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Opposite to its title, The Magnificence Sandwich isn’t food-related—it is a skincare therapy coined by superstar facialist Iván Pol. His signature “sandwich” methodology combines high-frequency know-how together with his personal line of skincare merchandise (he calls them his secret sauces) to tighten, elevate, and brighten the pores and skin. As some of the influential and revolutionary voices within the magnificence trade, it solely is sensible that his A-list purchasers embrace the likes of Emma Stone, Salma Hayek, and Sabrina Carpenter.
For the most recent episode of The Who What Put on Podcast, Affiliate Magnificence Editor Kaitlyn McLintock sits down with Pol to speak extra in-depth about what a “sandwich” entails, how he made the pivot from make-up to skincare, what you’ll be able to anticipate from a radiofrequency therapy, and the way he will get his superstar purchasers digital camera prepared.
For excerpts from the dialog, scroll under.
You are an extremely sought-after facialist. You may have an extremely lengthy waitlist. I do know you really acquired your begin in make-up, which I discovered so attention-grabbing. Are you able to inform me a bit bit about what drew you to the sweetness house generally, and why you finally determined to deal with skincare after being in make-up?
I used to be a beauty-obsessed little one. I went to high school for theater, however I fell in love with make-up. My dream was to maneuver to Manhattan and work in excessive style. I moved to New York Metropolis at first. I began out on the sweetness counters, and I labored for Trish McEvoy and Laura Mercier.
After which I meet Bobbi Brown. Bobbi taught me how I can improve somebody’s magnificence with out utterly reworking them.
I used to be that make-up artist that was all about glowing pores and skin. I moved again to my hometown of South Florida, and I type of fell out of affection with make-up artistry, so I made a decision to pivot.
At the moment, I meet Jennifer Lopez. I get booked to do her make-up, and she or he walks in with this unbelievable, beautiful pores and skin. I stated, Oh, my God, you could have essentially the most lovely pores and skin. How do you obtain this? And she or he tells me, I get a facial earlier than I get my make-up carried out.
I noticed my complete life flash earlier than my eyes. And I stated, “That is what I’ll do. I’ll create the last word pink carpet facial.” I imply, it was so clear, I made a decision to return to high school. I get my esthetician license. And that is the place the thought of The Magnificence Sandwich occurred.
So are you able to inform me a bit about what this course of entails, and if somebody is coming to you, what ought to they anticipate?
I am designing somebody’s face. Once I take a look at somebody’s face, the primary query I ask them is what bothers them. Each therapy begins with that intention. I am simply taking the sweetness that I see, and I’m elevating. It is about elevation, not augmentation, proper?
There’s one thing very highly effective about receiving a therapy like mine, and while you’re carried out trying within the mirror it is nonetheless you. So that is what The Magnificence Sandwich is. It is enhancing that V-shape that resides inside each certainly one of us, and pumping that up and actually customized designing a face.
When the sunshine hits you, you look extra lovely and you are going to really feel higher. That is a very powerful factor. Magnificence is a really highly effective instrument that we are able to use to uplift oneself.
For anybody who is perhaps unfamiliar with radio frequency: What’s radio frequency? What are the advantages and why is it so efficient?
Radio frequency is utilizing warmth dispersed into the pores and skin. Mine is within the dermis, the residing a part of the pores and skin. That is the place the collagen, the elastin, the connective tissue, the whole lot that creates construction for the pores and skin. Radio frequency stimulates collagen and elastin. Elastin is what provides our pores and skin that bounce plumpness, after which collagen creates that tightness and firmness.
As we age, our collagen ranges begin to lower so in case you begin early sufficient, you’ll be able to keep this bouncy, glowy, scrumptious pores and skin. I all the time suggest that individuals do issues in a mild means. That is in regards to the lengthy haul. Each dermatologist I’ve ever spoken to will say that it is higher to make use of lower than extra.
If you happen to’re utilizing too harsh of a product, it might probably really do the alternative of what you got down to do. It might probably trigger irritation, irritation, redness—all of that.
I like that you just labored with Sabrina Carpenter forward of the VMAs. What was your course of main as much as that, and the way did you put together her pores and skin?
It was all about my sauces. [Sabrina’s] been a consumer of mine now for near 4 years. We met pre-pandemic, and it has been so unbelievable to observe her profession blossom. With Sabrina, it is all about that very plump pores and skin—very recent, very dewy.
Nevertheless it’s actually in regards to the manipulation of those sauces to create an impact on the pores and skin that lasts. Regardless of [if you’re] on the pink carpet, on the stage, it may decide up mild. Everybody talks about this glass pores and skin, however in case you get a glass pores and skin facial proper earlier than getting your make-up carried out, you are a bit virtually too shiny. Shine picks up your flaws, and also you wish to do the alternative.
When considering of a sauce, you wish to have pores and skin like tremendous china. You wish to be like a phenomenal porcelain plate. It picks up the sunshine, but it surely appears to be like good. That is what I wish to create with pores and skin. My SS02 has this lively hazelnut oil, and hazelnut oil creates virtually an invisible shapewear in your face. If you happen to discover her, she is tight. It virtually appears to be like like she has an invisible pantyhose on her face.
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What is the distinction between the sauces?
The unique product is SS01 Secret Sauce. I wished to create a skincare line that might give your pores and skin the nutritional vitamins, minerals, and important fatty acids that can enable you to with anti-inflammation. If you happen to’re flying, in case you’re wired, if there are flare-ups, it may say to you, You are okay. That is what the unique sauce was about: I wished to create a filter to your face.
My newest sauce (SS02 Snatching Sauce) is extra astringent. You are going to really feel that tensing impact on the pores and skin that additionally doubles as, like, a magnificence armor as a result of it has so many antioxidants. You wish to use it within the areas the place you wish to contour, the place you wish to tighten, the place you wish to create that shapewear impact.
THE BEAUTY SANDWICH®
SS01 Secret Sauce
THE BEAUTY SANDWICH®
SS02 Snatching Sauce
THE BEAUTY SANDWICH®
Amuse Bouche
The Magnificence Sandwich®
Sauce Bundle
This interview has been edited and condensed for readability.
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