It’s scary in the summertime when you happen to look in the mirror and catch your face in the unforgiving light. Up close and personal all the blemishes: stray hairs, sun spots and enlarged pores are magnified, so that the face looks freakish and horrible. I also have problems with thread veins around my nose, caused by a really unprofessional facial I had a few years ago and a couple of tiny white stubborn spots, apparently called mila, which never go away unless you have them treated.
I am extremely lazy about leaving my neck of the woods in Shepherds Bush, so when I heard that Destination Skin has a salon in Westfield offering a new menu of skin peel packages I signed up. Although I was wary of Westfield at first, I have since realized how convenient it is. An enthusiastic shopper could buy anything there from a flight simulator experience to a Prada bag, not that I’ve bought either of those, but I do love the Snog frozen yoghurt stand.
Anyway I turned up at Destination Skin, located in the House of Fraser. I am not that keen on the idea of the redness and peeling which is the result of some stronger peels, so I went for the mildest package, which includes a vitamin c peel. The peel was comfortable. It was followed by microdermabrasion and then ‘advanced electrolysis’ which I had imagined would get rid of the stray hairs but in fact is a method of removing thread veins and mila spots. This was far less painful than the laser treatment I tried a few months ago to try and remove the wretched thread veins. I was finally given a red light (omnilux) treatment to calm everything down and boost collagen. My skin did appear brighter the day after the treatment and had a tanned tone to it and the mila were gone. The thread veins were improved but didn’t completely go. I had one further treatment a couple of weeks later and my pores shrunk a little, but those stubborn old thread veins have still not completely disappeared. I’m not sure they ever will. The package costs £185, but you save on having the treatments individually. Now that the weather is shiny and bright, I have to tackle my dry hands and cracked heels. I am really conscious of my teeth which are certainly not white, more grey, and I need to find time to get my hair coloured and cut, my legs waxed, and my toes painted and all that on top of trying to loose half a stone. Its just not going to happen. I may have to sit down and weep.
