Our head of beauty tries out Hailey Bieber's 'salmon glow' secret

Celebrity skincare regimes can sometimes sound overpriced and, quite frankly, unnecessary, but every so often a trend lands that is rooted in interesting science. Case in point, the recent buzz around salmon DNA-based treatments. When Hailey Bieber casually mentioned a 'salmon sperm glow' in an interview with The Cut earlier this year, she was referring to microneedling paired with PDRN – short for polydeoxyribonucleotide – a skin-repairing compound derived from salmon DNA.

While her version was a facial, it got me curious about the injectable form: polynucleotide boosters. These are designed to improve skin quality, not by adding volume like fillers, but by stimulating your own collagen, elastin and hydration levels. They

See Full Page