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Face & Body Essentials

Beauty salon · Kaiapoi Centre, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 570 Christchurch beauty businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026
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Face & Body Essentials

Beauty salon · Kaiapoi Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#154of 570 beauty businesses
Overall health7.3/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Face & Body Essentials is a Kaiapoi beauty salon that has merged into Studio 97 and now operates from 97 Williams Street, next to Zafran and opposite McDonald's. The same staff provide facial treatments, waxing, eyebrow shaping, microdermabrasion, spray tanning and nail services. Customers note friendly, professional care and a calm, relaxing atmosphere.

Face & Body Essentials is a beauty salon now operating from Studio 97 at 97 Williams Street in Kaiapoi. The salon relocated its services and team to the new premises; signage notes it is next to Zafran and opposite McDonald's in the town centre.

The services transferred to Studio 97 include anti-ageing facials, peels, microdermabrasion, massage, waxing, spray tanning and Shellac nails, alongside eyebrow shaping and tinting. The staff from Face & Body Essentials continue to provide the same treatments and appointment options under the new Salon 97 location.

Customers describe a welcoming, professional experience with staff who make clients feel comfortable and relaxed. Reviews highlight painless waxing, effective facials and careful eyebrow shaping, and they frequently mention a warm, quiet salon atmosphere during treatments. The team's approach is consistently described as friendly and reassuring.

Locally, Face & Body Essentials is distinguished by its continuity of staff and services following the merge with Studio 97, offering familiar treatments from a central Kaiapoi location. Clients looking for established beauty services in the area can expect the same range of treatments and a calm, professional client experience.

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Your Google listing

Face & Body Essentials shows a below-average health score on Google Business Listing with room to improve. Key strengths include a claimed listing, listed phone number, a website link, and a full address, which supports customer contact and location accuracy. The business's profile also includes a title. Primary opportunity is to update status to open or temporarily closed, plus ongoing photo expansion and improving the description.

Strengths

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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.
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    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

Top three opportunities

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    Open statusGoogle shows this business as permanently closed, which takes the listing out of most searches and tells anyone who does find it not to come.
  • 2
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.9Room to grow
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5.0 ★★★★★ (37)
Beauty salon · Kaiapoi Centre
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Dear Clients - Face and Body Essentials has moved its services to our new Salon - Studio 97 - We are at 97 Williams Street - Opposite McDonalds', and next door to Zafran Restaurant. Same Staff - Same Services - We look forward to seeing you. Call us 03 327 9797

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Face & Body Essentials shows a healthy Google review profile with a 7.7/10 health score. The business has a strong star rating in the top 10% and an above-average review count, indicating solid customer trust. Engagement is good, with a higher-than-average response rate compared to peers, but there is room to sustain momentum.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Response rateYou reply to some of your reviews but not most, so a customer scrolling your page finds long stretches where nobody answered.
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    Review countYour review count sits above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you ahead of most of this market, which means a customer sees a well-rated business with enough reviews behind it to be believed.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
7.4Good
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5.0★★★★★37 reviews 2
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Wendy T.★★★★★ · Edited a month ago

Had an appointment with Lisa this morning for eyebrow shape and color and had Micro dermabrasion. Delighted with the results, lovely warm, relaxing, quiet atmosphere .

Response from the owner1

Thank you so much Wendy. Look forward to your next appt!!!

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Lisa M.★★★★★ · Edited 2 months ago

BEAUTIFUL SPACE AND STAFF

Response from the owner

Thank you for the 5 Stars.

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Where you show up on the map

Face & Body Essentials shows a very high overall health in Google Maps search, reinforcing strong local visibility. The borough-specific score is outstanding, placing the business in the top 10% of results in Kaiapoi, while other keyword rankings remain strong. Two notable opportunities include expanding presence across nearby suburbs and sustaining the elite borough ranking through continued optimisation.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
9.4Strong
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1Not seen in the searches we ran across Christchurch
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Face & Body Essentials✓Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #35 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Face & Body Essentials shows an overall health score of 4.1 out of 10, indicating below average social presence health. The strongest recent result is a very high trust Facebook profile, suggesting solid audience engagement there. Opportunities include adding Fresha and TikTok profiles, and enhancing Neighbourly and LinkedIn presence to broaden reach.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Infobel ListingWe can see your Infobel Listing listing (https://infobel.com/face_body_essentials) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
  • 3
    Fresha ProfileWe could not find an active Fresha Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
9.0Strong
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Facebook61562464097875Face & Body Essentials | Facebook✓
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Infobelface_body_essentialsFace & Body Essentials | Infobel✓
Instagramfacebody_essentialsFace & Body Essentials | Instagram✓
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
FreshaNo listing found3
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.
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    A street addressA street address sits in your page details, so someone deciding between you and a business two suburbs over can see which of you is closer.

Top three opportunities

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    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.8Room to grow
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Your website

Face & Body Essentials shows solid on-page SEO health with a score of 7.3 out of 10, indicating the site is generally well optimised but with clear opportunities. Key strengths include a valid favicon, no frames, a relevant meta description, an H1 tag, and a solid Title Tag that describe page content accurately.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from about as wide a range of sites as anything in this market, and the mix of link types looks entirely natural.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.

Top three opportunities

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    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
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    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
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    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Face & Body Essentials shows a solid overall health for website traffic with a score of 7.3 out of 10. The most impactful findings are paid traffic gaps and organic traffic value progress. A small, targeted paid campaign and continued content and site improvements can lift both paid visibility and organic value.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
7.2Good
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21No ads from you on any search
www.fbessentials.comBody Essentials: Face

A boutique beauty salon in Kaiapoi River Town, Canterbury. Anti Aging Facial Treatments ... Laser treatments, including Hair Removal, Facials and Tattoo removal.

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3About 102 visits a month from search, across 63 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #163 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Face & Body Essentials currently has no published opening hours, so alignment with local demand cannot be measured. The health score is very low (1.3/10). Without recorded hours it is not possible to point to open-peak alignment or closed-peak misses. Adding accurate opening hours will immediately allow assessment of whether trading times match Kaiapoi customer demand patterns and reduce wasted visits.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
1.3Room to grow
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Hours
No opening hours listed1
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#154of 570 Christchurch beauty businesses
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