Feel the fabulous facial: Beauty Progress

In our younger days, popular high-street skincare products probably worked well for us, but as we age, it is increasingly harder to get the same results.

For the more mature skin, products from a professional aesthetician typically have a higher percentage of active ingredients, thereby delivering a more effective and deep delivery.

The professional aesthetician also brings another key element to aid maturing skin – a professional skin analysis to establish skin needs and formulate an action plan.

Wendy Barker of Beauty Progress prefers not to prescribe products until a free skin analysis is done. Her analysis includes questions around health, diet and lifestyle, enabling her to prescribe appropriate treatments and products.

The ideal scenario is four-weekly facials, but if there’s a special occasion coming up, Wendy recommends weekly treatments.

If budget is a factor, treatments can be as few as four per year, supplemented by a customised home care regimen that maintains the clinic’s high-level results. GERnétic is the brand of choice in-clinic, comprising 100 percent natural active plant and marine derived ingredients. Wendy highly recommends GERnétic’s

Synchro cream (created in the 1960s by Albert Laporte to heal burns in Paris hospitals) for all skin types.

Beauty Progress, Unit 1, 171 Waltham Road, Christchurch. Phone 03 379 4315.

www.beautyprogress.co.nz