Happy New Year! Beauty Top trends – Skincare continues its takeover in 2022
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2022, means a fresh start and new opportunities! However, it’s important to keep our feet on the ground and avoid setting unrealistic expectations for ourselves, as it can affect our mental health. Some of these unrealistic expectations come from unattainable body and beauty goals and diet changes. Remember to be kind to yourself, take your new year’s resolutions one day at a time and don’t compare your life journey with others.
2022, the beauty boom continues.
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Skincare is the frontrunner in beauty’s global expansion, and we can expect to see more innovation. With last year’s rise of ‘skinimalism’, where we shunned the extensive multi-step routines and began to adopt a more intuitive approach to product usage based on our own skin needs, prioritising quality over quantity.
Many of us are becoming more focused on improving our skin health, central to this is calming increased sensitivity caused by factors such as mask wearing, overuse of aggressive skincare, pandemic stress, and exposure to pollution. Brands are discovering new ways to amplify the results and efficiency of beauty treatments.
The grooming industry will flourish, redefining masculinity
Male-marketed beauty and grooming is on the rise again, this is partly due to the lockdowns – when men experimented with products comfortably at home. But it’s also down to a more gradual evolution of the norms around how masculinity is defined, alongside the collective interest in self-care and wellness.
Social media has given men a platform to rewrite traditional gender scrips and challenge stereotypes when it comes to beauty. From make-up tutorials to positivity movements–like the rise of ‘bald positivity’, challenging male hair loss stigma–spearheaded by millennials on Instagram, we can expect masculine identity to further evolve through men taking care of themselves through beauty treatments.
The blurring of beauty, and health
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Wellness is still the ultimate luxury in our mid-pandemic world, from protein powders and vitamin gummies to the explosion of ‘sexual wellness’ accessories and CBD-oil products, non-traditional beauty buys happily sit alongside our skincare and make-up and show no signs of slowing.
Finally, word-of-mouth trends will continue to dominate (and fascinate)
When it comes to the beauty trends that will break the internet in 2022, frankly your guess is as good as ours. In today’s digital age, the power of word-of-mouth is ever more important and something we will continue to see play a role. Viral TikTok trends that jump off the platform into real life will no doubt continue to dominate – and fascinate.
Turning Beauty goals into Results
There’s no denying the feel-good power of beauty treatments. Be it an LED facial to bestow your skin with glow, or a CBD oil massage to melt away tension—nothing compares to that pampered feeling.
Many of us have stepped up our skincare routine over the last year, learning how to do an at-home facial or using the best products to create spa-style results. But if you want to take it one step further in 2022, these are the professional in-salon treatments we predict a surge in demand for.
From body treats using the best body exfoliators to microneedling treatments for skin smoothing benefits, picking the right beauty treatments isn't always easy. At Marlow Beauty Lounge, we pride ourselves on our results-based treatments, tried and tested prior to launching using products that you visibly see a difference, helping you achieve your beauty goals.
You may be feeling confused by the sheer amount of choice out there, and with a high price tag, the treatment needs to be actually worth it. To help, we’ve curated an edit of our best beauty treatments to try in 2022—these are the ones that really do work!
Get a Glow On
Having good skin and a filter-free appearance on social media will be the goal in 2022, to achieve this, choose treatments and products that focus on the glow.
Congestion-clearing? Tick. Texture-smoothing? Tick. Plumping, hydrating, collagen-boosting? Tick, tick tick. A must-try treatment, including a chemical peel, using a new and unique combination of special Lynton skincare together with powerful, medical-grade Lynton IPL technology. The results? Your most radiant glow yet.
It's lovely to lounge around in a robe for hours drinking herbal tea before being slathered in the best face masks and massaged, but do you know what else is lovely? Achieving the same heavenly glow in just 30 minutes under an LED light. The celebrities’ secret treatment to clearer, and more youthful looking skin. The LED Med features three wavelengths to provide a multitude of skin rejuvenation treatments to the face and neck.
The Marlow Beauty Lounge Signature Facial
After a hi-tech facial that targets lifting the face? Using a combination of non-invasive technology, the advanced facial delivers visible results that lasts. So, what exactly does it entail?
As well as a deep exfoliation fruit peel, micro-needling and LED light therapy, the treatment incorporates oxygen. During the treatment, a wand is used to deliver a stream of high pressurized oxygen to the skin’s surface helping reduce fine lines, even out texture, add radiance, and help maintain bright, youthful looking skin. It’s the most intense rejuvenation treatment yet. Stimulating collagen production, reduces fine lines and wrinkles, whilst tightening and firming the skin.