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What Is A Facial?
Different places and different faces mean there is no catch-all defi-
nition for a facial, but if we had to, we’d say it’s the best bloody
wash you’ll ever have.
A basic facial will clean those greasy pores and exfoliate any dead
and dull skin cells lying on the top of your skin (there are between
15 and 20 layers of them).
At Lisa Franklin, a private skin clinic in west London – where we
try our first facial, more of that later – the first of five steps in a fa-
cial is the cleansing, which washes away any dirt you may have
picked up from outside before a steaming process opens the pores.
This aids the next step, manual extraction, where blackheads and
whiteheads (those pesky little rascals that end up becoming mir-
ror-breaking spots) are squeezed out.
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