-​clean!!!
Bumble and Bumble products, Zoya Polish, Yonka, Redkin just to name a few…
Check out their site, grab a service or sign up for a class. Be well Verve 360°
RL

This review is for nail services only. I loved the interior of the studio — so hip and trendy. The ladies at the front desk were lovely and accommodating, as well. Anyway, I booked a Saturday morning mani here with one of my girlfriends, never having been here before. I think the regular nail tech was out, but the girl doing my nails seemed like she knew what she was doing. Unfortunately, I was wrong and I received the worst mani of my entire life… Entire. Life. The end result was that I left the salon with a bumpy manicure, poor edges, and badly trimmed cuticles. I am so sad that I spent $ 24 on this. The worst part of it all was that the manicurist didn’t seem to notice that my nails looked like a 5 year had painted them.

I have had a variety of service here – massages, facials, mani/​pedis and a hair cut. I’ve almost never had any problems with service other than when I missed an appointment and they charged the full amount of the services I missed. I understand thats their policy, but as a repeat customer who as been going there for some time, it could have been an opportunity to garner good will. Their reception is a bit hit or miss. Most of the times you are warmly welcomed but if they are busy occasionally you will feel ignored.
My major issue is that they are charging day spa prices, without any facilities of a day spa. For $ 120 for a 50 minute massage or $ 115 facial, I would expect a locker room, showers and maybe a steam room/​sauna. After moving to NYC and going to days spas there, I’ve realized the complete absurdity of their pricing. Maybe its the lack of competition and limited market for day spas in Pittsburgh, but you really aren’t getting anything more for the increased prices. A manicure at the mall will cost much less than $ 34 and the quality is about the same. Add in the hassle of getting into downtown and finding parking, and it just not worth the trouble.
The staff is generally nice, in particular Samantha is great. The others are mixed. Once when I was getting my hair cut, my stylist pointed out that I seemed «shy and not very talkative.» Yes, thank you for being professional and drawing attention to anxiety problems.

Hair, nails, massages, facials, yoga… etc…ALL awesome services and I’ve never had a negative experience. Highly recommended going here for any of your wellness needs!

I was charged $ 20 for an eyebrow wax that didn’t even make my brows look that different from before. She was very friendly but I’m sorry, if you’re going to charge that much you need to be upfront about it.

Friend and I were looking for a place near where we wanted to eat for manicures, so we found Verve. We assumed walking in would be easy, but I called in the morning just in case and they advised us to both book appointments (there are only 2 manicure stations so if one books at our desired time, it’d defeat the point of getting manis together). Everyone I spoke to on the phone was extremely courteous and helpful.
To cut to the chase, the ambiance = awesome, inviting. The staff = charming, friendly. Quality of the services we received… meh, especially for the price.
The manicure stations are adjacent and all 4 us were chatting about work, life, the holidays. My manicure was $ 35… that’s twice as expensive as downtown Chicago a block away from Mag Mile. I’d prefer less cushy environment and a Vietnamese man who doesn’t speak English, since in my experience those nail technicians are quicker, more practiced, and cheaper. My friend’s gentleman’s mani took about 10 minutes…
We ended up staying for eyebrow waxes. $ 20… kind of haphazard. Slightly uneven for both of us but he couldn’t complain. Mine… she misunderstood what I wanted maybe and took too much off. It was also slightly uneven.
I was told that everyone is a cosmetologist there, so they do hair, nail, everything. Seems less specialized. I’d rather go to a salon with someone practiced in one thing really well instead of a place like Verve, as comprehensive (and convenient) and nice as it is.

We lucked out and found a gem in downtown Pittsburgh. We literally picked this place off the street when dining at a restaurant on the same block which is not normal for me who over analysis most decisions… but were in town for a wedding and unprepared.
We had a Manicure (Jamie Scafuri) and Brow Wax (Samantha Stacknick) which were fabulous so booked hair styles (Samantha Stacknick and ??) the following day. They obviously knew we would not be back any time soon but treated us as through we would. I wish we lived closer as we would be regulars. I loved the setup of the shop. They are a one stop but still a boutique feel.

The yoga class I took with Deidre was good. Tough but she’s a good teacher. This however is the third class I’ve taken at Verve and every one of them has started late. Why? It makes me crazy. Start late but end right on time so the next class can start. And I’m sure it starts late too. Verve should adjust the schedule to allow a 15 min cushion between classes to prevent this.
More from a return visit… took Pilates with Mona. She’s a scatterbrain. We finished 20 mins short of a 60 min class so she moved us to the barre for some stretches. 10 min later she says we’re done although we only worked on the right leg. I’ll finish my Groupon, but then I’m done here.

Went to The Verve for a pre-​bachelorette party schedule event and the staff was going off of appointments with our group rather than who was there on time. We had 5 mani/pedi’s scheduled. Waited nearly an hour to get started on a mani/​pedi while those who were late (20+minutes) in our group got their nails started before me.
The staff were very rushed and my mani/​pedi was more of a color change than anything. For example my cuticles were not taken care of on hand nor foot, nails were barely filed/​clipped and the paint job was all over. The salon also does not use any uv lights for drying non-​gel nails, so we girls had to wait over an hour to touch anything and 2 hours later most of us got huge dents in our nails. They were too busy to fix anything and this happened before payment.
I did not get gels due to needing to change the color in a week and didn’t want to pay extra or wait for them to soak off. However the salon charged me 59.99 for their «services» before tip and many of us were dissatisfied with what we got. We wanted to complain but did not say much due to the bride booking the salon and we didn’t want to upset her.
This was my second time at this salon and will not be returning. More of a spa than a salon and for groups they have a policy that if someone doesn’t show up the group still pays for the services scheduled. Not customer friendly in price, policy or services.

I got a fabulous pedi here! Staff was so nice and accommodating. I love the atmosphere– exposed brick, fresh cut flowers, water in glass goblets. Definitely a nice break away from the office and cubicle fields! I think I found my mid-​day getaway!

I went to Verve for a spa day as a gift from a friend. I got the Gentleman’s Package, described as:
A Gentleman’s Escape
This is a perfect indulgence for a gentleman in need of rebalancing mind and body. His journey will begin and end with serenity and encompass wellness throughout.
Approximately 3 Hours ($ 170)
Fifty Minute Deep Tissue Massage
Scalp Treatment Ritual with Shampoo
Gentlemen’s Pedicure
Haircut
The massage was good, though not great. I felt as though the person was going through the motions. As I was leaving, I found out that she was moving, and had just a day or 2 left at Verve. With one foot out the door, I figured she wasn’t really concerned about keeping a client coming back. I considered the scope of the event, and can’t put a lackluster effort on the place.
I was handed off to Jessica. She was very nice, explained everything she was doing and how it would benefit me. She had a great personality and knew the answer to every question I asked. She did a great job on the pedicure.
Jessica then took me to a small inset, a dark space that was kind of like being in a cave. She gave me a hot oil treatment and scalp massage that I thought was great. I liked the idea of being in the intimate space, away from the main room. It made it much easier to relax and enjoy. Describing it as a ritual fits the event.
I’ve had my hair cut at many different places. Jessica took her time and paid attention to how my hair falls. My hair is thin, and getting thinner as I get older. One slip has my hair looking weird within a week after getting it cut. She took off just enough to make it look good not just on that day, but for a while after as it grew in.
As a cherry on top, about a week later, I got this:
Hello Ray,
How are you? I always like to check in with my clients after their visit to the salon. I hope you enjoyed your visit and your hair cut is working out for you! :) If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call or email me. I hope to see you again soon, until then take care!
Thank you,
Jessica Ismirle
Hair stylist, Nail tech.
Verve 360
I like the idea that they follow up with their clients.

Awesome pedi. I had Kat and I loved her. We joked about my leg hair and I appreciate her not judging me for it. I am not from Pittsburgh so our concierge suggested Verve and called to book our appointment. They had same-​day openings and we were greeted very warmly. They have coffee, tea, water, even wine!
You can also get your hair done, do some yoga, even get chiropractic work done here. A really cool place.

So this time I will begin with the 5 senses review then get into the all the words. Just as a heads up, this review is only about the massage service at Verve and not the many other services provided. Scale 1 – 10 (10 the best).
Sight: 8-​Very cool place, modern and eclectic (perhaps) look to the space. Cool exposed brick, high ceilings. This is not your typical day spa, but a well done use of an older building down town.
Hearing: 6-​Typical of a salon, but for getting a peaceful massage, being able to hear people walk around and talk was a little distracting.
Taste: 1-​Nothing here really. Unless you get something to drink. They had a miniature bottle of «champagne» and Stover’s chocolates for us.
Touch: 8-​it is a massage after all. See below for more.
Smell: 6-​Just enough scent in the room of the oils, lotions and whatever else to be nice but not overdone.
So, Verve was very accommodating and friendly. When you first arrive, the staff greats you warmly and are glad you are there. As I said before this is not your typical (in the sense of style) spa, but they treat you well. Even though this review is geared towards the massage, Verve does offer many services to take care of your whole body top to bottom and inside and out. Aesthetically it is a relaxed and fun environment, but for the massage room keep in mind that this is a refurbished building. It is not a room you would expect in a 5 star hotel. However I love exposed brick but not so much in panel ceilings.
This was a couples massage for my wife and I and both of our masseuses were respectful clear in directions and observant of our requests. Since they are great at meeting your requests, please remember to be specific. If you want the whole session spent on one or a few areas then speak up. The room was lit well and warm enough. They were great with the draping of the blankets and never once did my wife or I feel «exposed». Our session was 50 min. but they do have additional options for session length. The massage peeps are kind and have a great sense of touch and timing. She was great and certainly be the hell out of my trigger points, but I should have directed her to a few specific areas. This was on me. Be specific or sit back and relax. They are great and quite mighty.
A nice thing following the massage id a recommendation cars. Ideas on how to improve yourself between sessions. For example my masseuse suggested yoga, use of a foam roller and a specific trigger point tool to work on the knots in my back.
Over all it was a good experience.