Hey guys.
Mi Ann here, beauty writer here at Refinery29
and today I’m going to Dermalogica Soho
which is a spa in New York to get a high frequency
treatment.
It’s going to help with inflammation.
It’s going to literally zap my zits and
help kill bacteria.
It costs about 50 dollars for every twenty
minutes of getting the actual service.
I am a little bit nervous just because it
is literal electricity going over my skin
but, I’ve heard it’s pretty painless so,
I’m actually very excited to see if it helps
with any of the acnes that I’ve got going
on today.
It was founded in the 1800’s by Nikola Tesla
whose a well known scientist.
He used it to help more with like infections
cause that was before we had antibiotics.
A French biophysicist realized in 1892 actually,
um, that it had an antibacterial effect on
the skin um, and would help um with like skin
infections.
There’s two different types of gas in the
electrode.
So there’s glass electrodes.
The gas is vacuum sealed into the electrode
so, we put the electrode in the actual current
and we turn it on.
The gas ignites.
There’s either neon gas or argon gas.
Argon gas is going to glow more of like a
purple or a violet hue.
Neon is going to be more orange.
As far as our treatment goes, it’s fully
customized so we’ll focus on cleaning up
the breakouts, the redness um, I’ll start
with the double cleanse routine.
I’ll take a closer look at your skin and
then we’ll get started.
Hormonal acne, as a teenager, does start in
the forehead and then it literally will slowly
progress down so,
That’s exactly what happened.
Adult acne is typically along the jawline.
So, we’re going to start the high frequency
portion of the treatment okay?
I’ll treat the whole face of course but
I’ll just focus like you’re saying down
on the jawline.
Here at Dermalogica we place gauze over the
skin before we apply the current.
It just allows you to get more oxygen into
the skin because that’s what’s jumping
from the high of frequency itself into the
skin.
Oxygen is what’s killing the bacteria.
With the gauze, you get even more oxygen.
We call it like a spark gap so, it’s more
beneficial.
It’s also easier to glide across the skin.
Alright, how’s your skin feeling?
It feels good.
I feel so relaxed.
I think I fell asleep for a good minute there.
No worries and you’ll definitely see the
breakouts that you were worried about.
They already look a little bit better actually
not as inflamed.
That’s the goal.
Yeah.
I’ll tone your skin now, put on some moisturizer
and SPF and then you’ll be good to go.
That was so cool.
It definitely didn’t hurt at all which I
was kind of surprised by because I expected
it to have a little bit more zapping or tingling
sensations.
My acne has really subsided.
Now it’s day three since I’ve had the
facial and it doesn’t hurt anymore.
it’s not as red and inflamed.
I’m actually really happy with the results.
I would definitely go back again.
