Best In Show Pet Spa

Best In Show Pet Spa Award-Winning competition groomer & show dog exhibitor Tess Oliver provides pet, show, and handstripping services in a luxury mobile grooming salon.

A mobile grooming spa where your pup receives nothing but luxury treatment (and kisses, too!)

06/19/2026

From private lessons from different breed experts, to traveling to seminars and dog shows, doing virtual lessons, and attending every hands-on workshop I could find, I have easily spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours practicing this haircut.

Sometimes, it is easy to feel like "I should be amazing at this by now! The best one!!" , but everyone's journey is different. The important thing is that you do better than you did yesterday-- your only competition is yourself!

I love taking advantage of all-breed workshops because they are extremely affordable compared to private lessons that can range in the high hundreds to thousands. They also give you an opportunity to socialize, network, and spend a day with other groomers that have the same goal of improving their craft.

Thanks to Groom Haüs Groom Haüs Academy Irina Pinkusevich for an amazing workshop!

The cherry on top is getting to spend time with my dog! 🥰

06/15/2026

A full day grooming 8 dogs in 7 hours in my Wag'n Tails Pet Pro+ van with Clean Power System! 🚐✂️

My assistant and I spend Mondays-Wednesdays caring for multi-dog households, and today we had all of our weekly pups:

🏡 House 1:
• 2 Wheaten Terrier Bath + Tidy
• 1 Mini Doodle Bath + Tidy

🏡 House 2:
• 1 Large Doodle Bath + Tidy
• 1 Mini Doodle Bath + Tidy

🏡 House 3:
• 2 Toy Poodle Grooms
• 1 Bedlington Terrier Bath + Tidy

We work in tandem, each timing the dogs separately so we can keep appointments efficient while still billing for the full hands-on time each dog receives. I typically handle bathing + any trimming/grooming, while my assistant gets everyone prepped, blown out, + fluffed!

Including drive time, we were out for 7 hours 19 minutes and billed 7 hours 35 minutes of active grooming time thanks to teamwork and multi-dog appointments.

My personal dog tagged along today, so I occasionally idled the van to let her enjoy her own A/C up front—Florida heat is no joke! As you can see, I ended the day with plenty of battery left in my Clean Power System 😌🔋

06/15/2026

🚐 Thinking about going mobile? Learn from three successful mobile groomers who share the lessons, mistakes, and strategies they wish they knew when they started. Watch all the recordings and grab the free guides below 👇

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06/01/2026

It's Pride month everyone!! This year I wanted to celebrate by sharing some of my favorite grooming tools that just happen to be a lil gay coded!

I love that the Andis emerge clippers come in a variety of colors-- I always opt for the cute pink and orange ones and they perfectly match the sunset flag AND my sunset pro clip 5-in-1!

I use Andis wide clip combs literally every day-- you can do short trims, long trims, and their rainbow color coding makes it easy to remember what length each comb is.

My favorite shears of all time are from Niira! I have one of pretty much every shear they have ever made and I don't use anything else! I always feel confident that if a shear is Pina approved, it will be good enough for me. That woman has no problem saying something sucks if it does. Every single shear that she puts her name on has been tested by her personally, and that is a level of care I appreciate!

Do you agree with my list? 🥰

Happy Pride everyone. I love you!

05/27/2026

stalk your ex-- the newest addition to our ✨all-inclusive✨ grooming services!

We haven't taken new clients since 2020. For the first time in 6 years, we are taking a new BATH + TIDY ONLY route!

This rotation is Mondays every 4 weeks beginning June 15. Check our pinned post for how to apply to become a client!

Also if anybody wants a song I am available for hire. I'll even break up with your ex for you (in song).

Client applications are officially OPEN with limited availability for Tassiane! ✨This will be a Bath + Tidy route only —...
05/27/2026

Client applications are officially OPEN with limited availability for Tassiane! ✨

This will be a Bath + Tidy route only — perfect for short coats, double coats, and those scruffy little wirey hairs that just need some freshening up ✂️🫧

Shedding Sheltie? ✔️
Dirty Labrador? ✔️
Pomeranian b***y trim? ✔️

📍Pinecrest + Coral Gables clients only (along Old Cutler Rd)

We only have 4 total spots available — and one was filled this morning, so we’re already down to 3 houses! 😀

Tassi and I have worked together for the past 2 years, and she has been grooming professionally for nearly 9 years. I’m so excited to finally offer her services to new clients!

To apply, head to our website and copy + paste our client application into a text message to 786 208 0155

I've been working on so many fun projects this past month and I can't wait to share them with everyone!! Ahhh. But you'l...
05/26/2026

I've been working on so many fun projects this past month and I can't wait to share them with everyone!! Ahhh. But you'll have to wait 🙈

05/25/2026

I always shampoo twice-- once to cleanse + prime the coat, and a second that I let soak for a few minutes, usually with a specific purpose like volumizing, deshedding, whitening, medicated etc.

I always follow up with an appropriate conditioner specific to that dog's skin + coat needs.

Living in Miami, even my weekly and bi-weekly clients benefit from a double cleanse; our soil is rich in clay, our environment is hot + humid, and most of them are living exciting lives filled with boating, beach days, and just romping around the city.

A REALLY clean coat is just the start of a beautiful finish.

Estheticians shout for us to double cleanse and moisturize at the end of our day-- if we do that for our skin DAILY why wouldn't we do it for our dogs who only get bathed every 1-4 weeks?

Do you double cleanse?

Model is 's baby Mushu!!

05/18/2026

First show in my new collab with Wag'n Tails is in the books! For my first trick, I did a trim I had never done before and hoped to make it through. 🤣

I still think this looks pretty great (that little shave spot on his shoulder is from a mole removal), but when I tell you that my friend blew my mind with a lesson on this trim the next day... wow! I'm excited to practice again!! Also the shears Mel let me borrow for this trim are literally named after this dog. lol.

Thank you so much to Wag'n Tails for having me, and to Andis for the awesome clipper giveaway at the end of my demo! 😄

I used:
eMErge Lite clippers
Wide 5 M-Force Blade
Proclip 5 in 1 on a 15 setting
Table
Cherry Blossom shampoo + finishing spray
Wide Tooth Comb
Mushu shears named after the dog I am grooming in the video!

05/12/2026

Tess Oliver's "M-Force Blades in C Major", an ode to Andis.

My lifetime of classical piano training has finally paid off. Decades of my life finally coming to fruition. Do I quit dog grooming, yes or no?

Anyway, the new magnetic cutting blade technology is literally the biggest innovation in clipper blades since wide blades came out, and ceramic blades before that!! With less metal on metal contact points, these blades stay cooler 30% longer than regular blades. They're finally available in 30, 10, 5, and 7 sizes and the 4 will be released later this year!!

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