My Red-Carpet ritual: Winter edition

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Winter has its own rhythm - colder air, central heating, long clinic days and late events, and the calendar always seems to gather momentum at the same time. It’s the point in the year when I’m going straight from full days in clinic to evenings out, and the lighting doesn’t give much room to hide.

For me, red-carpet prep is all about intentional, well-timed treatments that make the skin look fresh, lifted, and quietly luminous, the kind of you can’t fake under flash.

This is the ritual I return to every time.

A few weeks out, I like to create a soft foundation of structure - dramatic, just a gentle tightening that the contours winter tends to blur.

This is when I book .

It’s one of my favourite pre-event because it gives that subtle, sculpted along the jawline and cheeks - the kind that reads under cameras but never looks "done." London winter can leave the skin feeling a little lax or puffy, and HIFU brings everything back into focus. It creates that held, lifted quality that makes every angle look .

If my under-eyes are at how long the week has been, and winter loves to emphasise this, I’ll add a touch of in this window.

They’ve been talked about this year, often thanks to the "salmon DNA" nickname, but behind the headlines, they’re simply for this area: a little collagen support, a little elasticity, a little more smoothness so makeup doesn’t cling. It a kind of refreshed brightness that shows up in photographs.

This is when the steps in and the skin begins to look more .

is my go-to at the two-week mark. It leaves my skin and without irritation, pores, better texture, and that clean, even surface makeup loves.

I often pair it with in the same week. quietly everything: it redness, smooths uneven tone, and gives the skin that soft-focus that looks incredible on camera. It’s like the complexion equivalent of good lighting.

Together, Fire & Ice and create that "editorial skin" finish, smooth, calm, and luminous.

Winter can make the skin look flat, and this brings it back to life a single minute of recovery time. This is when I reach for the It leaves the glossy, plump, and perfectly balanced, the kind of luminosity that makes makeup glide and light catch in all the right places!

It gives that final, refined sheen that reads incredibly well under lights.

This ritual works because it’s layered, thoughtful, and timed to perfection: sculpting first, regeneration next, refinement in the middle, and glow at the end.

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