Who, and the place, must you go to for facial remedies in London? If it is a query you end up asking, both as a long-time resident or flying customer to metropolis, then look no additional than this Wallpaper* information for the reply.
Whether or not it’s lasers with little to no downtime, or injectables that subtly rejuvenate fairly than freeze or overfill, this recurrently up to date listing of tried and examined procedures, educated practitioners and design-led clinics include magnificence editor Hannah Tindle’s seal of approval.
The Wallpaper* information to London facial remedies
Inside Dr. Karen Doherty’s Stoke Newington clinic
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Dr Karen Doherty
The inside of Dr Karen Doherty’s clinic, positioned on a leafy avenue in North London, has been designed by gallerist Max Radford. So upon strolling inside, it’s worlds away from the dime-a-dozen medispa, with eclectic furnishings and an atmosphere that instantly makes you are feeling such as you’re within the secure arms of somebody with an actual eye for element.
Dr Karen takes the identical strategy with regards to her aesthetic remedies, that are constructed across the particular person facial anatomy of her sufferers. Taking a ‘much less is extra’ strategy to filler and utilizing bespoke strategies to manage eye-brightening polynucleotides, she offers transformative but pure outcomes. Considered one of my private favourites with regards to in-clinic remedies contains the non-invasive NeoGen Plasma pores and skin resurfacing, which may also be provided at her new location in Shoreditch, opening in 2025.
Dr Karen Doherty, Stoke Newington, London, N16
drkarendoherty.com
Maison Sisley
Sisley opened its first London Maison in July (2024), bringing the model’s signature remedies for face, physique and hair to the UK capital. ‘Now we have been seeking to open a Maison Sisley in London for some time now,’ Christine d’Ornano, the French skincare model’s international vice chairman tells Wallpaper*. D’Ornano designed the inside of the Maison along with her mom, founding father of the corporate Isabelle d’Ornano, with particulars that talk to its Mayfair location.
For individuals who like traditional but expertly-led facials, Maison Sisley has a complete listing of remedies on provide, every utilizing their world-renowned merchandise. The ‘Sisleÿa with Ginkgo Gua Sha’, ‘Sisleÿa La Remedy’, and ‘Supremÿa’ facials are designed to deal with particular pores and skin issues, with sensory components (akin to lights in therapy rooms, important oils, scalp, hand and foot therapeutic massage) integrated for optimum leisure.
Maison Sisley, 61 South Audley St, London W1K 2QP
sisley-paris.com
Pfeffer Sal
Nestled within the coronary heart of Fitzrovia, Pfeffer Sal is an intimately-sized clinic slightly below the bottom stage of a cobbled mews close to Warren Road. Its nest-like setting, adorned with air-purifying crops, offers fast tranquillity upon stepping inside its door (a reclaimed design from the Nineteen Thirties).
Opened by Melbournite Andrea Pfeffer in 2015, the salon works with choose moral, sustainable and clear manufacturers to offer a wealth of remedies backed up by the most recent science and know-how. ‘We’re huge on confirmed outcomes and advantages, in any other case we simply can’t justify utilizing one thing,’ says Pfeffer Sal’s web site. Throughout restorative facials, clarifying lasers, copper micro-needling and fast pores and skin boosters (these will be added on to signature facials) Pfeffer Sal additionally offers ‘restricted version’ seasonal remedies, permitting shoppers to expertise the most recent strategies and merchandise.
Pfeffer Sal, The Stables, 10B Warren Mews, London W1T 6BY
pfeffersal.com
Omorovicza’s London Institute on South Audley Road in Mayfair
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The Omorovicza Mayfair Institute
Hungarian skincare model Omorovicza opened a brand new London Institute virtually a yr in the past (November 2023), designed to evoke the environment of a thermal spa. Its interiors had been created by Tina Vaia and Ed Milton of EJM Studio utilizing supplies that reference the components in its mineral-rich merchandise akin to travertine, copper, clay plaster and terracotta.
In its two therapy rooms, simply beneath the primary ground of the constructing, are the place facialists and practitioners carry out remedies. A bespoke facial begins with a session with one of many Mayfair Institute’s therapists, who will ask questions on your pores and skin sort and issues (thorough cleaning, steaming, masks and therapeutic massage had been key parts of mine). Afterwards, a therapy programme, the ‘Omorovicza Prescription’ with merchandise tailor-made to your wants is offered, alongside recommendation on how greatest to make use of them.
The Omorovicza Mayfair Institute, 60 South Audley St, London W1K 2QW
omorovicza.co.uk
FaceGym
Inge Theron launched FaceGym ten years in the past, opening its first location in Selfridges. In the present day, the model has 15 studios throughout the globe – six of that are based mostly in London – offering ‘exercises’ for the face by way of non-invasive therapeutic massage strategies to tone the muscle tissues for a lifting and sculpting impact.
Choices for remedies embrace the ‘Signature Sculpt’, which makes use of fingers and FaceGym instruments akin to a uniquely-shaped gua sha, created in collaboration with make-up artist Isamaya Ffrench, or the ‘FaceGym Professional’, an EMS gadget. Alternatively, there’s the choice of a ‘arms solely’ exercise, with hydrating and cleaning add-ons in case you so want. Facial therapeutic massage additionally will increase circulation and drains lymph, lowering puffiness and swelling. The strategies utilized by FaceGym present fast outcomes that proceed to final for weeks afterwards. Don’t count on gentle tapping or stroking: it’s referred to as a ‘exercise’ for cause.
FaceGym, studios in numerous places throughout London, together with Surrenne, Previous Barrack Yard, London SW1X 7NP, and Selfridges, 400 Oxford St, London W1A 1AB
facegym.com
Merchandise by Dr. David Jack, together with the ‘Yellow Peel’
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Dr David Jack
Having lately opened a fourth location within the Metropolis’s Royal Trade (alongside current clinics in Belgravia, a pop-up at The Savoy and a flagship on Harley Road), Dr David Jack is without doubt one of the most trusted aesthetic practitioners within the UK. All have been designed with interiors that complement the structure that homes them. Within the case of the Belgravia Clinic on Ebury Road, a Nineteen Sixties-era constructing, the area is decked out in distinction to its brutalist exterior, impressed by a Nineteen Thirties Milanese villa by Piero Portaluppi.
Right here, additionally, you will discover the SkinTech Studio, a bespoke facial bar developed with the clinic’s head aesthetician to work in tandem with injectables. The ‘Pigmentation Facial’ combines derma curler microneedling and mesotherapy, the place a cocktail of antioxidants is run to the pores and skin to scale back pigmentation and enhance hydration. Mine, carried out by one of many knowledgeable practitioners, was mixed with dermaplaning and the ‘Yellow Peel’ from Dr David Jack’s namesake skincare line.
Dr. David Jack, 96 Harley St, London W1G 7HY and 59 Ebury St, London SW1W 0NZ
drdavidjack.com
Dr Joney De Souza: Pores and skin and Laser
Dr Joney De Souza’s Marylebone-based clinic, which specialises in laser remedies, ‘much less is extra’ injectables, and a plethora of different therapies akin to PRP, is located simply throughout the best way from Chiltern Road. Inside, you’re greeted by a waft of Diptyque’s ‘Baeis’ and Dr Joney’s staff, earlier than assembly the person himself.
Born in Brazil, Dr De Souza has been practising aesthetic drugs for 20 years, growing the ‘De Souza Methodology’ which tackles ‘quantity’, ‘texture’ and ‘tone’. Throughout a session, he’ll advise on a novel ‘contour and raise’, ‘clean and refine’ and ‘clear and tone’. For the latter impact, Picosure, a laser therapy with minimal downtime that reduces hyperpigmentation all while stimulating collagen manufacturing, ‘reset’ my pores and skin after summer time in preparation for the winter months. Different laser choices, all administered by a specialist, vary from IPL to Co2 resurfacing.
Dr Joney De Souza Pores and skin and Laser, 49 Blandford St, London W1U 7HH
drjoneydesouza.com
A therapy room in Augustinus Bader: The Pores and skin Lab, positioned on Dover Road in London
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Augustinus Bader: The Pores and skin Lab
The Pores and skin Lab by Augustinus Bader adjoins the London outpost of The Lanserhof Clinic, at The Arts Membership on Dover Road. Providing facial remedies in step with Professor Bader’s strategy to optimum pores and skin well being and utilizing the model’s signature TFC8 know-how, current in all of its merchandise, the final word aim is to ‘enhance mobile communication’ to rejuvenate, agency, tone and refine.
Accompanying the facial I had there was an IV vitamin drip at The Lanserhof, which administered a potent quantity of vitamins immediately into the bloodstream (what occurs contained in the physique displays on the skin, in any case). The therapy itself started with putting my head right into a Visia Pores and skin Evaluation machine, the place the pores and skin is scanned with multi-spectral imaging to disclose harm beneath the floor. Then, every factor is customised to mirror the shopper’s wants, from steaming and radiofrequency, to extractions and lightweight remedy. Evidently, I left glowing.
Augustinus Bader: The Pores and skin Lab, The Lanserhof at The Arts Membership, 17-18 Dover Road, London W1S 4LT
augustinusbader.com
111 Harley Road
111 Harley Road by Dr Yannis Alexandrides – additionally the founding father of 111 Pores and skin and 111 Cryo – offers a breadth of surgical, non-surgical and injectable aesthetic remedies (over 10,000+ per yr, to be actual, in response to its web site). Each is carried out with the identical meticulous care and a spotlight to element on the clinic, established in 2001. Now, it’s globally famend for offering up-to-the-minute remedies by way of its staff of consultants. This contains the likes of Ameela, a polynucleotide skin-boosting injectable derived from DNA present in salmon sperm.
Exosomes ASCEplus SRLV, additionally derived from stem cells, is a topical product used at the side of micro-needling, identified for its hydrating and therapeutic properties. I had mine utilized by way of Potenza, the place tiny needles with a thickness in response to my pores and skin sort (that is determined by a practitioner after a radical session) penetrate the dermis alongside radiofrequency. Encouraging the physique’s therapeutic course of and collagen and elastin manufacturing, although this isn’t for the faint of coronary heart, the outcomes are value momentary discomfort.
111 Harley St, London, W1G 6AW
111harleystreet.com
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