11 Hottest Celebrity Skin Treatments

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ELECTRIC FACIALS

There's a reason stars on the red carpet glow like someone has plugged them in. Indeed, someone has: Simon. The self-dubbed "electrical aesthetician" uses different types of current to boost radiance, enhance lymphatic drainage, kill acne bacteria, wipe out dark circles, and even spark cellular repair. While microcurrent has been popular with aestheticians for years, the even-lower-frequency ... more 

Photo by: CN Digital Studio

ELECTRIC FACIALS

There's a reason stars on the red carpet glow like someone has plugged them in. Indeed, someone has: Simon. The self-dubbed "electrical aesthetician" uses different types of current to boost radiance, enhance lymphatic drainage, kill acne bacteria, wipe out dark circles, and even spark cellular repair. While microcurrent has been popular with aestheticians for years, the even-lower-frequency nanocurrent, Simon's specialty, is now gaining momentum. "My goal is to replicate the signal that the brain produces in deep delta sleep-a frequency that initiates repair," she explains.

Following a nanocurrent facial, Simon says, energy slowly builds in the skin, peaking three days later. "So I'll treat stars two days before the Academy Awards, and then, if time allows, give them a little pop the day of," she says. At this point, there's little clinical data on nanocurrent's effect on healthy human skin. Dermatologist Jeannette Graf says, "Delta waves are restorative inside the brain, but there's no evidence that using nanocurrent on the skin would replicate them. That said, anytime you use electrical stimulation during a facial, you prompt an exchange of ions and rev up the metabolism, increasing the energy of the cells. And the more you do it, the longer-lasting the results." In her own experience, Simon has seen a cumulative effect with nanocurrent and says it doesn't inflame sk less