Trinny’s latest bizarre trick... using needles to lose weight!
SHE’S well known for demonstrating bizarre beauty treatments that raise eyebrows as well as questions.
And Trinny Woodall’s latest therapy is a course of body micro-needling which is said to ‘break down fat’.
The 53-year-old beauty adviser showed off the results of her latest aesthetic experiment, telling her 300,000 Instagram followers about the peculiar practice.
While micro-needling – a treatment designed to boost collagen levels and plump up skin – is normally used on the face, Miss Woodall has taken to prodding a derma-roller all over her body.
In her video she can be seen wielding the £95 Swiss Clinic device, and rolling it up and down her legs.
While a 0.2mm set of needles are usually used for delicate facial skin, former What Not To Wear presenter Miss Woodall tells fans she has plumped for a more medieval model – using 0.5mm points.
She says: ‘Some of you might know how much I love a bit of micro-needling and I always talk about doing it on my face. But recently I have been doing it on my body and I’m using a really great roller, Japanese steel, looks gorgeous, and it works. The needles are a little bit stronger – they’re 0.5 but you can use 0.2 on your face when you start microneedling but I use it on areas where I feel I want to firm up my skin, especially that kind- of saggy knee...’
In the accompanying blurb to her post, which had been viewed around 30,000 times by last night, she even claims that regular sessions can aid weight loss.
She also advises viewers to sterilise the needles afterwards. Micro-needling, tipped by Vogue to be the biggest beauty trend of 2017, is said to rejuvenate skin by causing a ‘micro-trauma’ to the top layers of skin.
This sparks a wound-healing process which causes blood to flow to the area – making skin look smoother and plumper.
Her previous oddball accessories have included a Hannibal Lecter-style mask said to tighten skin – and a peculiar lip gel patch. She also endured a ‘Dracula facial’ using a syringe and her own blood plasma.