Other expensive anti-aging cosmetics include Tracie Martyns resculpting facial, which employs a device that delivers electrical currents to the muscles of the face and retails for a mere $175 per ounce, and Cle de Peaus Beaute La Creme, which includes a silver spatula and retails for $475 per ounce.
H. Couture Beauty sold custom designed packages for its lipstick and mascara at a staggering $14 million making it the most expensive makeup that has ever been sold.
The cases were made from 18-karat gold embellished with rare pink and blue diamonds. According to Allison Kugel, spokesperson for H. Couture Beauty, it was purchased for a young woman’s 25th birthday.
The high-priced makeup comes with luxury concierge service, 24/7 customer service and complimentary lip and lash refills for a year.
The company’s mascara generally retails for $589 and the lip color retails for $150.
Nail Polish
Created as a collaboration between womens beauty magazine Allure, Essie Cosmetics, Platinum Guild International (PGI) and British platinum supplier Johnson Matthey, I Do is made with powdered platinum and debuted at JCK-Las Vegas in 2005. The first batch of this luxury nail polish was displayed in a special bottle created by PGI and designer Henry Dunay and made of pure platinum.
The platinum bottle of I Do is valued at $55,000. A normal bottle of the platinum polish can be purchased for a more affordable $250.
Skin Care
The most expensive skin care product is ReVives Intensite Volumizing Serum. ReVive was founded by Dr. Gregory Bays Brown, the plastic surgeon who pioneered the use of EGF (Epidermal Growth Factor, a bioengineered molecule) in skin care products in 1989. The Intensite Volumizing Serum works under the skin using another such molecule called KGF (Keratinocyte Growth Factor). According to the product description, the expensive serum augments the subtle loss of facial volume and plumps trouble areas. The most expensive skin care product in the world retails for $600 per ounce.
Hair Care
Stuart Phillips is the most expensive hairdresser in the world with his three VIP packages. Priced at $16,300, the Gold Package features limo ride from the airport to the salon, champagne lunch upon arrival at the salon, hair consultation, head and scalp massage, cut and blow dry from Stuart Phillips himself, instruction to maintain your styling and suggestions for different ways to wear it, a selection of LOreal products to take home and limo ride back to the airport after your appointment.
The Diamond Package for $32,000 features a two day/night adventure that includes chauffeur driven limo from your home to the airport, first class flight to the UK, limo will pick you up at the airport and take you to one of Britains finest hotels, champagne lunch, Stuart Phillips will escort you to the salon, extensive hair consultation, head and scalp massage, haircut, instructions to maintain style and suggestions for different ways of wearing it, selection of LOreal products, limo ride back to the hotel, day two to spend as you wish, limo ride back to the airport on the final day, limo ride from airport to your home and a portion of the proceeds go to two different charities.
The most expensive is the Platinum Package that has anything you want including Stuart Phillips coming to you.