This month, Dior offers not only their fantastic makeup and perfume at their counters, but now their very new Diorsnow White-Reveal Expert facial. Created by the Dior Innovation Center, which boasts over 260 researchers, the treatment uses the Diorsnow skincare range and its “special” ingredient, Icelandic Glacier Water. Completely devoid of pollution, it is one of the purest water in the world and is now used in all Dior forumlas that contain water – making the Diorsnow range a new, superior generation of whitening skincare.
With a resume like that, of course I wanted to try it out. As some of you might know, I am not a fan of facials – well, not that I don’t like them, but I am still suspicious if they actually do anything, and I had one really bad experience, so bad I was pretty miserable for a week after. The therapist poked my face like mad – “gentle extraction” my butt! – and it was red and sore the whole day, and I got breakouts the following week. So not fun. But this? This sounded too good to pass up.
First, the mission to get there! As some regular Sephora lovers will know, the outlet at ION Orchard has a Dior beauty shop next door, and that’s exactly where it is! Hidden behind that white door next to Sharon Stone reveals a cozy yet ultra-chic little cabin.
Each facial starts with a personalized consultation of your skin type, needs, problems, etc, and then it’s in the freezing cabin! The facial included cleansing, toning, extraction (with the slimmest, sharpest tweezers I’ve ever seen!), steaming (I was told that steaming the face, followed by extraction can damage the skin since it’s “weaker”), a mask, hand and shoulder massage, eye cream/mask, finished off with sunblock. Phew! It all took an hour.
The facial itself was just lovely – though I was freezing in that little room – 2 layers of blankets were not enough! – I feel that maybe the coolness helped with making it such a different experience.
After the facial, if needed, they can also do a “flash makeup” touch up, although I wanted to be makeup free. I left the facial with my skin feeling all cool and tingly, and it felt like it had Botox – seriously! And no, not the scary type of Botox, but the Hey-I-look-10-years-younger kind. My skin looks taunt and plump, which I now think was a combination of the products and the cold room – maybe a cooler temperature brings out the best in the ingredients? Either way, I really loved the facial and the best part is, I got NO breakouts, redness, or any sort of reaction afterward. Really, really happy about that. Thank you Dior for such a great experience!
Here are all the details if you’d like to try it yourself:
White-Reveal Expert, $120, 60 min
#01-05/06 Ion Orchard, Tel: 6509 9241
Let me know if you end up going there! I am really curious about the Diorsnow skincare range now since it worked so well on my skin. Hmm… maybe it’s time to switch up my skincare routine to Dior?!
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I’m still unsure about whitening creams, what do they do exactly ? (“whitening” sounds weird to me)
“Whitening” means even out skin tone and makes skin brighter, me thinks. I haven’t tried Diorsnow but I’m using Laneige’s products that also uses “snow water”. =)
Exactly what Jenny said.
Thanks Jenny!
This definitely looks interesting .. a facial in the freezing cold! You’ll have to let us know if the effects of the facial lasted though, it seems innovative but slightly gimmicky .. kinda like they’re taking the ‘wipe an ice cube over large pores for a quick fix’ idea and turning it into a sin care regime .. I’m always so skeptical of everything! *shakes head* I can’t help it … Also, I’ve never had a professional facial (I give myself a DIY facial now and again) but when you say extraction do you mean like blackheads? And the tweezers you describe sound scary – if they resembled needles in any way I would have shot off that table/bed(?) so fast! Lol
Hey Sona! I don’t know if I see any lasting effects, I think it’s more if you do it regularly? But I can’t deny how good it looked and how relaxing it was!
Hmm as far as extraction, it’s normally blackheads and whatever gunk is tuck in your pores! Haha and no don’t worry – I have the BIGGEST phobia of needles and it was fine. Just really thin tweezers, felt a little prickly but nothing too bad. I should’ve taken a photo of it!
I love going for facials and the cold room sounds ‘hot’. Might check this out after my ‘contract’ with this facial company expires. This facial girl who squeezes out my blackheads sometime seemed like she wants to squeeze the life out of me too. I’m not renewing! By the way, I thought the girl in the ad on the right hand corner was you, you look so much like her on your polaroid at your sidebar. Haha.
Haha I thought it was Renee too! xx
Oh wow… you girls thought Natalie Portman was me?! Haha best compliment ever!!! Why thank you
Haha I think it’s the pose that looks similar!
Bianca, I know what you mean. That first facial… *shudder* she went a little mad on my skin!
This sounds cool! The room looks glacial cold. What does whitening mean, Renee, do you know? I’ve been told it means bleaching your skin :s
Also, I’ve tried to see if you posted anything on pores, and didn’t see anything, so I was just wondering if you have any products you’d reccomend for reducing pore size? (Sorry if you’ve already written about this and I overlooked it!)
Hey Kayla! Oh no no, there is no bleaching at all. “Whitening” is just the fancy Asian-marketing word (’cause everyone wants to be fairer here, go figure) for “brightening”, making the skin looks a bit brighter, fresher, etc.
Oh and I don’t write about pores because the products out there are all lies! Pores cannot open or close so nothing can make it look smaller, unfortunately.
The only thing is to keep it clean (non-clogged pores) and to do scrubs.