The Lift Facial
Microcurrent sculpting that visibly lifts, tones and re-contours — an immediate, camera-ready result with no needles, no downtime.
Midtown Manhattan · Est. 2007Where skincare
Where skincare
is health care.
For nearly two decades, Budapest-born esthetician Ildi Pekar has treated New York’s most discerning faces from a quiet penthouse studio — pairing European technique and holistic ritual with the technology that makes results last.
As seen inVogue · Allure · Byrdie · W
Est. 2007Midtown
Manhattan
Manhattan
A trusted name in beauty — for the press and for the people they write about
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“Genuine beauty emanates from within. My work is to nurture the skin at a cellular level — and to remind the body how to heal itself.”
Toxins, stress and pollution accelerate aging. Through layered therapies — lymphatic flow, circulation, oxygen and light — we clear what the body doesn’t need and revive what it does. Healthy self. Heal thy self.
2007Studio founded
100%Organic European
NYCPenthouse studio
Signature treatments
View the full menu →Faceted, never formulaic.
No two faces are alike, so no two treatments are. Each begins with analysis and ends somewhere only Ildi’s hands can take it.
Neolifting Buccal Sculpt
A non-invasive facial-rejuvenation ritual: lymphatic drainage and intra-oral muscle work that retrains the face toward lasting firmness.
Magnetic-Cupping Facial
European cupping and magnet therapy that wakes circulation, decongests and floods the skin with oxygen for a lit-from-within glow.
Meet Ildi PekarA native of Budapest.
A native of Budapest.
A devoted following in New York.
Raised in a culture famous for thermal springs, saunas and the ritual of skin, Ildi trained in the European tradition before bringing her craft to New York. After more than a decade refining her technique across the city’s spas, she founded Ildi Pekar Skin Care in 2007 — a haven tucked into a Midtown penthouse.
Today she is the esthetician supermodels and A-listers quietly count on — known for an attention, discretion and instinct some have simply called “magic.”
— xoxo, Ildi
Her full storyClean beauty
Nature’s pharmacy, refined.
Learn to heal with the quiet power of flowers, herbs and thermal waters — pure, organic-certified European formulas Ildi reaches for in her own treatment room.
Ildi’s diaries
All entries →Notes from the studio.
The Truth About Skincare Trends
Trendy or totally useless? After a season of writing for Yahoo and beyond, Ildi sorts the noise from what your skin actually needs.
Read the diary →Glow Beyond Your Face: Body Edition
The sundress moment, reconsidered. A holistic body-care ritual to feel radiant from the neck down — long before summer arrives.
Read the diary →Skin Longevity in NYC
Why biology matters more than trends. The science of stimulating regeneration instead of masking the signs of time.
Read the diary →By appointmentYour skin has a memory.
Your skin has a memory.
Let’s give it something good to remember.
554 5th Avenue, Floor 3 · New York, NY 10036