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WASHING UP: Zandile Maduma helps a client before starting the treatment.

AT WORK: Zandile Maduma is serious about the work she does at Soho.

With all the high-class trappings, New York style, high-end salon's ambiance is incredible.

As one walks in , it feels less like a salon and more like a spa.

With convenient little extras, including client friendly treatment stations with specially designed handbag-computer bag slots, cellphone charging facilities and Wi-Fi, this salon is in a class of its own.

Conveniently located in the Sandton Mall, Soho provides a hub for celebrities.

This gently lit and inviting salon, with warm hues, has a lavish feel.

The owners have diligently put together a salon menu that is a head-to-toe rejuvenating experience. You can have body treatments, specialised manicures and pedicures, waxing, massages as well as acrylic and gel nails.

Behind every successful salon is a good therapist like Zandile Maduma.

After years of having make-up as her hobby and passion, she decided to take her interest in the beauty industry further by doing a course in beauty therapy. After many years in the industry she joined Soho.

Clients love her for her warmth and tenderness. Maduma says her professionalism has been rewarded with very loyal clients and friends.

"There is nothing more humbling than when a customer comes in and asks to be treated by you. It makes you feel there is something that you are doing right," she beams.

Of all her accomplishments, Maduma counts giving celebrities treatments as the highlight of her career.

"It is fantastic working with these talented men and women who have such an amazing presence. It feels good to make people feel beautiful on the outside as well as on the inside," she says.

Maduma combines all her experience to create treatments that yield immediate results and have her clients coming back for more.

She believes in tailoring each treatment to the client's specific needs, carefully selecting the right products to achieve the best results.

"Having a passion for beauty allows me to see beauty in many different ways. I love to use my skills to bring out the beauty I see in all people.

"There is nothing more satisfying than seeing someone look in a mirror and love what they see."

She says working in a salon of Soho's calibre has changed her perspective of beauty therapy.

" I have learnt the importance of customer service and hygiene. What is exciting here is the use of the latest technology andequipment.

"I have also learnt to give attention to detail and to value customers. At Soho, a customer can walk in without an appointment and be assisted."

Maduma says her ultimate goal is to open her own business, fashioned on the business ideals and model of Soho.

"This is an excellent concept that was long overdue in this country. At the moment, however, I just want to learn everything that I can," she says.