Vogue

Beauty
Seasonal Skin Care: The Perfect Face Oil for Summer (and Beyond)
by Rachel Marlowe


If fashion is dictated by the season, then it’s only logical your skin care follow suit. Changes in everything from heat and humidity levels to sun exposure can warrant a rethinking of your favorite daily serum. Now, two refreshingly straightforward beauty lines have made the premise official—taking the guesswork out of the process with a range of custom-blended seasonal oils that give new meaning to the term climate control.

De Mamiel
A few years back, the London-based facial acupuncturist Annee de Mamiel—whose Seasonal Attunement treatments at the Fortnum & Mason beauty rooms in Mayfair have a waiting list so long it’s closed—developed her collection of eponymous elixirs. Available at the solstice or equinox marking each new season, the four thoughtfully blended serums are produced in limited batches and named for the three-month period during which they should be used. Take, for example, her Spring Facial Oil (available from March 21 until June 20), which contains cleansing grapefruit, detoxifying juniper, soothing geranium, and restorative calendula to purify and reset the skin on the heels of a long, cold spell. Marking the transition into full-blown beach season, her Summer Facial Oil, now available for preorder, is a refreshing skin tonic formulated to protect and brighten the complexion and heal areas that have been overexposed to sunlight. For those thinking ahead, the range also offers rich, regenerative formulas for autumn and winter that are well worth the wait.

de Mamiel facial oils, $110 each; for information: shen-beauty.com