I slept through myhead spavisit.
Which, when you think about it, sounds pretty nice.
People come to Borges, a hairstylist and trichologist, for many reasons.
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After training in Japan, where head spas a.k.a.
But another major force has drawn western audiences to this practice: TikTok.
On TikTok these videos might only last a minute, but my visit was a full hour.
Borges with a client.
“On social media and YouTube it has an ASMR quality that is an instant draw.
Borges with a client.
It can take up to 30 minutes and is like a treatment in itself.”
Borges with her microscope, looking at a client’s scalp.
Others weren’t so dismissive.
It is similar to a facial, but for the scalp and hair.
It should not be mistaken for a medical treatment for diseases of the scalp and hair."
But overall, the doctors gave me the go-ahead for the treatment.
And that’s how I ended up sitting in Borges’s backroom oasis.
Borges with her microscope, looking at a client’s scalp.
Now it was on to the actual process.
Not that I was worried; the service was an indelible mix of both gentle and decadent.
Somewhere along the way, I fell asleep.
Borges continued the treatment, but I was a goner.
I got lost in repeated images, and succumbed to total tranquility.
(Apologies to my editor, who’d been Slacking my powered-down phone the entire time.)
I woke up with a full layer of drool around my lips.
But once the treatment was over, my scalp told a different story.
My head felt clean maybe the cleanest I’ve ever noticed it.
We finished it up with a simpleblowout, and I was out the door.
But if I had Upper West Side money, I’d go every month.
Still I feltmuchlighter both on my scalpandin my mind.
