Best Brightening Facials To Try This Festive Season
Get ready for the festive season with beautiful glowing skin that will have you looking your best throughout the upcoming festivities
By Karen Fong -
It's that time of year where we want to look our best and where better to start than with our skin? Not only will a brightening facial help clear and even out your skin (making it the perfect canvas for those fun, sparkly, festive makeup looks), it also gives you some much-needed self-care time, lying in a luxurious facial room while your skin gets a little glow-up.
Here are some of the best facials we've sampled recently which are designed to give your skin that extra, brightening touch so that you look and feel great.
Unlike most skin consultations that are usually free-of-charge with an accompanying facial. The Rationale skin consultation costs $100, with a mini facial included. But what is really different here is the consultation itself, during which a therapist does a luxurious double cleanse of your skin, then takes you through an in-depth Skin Analysis under magnification light. UV Diagnostic Images are then used to look at your skin at every layer.
The therapist will use this to create a home care plan, which is then followed by the introductory facial experience to revitalise your complexion, using products suggested during the analysis.
What's more, you can gift a friend or loved one the facial by purchasing the service, which is packaged in a sleek gift card and box that's easy to put beneath the tree.
Rationale, Raffles City Shopping Centre, Unit #01-19, 252 North Bridge Rd, Singapore 179103, +65 6436 3567
If you feel the stress of getting all your work done before you flounce off on holiday for the rest of the year has started to take a toll on your skin, steal a couple hours to head over to Freia Aesthetics to sample their facials from famed Israeli brand Future Cosmetics. Packed full of powerful botanicals, these products used in the Fountain of Youth facial combat tiredness and sagginess in this 90-minute experience.
The facial begins with a makeup cleanse and toning, which contains AHA and BHA to thoroughly cleanse pores. This is followed by a steam and extraction before the application of products such as the famed Future Beauty Drops followed by the Dermo Electroporation Machine to help the serum penetrate into the skin.
The lymphatic massage that follows is one of the best I've experienced and my skin look truly more light and lifted after the facial.
Freia Aesthetics, 435 Orchard Road, #19-03, Wisma Atria Office Tower, Singapore 238877, +65 6734 3219
Here's one for time-strapped mums. The sister brand of local favourite Kew Organics, Sugar K is all about quick and effective treatments, getting you in and out with visible results in less than an hour. Their new Sugar K Skin Gym Organic Treatment (30 mins) combines the brand's rich serums with the Multi-Polarity Electroporation device to give you that v-shaped face by delivering more oxygen to the skin and increasing it's firmness.
It's recommended to combine the treatment with the Sugar K LED Therapy (2o mins) which enhances the Skin Gym treatment and uses LED to stimulate blood circulation and achieve glowy skin.
Kew Organics/Sugar K Organic Peel Bar, Cluny Court, 501 Bukit Timah Road, #03-03, Singapore 259760
Get a technology-backed facial at IDS which is designed to improve various skin issues from hyperpigmentation to acne. The Snow White Lyte uses Broadband Light Therapy, incorporating dual flash light technology and a thermoelectric cooling system for a safe and effective treatment.
It starts with a double cleansing and exfoliation, followed by the application of gel and the treatment itself. Once it's completed, moisturiser and sunscreen is applied to send you on your way looking better than ever. The facial works to reduce redness, improve acne plus smoothen and improve skin texture, making it the perfect base for that sparkling celebratory makeup you'll be wearing this season.
IDS Clinic, 8 Sinaran Drive, #05-09 to 10, Novena Specialist Center, Singapore 307470, +65 6568 3555s
The luxury French brand has just launched a series of facial treatments at its newly opened Raffles City outlet. Ranging from 30 minutes to 60 minutes, these facials use top-of-the-line Orchidée Impériale Black products in facial experiences designed to repair, rejuvenate and refresh.
The facials are anti-ageing and relaxing at the same time, combining the products' Blackimmune™ technology with powerful tools like stone quartz mushrooms and rollers for deeper pressure. A special pressure point massage is also included. After your treatment, you can also indulge in their makeup services which will give you that Parisian beauty look.
Guerlain Boutique, Raffles City Shopping Centre, #01-40