Naomi Campbell, Sharon Stone and Tina Turner all use Margy Lombard’s skincare products and look great – should you?
Supermodels Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer are both 49 but look 20-something; like Sharon Stone and Tina Turner they swear by Margie Lombard’s Margy’s Monte Carlo skincare treatments – is this the secret?
Lombard is not your stereotypical beauty expert. Granted she looks age-defyingly youthful for her 62 years young, but she is more rock chick than pretty perfection, turning heads with her oversized sunglasses, red Cavalli tee, blazer, black leggings and chunky Gucci Rhyton trainers. She’s in Macau to highlight two bespoke treatments, her already popular platinum mask, exclusive to Morpheus Spa, and the new Stem Cells Illuminating Facial, celebrating its first Asian launch, right here, right now.
And when the “Swiss-by-choice” entrepreneur starts talking about her brand and her anti-ageing approach to beauty, she sounds like a rebel.
“You should never wash your face with water,” she says.
Come again?
“A lot of people don’t know how to cleanse the face. They use water; water is terrible for the skin, it is polluted with elements like chlorine and arsenic.”
She recommends a mild cleansing milk or lotion instead, and hers are full of hyaluronic acid, collagen and soybean protein to kick off the anti-ageing at the very start of the daily routine. No harsh cleansers or exfoliators, and definitely no water.
Always one to stand out from the crowd, when studying beauty at the Carita beauty school in Paris she was known for her intuition and “golden hands”. She set up her Monte Carlo spa in 1988 and even though her reputation for anti-ageing facials grew from the beginning, unsatisfied with available skincare she temporarily moved to Switzerland in 1993 to create her own line. She launched her hyaluronic acid- and collagen-rich formulations in 1995, long before the ingredients went mainstream.