La Prairie Caviar Liquid Lift

When I was invited to be one of just nine beauty writers to experience a La Prairie Caviar Liquid Lift facial, it was like Christmas for my face. Who could dream of saying no?

When I was invited to be one of just nine beauty writers to experience a La Prairie Caviar Liquid Lift facial, it was like Christmas for my face. Who could dream of saying no? This is the absolute pinnacle of luxury from the brand that really knows luxury. After all, La Prairie is the company that famously launched Caviar Dermo Beads in 1987, forming the tiny beads you lift with a spoon from their precious jar as soon as their scientists got hold of the latest enscapulation technologies.

Now, Skin Caviar is celebrating its 25th anniversary – or silver anniversary – appropriately enough for the silver packaged skincare. La Prairie is usually silver and white, but its Caviar line comes in a distinctive cobalt blue and silver.

I met the facialists performing the Skin Caviar Liquid Lift facial over morning tea and heard a bit about the new age defying serum which joins the iconic Skin Caviar Collection, pictured below.

My facialist summed it up when she told me, albeit very tactfully and gently, that although my face didn’t have bad wrinkles, it lacked firmness. I blame that ole devil, gravity. The Liquid Lift is designed specifically to treat loss of firmness and elasticity with the powerful Caviar Extract and a blend of intensive moisturizers and unique sea proteins. Caviar extract is dervied from ecologically-sound farmed Baerii sturgeon housed in a bead shell of red algae that dissolve upon activation to get in on the action too. The beads are suspended in a glucose-based polymer that applied to the face helps lift, firm and give a long-lasting tensing effect to skin.

The Liquid Lift, pictured below: gives the highest concentration of pure Caviar Extract out of the La Prairie Caviar Collection. It retails for $740 for a 50ml pump dispenser from La Prairie at Smith & Caughey Auckland, Kirkcaldie & Stains Wellington, Face Facts, and Ballantynes, Christchurch.

Megan Robinson
14 November 2012