Ling Skin Care Salons
A great experience and worth every penny!
The Three Tomatoes are not impressed with places that promote themselves by citing the hip, young Hollywood
celebrities who visit their establishments. But we loved Ling Skin Care Salons despite their Julia Roberts claim to fame. (Heaven knows how this woman has any
time to take care of twins and make movies since she seems to spend all her time
in trendy NYC boutiques, hair salons and spas, at least according to all those
trendy places. But, we digress. )
There are three Ling locations, Union Square, Soho, and Central Park West.
We went to the one in Union Square. What first impressed us were the cozy little
feng shui inspired treatment rooms. You’re given a soft satin style kimono to
slip into, and then you snuggle underneath a beautiful red satin comforter on
a comfy little cot. (Quite a contrast to the spa rooms that look like your gynecologist’s
examining room with the lights turned low.) Beautiful new wave Asian music plays
gently in the background while the esthetician starts massaging and kneading the
years off your face. But we must warn you. As you’re being transported to another
planet by the gentle fingers on your face lathered with the richest of crème and
being seduced by the music, they start the up sell. (Note the basic facial starts
at $115 for your first visit and goes as high as $500.) The Tomatoes stayed in
the $165 to $225 range. (Aren’t you proud of our restraint?) They also sell (surprise,
surprise) an entire line of skin care products, but unlike many salons, they do
not pressure you into buying them.
Not only did our skin feel really clean (the extractions were painful, but worth
it), we could actually see a difference in our skin, which lasted about a week. Those
tiny dry lines disappeared and our skin just generally looked more radiant, craters
and all. Can’t wait to try the oxygen peel next time. www.lingskincare.com
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You’re a Tomato if… you put baby oil on your face and sat on the campus lawn with one those of aluminum
reflectors under your chin, face pointed to the noon day sun with “I wish they
all could be California girls” blaring from your transistor radio. And if someone
had mentioned SPF to you back then, you would have thought it was a new kind of
acid.
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You'll love Nordstroms Milk Cleanser
Nordstrom's Milk Cleanser is a product we bought at Nordstrom's spa. (Yes, we
are suckers for sales pitches promising eternal youth.) But unlike most of the
“miracle” spa products we've bought on impulse that are gathering dust balls,
this one is an absolute favorite. It cleans and moisturizes your face. And you don't need to visit the spa. You can buy it online
at Nordstroms.
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