The Five Best Facials For An Autumn Glow

Glowing skin is always in so to get your glow on this autumn we’ve tried and tested these five skin-boosting facials on the beauty radar.

Autumnal light is perfect for that golden hour radiance so make the most of it with these multi-step facials, curated to amp up the glow for your most luminous complexion yet, and drive away the dullness of early October nights.

Whether you like to dabble in peels or prefer a serious hit of hydration to get your glow going, there’s something in our top picks for every skin type and tone. 

The treatment: The WOW Facial
The clinic: Vie Aesthetics (vie-aesthetics.com)
Best for: A bespoke, personalised experience

Every step of the six-part Wow Facial is customised to suit your skin, with the guarantee you’ll walk out of the clinic glowing. If you’ve been neglecting your skin, this is the perfect reset, transforming parched skin into a picture-perfect complexion. 

Dry, sun-damaged skin with hyperpigmentation is drenched with hydration in six lavish stages, ensuring it returns to its former glory. A cocktail of active ingredients is chosen and mixed to address your individual skin concerns, for your best results ever from a facial with zero downtime.

What happens in the facial?

“First you are prepped, exfoliated and cleansed; then a unique-to-you peel is applied to match your skin’s needs,” explains Claire Williams, founder of WOW Facial. “This paves the way for one of our personalised WOW fusion serum cocktails, where we infuse vitamins and nutrients into the skin using a series of techniques… including a gentle needling treatment; to stimulate the skin’s wound healing response and release growth factors. This is then followed by LED light therapy and our signature cult beauty mask, to enhance results and reduce redness.”

The treatment: The Perfect Glow
The clinic: Skin & Sanctuary (skinandsanctuary.com)
Best for: Long-term results

The Perfect Glow is London clinic Skin and Sanctuary’s signature treatment, loved for its powers in ridding the skin of superficial wrinkles and signs of sun damage for a party season-ready canvas. 

This facial combines a glutathione enriched acid peel with hydrating injectable Profhilo. When paired together, the peel transforms the visible appearance of the skin’s surface by ridding it of dead skin cells… whilst the hydrating injections act below the skin’s surface to plump and tighten the complexion.

Not only will you see a difference immediately, but the treatment works long-term too, supporting collagen production to slow the ageing process. “The Perfect Glow partners two of my absolute favourite bio-rejuvenation hacks when rebooting dull, lack-lustre skin,” says Skin and Sanctuary’s co-founder Dr Saira Vasdev. “As standalone treatments, both The Perfect Peel and Profhilo deliver on all levels. And when used together as part of our signature protocol, I discovered that their synergistic effects provided a more complete rejuvenation with truly transformative results. The glow was off the charts and my patients are happier than ever!”

Results-wise, you can expect your skin to have an airbrushed look, with lines softened and pigmentation faded. Acne is reduced too, leaving skin firmer. You’ve got the acid blend to thank for your glowing skin; it combines kojic acid, retinoic acid, salicylic acid, TCA and phenol, as well as brightening vitamin C for a powerful, performance-designed cocktail. 

The treatment: Lumecca by InMode
The clinic: Dr David Jack Clinic (drdavidjackclinic.com)
Best for: Banishing hyperpigmentation

If dark spots and hyperpigmentation are your skincare bugbear, Lumecca will be right up your street.  A laser delivers wavelengths of light into the areas of pigmentation where it interacts with the brown and red pigment. The dark patches absorb the light and are destroyed (often in one session) leaving you with beautiful, clear skin.

Many people see results in just one session, so this is a good fast fix if you want to see improved skin immediately, with pigmentation reduced in just a few days. Results continue to improve over time too, with the most visible results noticeable in around two weeks. “Just a few sessions of Lumecca can take away five to 20 years of sun damage,” confirms InMode KOL Dr Dev Patel. “My patients are blown away by the results,” he says.

Not just for hyperpigmentation, Lumecca can also treat freckles, rosacea and thread veins. Another happy side effect is that it promotes collagen growth so you skin will be glowing and plumper post-treatment. 

Lumecca is performed with a hand held device with a cooling tip for increased comfort. It tends to take less than an hour and there’s generally no down time. A little skin redness and a slight warmth to the skin (similar to the feeling of sunburn) are normal straight after your treatment but this normally subsides within a few hours.

The results can be permanent, as long as you continue to look after your skin with SPF post-procedure. 

The treatment: Hydrafacial
The clinic: Hannah London (hannahlondon.com)
Best for: Ultra luxe hydration

For super-fast results, this 30 minute treatment (loved by beauty editors and A-listers alike) is the one to book in for. After just half an hour you’re left with an instantly glowing, radiant complexion; thanks to this three-step treatment. 

During the treatment, a gentle peel is paired with a deep cleanse and pore extraction to achieve a clear skin look, before a cocktail of hydrating ingredients that dive deep into your skin is applied, saturating your face with anti-oxidants for an undeniable glow that will have everyone commenting how well you look. 

This facial works on multiple skin concerns at once; acne is soothed, hyperpigmentation is tackled and the appearance of wrinkles is lessened, for brighter, clearer, tighter skin with zero downtime. You’re left with fresh, dewy skin that feels sparkling clean.

The treatment: The SKN Rehab Facial
The clinic: Vie Aesthetics (vie-aesthetics.com)
Best for: Skin rejuvenation

Restore the glow of your skin, hydrate your complexion, banish breakouts and reverse premature signs of ageing with this seven-step facial. It’d be easier to explain what this facial *doesn’t* include, so comprehensive is the list of technology and techniques used. 

The SKN Rehab Facial takes advantage of five cutting-edge skin technologies that use the principles of exfoliation, deep cleansing, peptide and vitamin infusion, LED light and oxygen therapy, resulting in a personalised treatment that increases product absorption by up to 400%… so your at home skincare is super-charged too. 

The steps in the facial include exfoliating diamond microdermabrasion to unveil a fresh complexion, after which the ION Detox pulls dirt and impurities from the skin. This is followed by ION Infusion, to feed your face with skin-loving ingredients. Next up is the SKN Rehab LED mask to calm and rejuvenate, stimulate collagen and reduce dark spots… before this is followed up with oxygen infusion to give skin an airbrushed look. Next – a stem cell sheet mask to repair damaged tissue and soothe the skin. It’s all rounded up with a relaxing facial mask and SPF application to protect your new bab- soft face. If that combination doesn’t get you glowing, nothing will!