A profile and routine Q&A from Violet Grey's Woman Made series, July 2019. It traces Melanie Grant's path from reading the beauty pages as a girl to studying skin therapy straight out of school, earning international qualifications and doing postgraduate study in clinical skin therapies. She says it is the only job she has had.
At the time she had studios in Sydney and Melbourne, a new space on Melrose Place in Los Angeles that opened that February, and a residency with Chanel in Paris. The piece names Victoria Beckham, Cate Blanchett, Cassandra Grey, Phoebe Tonkin and Lara Worthington as clients. Grant calls the glow she gives them her version of Australian beauty, and says each client needs a custom approach. “I guess I’m known for a signature look rather than a signature ‘treatment’,” she tells the site. She also mentions plans for a New York studio, something permanent in Paris and her first sunscreen.
The Q&A then turns to her own habits. Mornings are a cleanse in the shower, an antioxidant serum and an SPF moisturiser. At night she cleanses twice, then uses micellar water, a mist, a retinol serum, eye cream and an oil or moisturiser. Her staples include Bioderma Sensibio Micellar Water, Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream, Biologique Recherche P50 PIGM 400 and Chanel La Solution 10. She shares her breakfast smoothie of spinach, zucchini, blueberries, bone broth and protein, and admits she hates exercise but doesn't mind pilates.
