Britain’s other super facialists
SARAH CHAPMAN is just one of a new generation of British facialists who have become huge players in the anti-ageing industry, attracting devotees from all over the globe with business empires that span continents.
JOANNE EVANS
JOANNE EVANS, 49, is the woman behind the hugely successful beauty company Skin Matters, based in West London. She plans to open a further two clinics in 2018.
Joanne started out as a nurse and has a degree in anatomy and physiology. now, she boasts a three-month-long waiting list with clients including elle Macpherson and Jemima Khan.
SIGNATURE FACIAL: Includes Intense pulse Light (IpL) treatment, laser, LeD and micro currents (a device that delivers a light electrical pulse to the skin to tighten and firm).
COST: £400. For those with really deep pockets, Joanne even has a £1,000 treatment. The recharge was created for her jet-set customers and features a rubber mask that sends electrical currents into the skin.
INGE THERON
INGE THERON, 41, opened her flagship studio FaceGym on the Kings road three years ago, investing half-a-million pounds in state-of-the-art equipment.
It wasn’t so much bad skin that drew Inge to opening her own facial spa, rather a disastrous experience with cosmetic surgery.
Botox left her with a drooping eye, while a ‘thread lift’ became swollen and infected. ‘I looked like an alien and had to hide away for three months,’ she tells me.
It is Inge’s view that the muscles in our face need to be worked out in the same way as the ones in our body do. ‘Like other women, I exercised my body, but all I did to my face was slap on creams. When that didn’t work, I turned to Botox, fillers and threads,’ she says. ‘I knew there had to be a way of creating a bootcamp for the face to get that same toned, tight, lifted look.’
Unusually, clients at FaceGym aren’t treated in private rooms, but on chairs next to one another, as if at a hairdressers.
‘Our clients like the social side, chatting to one another about what they’re having done.’
The reception desk at FaceGym doubles as a ‘bar’ or ‘Open Beauty Lab’, as Inge calls it.
Alas, the only cocktails mixed are bespoke oil tinctures, which are used in the treatments or for clients to take home.
COST: Treatments range from £40 for a 30-minute facial workout to £885 for a month-long ‘Facecamp’ to rejuvenate winter skin.
TERESA TARMEY
SHEFFIELD-BORN Teresa Tarmey, 41, who counts the Delevingne sisters and Sienna Miller among her clients, works from her five-storey home in Kensington. She also guests at the exclusive Huvafen Fushi resort in the Maldives, the world’s first spa built below water.
Her struggles with acne led her into training as a beauty therapist. In line with the other super-facialists, Teresa’s treatments are tweaked according the needs of her clients.
She sees many women experiencing mid-life acne, often triggered by the menopause. This can be effectively treated with a laser that deeply penetrates, destroys bacteria and zaps the overactive sebaceous (oilreleasing) glands. And all without damaging the skin. SIGNATURE FACIAL: A light peel, extractions, massage and LeD, UV light treatment that accelerates skin rejuvenation. COST: £280.
DEBBIE THOMAS
NEWLY opened last month, Debbie Thomas’s clinic is a stone’s throw from Harrods in London. Clients include Sophie Dahl and Billie piper.
Debbie, 38, also suffered with acne, and says it was her desperation to find a permanent solution that led to her love of skincare.
SIGNATURE FACIAL: The so-called ‘DnA Laser Complete’ treatment. Using lasers, this is ideal for acne and pigmentation, as well as providing a powerful anti-ageing effect.
COST: £450, although it’s cheaper if you use one of the other therapists at Debbie’s clinic.