The Skin Audit · 45 min · $95, credited
Bring your products. Leave with a routine.
The Skin Audit is forty-five minutes with Simone or Grace and a bag of everything on your bathroom shelf. Your skin read under the lamp, the bag sorted into keep, pause and stop, a routine of four or five steps written down, and a thirty-minute express facial. $95, credited toward your next facial or a product you keep.
Keep, pause, stop
Fourteen bottles in. Four steps out.
A real bag, sorted. Scroll to watch fourteen products become four steps.
- Foaming cleanserKeep
- Second cleanserStop
- TonerPause
- Vitamin C serumKeep
- Niacinamide serumPause
- Hyaluronic serumStop
- RetinolPause
- Eye creamStop
- Face oilStop
- Grainy scrubStop
- Clay maskPause
- Gel moisturiserKeep
- Night creamStop
- Sunscreen SPF 50Keep
The routine: foaming cleanser, vitamin C serum, gel moisturiser, sunscreen. Retinol comes back in week three.
Forty-five minutes
How the forty-five minutes go
- 01
Unpack
Everything on the table, including the things you are embarrassed about. We have seen worse.
- 02
Read
Your skin under the magnifying lamp: oil, dryness, congestion, sensitivity, sun.
- 03
Sort
Keep, pause or stop, with a reason for each, written on the card.
- 04
Write
Morning and night, four or five steps, in order, with how much.
- 05
Facial
Thirty minutes to start the routine properly, sunscreen on before you go.
The card
What the routine card says
Sample routine card · fictional
- Morning
- Gentle cleanser, vitamin C serum, gel moisturiser, sunscreen
- Night
- Gentle cleanser, moisturiser; retinol two nights a week from week three
- Paused
- Toner, niacinamide serum, clay mask: revisit in a month
- Stopped
- Scrub, second cleanser, face oil, eye cream, night cream
- Next
- Seaholly facial in four weeks, peel season from October
Why
Why we start by taking things away
Most of the irritation, congestion and dullness we see is self-inflicted with good intentions: three serums doing the same job, an exfoliant every night, a cleanser that strips and a cream that clogs. Removing things is often the most effective treatment we have, and it costs you nothing.
Retail is optional. The fee is credited either way. We do not stock fourteen lines; we stock a handful of professional-strength basics for the gaps, and we will tell you where else to buy an equivalent.
What should I bring?
Everything you use on your face, including sunscreen, makeup remover and the thing you bought last week. If it does not fit in a bag, photos are fine.
Will you tell me to throw things away?
No. Stop means stop using it on your face; what you do with it is up to you. Plenty of stopped products become body or hand products.
What about prescription products?
We never change them. We build around them, and questions go to your prescriber.
Do I have to buy anything?
No. The $95 is credited toward your next facial if you buy nothing.
Can I come back for another audit?
Yes, once a year is common, or after a big change: a move, a pregnancy, a new prescription.
The Skin Audit · 45 min · $95, credited
Bring the bag.
With Simone or Grace, in Wagener Terrace. $95, credited toward your next facial.