Oh God, I got goosebumps.
I never thought that someone rubbing
two sticks on my head would feel this good.
Hey guys! It's Tina here.
Welcome back to another episode of Tina Tries It.
In today's episode, I booked in for a treatment
at a very special, exclusive spa in Korea.
This spa is located in Apgujeong
which is the high end, swankier part of Gangnam.
This is one of the rich neighborhoods.
And the spa owner has requested that
I do not reveal the name of her spa or location
because she deals with top celebrity clientele
and she respects their privacy.
Well, my friend who lives in Korea, Daniella,
she actually gets her facials done at this spa.
And the spa actually specializes in a special treatment called ear seeding.
Have you guys heard of that?
Basically, ear seeding is like acupuncture of the ear
but instead of using needles to simulate pressure points,
small ear seeds are placed on specific areas
to help stimulate the body and nervous system.
This treatment apparently has numerous health benefits,
such as relieving chronic pain, such as back pain,
helps with stress and anxiety, weight loss, insomnia,
and I read that it actually helps with infertility as well.
And it's supposed also depuff your face,
making your face more symmetric or even and balanced
and it helps to make it smaller.
When I visited Korea, I asked Daniella if she could pull some strings for me
to see if she can get me a booking at the spa
as well as asked if I could film it
and so she did and this is how it went.
We started off with a facial cleanse,
just to remove my existing makeup and impurities.
And so that way, they can analyze my skin.
I have blackheads and pores,
so they're going to pop on something to help melt that away.
Now the therapist is applying a soothing gel
to help hydrate and moisturize my skin
whilst my blackheads are getting softened and prepped for extraction.
So the owner of this salon came in to have a look at my skin,
and she said my skin is little bit dry which is true
because it's like winter here and my skin has been playing up.
I've been getting a lot of little dots and pimples like in between my eyes
and she was like "You like to snack?"
and i was like 'Woahh how did she know'
cause that's so true, that's all I've been doing.
I've just been snacking at night...
Now she can tell.
I've been eating those honey butter almonds.
Next, we're doing a jade therapy.
As you can see, the therapist is holding its instrument with these balls
and apparently that's gonna help
to stimulate my muscles and help stretch it.
I've never had this done before, so we shall see.
It's gonna make a noise.
That feels like I'm just rolling my own face.
That kind of sensation.
Woo now that feels weird.
It's not painful, it's kinda like almost tickly.
This motion that she's doing is supposed to help stretch and stimulate the muscles
and help to lift my skin.
It's actually really relaxing and kinda hypnotizing.
Oh God it's so tickly.
Anyone that touches my neck, I like get goosebumps.
I could definitely feel it stretching around my jaw muscles,
maybe because the muscles around that area is bigger.
So, we're upgrading attachments now.
We're going bigger.
Apparently this treatment is actually gonna help make my face more symmetrical
cause it's little bit asymmetrical.
I mean most of us aren't gonna have symmetric faces
cause I think that would be like impossible
so this is just to help to balance up my face.
It's really tickly.
It's just cause it's on my neck.
But I think for normal people this would feel amazing.
Yeah, it's just me.
I can definitely feel this one much more.
I can't so much feel over pores
but I definitely feel it stretching my muscles.
I have to say, I have never had this experience guys.
So it's very very new to me.
Oh God, I got goosebumps.
I feel like this is giving me a lymphatic drainage,
you know when you use a washer on your face
and you run it over not so little bumps on your skin
that's what it feels like when she's running the sticks along my jawline
I feel pretty loose, like stretched.
I never thought that someone rubbing two sticks in my head would feel this good,
But it's very relaxing.
The stick didn't feel hot but now I feel hot.
I feel very stretched, especially when she went in with the two sticks
and went khuuooo and I was just like woooo
Usually when you get a massage like back in Australia, they use a face oil.
Something with more slip as well
but I guess like a gel does the same thing,
but it doesn't leave you feeling oily
and it doesn't get in your hair which I hate, so this is nice.
Okay, so much better than the sticks.
Actually I can feel all the little nuts kinda like popping almost.
Now we're ready to move onto the next treatment.
She's applying an ampoule now and prepping my skin for the LED light therapy,
which is going to help brighten and lift my skin.
Ah that's weird.
It's like vibrating but then it's kinda like
Is it blowing air? I don't know.
This device feels like it's cleaning my face.
It's almost like a giant Clarisonic with bigger spikes
and it's blowing air as it's cleaning.
The machine is actually combined with an oxygen treatment
that helps infuse my skin with oxygen
whilst having the LED treatment
which is going to help improve my skin tone,
brighten it up and I can definitely see why it's therming
because it's stimulating my muscles underneath.
Then she pops on a collagen mask and we move onto ear seeding.
Apparently you can actually tell a lot about
a person's health by looking at their ears,
so let's find out how I'm doing.
[Staff] Do you have problems with your back?
Hah yes, I have back problems
[Staff] I'm placing the seeds on your back and pelvis' pressure points
Which are the areas I actually have problems with
I get back pain all the time.
[Staff] You might get a headache if I stick too many seeds
[Staff] This area is the pressure point for lymphatic drainage
How many has she stuck?
I don't even know, I feel like a lot.
Right now, I can kind of feel like my ears feel hot
and every time she place a little sticky natch,
it kinda like pressed it a little bit
and so like I don't know I feel like
my whole body's quiet hot at the moment.
I guess it's like acupuncture but over the ears
so each point means what kind of stimulates different type of body parts and your nerve system
so hopefully that means I'm gonna have a good night sleep
because I always have back pain and I always have trouble sleeping.
Usually it's my lower back, I can't find a comfortable position
so hopefully that's gonna help with this.
[Staff] When I first looked at your face, your left side looks bigger.
[Staff] In just a short amount of time, the left side has shrunk a little
So we just noticed she placed some more ear seeds on this side
and it's kinda made this brow lift up.
I literally feel like I'm doing this, but I'm not.
And so she's gonna add a couple more in
to kinda like balance my brows out,
but that's so weird.
[Staff] Your ear feels really hot now.
Okay, so I will check back in 2 hours with you guys.
So a few hours has passed and I'm back in my apartment.
and I think my brows are kinda back to normal.
They're leveled and even again
but that was so bizarre
because the owner had added a bit more ear seeds on this side
which kinda triggered a pressure point
and kinda lifted this brow up slightly
so like I was doing this weird thing and I could actually feel it.
I felt like this side was kinda like contracting more or I don't know.
It's just, it felt really weird.
So after a while, after she added more ear seeds on this side,
my brows have leveled out.
Isn't that crazy?
I'm so fascinated with the fact that
you can actually trigger certain parts of your body
just by these simple like ear seeds stickers
and yeah she was really fast,
she knew exactly where to place them
and I really couldn't believe that you can tell
that I had back pain by looking at my ear
like it's so fascinating.
So I'm supposed to keep these ear seeds stickers on for a minimum of 2 hours
but I can keep them up to 5 days.
However, honestly my ears hurt a little bit.
It's really tender to touch,
so I think I might have trouble sleeping tonight if I kept them on
Ooh yeah, I don't think I can sleep with this tonight.
My ear is so tender and I'm a side sleeper
so I think I might have to remove these.
So that night, I didn't actually end up taking the ear seeds off.
I soldiered through and I just slept on my back
trying not to touch my ears
because I felt so tender and actually falling asleep wasn't so bad.
I kinda drifted off straightaway.
Usually I find it hard to fall asleep,
so maybe that kinda helped with my sleeping routine
or my insomnia, so that's a good thing.
The next morning when I woke up,
I found that I did not have back pain.
Usually when I wake up, I really feel the soreness on my lower back
which I didn't feel the next day and I was like amazed.
I don't know if it was just in my head
or if the actual ear seeds did work,
but I did feel like something was a little bit different.
Also, by the morning my ears felt less sore
but I did end up removing it later that day.
I just used my nails and
Alfred had to actually help me peel the ear seeds off.
As for the facial treatment, I really enjoyed it.
My skin felt so much better afterwards, a lot more hydrated
It felt more brighter and also very firm,
thanks to those massaging stick things.
I did also feel like my face was a lot less puffier.
I don't know, maybe because like couple days before
I was eating a lot of high salt content foods
so maybe that made me blow to feel a little bit more puffy
but after that treatment, the next day my face actually felt smaller.
Also I really enjoyed the LED light therapy,
that had the oxygen and rotating function.
I've never seen a machine like that before,
so that was really interesting to me.
I wish they would make like a handheld version that you can use at home
because that would be amazing.
People that go to this spa usually buy their treatments in packages,
so like packages of 10.
They usually pay for upfront and just go and use up their treatments,
so they don't really do like one off treatments very often.
But FYI, in case you are wondering how much it costs,
it would be $500 USD.
So it ain't cheap and I guess that is why they have celebrity clientele
and they don't want me promoting their business.
They already have their appointments booked jam packed.
A lot of the celebrities come for just the ear seeding,
because not many other places or spas offer this sort of special treatment.
Overall, I really enjoyed that treatment.
It was definitely very different to what I'm used to when I go get facials
plus I've never had ear seeding done before.
And so, that was really fascinating and interesting to me
If you guys ever tried ear seeding out,
please comment below and let me know your experience.
I'd love to find another place that offers this treatment
because I did find that it did relieve my back pain
and so I wanna try it again
but maybe at a cheaper price.
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