\t\t\t\t\tMonica Lewinsky and Shani Darden; Milla Jovovich, Rachel Zoe and Julia Obst.<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStefanie Keenan\/Getty Images for Shani Darden<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tAlthough Darden has dozens of famous clients, she\u2019s all about the skin care and her products, and rarely throws splashy parties. That could be why she got choked up thanking the group for coming out to Santa Monica on a Friday night in Los Angeles traffic to celebrate the $68 concoction. \u201cIt\u2019s such an amazing thing for you to show up and that matters, that you all showed up for me and it means the world to me,\u201d she told the packed private room.<\/p>\n \n\tThe soir\u00e9e saw guests gushing over how the esthetician \u201cchanged their skin\u201d and sharing their favorite products. To wit, Jovovich told a story about lying on Darden\u2019s table for her spicy Triple Acid Signature Peel<\/a>. \u201cI came out with skin that was new and I had never experienced anything like it. Shani is the girl who knows how to get your skin in shape.\u201d She\u2019s done the peel at home since and said she\u2019s \u201cso in love with it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/a>\t<\/div> \n\tBrown, the night\u2019s co-host, learned about Darden\u2019s magic through their mutual friend, Jessica Alba. She stayed a \u201cShani fan\u201d because of the esthetician\u2019s \u201cno-B.S.\u201d approach to skincare. \u201cIt was like a facial with a friend, not a woman who was telling me that my pores are wrong and selling me all this stuff and making me feel weird or saying I had to have a certain juice; it was a real person who knows innately what she\u2019s doing,\u201d she said. \u201cShe works so hard. She\u2019s not one of those L.A. girls that just clacks around.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRyan Michelle Bathe, who had \u201chorrible acne,\u201d recalled sitting next to Darden at a Baby2Baby event and asked her, \u201cCan you help this?\u201d Darden replied, \u201cYou know I can. You\u2019re not hopeless,\u201d and a friendship was born. \u201cYou know it\u2019s a frankness that\u2019s so from her heart,\u201d Bathe said. \u201cHer products are exactly like that, they\u2019re frank, to the point, from the heart. They get to the issue and they only get better with time.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tJurnee Smollett, Laura Brown and Christina Hendricks.<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStefanie Keenan\/Getty Images for Shani Darden<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tJournee Smollett has also seen Darden for her \u201cproblematic skin\u201d for almost a decade. The Retinol Reform Treatment Serum<\/a> \u2014 loved by everyone from Shay Mitchell<\/a> to Hollywood beaut insiders<\/a> \u2014 was her gateway product. \u201cI\u2019ve always struggled with acne and very oily skin. I wear a lot of makeup because of my job and shooting long hours,\u201d Smollett said. \u201cI just bought her red light mask<\/a>. Man, it\u2019s so good. At night, I put it on. There\u2019s an acne setting and there\u2019s a setting for wrinkles. I do both, back to back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tRetinol Reform Treatment Serum is Zoe\u2019s favorite product from the line, too, though she also loves the Moisture Boost Plumping Serum<\/a>, which she uses on alternate days. She plans to bring her 14-year-old son into Darden\u2019s studio to help him build a skincare routine. \u201cSky has beautiful skin but he\u2019s picking it and I\u2019m like, \u2018you have nothing to pick.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/a>\t<\/div> \n\tOne guest who has been using the new serum since way before it launched is Revolve Chief Brand Officer Raissa Gerona. \u201cIt absolutely changed my skin, and so I use it now two or three times a week, along with her face wash<\/a>, moisturizer<\/a> and eye cream<\/a>. She just has the best products.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. \u201cWhen I was 35, I looked 25 with Shani; when I was 45, I looked 40 with Shani; and now I\u2019m approaching 50 and I still look 45,\u201d said actress and Milla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[156,159,163,157,160,161,158,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion","8":"tag-celebrity","9":"tag-darden","10":"tag-dinner","11":"tag-facialist","12":"tag-launches","13":"tag-serum","14":"tag-shani","15":"tag-starry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Shani](\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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