I’m very pernickety about facials and lose patience with most of those available. I think there is far too much going on for one small area – too many products, too many serums, lotions, masks, exfoliations and then, at the end something for your face, your eyes, your mouth, your neck…it’s enough to make your skin sag. However there are exceptions and I am always thrilled when I come across one. Eva Lom still gives the best facial imaginable – but you have to book her and none of her pupils. She has healing hands and a profound knowledge of the body and the mind.
However Daniela Steiner spas have a truly great facial..it could have been designed for me…a serious cleanse and scrub and exfoliation, plus extractions. How can you possibly have clean skin with those horrible tiny blackheads lurking in the creases and crevices…but then best of all they start working on the rest of your face. Any stray hairs are removed, eyebrows shaped and dyed if necessary, as are your eyelashes. The whole lot in one fell swoop while you are lying on a warm bed. Why don’t more facials include all of this…it saves time in the long run as you don’t have to keep making different appointments for different things.
Her flagship spa is at her home base Rosa Alpina in San Cassiano in the Dolomites (www.rosalpina.it) but you can also find the facials at her spas in Monaco, Sicily, Sharm el Sheik, Cairo and New York (www.steinercosmetics.com).
