A standard-issue facial—regardless of how many lights, lasers, and potions are involved—tackles your face, neck, and some or all of your décolleté. But that was before crop tops and cutout-ridden dresses dominated red carpets and regular-person wardrobes alike. The fashion fallout: Aestheticians like Joanna Vargas, the founder of Joanna Vargas Salon in New York City (and facial fairy godmother of celebs like Karlie Kloss, Naomi Watts, and Dakota Johnson), are extending skin-care wizardry all the way to the waist.
"Cutouts are getting more and more popular, but the body skin does get dull," Vargas explains. To make her clients' midriffs as smooth and radiant as the skin on their faces before events, Vargas exfoliates with a diamond-tipped microdermabrasion tool, then softens skin with a shredded-coconut-and-green-tea compress and a hydrating mask.
Unless you're actually going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, though, you don't need a diamond-tipped sloughing wand—or 60 spare minutes—to shape up your midsection. In everyday life, Vargas recommends getting the job done with a coconut-oil-rich sugar scrub, which physically dislodges dead skin cells and conditions skin with omega-3 fatty acids. (Try Simple Sugars Coconut Body Scrub), which contains both.) And use it at least once a week, Vargas says: "When skin there is exfoliated properly, you can see the difference a mile away."
Learn how to give yourself a quick at-home facial:
