Homegrown beauty brand Porcelain’s co-founder Pauline Ng does not care for skincare trends but has tried everything from lasers to Botox so as to provide better advice to her clients. We speak to the dedicated entrepreneur to find out more about her beauty rituals
For a tiny island like Singapore, we have a lot to be proud of when it comes to our local beauty scene. Several homegrown brands have made a name for themselves in the competitive industry and are constantly trying to innovate in order to stay on top of their game.
One of these brands is Porcelain, the brainchild of mother-and-daughter pair, Jenny Teng and Pauline Ng. Teng is the director aesthetician of Porcelain, The Face Spa and Porcelain Aesthetics, and Porcelain Signatures. In 2009, encouraged by her daughter as well as her loyal clientele who had stayed with her, she launched her own facial salon, Porcelain, The Face Spa. Combining her penchant for business management and love for biology, Ng became the sharp business mind her mother needed.
The savvy managing director of Porcelain said she was a “tomboy” who never paid much attention to skincare—until she co-created the homegrown brand with her mother. Today, she has an impressive skincare routine that she does not shy away from and has even tried out various aesthetic treatments to enhance the way her skin looks. And her complexion says it all.
Read all the details about her day-to-day beauty rituals and top skincare products below.
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How long do you typically spend on your skincare routine?
Though it may seem like I use quite a lot of products in my skincare routine, it takes no more than five minutes in the morning, including sunscreen and drawing my brows. As Porcelain products can be mixed and matched, I combine different products together to shorten the routine and get different results depending on my skin condition.
What is your skincare routine like for the day?
I have naturally dry, sensitive skin, so the products address these skin concerns. The first and most important step to every routine is the cleanse. In the morning, I prefer to start my days with a deeply hydrating Pre-Cleansing Milk which leaves my skin feeling very soft and moisturised. For toning, I use the Deep Hydrating Lotion followed by the pH Balancing Essence and then HA+ Hydrating Serum.
For someone with sensitive and dry skin, I rely a lot on my HA+ Hydrating Serum. Its dual chained Hyaluronic Acid and four unique complexes help to strengthen sensitive skin and rehydrate it. It's followed by a liberal layer of our Deep Recovery Gel mixed with the Botanical Sensitive Care Toner and massaged in with a lifting motion from neck to face. I then use the RevitalEyes Concentrate to depuff my eye area and apply the Hydraclear Gel on my T-Zone (for all-day sebum control) and use it as a spot blemish treatment if I am having breakouts. Lastly, I finish it off with our Skin Perfecting Moisturiser which contains SPF 30 to protect my skin and the UKYO by Porcelain hydrating skin powder.