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What the Heck is a High-Frequency Machine and How Can it Help My Skin?

The skin care gadget helps your beauty routine go the extra mile

by Kristen Bousquet | COMMENT

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In a perfect world, we'd simply use the three-step cleanse, tone, moisturizer routine that our aesthetician recommended to us — and in return, we'd be blessed with beautiful, glowing skin, sans breakouts. Unfortunately, that's almost never the case — because our bodies just love to surprise us with angry pimples at the most inconvenient of times. Sometimes a solid routine of high-quality beauty products is simply not enough... there are times when you have to bring in the big guns to get the job done.

In this generation — where technology is king — it makes sense that many brands are releasing futuristic beauty tools that will help to keep your skin healthy, hydrated and free of breakouts. One of our favorites? The high-frequency machine. What sounds like a scary device that could have been used to create Frankenstein's monster is actually pretty cool: It's a multi-use beauty tool designed to even skin texture and clear up pesky breakouts (yes, even the ones that feel like they'll never go away).

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