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The holidays are fast approaching—filled with mad-dash shopping for last-minute gifts and eggnog-filled evenings. In other words, between the stress and the debauchery, this time of year not only takes its toll on schedules but also on skin. So how best to save face for the festivities that lie ahead? With a facial for every moment of the merry madness, of course. Here, from an in-and-out service that delivers mistletoe-ready lips to an ultra-luxe four-handed visage massage, a look at New York’s top facials. Party season has never looked—or felt—so good.
The Ruddy Face Clear-Up
If too many spins around the rink at Rockefeller Center have left you looking like Rudolph, head over to the Naomi Watts–beloved Tribeca spa and boutique Onda Beauty, where a Marie Veronique Facial, which combines the skin-care label’s potent products with regenerative micro-needling, takes on inflammation. Afterward, stock up on the natural beauty destination’s bounty: RMS Beauty’s creamy color cosmetics, the Beauty Chef’s complexion-boosting ingestibles, and Onda’s own energizing coffee scrub. Needless to say, there’s something for everyone on your list.
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The Mistletoe Lip Prep
At this time of year, as temperatures plummet and winds ravish, even the gooiest balms aren’t enough to tackle the season’s all-too-common chapped and cracked mouths—but in comes the Lip Facial at The Red Door by Elizabeth Arden to the rescue. The 15-minute express treatment polishes, moisturizes, and plumps—and is finished off with a glaze of your choice.
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The Holiday Shopping Oasis
A marathon gifting excursion down Fifth Avenue is best capped with a trip to Joanna Vargas’s spa. The super-facialist’s seasonal Sugar & Spice Facial includes an exfoliating pumpkin enzyme peel that sloughs away every last trace of dry skin and a massage using balancing red currant concentrate. The final touch? A plum-packed moisturizer that will soothe, protect, and hydrate skin for the days and weeks ahead.
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The Post-Champagne Pick-me-up
Chances are a fair share of flashes will be coming your way this season. But just how to stay camera-ready when the bubbly’s flowing? Enter Ling’s 30-minute InstaBar treatments, which use far-infrared energy to increase blood circulation and stimulate lymphatic drainage for a visible lift. Opt for the Eye if the late nights are catching up with you, a treatment specifically made for puffy, sleepless skin. Best of all? There’s no downtime.
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The New Year’s Eve Pregame
Sure, you could put on a glittering Gucci gown and sparkly Attico stilettos, but it’s hard to beat the lit-from-within glow offered by La Prairie’s Ultimate Platinum Rare Facial at the Ritz-Carlton. During the 90-minute head-to-toe pampering experience, one therapist will cleanse and exfoliate the face using the Swiss line’s high-performance peels and potions, while another will perform a warm-oil massage to the legs, feet, and arms. Go ahead, treat yourself.
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The New Year, New You Reset
Start 2018 off on the right note with a one-on-one consultation with Dr. Pratima Raichur at her eponymous Greene Street spa. There she will examine your internal and external health to remedy imbalances for the year ahead before creating a custom Ayurvedic Facial that incorporates her signature freshly blended herbs and natural earth masks. Onward and upward.
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