Featured Medical Spa JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011

Kate Somerville

 

Kate Somerville
Melrose Place, Los Angeles

By Robert Prince, Contributing Editor

Kate Somerville, a native of California, has devoted more than twenty years of her professional life working alongside dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons, supplementing their treatments and devoting her time and care to enhancing skin health. Kate is the creator and director of Kate Somerville Skin Health Experts, a celebrated mediskin clinic in Los Angeles and remains committed to innovation and introducing products, services, and concepts that work. Kate's simple and straightforward program is a result of her daily experiences and intimate partnership with her clientele, many of whom have careers that depend on near perfect complexions. Kate Somerville makes radiant skin a reality for all individuals.

Kate’s Skin Health Pyramid™ defines and prioritizes the five fundamental elements for attaining and maintaining beautiful skin: Protect, Hydrate, Feed, Stimulate, and Detox. Based on the belief that beauty is more than skin-deep, these practices help create beautiful skin from the inside out.

For special personal attention, making a trip to Kate’s Clinic will be more than worth it. Since opening its doors in 2004, the Clinic has grown from three treatment rooms and three service providers to sixteen treatment rooms and more than a dozen service providers offering facials, light and laser therapies, injectables, and specialty treatments targeting aging, acne, redness, discoloration, or scarring.

Their most popular facial is The Ultimate Kate. It begins with enzymatic exfoliation and light extractions. The skin is then drenched with Kate’s DermalQuench serum and oxygen technology. The client is then placed under the DermaLucent red light to further penetrate the serum and stimulate collagen and elastin. The result is a firm, even skin tone and red carpet-ready complexion.

The Titan Non-Surgical Face Lift is the most requested laser therapy. Safe and painless, this progressive laser turns back the clock. A "nonsurgical facelift," Titan safely uses infrared light to tighten and add volume to the skin. Titan gently heats the inner layers of the skin, causing collagen contraction and production. It is especially effective in reducing smile lines, lifting the brow and eyelids, and tightening the neck and jaw line.

Another favorite treatment among clients is The Liquid Face Lift, a combination of customized fillers for the face and DermaLucent Light Therapy. By using a combination of BOTOX® and dermal fillers, they can create natural improvements without surgery. The DermaLucent helps to promote healing and longer lasting results.

For those who do not have access to the clinic, they can experience Kate Somerville through her product line, which is available at Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Sephora, QVC, and www.katesomerville.com. Kate listens to her clients and uses a lot of their input and requests when developing new products. Kate Somerville is a results-oriented person who creates products that have maximum results and a multitude of purposes without the side-effects.

For instance, Quench Hydrating Face Serum, one of her most popular products, contains a high amount of retinol which can often cause the side effect of dryness and flakiness, but to counteract these undesired effects, she includes lipids and hyaluronic acids which help with hydration and cell turnover.

ExfoliKate® Intensive Exfoliating Treatment, her top selling product, is the next best thing to seeing Kate in the clinic. Kate firmly believes that the best way to have healthy skin is to exfoliate at least twice a week. ExfoliKate uses a combination of both physical and chemical exfoliators.

Deep Tissue Repair is a treatment formulated to renew and restore, and it certainly gets results which is why it has become one of the top selling products in the line. By blending Peptide K8 with collagen builders, the formula penetrates deeply to encourage cellular repair and reverse damage.

These three products can be used to create that glow for which Kate Somerville is so famously known. In fact, she has made it easy by creating the Glow Kit, which includes her 3 best sellers.

Whether they visit the clinic or purchase Kate Somerville products, the customer is getting a part of Kate, her care and her vision. She works tirelessly to provide the most advanced science, progressive ingredients, and healing botanicals available. As long as her clients continue to ask, Kate Somerville will expand her brand to reach women and men worldwide by sharing her belief that everyone can achieve beautiful skin, and she will do what it takes to guide them there.

 

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