"The beauty industry is rife with over the top claims about "miracle" skincare products and services, but one too-good-to-be-true innovation I can confidently get behind is the microcurrent facial. It involves using a low-grade electrical current to 'train' your facial muscles to appear more lifted, tightened, and firm. In fact, its nickname is the 'non-invasive facelift.'

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You know it actually works because it has been used medically since the 1980s, approved by the FDA as a muscle stimulator to treat Bell's palsy and muscle paralysis. After noticing improved results in patients with atrophied, sagging facial muscles, microcurrent was then adopted as an anti-aging tool. 

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Microcurrent facials are like a gym workout for your face.

 

'The muscles on the face start going south, just like everything else. We have to keep it fit. So, we use current to stimulate the muscle, starting low then increasing gradually until you have the firmness you would like,' Rodriguez explains. While Rodriguez says having a microcurrent facial once a month is sufficient, she adds that clients of hers at Carillon—the wellness resort is also residential—come weekly.

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She adds that a microcurrent facial also doubles as an lymphatic drainage massage. 'That's why you were less puffy afterward,' she tells me. 'We're hitting a lot of the pressure points on the face..."   (READ MORE)