“The LYMA Laser PRO Gives Me the Power to Transform My Skin - On My Terms”
A legendary 90s supermodel turned photographer and devoted outdoorswoman, Helena Christensen has never been one for a rigid skincare routine. What she does have time for is the LYMA Laser PRO.
“I am not very good at keeping or making appointments with facialists and dermatologists, and so for me, truly and honestly, that's where the LYMA device makes so much sense in my life; because I get to incorporate it in a way where I'm still doing all the things that I love. LYMA gives me that freedom.”
The LYMA Laser PRO is Helena’s Power of Return
Helena made her comments during the recent LYMA Powerhouse event in New York. The 57-year-old mother-of-one attended the event to support the unveiling of LYMA’s P.O.W.E.R Index (Proven, Outcomes, Whole-System, Empowering, Return). It serves as a benchmark for judging health purchases; a consistent way for women to judge whether a health purchase, from a supplement to a device, is actually worth it.
For catwalk superstar Helena, the LYMA Laser PRO holds the Power of Return, the Index’s final letter. The PRO is an investment that keeps on giving. She said: “I love this device so much. It's a big investment, but it's a very, it's a powerful investment to make for yourself, because it's going to stay with you for the rest of your life. You're going to be using it always.”
For Helena, the PRO is the device in her beauty toolbox that tackles it all: “It saves me a lot of time. It makes my skin glow. It makes my skin tight because I spend a lot of time in nature with the elements: sun, pigmentation, freckles.
“I'm half Peruvian, which is great in so many ways. But it also means you get dark very fast. My skin, you know, I just have to think about the sun and then I get a few shades darker, and it also brings out a lot of pigmentation. Love the freckles but not the pigmentation!”
Why Helena’s skincare routine is really a wellbeing routine
Helena doesn’t like using the words beauty routine: “It's more your well-being routines, or time with yourself, which can be reading a book, giving yourself a facial, taking a bath, taking a cold shower, being in nature, taking long walks.”
It’s a whole-system view of looking after yourself, and it echoes the “W” in the Index.
The LYMA Laser PRO has become part of that time for Helena, folded into a nightly ritual she looks forward to. “I love watching movies, and I sit in front of all different kinds of movies, TV series, with my LYMA device in my hand and there is no exception to that…the LYMA device has become for me a way to have that extra time with myself. And at the same time, I know I'm doing something incredible for myself; making my skin the most supple and most glowy and naturally beautiful as it possibly can be.”
“Having healthy, naturally glowing skin is for me a priority, because yes, you can do so much with makeup, with the incredible glam teams, but I want the foundation of my skin to be healthy and solid and strong.”
Strength training is as important to Helena as her skin
“Strong skin really for me is a priority, which means I need to sleep well, I need to eat healthy, but never ever any of it in a super strict way. I have a mellow approach to this, but it's definitely a conscious thing, working out, being active, it’s a huge priority.”
Her training is as elemental as her skincare: heavy rocks, tree trunks, uphill hikes, open water, and more than twenty years of boxing. “I combine heavy rocks, tree trunks, hiking upwards, swimming, using the water, sort of a natural resistance in that way, but also I box. And I've been doing that for more than 20 years. And that combines cardio, weightlifting, balance, all the good things, all the important things for your body, your muscle mass.”
It wasn't always this way. “The reason I, for example, started training with heavy weights is because I felt weak in my body. Like, I literally felt like it was hard to lift things, even to walk up steps... I need to do something hardcore and intense that will change this so that I feel really strong in my body.”
Marks of a life lived outdoors
The LYMA Laser PRO isn't reserved for Helena’s face; she uses it on her body too. As an avid river trekker she is proud to wear the marks of her life outdoors. “I get a lot of scars on my legs, and I'm happy about those scars, because they are about my life. That's how I live.”
She had foot surgery earlier this summer to resolve an issue caused by what she believes to be decades of activity. “Again, I'm very happy about that, it makes me grateful that I'm able to be active and that I love it... And it's not about, you know, that I need to have no scars and my skin needs to be perfect. It's the wellbeing of it.”
Make it part of your own wellbeing routine
The LYMA Laser PRO is designed to fit into a few minutes of your evening, just as it does for Helena. Complete the ritual with LYMA Power Youth Serum and LYMA Power Youth Cream, or pair them in the LYMA Power Youth Duo.
