If there is one beauty category that has totally boomed in the past couple of years, it is the rise of at-home beauty devices. And it has only been accelerated by the pandemic. Without access to our favourite professionals in clinic, many turned to home treatments during lockdown to achieve their skin goals.
However, I’m pretty sceptical about the majority of at-home skincare devices, but particularly their effectiveness and the claims that they make. For example, microneedling in a clinic versus an at-home ‘microneedling’ roller are worlds apart, although the latter are often marketed to lead to you to believe that you’ll achieve similar results. Effective in-clinic treatments deliver potent results and can therefore only be delivered by highly qualified therapists. In my minds eye, if you just can’t achieve the same results at—for the most part.
Many at-home LED masks have been springing up on the market, and I became curious is at-home LED could really be worth it. And when I heard that acclaimed facialist Shani Darden (whose clients include Emily Ratajkowski and Rosie Huntington-Whitely) had partnered with Déesse to launch her own at-home LED mask, I was instantly intrigued—especially at what could command a £1,800 price tag.