Does Dermaplaining Hurt? My Experience

What are the benefits of dermaplaining?

“I’m so proud of you!” Exclaimed Antonia, the beauty therapist I see regularly at Woodlands Beauty Clinic. Coming from somebody who was particularly nervous about simply having her eyebrows waxed, my next beauty endeavour dermaplaning was quite a step up. Woodlands are now offering a dermaplaining treatment* for £55 and I was very kindly invited by the team to give it a try.

What exactly is dermaplaining?

According to Woodlands:

Dermaplaning is an exfoliating treatment that uses a scalpel to gently remove the fine vellus hair (or “peach fuzz”) from the face, along with the dead skin cells that can build up on the skin over time. The scalpel is held at an angle, and the therapist makes short strokes across the surface of the skin, essentially “scraping” away everything that’s sitting on top of it.”
 
What are the benefits of dermaplaining?
Woodlands say:  Dermaplaning will leave your skin feeling incredibly smooth and looking radiant. Once the dead skin cells and hair have been removed, many people find that their skin is a lot more absorbent when they apply their skincare products, such as serums and moisturisers, PLUS makeup will apply better than ever before!”

Antonia informed me that dermaplaining is much more suited to a wider range of people as other exfoliating treatments such as microdermabrasion is not suitable for more mature skin which tends to be thinner, as well as people like myself, with a lot of vascular redness.


Before the dermaplaining treatment…

So as you can see, my skin is quite clear at the moment however, I do have a little bit of pigmentation by the way of freckles. Antonia began by getting my hair out of my face and cleansing my skin, firstly with a gentle, gel-like formula and secondly with a more chemically scented wipe to remove any excess dirt and oil.

The dermaplaining treatment…

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