Destination Amsterdam, five beauty addresses not to be missed!

Visit the city, including independent Italian nasi workshops, Korean beauty stores, spas contained in safes and twerking classes.

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Amsterdam: a microcosm of cultures living together in one of the most distinctive cities in the world, crisscrossed by its many canals. After all, it is known that the name of the colony that would give birth to the Big Apple, founded by the Dutch, was New Amsterdam. The aspect of multiculturalism and endless events, contexts and things to do is also reflected in the city's beauty heart. From independent nasi workshops, underground spas set up in the safes of a historic bank, twerking classes and Afro-Caribbean dancing-the city's most popular fitness classes of the moment-that, in the name of Body Positive, increase body awareness. The beauty-themed shopping experience cannot fail to visit Laboratory K: a shop of Korean, vegan and clean brands in the heart of the quaint Nine Streets neighborhood. And to explore the artistic fragrances of the Perfume Lounge boutique.

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In the basement of the bank is a spa

Amsterdam's urban temple of wellness lies far below sea level. To reach it, one descends the steps of W Hotels, a five-star hotel on Spuistraat that was once home to the historic Kas Bank, the bank that financed the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation. In the space once reserved for safes is the Away Spa, guarded and protected by the original armored doors. Inside, you will find its treasures: the treatment rooms and the spacious wet area, equipped with a Turkish bath, sauna, fire bath - with water that exceeds forty degrees, whirlpool, ice bath and pool where you can swim while listening to underwater music. A space, with a dark atmosphere, distinguished by black basalt stone of volcanic origin from Mongolia, where you can feel safe and regenerate.

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The spa menu offers treatments to be done in the morning, to rejuvenate after a night of dancing, or in the evening to prepare for a night of fun. Included are rejuvenating rituals-such as Back to Brillance-and relaxing ones-such as Ocean Deep Recovery. Among the detox treatments, Salty Me and Wrapped in Waves harness the detoxifying and invigorating power of seaweed and magnesium to stimulate lymphatic circulation and purify skin and body.

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Lab/home of an Italian perfumery, behind the Rijksmuseum

Behind the Rijksmuseum, in the basement of a beautiful early 20th-century Art Nouveau house, lies Francesca Bianchi's small but precious laboratory. An Italian fragrance creator who grew up in the hills of Carmignano, in the province of Prato, she has lived and worked in Amsterdam for twelve years. After graduating in Art History in Florence and experiences in the publishing world, she came to the world of fragrances as a self-taught artist in 2016. Finding in the artisanal creation of jus, her personal form of expression. The desire to give an olfactory dimension to an emotion is the driving force. The eponymous line of fragrances - aka liquid emotions for Francesca Bianchi - aims to stimulate and arouse the interiority of those who smell them. At present, the collection has fourteen creations. Distributed in over one hundred and fifty stores and in more than forty-five countries around the world.

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Twerking classes to foster body acceptance and confidence

Twerking and Afro-Caribbean dance classes-such as Soca-are among the most attended, loved, and sought-after classes in town at the moment. These hour-and-a-half classes of movements, exercises and choreography in front of the mirror help not only to tone the muscles of the legs and buttocks but also to become totally aware of one's own body and the movements it is capable of. Twenty-nine-year-old Englishwoman Roxanne Pratt--called the Queen of Twerk of The Netherlands, by the Dutch newspaper Het Parool, which began as a document of resistance during the Nazi occupation--begins her classes by promising to not only get the buttocks moving to the beat of the music. But to help release energy and boost self-esteem and confidence in themselves and in the beauty and uniqueness of their bodies.

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