After work, I went to the Spa on Oak for a facial that MB gave me for Valentine's Day. I never get facials and had to laugh when she asked me my "skin care regiment". It was a short answer: "I wash my face with the soap they have at the gym or the facial soap I have at home (Neutragena?) and then input on eye cream and occasionally overnight cream when I can tell my face is drier than normal." She went on to talk a lot of "when I exfoliate..." Which was funny since I didn't mention exfoliation at all so I really had no input on those questions. Maybe I'm the first person to go to an Oak Street spa that doesn't exfoliate? I have no idea.
Anyway, she suggested I take off my clothes and that's when I got really confused. To wash my face, I need to take off my clothes?! Seemed odd but I went with it after clarifying that it wasn't a massage but a facial, right?
Then she got down to it and started rubbing my face and wrapping towels all over it and stuff. I was able to pick any facial I wanted which meant nothing to me since there was no menu and I had no ideas the options. I just let her tell me what I needed and ended up getting a microdermabrasion and oxygenating facial. Ultimately this cost me an extra $20 and we got on with it.
I had always thought that microdermabrasion would be w and that shoots stuff at your face to make it smoother. No so. The have something the texture of my cat's tongue scrape your face while at the same time the wand is suctioning your face off. It didn't hurt but was odd. After that, a lot of goop (my eyes were covered) with a paint brush and after it "sunk in" she sprayed oxygen (?) all over my face. Twice. And then back to the hot towels (which were awesome!!).
In the end she reminded me several times not to exfoliate for five days- FIVE DAYS- which, is obviously not going to be a problem...
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