Why Rita, Kirsten and co really ARE living in a bubble
SHE is famous for her bold choices fashion and make-up. And now singer Rita Ora has become a trailblazer in the field of beauty treatments by embracing the latest fad to sweep Hollywood – the oxygen bubble.
The 24-year-old singer and X Factor judge has joined stars like opera singer Katherine Jenkins, actress Kirsten Dunst and Lionel Richie’s TV presenter daughter Nicole, who step into the bizarre-looking bubble filled with 99.995 per cent oxygen to undergo wrinkle-busting treatments.
Pioneered by Hollywood beauty guru ‘Nurse Jamie’ Sherrill, the oxygen bubble is said to aid in the formation of collagen and elastin in the skin and helps eliminate toxins from the body.
Speaking to The Mail on Sunday last night, Sherrill said: ‘Being in the oxygen bubble is the perfect antiageing treatment. Oxygen is pumped in from a tank and it’s a very soothing, womblike experience.
‘With other beauty treatments you just target one part of the body, but in the bubble the benefits are all over. Clients tend to go in there in just a towel so the oxygen can seep into every pore.’
The beauty expert performs special treatments – starting at £110 – inside the 10ft by 10ft plastic bubble including ‘skin stamping’, where a special tool is used to push a nutrient-packed serum deep into the pores to improve skin texture and smooth out imperfections.
Ora’s favourite treatment at Sherrill’s Santa Monica salon is the ‘bubble facial’. Sherrill says: ‘Clients notice a dramatic improvement in wrinkles and fine lines after just one treatment. It bathes the cells in the body with oxygen which reduces inflammation and promotes healing. Once you are in the bubble you get a little light-headed. It’s very Zen and calming.’
This is not the first time pure oxygen has been touted as a health and fitness ‘miracle’.
Michael Jackson famously slept in an oxygen chamber because he believed it helped his body recover from the ordeal of performing live on stage night after night.
David Beckham used an oxygen tent after fracturing his left foot in the run-up to the 2002 World Cup and Mo Farah slept in an oxygen chamber before his gold-winning performance at the London Olympics.
Madonna swears by oxygen facials at £200 a go in which oxygen is ‘injected’ into the skin via microscopic needles.