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 momentum 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, red-carpet prep is all about intentional, well-timed treatments that make the skin look fresh, lifted, and quietly 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 foundation of structure - nothing dramatic, just a gentle tightening that restores the contours winter tends to blur.

This is when I book .

It’s one of my pre-event treatments it gives that subtle, sculpted tightness along the jawline and cheeks - the kind that reads beautifully under cameras but never looks "done." London winter can leave the skin feeling a little lax or puffy, and HIFU brings back into focus. It creates that held, lifted quality that makes every angle look intentional.

If my are hinting at how long the week has been, and winter lighting 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 brilliant for this area: a little collagen support, a little elasticity, a little more smoothness so makeup doesn’t cling. It creates a kind of refreshed that shows up in photographs.

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

is my go-to at the two-week mark. It leaves my skin refined and polished without irritation, smoother pores, better texture, and that clean, SkinCycles Caviar Peel even surface makeup loves.

I often pair it with in the same week. Genesis quietly elevates everything: it