The Red Carpet Facial was created to meet the needs of my high profile clients. The Red Carpet Facial combines three fantastic treatments; Le Grande Classique Facial (which includes cleansing, gentle exfoliation and extraction followed by the most relaxing massage and mask) Diamond Tone (resurfacing technique for removing the top layer of the skin) Oxygen Therapy (a treatment which atomizes straight on to the skin with an emulsion of special concentrations and oxygen). This two hour Red Carpet Facial ensures that the clients skin is left clean, radiant, hydrated and nourished with a healthy glow, ready for any red carpet occasion.
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2hr- £170
Does your Face Need a Lift?Normandie Keith
Now, if you want to look great for a big night out, Knightsbridge facialist Rani Mirza's facial is better than a couture dress for making you feel fabulous which is why she has developed the fantastically named Red Carpet Facial. The first part is Yonka's Le Grand Classique facial, which includes cleansing, steaming, extraction, massage and a mask. Then it's show time the Diamond Tome micro dermabrasion wand blasts away the years revealing ultra supple skin and a youthful glow. Unlike some treatments that can leave you with broken capillaries, the Diamond Tome is the most gentle and effective way to remove dead skin cells. Next, an oxygen loaded serum is sprayed on to the skin to plump out fine lines and wrinkles. The pièce de résistance is the Belnatur mask, which hoists up your face into smooth perfection. Ahhh ... my childhood fantasies really have come true.
YOU Magazine, The Mail on Sunday
Because You Need It:Getting Married is Most Women's Red Carpet Moment
Sarah Vine
Being the wrong side of 30, I was an October bride (the 20th, as it happens, so as you read this I will be mainlining Resolve while stifling the children's early morning exuberance with hefty administrations of CBeebies). Getting married in October was a deliberate choice. Not only was it much easier to find a venue; autumn, and indeed winter, are perfectly suited to the mature bride. The soft fight is most forgiving, and the inclement weather makes having to expose one's upper arms, or flit barefoot through fields of wheat, mercifully unnecessary.
For most women, getting married is their one true red-carpet moment There will of course be other, more minor occasions, but unless you become famous or embroil yourself in a high-profile court case, it's unlikely that you will ever be photographed quite so intently again. That said, I find that at least once or twice a year I am required to scrub up for a fancy do, usually in the run-up to Christmas. And as this is increasingly an exhausting time - schools starting, work cranking up after the summer hols, rain, assorted bugs and snuffles - a little professional help is invariably required.
Which is where Rani Mirza's Red Carpet Facial comes in. I won't pretend it's cheap - £175. But it does last for two blissful hours and it will leave you looking as good as is humanly possible without resorting to surgery. Rani works out of her own small salon in Knightsbridge (020-7589 9080). It's comfortable but not luxurious, elegant but not grand. Rani herself is straightforward, down-to-earth and very professional. She has ministered to one or two A-List faces in her time but that's not her raison d'être - what interests Rani most is you, your skin and making you happy. Her approach to skincare is refreshingly non-formulaic: she does something different every time, and what she does depends on the needs of your skin, not on a prescribed method of practice. The Red Carpet Facial is her baby, a combination of products and techniques designed to render the skin as flawless as possible. Unlike many facials, this one will not leave your skin blotchy or shiny: you should be able to go straight from salon to soirée.
It starts with a deep pore cleanse, involving exfoliation, a peel, a steam, the thorough removal of blackheads and other gremlins, a massage and a mask with further massage. Rani uses Yon-ka products for this, a gentle, plant-based range from Paris which majors in essential oils and restorative aromas. The products are excellent, but it's Rani's technique that makes all the difference She has a real talent for massage, and performs the less luxuriant aspects of the treatment with brisk efficiency. Just when you think it's all over, she whips out the microdermabrasion machine. This little device, which exfoliates using diamond chips. sucks away dead skin as it goes (it's a bit like being attacked by a very small Hoover). Then it's time for the oxygen spray, which is wonderfully cooling and restorative. Together, these two techniques soften the appearance of lines and wrinkles, so when you look at yourself in her loo mirror afterwards. you really do appear in soft focus.
Finally, it's back to Yon-ka. for a soothing green-tea fruit mask and more massage, by which time you'll be completely zoned-out - and looking forward to that first glass of champagne.
For most women, getting married is their one true red-carpet moment There will of course be other, more minor occasions, but unless you become famous or embroil yourself in a high-profile court case, it's unlikely that you will ever be photographed quite so intently again. That said, I find that at least once or twice a year I am required to scrub up for a fancy do, usually in the run-up to Christmas. And as this is increasingly an exhausting time - schools starting, work cranking up after the summer hols, rain, assorted bugs and snuffles - a little professional help is invariably required.
Which is where Rani Mirza's Red Carpet Facial comes in. I won't pretend it's cheap - £175. But it does last for two blissful hours and it will leave you looking as good as is humanly possible without resorting to surgery. Rani works out of her own small salon in Knightsbridge (020-7589 9080). It's comfortable but not luxurious, elegant but not grand. Rani herself is straightforward, down-to-earth and very professional. She has ministered to one or two A-List faces in her time but that's not her raison d'être - what interests Rani most is you, your skin and making you happy. Her approach to skincare is refreshingly non-formulaic: she does something different every time, and what she does depends on the needs of your skin, not on a prescribed method of practice. The Red Carpet Facial is her baby, a combination of products and techniques designed to render the skin as flawless as possible. Unlike many facials, this one will not leave your skin blotchy or shiny: you should be able to go straight from salon to soirée.
It starts with a deep pore cleanse, involving exfoliation, a peel, a steam, the thorough removal of blackheads and other gremlins, a massage and a mask with further massage. Rani uses Yon-ka products for this, a gentle, plant-based range from Paris which majors in essential oils and restorative aromas. The products are excellent, but it's Rani's technique that makes all the difference She has a real talent for massage, and performs the less luxuriant aspects of the treatment with brisk efficiency. Just when you think it's all over, she whips out the microdermabrasion machine. This little device, which exfoliates using diamond chips. sucks away dead skin as it goes (it's a bit like being attacked by a very small Hoover). Then it's time for the oxygen spray, which is wonderfully cooling and restorative. Together, these two techniques soften the appearance of lines and wrinkles, so when you look at yourself in her loo mirror afterwards. you really do appear in soft focus.
Finally, it's back to Yon-ka. for a soothing green-tea fruit mask and more massage, by which time you'll be completely zoned-out - and looking forward to that first glass of champagne.
21th October 2006, The Times