Went for my facial at New York Skin Solutions last week and has an extra step added to my regular facial procedure. Results - finer pores for my left cheek! Excellent! 
My beautician told me that since my skin condition is rather stable now, with less blemishes and whiteheads, she would do a skin cell renewal procedure at the end of my facial. I didn’t know what she meant, but as long as I didn’t have to pay, hey, just do whatever you want. Haha!
So, instead of applying moisturizer as the last step of the facial, she applied some liquid form thing on both my cheeks that caused a very slight sting to certain areas of my face. Then, she preempted, “I’m going to wipe your face, you will feel like ‘Teppanyaki’.” Huh? TEPPANYAKI? On my face? Anyways…
She wiped over my face with a damped cotton pad. I don’t know what has been put on the cotton pad, as soon as she pressed it on my face, I felt heat generating on the touching surface, and then came this tiny cracking sound as if someone was frying egg on my face. Oh, that was what she mean by ‘Teppanyaki on my face’.
I admit I was rather nervous with the new experience, but luckily the heat and the ‘cooking’ didn’t last for long as she wiped the cotton pad over my face. I anticipated some blotches of redness on my face, but when my beautician handed me a mirror for my to look at myself, my face was perfectly fine and I could see that the pores were finer and complexion was brighter. Lucky me! 
After this step, my beautician applied some kind of treatment powder on my face instead of moisturizer. She said it is for post-treatment protection and to dry up the skin. I don’t know why my skin needs to be dried up, but it seemed to work well without causing my skin to become dry and tight for the rest of the day.
My beautician later told me that the procedure was actually, if I heard it correctly, is the plantcenta treatment, which she recommended me to sign up months ago. I didn’t sign up for that due to its exorbitant price - about RM900 per treatment!! Of course, the one she did for me was a ‘mild’ version, focusing on just my cheek areas. For people who have had previous severe acne problems that have left obvious scars and uneven skin texture (i.e. bumps and holes), they will need to go through the ‘full version’ of the treatment in order to repair their skin.
What this treatment does is that it boosts the growth of new and young skin cells from the deeper layers of the skin, which follows a healthier skin renewal cycle. As new skin cells move up to the outer skin layer, pores will become less prominent, fine lines will reduce and scar or marks lighter, and skin less saggy. So this is like the Ultimate Solution to a renewed, younger looking skin!
One can’t do this treatment regularly, as the skin now has to go through its skin renewal cycle that takes about 3 weeks. My beautician will check on my skin in my next appointment to see if I can continue with another treatment by then.
I don’t know why I’m getting this additional treatment because it is not part of the package I signed for. If I did not misinterpret what she said, it’s something they offer to long-term customers. I hope that’s the case, and not a ‘prelude’ to persuade me to sign up another package! But I would say that this additional treatment did improve the large skin pore problem that I’ve been suffering. Hopefully I can see more improvement after the second session of this treatment.
