Being beautiful is hard work, which is why, when viewed up close, most supermodels resemble elderly oil-rig workers. Cut your workload in half with today’s Groupon to Modern Urban Designers Hair & Body Studio on Stony Plain Road. Choose between two options:

• For $30, you get a haircut (up to a $60 value).
• For $30, you get a Crybaby semipermanent-mascara application (a $60 value).

Modern Urban Designers is a boutique-style salon providing solid services for frustrated follicles and underserved eyelashes. Like a cadre of aesthetic Freuds, the hair therapists at MUD perform an intense face-shape analysis before each coif cropping, resulting in compatible cuts ($50–$60). Crybaby semipermanent mascara is 100 per cent waterproof and clings to luscious eyelid locks for up to three weeks, unlike traditional mascara. Volume, length, curl, and colour are all enhanced by the semipermanent alternative ($60).

Stainless-steel and hardwood accents lend a modern, sophisticated feel to MUD, like a bilingual human dressed as a robot. Though not included in this Groupon, the boutique offers an assemblage of express services, including the digit indulging manicure ($20) and polish change ($15).

Reviews

Modern Urban Designers Hair & Body Studio did the hair and makeup for this See magazine feature. Nine Yelpers give it a 4.5-star average, and more than 500 Facebookers are fans.

• The interior of M.U.D. studio is definitely modern, sophisticated and toned down. Comfortable chairs, big framed mirrors, good music. – Maria F., Yelp, 10/14/09
• I felt very relaxed in the environment. – Sharon P., Yelp, 7/22/09