In a Carlyle Hotel suite larger than my Manhattan apartment, I’m horizontal on a treatment bed wearing nothing more than my underwear, one arm drenched in ultrasound gel from armpit to elbow. , the aesthetician beloved by clients like Salma Hayek Pinault, Cindy Crawford, and Emma Stone, is gliding the head of a frequency-emitting device back and forth across my biceps and triceps, pausing every once in a while to adjust a knob. At first we’re chatting away, but with each stroke the sensation builds.
Suddenly, my arm is shaking from a sharp tingling that has spread like persistent pins and needles. “This sandwich has a lot more spice to it,” Pol jokes. Pol’s (so named because of the “stacked” treatments) is a technique that uses monopolar, bipolar, and infrared radio frequencies to tighten the skin, cultivating something he likens to a “Skims-like” result.
There’s none of the customary cleansing, extracting, or moisturizing in this facial, and yet it has become famous for both its effect and expense. The facial starts at $1,800; an arm-focused version, which Pol has cheekily deemed the baguette and began offering to VIP clients in 2023, starts at $3,000. He attributes the increased demand for body treatments to the popularity of underwear as outerwear and the red carpet resurgence of opera gloves, with their emphasis on the upper arms.
“I started to get a lot of requests for the sandwich treatment on the arms,” says Pol. Last year, he also launched two .
