If you wish to experience heaven on earth, you need to get a facial from Vaishaly Patel. As you drift away into a blissful dream-like state, her deft fingers work their magic and smooth away the stress lines on your forehead and ease your tired facial muscles. We are not talking about a superficial facial here. Beauty is skin deep, remember. Her’s is spiritual, mental and intensely relaxing experience. “The therapeutic and spiritual side of the treatment is very much a reflection of me that comes out in my treatment,” she explains.
Presenting to you Vaishaly Patel, super facialist and founder of Vaishaly Skincare. Workaholic. Successful. Entrepreneurial. Beautiful. Loves Louis Vuitton. Idolises Sophia Loren. Admires the softer qualities in human beings. Has the ambition to set up a global skincare brand. Also the grit and determination to follow her dream.
She’s no ordinary woman. She now has celebrity clients like Elle McPherson, Sophie Dahl, Nigella Lawson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Meg Ryan and Kirsten Dunst. And has built her business from scratch brick by brick.
In her first job out of college, she worked at a beauty centre and did treatments from facials, body massage, waxing, threading etc. She did so much body massage that she eventually got arthritis in her right hand. She then zeroed down on facials as her USP.
“I tailor make each facial on the day of treatment. It was from this point that I started formulating my own techniques. Continually I would change and add techniques depending on the response from the client and their skin”, says Vaishaly.
She was the first one to start eyebrow threading in London at a time when nobody had heard of it. “When they came in to get their eyebrows done they couldn’t believe the transformation. They had never had such precision and perfect eyebrows done with a piece of thread”. She is the eyebrow queen.
How does Vaishaly unwind? Does she? “I’m in the clinic at 8am every morning. I work 6 days a week. I get the clinic ready in the morning; I am back to back with clients from 8.45 am to 6pm. I stop only for one hour for lunch. The only time I can catch up with emails, phone calls etc is on lunch, so even when I’m eating I’m working. Some days I have meetings straight after work.”
In spite of running a booming business, Vaishaly looks calm. And she does not believe in Botox or anything artificial. Which is why in 2005 she launched her organic skincare range. She recently launched her facials at the prestigious Dorchester Hotel and is now working with Four Seasons. As new business offers pour in, Vaishaly is busy working her miracle.