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Byline: BRONWYN GARRITY editor: Abigail Walch
Serious spa-ing from L.A.'s star skin specialist.
Kate Somerville, L.A.'s premier facialist, appears at the top of the grand staircase of 8428 Melrose like a hippie Mary Poppins: precise but earthy, and promising magic.
For the past four years, Somerville has catered to some of Tinseltown's most famous faces here, in a scattering of breezy blue and green treatment rooms tucked into the winding first floor of this old Hollywood mansion (once the home of 1920s Academy Award--winning actress Janet Gaynor and her costume-designer husband, Gilbert Adrian). Somerville built her name by defying both the absolutists who insist on completely organic treatments and those at the other end of the spectrum, who keep their plastic surgeon on speed dial, with her combination of ...