It’s more pleasurable than painful, offers better results than high street facials and can be customised to give every skin type a glow. Here’s why this former facial hater is wondering where the Hydrafacial has been all of her life
Despite the fact that I’ve been a beauty journalist for a going on a good seven years now, I can count on both hands the number of facials I’ve had in that time. Give me a thorough rub down or hoove shaving pedi any day, but thus far I’ve either found facials far too ‘blah’, significantly uncomfortable (just the thought of extractions make me shudder) or a full-on facial disaster zone (like that time I got signed off of work for two weeks with dermatitis from forehead to nips – true story).
As such, when facial invites come along as they often do in my particularly privileged line of work, I generally pass them up for fear of ending up nonplussed or alternatively at the GP. This year, however, something changed. I’m getting married, as I keep honking on about, and apparently setting some kind of face maintenance in motion is the done thing. “If there’s a time to invest, it’s now” etc etc. As such, I faced the music with a treatment that my eczema prone sister recommended, and it’s proved to be a game/ face changer. Dear readers, if you’re yet to be acquainted, meet the Hydrafacial.
The Hydrafacial system is more well known in the US than the UK, but is becoming more widely available in clinics on this side of the pond, no doubt sought after due to the fact that it’s Beyoncé’s no-downtime pre-show facial of choice. Kylie Jenner’s makeup artist Ariel Tejada also recently told the MailOnline that she and the Jenner/Kardashian clan love it as “it sucks up all the dirt and leaves skin very luminous and soft, and of course it’s very hydrating.” If that essentially sounds like a giant face hoover to you, you wouldn’t be wrong, but a Hydrafacial is also a weirdly enjoyable experience, as I can testify after a visit to Epilium & Skin near London’s Baker Street.
