Veneers, Microinfusion Facials, and Fillers: Here's How Celebrities Gear Up For the Red Carpet

Tracie Martyn's namesake spa in New York City touts legions of high-profile clients, including devoted fan Kate Winslet, who has said that Martyn's facials tighten the skin so well that it's "akin to taking a two-week retreat in Thailand."

What it is: Referred to as the "natural facelift," this 60-minute treatment for the face focuses on giving you a lifted, sculpted, glowing complexion. Martyn has a week-long outpost in West Hollywood ahead of the Oscars.
How it works: It starts with crystal-free microdermabrasion to exfoliate away dead skin, then includes microcurrent therapy to lift, firm, and contour the skin quickly. All products used are from Martyn's bespoke line of "clean, green, high-performance" skin care, like the Complexion Savior Mask ($80), shown here. From there, Martyn uses an LED light to help preserve collagen and plump fine lines and wrinkles. It ends with an oxygen mist to leave your skin looking dewy and supple.
Downtime: None. Martyn says clients often come in the day before or day of a red carpet. The results are immediate and can last up to two weeks.
Cost: $450

Registered nurse and skincare expert Jamie Sherrill partnered with Dr. Daniel Yamini to create Beauty Park Medical Spa, located in Santa Monica, CA, and Abu Dhabi. Beauty Park is frequented because of the natural, "untouched" results it provides for services like Botox and filler.

Baby Drop® Filler Technique
What it is: "Baby Drop®" is Jamie's signature technique for administering filler to the skin.
How it works: Using a special needle, Jamie administers a hyaluronic-acid-based filler like Restylane or Juvéderm to smooth away wrinkles and lift the skin, in some cases. The Baby Drop® technique is meant to be subtle.
Benefits of the treatment: Clients look well-rested, awake, and more youthful for a longer period of time.
Downtime: This treatment takes about twice the time of a regular injection, but Jamie ensures that the results will be bruise-free, which is why her clients feel comfortable coming the day before an event.
Cost: Pricing is by unit, starting at $300 per area.

Ice Queen Treatment
What it is: A 30- or 60-minute cryogenic facial paired with Jamie's rehydrating silicone wrap for the décolletage.
How it works: The cryotherapy facial includes freezing temperatures to help produce collagen and help with fine lines and wrinkles, pore size, and dark spots. Products like the Neck and Decollete Wrap ($28) with the Nurse Jamie EGF Botanical Complex ($125) are also included.
Downtime: None. Can be done the day of the event.
Cost: $300 per area.

Dr. Harold Lancer is one of the most, if not the most, notable celebrity cosmetic dermatologists. His Rodeo Drive office touts celebrities like Kim Kardashian West, Ellen DeGeneres, and Ryan Seacrest.

Venus Viva Nano Fractional Radio Frequency
What it is: A 30-minute treatment to firm and lift the upper and lower eyelids, sans surgery.
How it works: Radio frequency energy gently heats the skin and triggers the body's natural healing response to firm and even texture.
Benefits of the treatment: Clients walk away with smoother, firmer skin around the eye area. (Lancer offers the Legacy Eye Treatment ($450) for at-home care.)
Downtime: There are three days of healing time. Clients come in a couple of months ahead of their event and then the week before for a boost.
Price: $1,500+ per treatment.

EmSculpt and EmSella
What it is: EmSculpt ("Em" stands for electromagnetic sculpting) is to sculpt and lift the buttock area and the abdomen painlessly. It's paired with EmSella, an electromagnetic chair that tightens the pelvic floor.
How it works: Lancer says it reduces fat by five to 10 percent and, in the process, improves muscle definition; it's also "to shape the buttock curvature." On the abdomen, it fine-tunes small, excessive fat and makes the muscles more defined. As for the pelvic floor? "If you're firming your butt or belly, it makes sense you want to firm the rest of the area, the pelvic floor. Very few practices have both machines," said Lancer.
Downtime: No downtime, but it will require months of advance preparation. Lancer suggests treatments twice a week for four weeks and then once monthly for maintenance.
Price: $1,000 per treatment for each treatment ($2000 total per appointment).

Olga Lorencin has been transforming Hollywood's skin for the past 20-plus years with her mantra "I don't believe in bad skin, only the wrong skin care." She's known for keeping celebrities like Halle Berry and Eva Mendes devoted to her facials.

Ageless Facial Plus

What it is: A noninvasive glow-worthy, 80-minute facial utilizing a plant-based exfoliant that does not provide a "burning" sensation that many exfoliating facials can produce.

How it works: Surrinic acid is derived from non-GMO sugar cane; it's an acid that doesn't fall in the AHA or BHA category, making it in a league all its own. This facial is extremely hydrating, which makes it ideal for sensitive and dry skin, utilizing Phyto Moist, which is 400 times more hydrating than sodium hyaluronate (which is found on hyaluronic acid). "The goal is to achieve the best, most glowing complexion possible. Depending on the celebrity's skin type, we will add treatments like LED, CBD oil, caviar, or green tea ampules and more – but it is very dependent on the skin," said Lorencin.

Benefits of the treatment: It prevents and corrects signs of aging, like free-radical damage, sun damage, fine lines, and dullness. You'll leave with plumper, glowing skin.

Downtime: The results are immediate, but depending on how much time Lorencin has with the client, she adjusts the add-ons to make sure there's zero downtime if needed.

Cost: $400+

Georgia Louise is a facialist touted in the pages of Vogue, has clients like Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, has been referred to as the "face scientist," and recently was announced as La Mer's Global Skincare Advisor. She utilizes the "lift and sculpt" method for her facials.

Bespoke Facial
What it is: A lifting and sculpting facial leaves the skin glowing.
How it works: Each facial caters to the individual needs of Louise's clients, but all include a three-step cleanse, mechanical and manual exfoliation, extractions (if necessary), and vitamin infusion using sound waves and galvanic — read: electric — currents. She finishes the facial with The Concentrate From La Mer ($490).
Benefits of the treatment: The electric current helps with increased blood circulation and the product to deeper penetrate the skin. The "lift and sculpt" method includes a deep tissue massage, which in turn makes the skin appear lifted and contoured. (Obviously.)
Downtime: The results are immediate and require zero downtime. Louise suggests cutting inflammatory foods from your diet, like dairy, sugar, and soy, a week ahead of a big event.
Cost: Starting at $650

Dr. Nancy Samolitis is a board-certified dermatologist and the medical director and cofounder of Facile, a posh medical spa on Robertson Boulevard in Pasadena, CA. Facile offers treatments from lasers and injectables to peels and facials.

Facile Laser
What it is: A 10- to 15-minute laser treatment that's customized to your skin type.
How it works: By gently heating the upper dermis well below your skin's surface, Facile Laser stimulates collagen regrowth. Additional heat is used in dilated capillaries to reduce redness. A series of four to six sessions will significantly improve texture, and it can be done regularly for maintenance.
Benefits of the treatment: Reduces redness, reduces breakouts associated with acne/rosacea, tightens skin and pores, smooths texture.
Downtime: You may be slightly pink after, but it dissipates quickly.
Cost: $350

Microinfusion + Gold Infusion
What it is: Using a small stamp-like tube with 20 tiny 24-karat-gold needles, a customized skincare cocktail is delivered to the skin for improved skin texture, smaller pores, and overall glow.
How it works: A blended mixture of Botox, fillers, and vitamins creates a cocktail that's infused into the skin.
Benefits of the treatment: You can stamp more delicate areas, like the under-eye.
Downtime: None.
Cost: $650

Dr. Paul Nassif may have notoriety for starring in E's Botched, but more so he's world-renowned in the plastic surgery world, specifically with revision rhinoplasty. With 25-plus years in the field, he is considered an authority in facial plastic surgery.

ThermiSmooth
What it is: A 30-minute noninvasive, tissue-heating frequency treatment for the neck and décolletage.
How it works: Dr. Nassif uses small, circular motions to warm the surface of the skin on the face and neck while heating targeted tissues below the skin. It can be used on the eyes, cheeks, forehead, mouth, and neck.
Benefits of the treatment: Radiofrequency heats the skin, which causes some collagen to shrink and allows your skin to tighten and smooth. At the same time, your body naturally produces new collagen, filling in wrinkles and making skin appear younger and healthier. Nassif says for sagging skin on the face or other areas of the body, ThermiSmooth can give it a tighter appearance. Plus, it feels like a warm massage.
Downtime: Clients should get the treatment 24 hours before the event for best results.
Cost: $350+. For an at-home option, try Nassif MD Deco-Lift Neck Firming Complex Serum ($60).

Joanna Vargas combines natural ingredients with technology to deliver results-driven facials to actresses like Rachel Brosnahan, Constance Wu and Elisabeth Moss. She created her own eponymous line and has outposts in both New York City and Los Angeles at the Sunset Tower Hotel.

Supernova Facial
What it is: An exfoliating, lifting, tightening treatment created for Vargas's celebrity clientele. Everyone can now book the treatment at her spa.
How it works: Vargas starts by exfoliating and hydrating the skin with the Aqua Peel, which uses an oxygenating formula of nutrients, saline, and glycolic acid to smooth out dry skin to prep it for red carpet makeup. Then microcurrent is used to lift, contour, and depuff the face. A medical-grade collagen mask is layered with a molding clay mask to keep it active. Then a skin-tightening cryotherapy treatment is applied, which increases circulation, oxygenation, and lymphatic drainage while providing anti-inflammatory benefits. The facial finishes with pure oxygen therapy.
Benefits of the treatment: It exfoliates the skin, hydrates, and helps calm inflammation. Vargas says it's ideal for red carpet makeup, which is typically minimal and allows the skin to shine through.
Downtime: Minimal. Can be done the week of the event.
Cost: $550 with Joanna, $375 with a master esthetician, $325 with a senior esthetician. Vargas sells her Supernova Serum ($295) as well.

Revitalight Bed
What it is: An LED bed that heals the skin.
How it works: Vargas developed the bed after reading studies that have shown LED lights heal the skin at a 300 percent faster rate.
Benefits of the treatment: Lying in the bed for 20 minutes promotes collagen production, reduces inflammation, and shrinks pores. It covers the entire body with red and infrared light, eliminating cellulite, lines, wrinkles, sun damage, acne scars, and stretch marks to give a smoother and more even skin tone.
Downtime: None. For results, however, Vargas emphasizes that it's dependent on the client, and he recommends using the bed every other day for two weeks before the show.
Cost: $150 per session

Dr. Victoria Veytsman, Celebrity Cosmetic DDS, is known for transforming the smiles of Hollywood's elite over the past decade. She works with clients like Hailey Bieber and the cast of Orange is the New Black in both Los Angeles and New York.

Porcelain Veneers
What it is: Thin shells of porcelain that are bonded onto the teeth to change the color, size, shape, and width of your smile.
How it works: The veneers are customized by first creating a mock-up on a model to figure out the perfect shape and size of the teeth. Then the patient's teeth are "prepared" for the veneers, which means shaving them down. The client is outfitted with temporary veneers so they can test the look before committing and any necessary changes can be made. Once the veneers are ready, they are applied and, once approved, cemented in the mouth.
Benefits of the treatment: Patients walk away with either a dramatic or natural look — whichever they prefer. The color, shape, and width are all improved. Veytsman said there is an antiaging component to receiving veneers. "A fresh smile can easily take 15 years off of someone's face! Also, a lot of times, people come in with chipped or stained teeth because of their old fillings. This is a stronger and more permanent procedure," she said.
Downtime: Most cases can be completed in three to four weeks, but Veytsman notes she has worked around deadlines with award shows, weddings, and photo shoots to get them done sooner.
Cost: $2,500 per tooth.

The Hotel Bel-Air Spa is a five-star private retreat featuring Valmont skin care, a luxury Swiss line originally rooted in plastic surgery. The brand transitioned into skin care in 2005, featuring powerful ingredients for a youthful glow.

Vitality of the Stars
What it is: A 90-minute clarifying and detoxifying facial that also lifts and corrects.
How it works: The facial includes massage techniques; Valmont's cellular collagen masks for the face, eyes, neck, and décolletage; LED and microcurrent technology; and concludes with a relaxing and deeply hydrating hand and foot treatment.
Benefits of the treatment: The LED and microcurrent help firm, sculpt, and lift the skin, while the masks help detoxify and hydrate.
Downtime: None.
Cost: $1,000