(buzzing)
- It's all good.
(whirring)
- Today, we are getting a blood facial,
also known as the vampire facial.
- I honestly should've researched it
before I got here and signed up to do it.
I saw like a clip of Kim Kardashian getting it once.
- It's one of those so crazy that it just might work things.
I don't know, I love like blood and gore
so I'm excited for it.
- I don't really do much to my skin now,
so anything would be an improvement.
- I had a lot of acne, so I have some dark spots,
so I'm hoping it helps to erase some of those.
Give me any kind of skin advice, I will try it.
I will go like put my face in someone's ass
and have them fart in it, if it helps.
- I like to think that I have a high pain tolerance,
and then like I get a period cramp,
and I'm like I have to stay home today.
- The best case scenario is that
I walk out with the best fucking skin in the entire world,
then I'm gonna be addicted.
- Let's get bloody.
- The vampire facial's actually a very popular treatment,
and the reason for its popularity
is that there's very little downtime
and also there's something in it for everybody.
Whether you're a young person,
you want to prevent the aging process,
whether you have acne scars,
whether you're beginning to have the start of aging
with fine lines and wrinkles.
We will take your blood into a small tube,
and we spin it down.
We take the top part that has all the growth factors.
So if you think about it this way.
When you get a cut, and you bleed from that site,
there's a lot of growth factors
that come to the scene that try to heal that area.
We are isolating and concentrating that segment,
that part of your blood, and using that in the skin.
We're creating these micro zones
of controlled injury in your skin.
The needle kind of goes in and out,
about 100 times a second.
So then your body responds to the trauma
by creating good, healthy collagen.
If you're not going deep enough to see blood,
you're not hitting the collagen.
Do you have any particular concerns on your skin
that you wanted to address?
- I get breakouts because I decided to go through puberty
in my twenties, instead of like middle school
like everyone else.
- Because this makes your pores a little bit smaller,
less likely to get acne.
And then if you're using any acne products on the skin,
it'll kind of absorb it better.
- Right.
- Most of the time we get enlarged kind of
here on the nose, on the cheek, and the lower forehead.
So, the micro-needling would help you with that.
We'll start by numbing you,
we're gonna give you the good stuff
so you won't feel anything.
- It feels really cooling.
My lips are so numb.
- It's so weird.
Like touching it is the weirdest thing.
I fucking hate getting blood drawn.
I would rather like have surgery than get my blood drawn.
Ah fuck.
- I saw my first Quentin Tarantino movie when I was six,
and I've been hooked on blood ever since.
- So this is the blood after it's spun.
As you see, it's separated.
The platelet rich plasma is on top.
Which we will pull off, into syringes,
to be applied to the skin.
- So this is actually really well-concentrated.
I can tell by the color.
- That's my blood?
- Yeah, so we've taken all the red blood cells
and the cellular stuff out, so this is just your plasma.
We're gonna drill this back into you.
- Sounds painful.
- A little bit of juice.
- Okay.
- Here we are, okay.
(buzzing)
- Oh, okay.
- So, I can see your skin's getting a little bit rosy.
- Ow, that's not fun.
- Where, here?
- Yeah, by that, oh god.
- This hurts a bit?
- Oh yeah, near the hair.
- Okay, let me turn it down a little bit.
- That's not bad, it's just like ow.
(groaning)
- Does it feel like poke you?
- Yeah.
- Really?
- So I'm gonna go a lot deeper
on this side of the cheek, okay.
- Okay.
- The cheeks have like thicker fat pads.
On your forehead you don't have much fat.
- Gotcha.
- So you just feel it a little bit more.
- Yeah.
- (Doctor) Is it like so bad that you wouldn't do it again?
- No.
- (Doctor) Oh okay.
It's kind of like that concept of aerating the lawn.
- Yeah.
- (Doctor) You know how you aerate the lawn,
when you put down a little fertilizer?
Would you do it again if you saw improvement in your skin?
- Oh yeah. Oh definitely, it's not ...
No, it's not painful enough to keep me from coming back.
- (Doctor) If I don't see blood,
I keep pushing kind of until I see it.
- Until you do.
- So, does like, producing more blood,
does that mean more collagen?
- More results.
- Oh okay, cool.
- (Doctor) That's how I think about it.
Are you excited to see what it looks like?
- Yeah I can't wait.
- (Doctor) You did it!
So how was it for you?
- It was honestly so easy.
I was really surprised, I thought it would hurt.
- There were some spots where it hurt a little bit,
but all in all, totally fine, totally manageable.
- Oh my God!
(laughs)
- Oh my god!
It's so scary.
- It feels like I have a little bit of a sunburn,
like you said, but I also look like I have sunburn.
- I feel like I look like Patrick Bateman
from American Psycho.
- But I also look like Megan's body.
- So when you go home tonight,
you're gonna take the reminder of the PRP,
we leave it in a syringe for you.
You're gonna just put that all over like a serum.
- Okay.
- That's it.
Sleep like a princess tonight,
and in the morning, wash your face.
Just use gentle skin cleanser, moisturizer, and sunscreen.
- I just woke up, and I look fucking insane.
- Yup, my face is still covered in blood.
- I'm very excited to finally wash this off.
Okay, I just got out of the shower.
And I'm not gonna lie,
it's way more red than I thought it was going to be.
- Definitely going to have to wear some foundation today.
Sunburnt cheek.
- This is now two days after the facial.
And it's still really red.
So it's now been a few days.
- Honestly, I really enjoyed the experience.
- It hurt a lot.
Oo, it was rough.
- I didn't think the blood facial was that painful.
- I showed one person a picture of my face
right after the facial,
and they threw up in their mouth a little bit.
- So my face is like a little bit bruised
underneath my eyes.
I didn't know about it until I looked in the mirror
and then I was like,
oh I look like I was kinda punched in the face.
- Now, I only have like a couple of red patches.
A lot of my dark acne marks went away on my chin
which is insane.
- I feel like I look better.
My face is a little bit dry and red in some areas,
but I feel like it would be weird if it wasn't,
because we cut it open and put in new blood.
- I had really bad chicken pox when I was like,
I think I was four.
I still had scars on my face,
and I've noticed that those are gone too,
which is kind of insane.
- I feel like I have new skin,
like I was blessed with new skin
that they like implanted on my face.
And I like want to take care of it now.
- I would probably try this again.
I mean, I already feel like my cheeks and my chin
are just like so much glowier.
- I would definitely do it again,
and hopefully someday I can.
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