Saving Face

Hollywood’s favourite A-list facialist is bringing her skin-saving treatments to Asia

- Catherine Nicol

The relationship between beauty and technology is a marriage made in wrinkle-free, collagen-stimulated, deeply hydrated heaven. In Asia we often look to Korea for high-tech beauty breakthroughs, but there’s a brand coming out of the US that is using tech to turn heads and transform complexions.

Georgia Louise Vassanelli fell in love with the beauty industry as a child. Originally from the UK, she crossed the pond and touched down in New York to setting up her Georgia Louise Atelier on Manhattan’s swish Upper East Side. She quickly became one of the Big Apple’s most sought-after facialists with a client list of stars like Cate Blanchette, Emma Stone, Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence, Christy Turlington and Anna Wintour.

Her fast track into Hollywood who’s who happened thanks to her expertise and her first client, Linda Evangelista. The supermodel simply needed her galvanic machine fixing, but by the time Vassanelli finished showing her how to best use the fixed device, Evangelista was a big fan. So big she’s godmother to Vassanelli’s children — and the rest is Hollywood history.