YesStyle compiled the following data on US cities and grooming services and shopping options.
Chicago, America’s third most heavily-populated city, has the highest average jewelry store review score, followed by Philadelphia and San Francisco. Many of the cities with the highest rated jewelry stores are also among the highest rated clothing stores, including Chicago, Denver, Portland, Dallas, Seattle and Baltimore. [Pictured: Left]
Overall, the best city in which to get a makeover is Washington’s Seattle. The city did well in nearly every category, even managing to rank 1st for average mani-pedi cost, average dental clinic cost and average clothing store ratings. The only data point in which the city did poorly is average hair stylist cost, where it came 23rd. [Pictured: Right]
Next, we have Portland in 2nd and San Francisco in 3rd. Both cities scored well, although the former did noticeably better than the latter for both average hair stylist costs and clothing store ratings.
The rest of the top ten also scored well. Interestingly, three of the top ten cities are located in California (San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles).
At the other end of the ranking, Las Vegas has the lowest score overall. Aside from having the highest average mani-pedi cost, it has the 2nd lowest dental clinic density, 2nd lowest average beauty salon ratings, and did poorly in nearly every other data point aside from jewelry store ratings, where it actually scored fairly well.
Nevada’s largest city is followed by San Jose which, despite having the cheapest average mani-pedi cost, didn’t score well for average hair stylist costs, dental clinic density, average beauty salon ratings and average clothing store ratings.
New York managed to barely stay ahead, finding itself at the bottom of the table for average hair stylist costs and dental clinic density. That said, it did manage to garner decent scores for its average dentist rating and average jewelry store rating.
Methodology
Minmax normalization was used to give each city a score out of ten for every data point. The results were then averaged to reach an overarching score, showing us a final ranking of the best cities in which to get a makeover.
The following formula was used to generate normalized scores for each data point:
Result = (x-min(x))/(max(x)-min(x))
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