Knockout Beauty founder Cayli Cavaco Reck and aesthetician Georgia Louise — who counts Karlie Kloss and a couple of A-list Jennifers (Aniston and Lawrence) as celeb clients — share a passion for pores and a devotion to glow. “We’re friends because we have the same skin-care philosophy: We start with skin health,” says Reck.
“We have the same belief system,” Louise chimes in from her UES atelier, where she currently has Reck under a magnifying lamp. “It’s not just, ‘Oh, you have dry skin.’ We go deeper. We view the client as a whole.”
That shared outlook led to their new collab: From July 1 to 14 (excluding weekends), Louise will be “in residence” at the Bridgehampton Knockout, performing facials, selling her namesake products and introducing the world to her Bespoke Cream Machine, a device that uses sensory technology to analyze each client’s skin, sizing up hydration, sebum and pH levels.
As a longtime client, Reck says she’s thrilled to bring Louise out East. “Georgia is the only person I’ve ever trusted to microneedle my face. She’s the only practitioner, I feel, who uses the proper methodology.”
Reck should know; the daughter of former Allure Creative Director Paul Cavaco and late publicist Kezia Keeble, she held a slew of glossy-mag editorial jobs before striking out on her own. After years researching physiology, ingredients and formulations, she launched Knockout Beauty in 2016, a skin-care consultancy which now has two retail spaces: a flagship on Lexington Avenue (carrying luxe, niche brands like Odacité and Själ) and a summers-only outpost in Bridgehampton.
London-transplant Louise, meanwhile, established herself in New York in 2010, quickly garnering a roster of supermodels and fashion types keen on her signature non-invasive “Lift + Sculpt” massage technique. She also performs the Hollywood EGF (Epidermal Growth Factor) Facial, which Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock have dubbed the “penis facial” because it involves a serum derived from the foreskins of Korea’s newborn babies.
Along with Louise’s residency, Reck has planned a slate of women-led, beauty-meets-wellness seminars, on such topics as facial massage and lymphatic drainage. “It’s really about bringing education to the forefront, but not in a ‘talk’ kind of way. They’re hands-on classes. That’s something else Georgia and I have in common: We believe in education.”