The Most Extravagant Beauty Treatments and Products for Awards Season Prep
Awards season prep should be glamorous. (Photo: Getty)
Given the glamour and opulence of the red carpet during awards season, there’s no reason that the beauty prep to get a celebrity’s skin looking its very best (particularly under those lights and in the web images that seem to circulate forever) should be any less extravagant than those jewels and couture gowns.
The weeks leading up to an awards show are prime time for peels, oxygen blasts, body scrubs, and the newest power serums that promise the radiance and that red carpet “glow.” And there is no shortage of new treatments and products gaining popularity now, in the midst of awards season, to get complexions glowing.
From lengthy face massages to 24k gold eye masks, the road to red carpet ready skin is paved with the most indulgent treatments and luxurious ingredients, often with a price tag to reflect the high-end offering.
La Prairie Cellular Radiance Perfecting Fluide, ($525 for 1.4 oz)
Packed with pure gold, this newly launched product claims that skin is instantly bathed in a golden light. Collagen-boosting peptides works to improve the complexion below skin’s surface and photo-reflecting particles and pure gold powder blur lines and increase radiance. This “power potion” just hit beauty counters, but word is that it’s already circulating in the kits of several major celebrity makeup artists.
Caudalie Premier Cru Facial, $295 for an 80-minute treatment
Kaley Cuoco and Rashida Jones head to their local Caudalie spa for this comprehensive facial which combines a scrub, a lengthy massage with essentials oils, and a combo of a warm thermal mask plus Premiere Cru cream, which work to lift the skin and smooth wrinkles.
Joanna Vargas Forever Facial $700
With no shortage of celebrity clients, the New York based esthetician heads to Los Angeles every awards season to treat her A List roster with the latest in skin perfecting techniques. This year, she’s created the Forever Facial, which uses radio frequency to tighten skin. For the Golden Globes, Vargas also sprayed her newly launched serum, containing green tea, hyaluronic acid and aloe, in tandem with a blast of 98% pure oxygen, onto the faces of Julianne Moore, Jenna Dewan and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Chantecaille Energizing Eye Recovery Masks, ($195 for six)
Celebrity makeup artists love using these masks on their clients (and themselves) before getting started on the beauty look. Each mask is packed with seaweed that’s imbedded in a 24k gold serum. The formula works to eliminates dark circles, wrinkles and puffiness and primes the eye area to effectively absorb eye cream and product. Kate Hudson used them before the Golden Globes and Orange is The New Black cast mates Uzo Aduba and Jackie Cruz made the masks a part of their pre-Emmy meditation.
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