00:00Hey guys, it's Mi-Anne and this is Beauty With Me.
00:02You may have noticed that the national conversation around weed is changing
00:05and the beauty industry in particular is abuzz with excitement around a
00:09particular ingredient called cannabidiol or CBD, the non-psychoactive
00:13component of the cannabis plant derived from the stalks and stems of hemp.
00:18Thanks to its anti-inflammatory properties, brands have been infusing this
00:21stuff in everything from salves to lotions to facial serums, touting its
00:25ability to soothe aches and pains and treat skin conditions like acne, eczema
00:29and even wrinkles. I have been absolutely inundated with emails around CBD
00:35infused everything and now I have tried my fair share of CBD products, some that I
00:40love and some that I don't love as much, but when I found out that Hungarian
00:44facialist Ildi Fikar launched a CBD facial, I knew I had to give it a go.
00:49I tried it out, obviously, and spoiler alert, it was the most relaxing facial I've ever gotten.
00:55I've done a few stories on CBD in the past, but I wanted to learn from Ildi
00:58herself who's been using the ingredient for years. When I got to Ildi Spa here in New
01:03York City we immediately sat down to talk shop. So I want to ask you all about CBD
01:08because obviously I'm going to be getting your CBD facial today.
01:11So CBD is a great ingredient. CBD is not new, it's been in the market forever. They
01:16use them in the 30s for medication. CBD is made for inflammation. So
01:21pretty much everybody has inflammation and doesn't matter it shows up in your skin or
01:26shows up in your health. So taking it or putting on your skin, it has a lot of benefits.
01:31You know a lot of people think about CBD is, it's a drug. CBD doesn't necessarily have THC anymore.
01:37If you're looking for a CBD product, what's a good little threshold of like how much CBD
01:42you should be looking for in a product for it to be working?
01:45I recommend to do research on the company. There is, I think there is a lot of companies
01:49out there, they don't extract the plant right away or the right way. They come in different strength.
01:55I'm sure you saw 50 milligrams, 250, 500, 1,200. Yeah, there's a lot of information out there and it's
02:00confusing to know how much you should be using. Very confusing. So being just spent well-being,
02:05250, max 500 is fine. If you have kind of chronic illness, you could go above 500. So I'm about
02:11to get your CBD
02:12facial. You should feel really, really relaxed. You should feel really calm. You're going to be a
02:16very good people to be around today. Not that I'm ever bad to be around any other time, right?
02:23They're not saying anything. They're not saying anything, yeah. Once I was clear on what to expect,
02:28it was time to start the treatment, which Ildi describes as more of a full body experience
02:32rather than a facial thanks to CBD's ability to soothe and relax muscles. Unlike most treatments,
02:38Ildi started off by giving me a gentle massage using her CBD infused massage
02:42oil. Then she gave me an optional tincture, which Ildi created to allow her customers to
02:49ingest CBD orally. Oh, it tastes really good. Tastes good? It doesn't taste like bitter at all.
02:56And I've tried other ones before. The stevia takes the bitterness away,
02:59so it's easier to swallow it. Then we got to the facial portion, which was pretty standard. Ildi started
03:04with a gentle cleanse and then a nice chemical peel. Once my skin was all exfoliated though,
03:10that's when things got a little weird. Ildi brought out an electrostatic polarization machine,
03:17handed me this metallic rod that was meant to ground the electricity in my body,
03:23put on these white glove things, and started massaging my body using electricity. The device
03:30is designed to send vibrations through your skin and muscles to improve circulation,
03:34soothe muscles, and drain lymph. It felt really strange. It didn't hurt at all. I will say I was
03:41nervous that it was going to hurt. She handed me this like the metal rod and I was like, oh
03:45man,
03:45this is going to shock me. It didn't at all. It actually was super relaxing. A very gentle
03:51massage through my body. Just felt vibrations all over and it was a very zen experience. Once Ildi had done
03:58a
03:58full pass on my neck, arms, and face, she did a little bit of LED therapy and brought out the
04:03big gun.
04:04Ildi applied a CBD infused mask all over my face and then used an oxygenating machine,
04:08which uses negative ion therapy to do everything from relax to balance your skin's pH. Now this machine
04:16was super weird and it was probably the machine that I was most excited about. It looks like a space
04:22helmet. She took this big plastic bubble, put it over my face, and told me that it was going to
04:28be
04:28pumping oxygen in. I was going to be super relaxed. I might even have to fight the urge to sleep.
04:33Once
04:33I was in the cocoon, she put on the vibrating gloves again, massaged me more, and I fell into this
04:41like
04:41really deep, beautiful nap. Now I know that I fall asleep in pretty much every facial that I ever get,
04:51but this one was different. It was the most relaxing sleep I've ever had in a facial,
04:57even like in massages. It's really hard to describe because Ildi basically predicted everything that
05:04I would feel before I felt that she was like, you're going to feel like you're floating in the bubble.
05:09You're going to feel like your eyelids are going to be heavy. You're going to start, your speech is going
05:13to get slower. She turned on this beautiful music, the massage was so nice. And then, I mean,
05:18I started snoring, which I don't think I do. I've asked my boyfriend many times and he said
05:23I don't snore, so yeah. But anyway, I woke up after 30 minutes feeling so rested. It was just a
05:29really nice way to wake up. It was just, it was nice. I don't know. Then Ildi put on some
05:34of her
05:35skincare just to protect my skin and moisturize and told me to drink a lot of water and sent me
05:40on
05:40my way. I totally agree with Ildi when she says that this facial is more of a full body treatment
05:46than it is a true facial. Sure, my skin was definitely like less puffy, less red, more even
05:53after I emerged from the cocoon. But it really was the like deep sleep and then relaxation,
05:59the muscle work that she did that made it so unique to me. Sadly though, CBD is an expensive ingredient.
06:05Ildi's facial is not cheap at $400. While it is legal to sell CBD, apart from making sure that
06:13there are appropriate levels of THC in the CBD itself, this stuff is largely unregulated. And
06:19there's obviously a huge placebo effect that can happen when you're using products like this.
06:23That being said though, there's a reason why so many people use CBD as a treatment for everything from
06:28sleeping disorders, to period cramps, to eczema. There's still a long way to go when it comes to CBD
06:34and beauty, but it's still an exciting field nonetheless.
