Are Nguyen Spa Videos Real? Dermatologists Fact-Check the 2025 Viral Trend
By Sophia Al-Mansoor
Watch any viral clip closely, and the mechanical reality diverges sharply from sterile dermatology practices. The practitioner typically wields a combination of a hypodermic needle tip or 11-blade surgical lancet alongside a cylindrical comedone extractor or gloved fingers wrapped in sterile gauze. With rapid, rhythmic motions, the operator punctures the follicular ostium and applies inward, upward shear force.
This technique extracts the impacted sebum immediately, but the lateral mechanical pressure crushes neighboring capillaries. Red, circular contusions frequently appear within seconds around the treated follicle. In many popular uploads, practitioners allow extracted plugs to accumulate on the back of their gloves, a practice dubbed "glove-wiping" designed to prove the volume of debris to viewers.
Medical aesthetician standards in Western clinical settings explicitly forbid glove-wiping due to cross-contamination hazards. When an open lancet or extractor grazes previously harvested pus and oxidized lipids, bacteria like Cutibacterium acnes and Staphylococcus aureus can be reintroduced directly into freshly traumatized dermis. The visual spectacle comes at the expense of asepsis.
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