I don’t know about you, but I’m in the mood for something macabre and ghoulish, and a new skin-tightening procedure delivers big-time. It’s called Ellacor, and it uses the brand’s proprietary Micro-Coring technology. If that brings to mind carving pumpkins, well, good: ’tis the season.
In this new, F.D.A.-approved procedure, small, hollow needles in a handheld gun puncture the face, pulling out a “fraction of a millimeter of the skin,” says Dr. Robert Anolik, a board-certified dermatologist and professor at the N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine. He pricks the face thousands of times, until it looks like a Chuck Close painting. As the skin heals, it shrinks, tightens, and produces more collagen and elastin—all of which eventually make the face look less lined, less saggy, and more plump.
