Don't listen to everything beauticians tell you

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Miss Malcontent seeks Truth in Beauty has some excellent advice for choosing a good facial.

I had a friend who would go for facials once every three weeks. She would come back with red, inflammed spots all over her face and over the next couple of weeks, they would scab and peel off. When I questioned her about her very questionable facials, she defended them by saying, "It's only for a while. Once they've recovered my skin becomes really good!"

Once they recovered it was time for her next facial. So it's accurate to say she spent two-thirds of her existence with a scabby face.

That was my pre-beauty writer days, when I was still ignorant about all these beautification processes and wonders but even then, I knew that was a tremendously silly piece of logic.

Sometimes, when you're lying back and someone is wielding sharp metal tools over your face, I guess it's easy to misunderstand what is being told to you as absolute truth.

That may have been extreme but she's hardly the only person I know who is in the "no pain, no gain" camp.

Me, I back away hastily from all facials that are said to be the slightest bit painful. I like extraction but I believe it should be pain-free and it certainly should not irritate my skin. Kose at Takashimaya have been not too bad for me the three times I've been but thus far, I've yet to try a facial that is so marvellous I want to rave about it.