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Every year in the days before the Logies, Zoe Foster Blake undergoes dermaplaning.

We are just two days out from the Australian Golden Globes (also referred to as the ‘Logies’) and Zoe Foster Blake is in prep mode.

The Go-To founder has shared her “VERY EFFECTIVE” skin-care treatment that she has before big events and yes, we are listening.

“If you have a big event or your wedding is coming up, and are interested in what you can do to make your face ZING WITH HEALTH, I rate the following type of treatment for exceptional skin tone and bounce,” the author wrote on her Instagram, alongside a photo of her very glowy face.

So what is the beauty treatment? Well it’s one you may have heard some buzz around recently, but have been too scared to try – dermaplaning.

Foster-Blake explains dermaplaning is “microblading which exfoliates and remove the hair from face for astonishing makeup application”.

Yep, we’re talking face shaving – although not in the way you might be imagining.

Rather than taking your blunt underarm razor to your face, dermaplaning is professional face-shaving using a single blade.

Her facial treatment then included “active oxygen… followed by Laser Genesis”. Oh, and then also a “peptide mask to soothe and hydrate”.

This isn’t the first time Foster-Blake, mother to Sonny, four, and Rudy, one, has shared her dermaplaning face treatment.

In 2017, also in the lead up to the Logies, the former-beauty editor similarly documented her post-treatment glow and claimed her make-up looked “like it’s in HD”.

Which is literally the dream.

“It’s exfoliating, brightening, skin-tone-evening, non-inflammatory (so: great for pigmentation sufferers) helps skin care penetrate better, and makes your skin freakishly smooth (because, um, it’s hairless), meaning your makeup will sit PERFECTLY,” Foster-Blake wrote under the photo.

She also made sure to ask the most concerning questions like will it hurt and will it make your facial hair grow back thicker and coarser?

The good news is: No, on both accounts.

“A few days on and I’m a luminous, bright, fuzz-free, smooth-skinned slice of facey cherry pie, and I’m juuust modest enough to admit it,” the beauty editor assured her followers in 2017.

While the treatment isn’t exactly new – Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor were reportedly fans – it’s enjoyed a major resurgance of late.

“In my 31 years as an aesthetician dermaplaning has always been the least sought after hair removal request and certainly in the last 10 years where hair removal technology has advanced it’s a method that, up until now, had been spoken of less and less,” Marie Enna-Cocciolone, aesthetician and CEO and Founder of O Cosmedics, told Mamamia previously.

“It’s a professional treatment that requires an expert, technique and a purpose-built hand piece/blade tool designed specifically for the removal of short, fine, thin, light-coloured and barely noticeable hair otherwise known as ‘Vellus Hair’. Trying this treatment at home with a normal razor will not achieve the same results.”

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B 7 years ago

I've been doing this myself for a year, at home, no fancy aesthetician needed. Skin is fine and the hair is not more coarse or numerous.


piggyinthemiddle 7 years ago

You are shaving your face PLAIN and simple! The hair will grow back feeling more coarse because the hair has been cut blunt across the tip, no more tapered end that smooths out at the tip! After a few times of shaving your face you WILL notice the difference in regrowth. Not a good routine for any female to start.