June 25, 2008

Somer Here, Somer There

Kate Somerville Expands

Start location: your face (conditions: dry, with a chance of acne).

End location: healthy skin.

Calculating route.

Head out door. Proceed directly to Kate Somerville’s newly expanded Melrose Place skin care spa.

Bear right upstairs to the plush reception lounge and four lavish new treatment rooms. Left at modern, right at Old Hollywood glamour.

Follow signs (acne, aging, sun damage) to team of nurses and aestheticians; take ramp toward Platinum Package, a personalized, nonsurgical, longer-term program for a serious skin makeover.

Recalculating. Recalculating.

Continue on to exclusive new services: Pearl, minimally invasive laser targeting wrinkles and solar issues; DermaLucent White, collagen- and elastin-boosting phototherapy.

Stop at The White Room for a signature facial (which incorporates a microcurrent massage using knit silver gloves to tone, firm, and lift muscles followed by relaxing acupressure).

You have arrived at your destination.

Kate Somerville, 8428 Melrose Place, between Orlando Avenue and La Cienega Boulevard, West Hollywood (323-655-7546 or katesomerville.com).