Dua Lipa’s Favorite Facialist Shares Her Secrets

Reported by Vogue.

Milan has a way of making everything look effortless — the fashion, the food, the skin. And if Dua Lipa's complexion has been looking particularly sculpted lately, there's a specific address in the Navigli district you should know about.

Alessandra Ricchizzi is the facialist behind what she calls her AR Lifting method — a fully manual, noninvasive technique she developed after years in advanced aesthetics. Her clientele includes Italian pop stars, models, and Chiara Ferragni, but it was Lipa's 2023 visit that put her on the global radar, according to Vogue. The philosophy is less about surface-level glow and more about structural intelligence: Ricchizzi reads each client's facial expressions, posture, and what she calls facial memory — the accumulation of fine lines, texture, and tension built up over time — before touching the face at all. "The face is not just about aesthetics, but also an expression of internal balance," she says.

The Treatment, Broken Down

The session works across three facial axes — central, horizontal, and oblique — addressed across sequential appointments, ultimately delivering what Ricchizzi describes as a lifting and repositioning effect of up to 6 centimeters (roughly 2.3 inches). The signature tool is a lifting glove with red LED fingertips that drive an anti-gravity effect, stimulating facial tissue and muscle while pressing active ingredients deeper into the skin. Lipa also had the technique extended to her body, where it mirrors the benefits of lymphatic drainage — reduced puffiness, improved circulation, better digestion, and a genuinely snatched silhouette. Immediate results lean toward depuffing and sculpting; longer-term benefits include reduced inflammation and boosted energy.

If Milan isn't on your calendar, Ricchizzi's at-home guidance is worth following regardless. She recommends working on clean skin, ideally at night, always moving bottom-to-top with medium pressure, splitting the face in two halves, and releasing toward the ear. Short, sharp upward strokes along the cheeks and neck, paired with small circulation-stimulating pinches along the same lines, are her baseline moves. "Even a few minutes a day can make a difference," she says — and her conviction that "consistency is key: a little each day is better than intensive but sporadic treatments" applies whether you're using a gua sha, a jade roller, or just your hands.

You don't need a flight to Lombardy to start treating your face like architecture — you just need to show up for it daily.

Read the original at Vogue.