My Red-Carpet ritual: Winter edition

By , Founder of Harley Street Injectables

Winter has its own rhythm – colder air, central heating, long clinic days and late events, and the red-carpet calendar always seems to gather 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, prep is all about intentional, that make the skin look fresh, lifted, and luminous, the kind of radiance 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 of – nothing dramatic, just a gentle that the contours winter tends to blur.

This is when I book .

It’s one of my treatments because it gives that subtle, sculpted tightness along the jawline and cheeks – the kind that reads under but never looks “done.” London winter can leave the skin feeling a little lax or puffy, and HIFU brings back into focus. It that held, lifted 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 endlessly this year, often thanks to the “salmon DNA” nickname, but behind the headlines, they’re simply for this area: a little support, a little elasticity, a little more so makeup doesn’t cling. It a kind of brightness that shows up in .

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

is my go-to at the two-week mark. It leaves my skin and irritation, smoother pores, better texture, and that clean, even surface makeup loves.

I often pair it with in the same week. Genesis quietly everything: it softens redness, uneven tone, and gives the skin that radiance that looks incredible on camera. It’s like the of good .

Together, Fire Chin & DAO Botox 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 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 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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