Beauty Salon

Beauty Salon is a 5 reel, 20 pay line slot from the gaming centric NYX Interactive. It is based around times of old, when housewives spent their days at the beauty salon whilst their husbands were at work. It’s all very tongue in cheek and romanticized of course.

Beauty Salon Theme

From the outset Beauty Salon screams ‘bingo slot,' which isn’t surprising when you consider that bingo is one of NYX’s signature games. With pastel colours and a feminine theme we’d say this one is certainly aimed at female gamblers.

The reels are full of beauty themed symbols including makeup, women in dresses, old fashioned salon hair driers, scissors, curlers and an assortment of character sporting different hairstyles.

NYX has decided to keep things simple with sound effects, recycling standard sounds from other slots, it feels less forced than other slots which often ruin gameplay with awful sound effects and music.

Despite the soft feminine theme, Beauty Salon has a huge range of wagering options which will satisfy the most hardcore gambler. You can play a minimum of 0.10 to 10 per coin, select from 1 to 5 coins per line and play up to 20 lines per spin. This results in a stake per spin ranging from 0.10 to 1000, which opens it up to all budgets.

The auto spin feature can be set to 5 or 10 spins per time, these are stopped when a feature spins in and can be resumed after by hitting the ‘spin reels’ button.

Beauty Salon Features

There are four main ‘features’ to look out for, the simplest is the lipstick symbol which takes on the ‘Wild’ role. This can replace any symbol and create a winning combination from left to right, the only symbols it can’t sub for are the scatter, free spins and bonus symbols.

Free spins are triggered by three or more ‘hair curler’ symbols, three symbols awards 5 free spins, 4 awards 10 free spins and 5 awards the maximum 15 free spins all of which can be retriggered.

The ‘vavoom’ hair spray is a scatter symbol, two or more pays a multiple of your line stake wherever they land. The bonus round is triggered by three or more hairdryer symbols, during the round you select from different dryers to reveal cash prizes until you eventually discover the ‘collect’ button. The bonus round offers a generous level of payout.

Despite being aimed at the bingo market we think Beauty Salon can hold its own with other slots, it offers a good range of wagering options and the allure of a a progressive jackpot.