Microdermabrasion, and handstand things

[flexagon]

Today I tried microdermabrasion for the first time! It felt scratchy, like a rapidly vibrating pencil eraser (the gritty kind) being dragged across my face with some force in little strokes. Then the loose crystals and dead skin were vacuumed off me with a little vacuum; the esthetician told me this was strong enough to suck blackheads out of people's noses, though my nose was pretty clear already.

This is definitely good -- and affordable, given that it's a procedure they're only recommending I do twice a year. My skin isn't red at all, and I look like I've been polished. It remains only to be seen whether the next two weeks bring either the extra sun sensitivity or the collagen regrowth that I've been promised. I keep daydreaming about how intensely satisfying that scratchy feeling would be on my back... it's so thorough, I'm sure it would leave no itch behind. Mmm. :)

I went from there to a semiprivate handstand lesson, with a teacher I don't usually see and a fellow student who went off to NECCA a while back and was visiting. This teacher does a lot of having students tuck up from kneeling, which is a drill I have NEVER EVER once succeeded at... until today. Yes. Today I did it twice -- all on my own with no spot, even! Cartwheeled out both times, but that's not a concern.

Comments

[melebeth]

Oh, dermabrasion back scratching sounds magical

[coraline]

If you want that, i highly recommend going to Spa Castle in NYC and getting a Korean body scrub. It's amaaaaaaaaaazing and you're so soft afterwards! Tragically there doesn't seem to be anyone I the Boston area doing it.

[silentq.livejournal.com]

I've been considering microdermabrasion (I want to do something for surface damage due to sweating off sunscreen), glad to hear a positive review of the experience!