Primp & Proper is sister companies with Vancouver’s top Makeup & Hair Artist Agency, Faye Smith Agency. P&P first opened in 2015 when Faye Smith Agency, formerly known as Faye Smith Makeup & Hair, outgrew it’s live/work studio in Vancouver’s Olympic Village. As the company introduced more beauty services, including eyelash extensions, lash lifts and brow threading, the salon rebranded to Primp & Proper.
In 2020 the Founder, Faye Smith, alongside her longtime friend Joanna Keller, owner of Joanna Keller Beautique, decided to combine their businesses under one roof. Consequently, a unique, women-led space was born! Eyelash extensions, lash lifts, brows and more.
Following a period in Vancouver’s Chinatown district, in July 2020 the duo finally settled into their current location, at 73 East Cordova St in the historic Gastown area.
This quaint little Gastown beauty salon offers a wide variety of beauty services, specializing in lashes, brows and blowouts. Eyelash extensions, lash lifts, brow grooming and more. Its retail collection consists of some of the best in beauty products. If you love Olaplaex, K18,Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics, Design.Me or Yumi you will love shopping online or in-store with this small business. Primp & Proper offers free shipping on orders over $99 and free local pick up at the salon located at 73 East Cordova Street in Vancouver BC Canada.
Some of Primp & Proper’s most popular beauty services is Yumi Lash Lift & Tint, Thuya Brow Lamination. Eyebrow Threading, Blowouts, Makeup Lessons, Halloween Makeup and Special Event Hair and Makeup. Eyelash extensions, lash lifts, brow grooming are some of the every day beauty essentials.
In 2024 Primp & Proper became an official Yumi Sub-Distrubutor, supplying professional Yumi Lash and Brow Lift and Tint products to professional lash lifters. If you are interested in learning more about Yumi’s Premium French Brand of lash and brow lifting products then be sure to reach out to Faye at [email protected]
Looking for a Vancouver Salon Bed and Chair Rental? Rent a salon chair, massage, facial, lash, or tattoo bed in the heart of Gastown Vancouver. Primp & Proper offers part-time and full-time rentals at an affordable rate. Email us at [email protected] or call 778-788-3552
“Real Queens Fix Each Other’s Crowns.”
Our Talented Beauty Queens
Faye Smith
Primp & Proper’s Founder and Lead Stylist, Faye, is known for scouting top talent in the beauty industry. Subsequently, she has put together a team of some of the best artists and technicians in Canada to provide our clients with the highest quality beauty services. As a result, our ladies each have a wealth of knowledge and individual flair in their area of expertise.
Faye personally offers her clients makeup and hair services, professional makeup and hair lessons, personal makeup and hair lessons, lash lifts, lash and brow tints, brow laminations, and brow and facial threading services.
Kseniya is our brow princess! She specializes in bold, beautiful brows and for those reasons and more, she is very popular with our clients. Alongside being an amazing brow specialist, she is a very talented makeup artist as well. Her creativity is not limited by her beauty skills. She is also a graphic designer who has trained in Russia. Kseniya has made valuable contributions to the design of Primp & Proper’s website and marketing materials. She also helps us out with coordinations one day per week on Sundays.
A rising star! Alice has been a makeup artist since 2016 and graduated from the John Casablancas Institute in November 2018. Prior to that, she worked and studied as a makeup artist in Mexico and has a real flair for creating gorgeous looks through hair and makeup. She has been on Faye Smith Agency‘s roster since early 2019 and joined the coordination team soon after. Since then, she has enrolled in school at Vancouver Community College to further develop her skills and offer more beauty services to Primp & Proper and Faye Smith Agency’s clients. She is trained in event hairstyling and lash lifts by Faye herself. Alice recently completed an Eyelash Extension course at Glo Lash Pro. She is our most booked Special FX and Face Painting Halloween Makeup Artist. A true super talent who we are very proud to work with!
Alice now offers Junior Eyelash extension services at a very affordable rate.
Fernanda is a makeup and hair artist trained in Brazil and working in Canada. She specializes in special events, bridal and blowouts. She also offers lash lift and tint services for which she formerly trained by top lash lifter and the Founder of Primp & Proper, Faye Smith. You will also find Fernanda typing away in our office as she is our head bookings coordinator. As our clients say, “everyone needs a Fernanda in their life!”
Chelsea has always had a passion for the arts, spending a lot of her extra time drawing and painting. At an early age Chelsea was drawn to the glamorous makeup she saw in magazines and films and she knew that this was something she wanted to get involved in. Chelsea’s biggest inspiration would probably be from film, all of the beautiful makeup and how it is used to create the scenery and mood to the story onscreen.
Chelsea’s specializes in full and fluffy lash extensions, event hairstyling, and event makeup styling including Bridal makeup and hair. Chelsea offers Vancouver’s best eyelash extensions.
Joanna has been working in the beauty industry since 2008, began doing eyelash extensions in 2009 and is now considered to be a pioneer in the eyelash industry. Ms. Keller is internationally known for her colourful lash designs and her work has been featured in Allure, Buzzfeed,Vogue, Glamour and Goodmorning America to name a few. Photos of Joanna’s color lash designs went viral after her eccentric collaborations with makeup artist Kelseyanna Fitzpatrick.
Joanna is also an educator for SNOB inc. and offers private training , business coaching and full eyelash extension certifications through the brand . Joanna has also partnered with SNOB to create a lash adhesive – “KOLORLESS “ clear and sensitive glue and the “supernatural “ color lash palette. Joanna offers the very best in Vancouver Eyelash Extensions.
