- The Diamondbuff Microdermabrasion Exfoliation Tool claims to solve a long list of
skin issues. - It is meant to be more gentle than other exfoliating tools like the pore vacuum for example.
Insider producer Celia Skvaril decided to try it for herself.- She spoke to board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Divya Shokeen, who likens the tool to a Ped Egg.
Following is transcript of the
Celia Skvaril: Today I'm trying this Diamondbuff
It claims to immediately provide a velvety-smooth appearance to the skin, improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, helps even skin tone, help to firm and tighten skin, reduce and smooth
Oh. This does not feel nice at all. Ah. Ow. I literally feel like I'm rubbing a foot scrubber on my face. My PedEgg. Like, this is a PedEgg on my face. But I am seeing some dead skin on here already. Oh, my God, there's dead skin flying through the air. [gasps] Its flying through the air. My face hurts, but there's a lot of dead skin on here. So I definitely think it's getting dead skin off. If it's good for me, I'm not sure. To see if this worked and to see if it's actually a more gentle exfoliation tool, I'm going to go over the microscope footage with dermatologist Dr. Divya Shokeen.
Divya Shokeen: I think it's horrible for you for multiple reasons. One, because it's the same thing that you would use as a callus remover on the bottom of your foot, yet you're using it on actually very thin skin of your face. You can break blood vessels with it. You can cause a lot of irritation. You can cause, you know, damage to your surface of your skin, depending on how deep you're pushing it back and forth. Remember there's, like, microscopic blood. There's, like, skin and cells that are left in there. So if you're repeatedly using that in those small little crevices, you can cause infection. It's also claiming that it helps shrink your pore size. It can't. If anything, I would think it would make it worse, because you're rubbing a rough surface. You're sanding your face. The after appears to be... it's a lot more red, as you can see. I don't see any difference in the pores. I do see a few more broken blood vessels. And there's a close-up near the end where you can see that just kind of irritated one of your comedones, or one of your little pimples. Based on what it's claiming that it does, it just can't, because it can't go deep enough to change fine lines and wrinkles. You'd have to go down to the dermal layer. If you're going down to dermis, you're causing scarring. It's a pretty bad idea, frankly, unless you're using it on the bottom of your foot, which may not be a bad idea.
Celia: We're getting a little red. Are we surprised? No, because I'm scrubbing my face.