Kim Kardashian's $1,500 'vampire facial' is a Hollywood hit that promises younger, firmer-looking skinHer spa procedure is splattered all over her reality TV show, but was it played up for the cameras?BY NICOLE LYN PESCE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 6:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 6:00 AM
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kimkardashian via InstagramKim Kardashian has a Vampire Facelift on camera for 'KIm and Kourtney Take Miami.'
Keeping up with the Kardashians is getting bloody ridiculous.
Attention-starved Kim K tweeted a shot of her blood-spattered face after a vampire facial, the gruesome $1,500 treatment that promises younger, firmer-looking skin.
The Vampire Facelift - trademarked by Alabama doctor Charles Runels draws blood from the patient’s arm with a needle and separates the platelets into a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) using a centrifuge.
The plasma is then combined with Restylane or Juvederm, and then injected into the face to stimulate collagen production to create new skin and to remove fine lines and acne scars. The 45-minute Facelift is expected to be such a hit in Hollywood that a gift certificate for the painful procedure was included in this year’s Academy Awards swag bag.
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VIA E!Beauty takes pain for Kim Kardashian.
The extreme reaction is because her treatment includes the invasive Dermapen, a device that uses nine tiny motorized needles to cause puncture wounds in the skin before applying the platelet-rich plasma mixure.
Plenty of New York women are willing to face the pain, however, for a chance to look younger. Cosmetic surgeon Amiya Prasad performs four Vampire Facelifts a week at his upper East Side practice.
“This is a more aggressive treatment than a regular facial,” says Prasad, who charges around $1,200 for a 45-minute blood facial, “but it’s justified because skin quality improves quite nicely.” He says typically clients notice results in a couple of days that last four to six months.
But you’ll want to wait a day or two before dinner parties or meeting small children since the Dermapen causes bleeding and swelling just like Kardashian’s beauty bloodbath.
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VIA E!Kim Kardashian didn't take the facial quietly!
“But as bad as your face may look on the day of the procedure, it’s remarkable how good people can look a couple of days later,” he says.
Some medi-spas claim that the reality star’s blood-soaked procedure was played up for the cameras.
“It’s completely absurd,” says Dr. Jack Berdy, the director of SmoothMED, a walk-in Botox boutique in midtown that also offers the Vampire Facelift. He uses less-invasive injections than the Dermapen seen in the video. “You inject it like you would any other filler,” he says. “You can do it on your lunch break.”
Plus, Berdy points out that the plasma mixture on Kardashian’s face should be yellow not red. “Her procedure is not set in any sense of reality,” he scoffs.
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VIA E!Kim Kardashian didn't take the facial quietly!
“But as bad as your face may look on the day of the procedure, it’s remarkable how good people can look a couple of days later,” he says.
Some medi-spas claim that the reality star’s blood-soaked procedure was played up for the cameras.
“It’s completely absurd,” says Dr. Jack Berdy, the director of SmoothMED, a walk-in Botox boutique in midtown that also offers the Vampire Facelift. He uses less-invasive injections than the Dermapen seen in the video. “You inject it like you would any other filler,” he says. “You can do it on your lunch break.”
Plus, Berdy points out that the plasma mixture on Kardashian’s face should be yellow not red. “Her procedure is not set in any sense of reality,” he scoffs.
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