
For instance, one popular procedure is microdermabrasion, or the "lunchtime peel," where dead facial skin is removed to give clients a youthful glow.
Calder Place Family Practice (Skinologie) offers the chemical-free Diamond Peel Microdermabrasion, using diamond particles to sandblast and vaccum up the dead skin, according to nurse practitioner Francis Mijares.
The process sounds worse than it is, said Mijares.
"It basically feels like a cat is licking you," he chuckled as he applied the sandpaper vacuum hybrid.
Mijares understands why people in certain work areas would seek the procedures he offers.