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Aside from the occasional subconscious scritch-scratch or vigorous shampooing, it’s kind of just … there.
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"Just like how all salons offer cute, blowout, color, or keratin, pretty much all Japanese salons have a head spa on their menu, too," Borges added. So even if your favorite TikTok head spa practitioner is miles away, you may be able to find a treatment at a nearby J-beauty spa. I got in the chair (one of the coziest salon recliners ever… no dreaded neck pain detected), and was covered with a blanket and eye mask. Though I couldn't see what was going on, Borges softly cooed every step to me, so I wouldn't be surprised by anything.
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Turns out I have an oily scalp with bits of dandruff, CXG owner Ning Chen told me. “And see these red parts? Pamper yourself with the ultimate luxury of our 90-minute spa experience, a blissful escape for rejuvenation and relaxation. Nothing creates a more profound, impression than an experience with an essential cloud diffuser. Specialized Scalp Analysis using our magnifier allows us to see the health condition of the scalp. Scalp treatments have been an integral part of wellness culture for centuries in many parts of Asia, including in China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea.
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We finished it up with a simple blowout, and I was out the door. "Many Asian healing traditions are often enticing and alluring to a western audience that has not seen or experienced it before," she explains. Though New York City-based board-certified dermatologist Dhaval G. Bhanusali, MD, had not heard the term "head spa" before I reached out, after some TikTok research he answered a few of my questions. "There is a cultural element to a lot of these practices and while we doctors and scientists evaluate based on the science available to us, there are generations of experience in other countries around many of these, or similar practices," he says. TikTok may have fallen in love with the head spa, but some in the medical establishment are not so sure.
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This was especially evident at Tou Dao Tang when I visited. After my scalp’s close-up, Chen led me into a dimly lighted room with multiple spa beds and traditional Chinese harp music. Birds chirped on the soundtrack as I changed into a robe and reclined on the bed. On one end was a shampoo basin, at the other a foot bath, filled with warm water steeped with Chinese herbs. It was early February, and I generally appreciate rituals around renewal this time of year, clichéd as it may seem. Deborah Vankin undergoes a scalp exam to determine the direction of her treatment at Cai Xiang Ge head spa.
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Head spas claim that scalp treatments promote circulation and detoxify, calm and hydrate skin, all of which help prevent dandruff, itchiness, dryness, inflammation and hair loss. I wasn’t sure whether that was true or not, but it sure beats injecting my own plasma into my scalp at $1,500 per session, another recently en vogue beauty treatment aimed at promoting hair growth. For 90 minutes, CXG’s Alyssa Nevins repeatedly scrubbed my scalp and washed my hair as part of a six-step process. The aromatherapy head massage was a dry one, in which Nevins rubbed tingly-feeling tea tree oil into my scalp and then applied an electronic, cephalopod-like device, its multiple arms whirling away tension. That was followed by four shampooings, each with a head and neck massage. People come to Borges, a hairstylist and trichologist, for many reasons.
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Videos of Chinese scalp treatments on social media are popular among seekers of ASMR — autonomous sensory meridian response — in which certain sounds promote tingling, goosebumps and other relaxing sensations. But there’s also a strange delight in examining your dirty scalp up close. As humans, we are nothing if not fascinated by our own bodies, whether that’s picking a scab, prodding a canker sore or popping a pimple. (You know you’ve done it.) The shock factor of scalp treatments is integral to its appeal, according to Sara Hallajian, a Santa Monica-based trichologist and hair loss and scalp specialist at Âme Salon.
Like many head spas, CXG serves one-timers as well as members who visit weekly or biweekly to relax and maintain scalp health. Chen’s clientele was initially 70% Asian and 30% non-Asian; by summer 2023, it was the opposite, which she said is due to social media promotion. At $220, the service is a little cost-prohibitive to regularly maintain on my editor's salary (yes, I paid for it in full — no writer freebies here). But if I had Upper West Side money, I'd go every month. Borges tells me that a head spa "can be found in almost any Japanese salon," so I might shop around and try other treatments.
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These treatments have become so essential for some patrons of Tou Dao Tang that members often keep their own combs and brushes at the spa, labeled with their names, for practitioners to use when they visit. After my service, I went back to the real world, the one filled with hot concrete and steaming subways and impending deadlines. Still I felt much lighter — both on my scalp and in my mind. Just before the end, my hair marinated in a mask Borges made especially for my scalp from a mixture of mahogany wood and organic sage, which she often uses on guests with oily scalp, as the ingredients help to rebalance sebum. Then, Borges took a close-up camera to my scalp, showing me the goopy, excess sebum building up there. After taking a peek, Borges said it wasn't a lot of sebum, relatively, and asked if I'd washed my chemically-treated (green) hair recently — I had the day before.
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My scalp analysis, conducted by Tou Dao Tang’s Sherry Zhu, again reported oily skin, dandruff and sleep deprivation as well as a possible nutrition deficiency, Zhu said. In China, head spas are so common that “there’s one on every street,” Chen said. Around 2020 and have proliferated in the last year and a half. Area, with “about four new ones opening nearby in the past two months alone.” Most of them are in San Gabriel, Temple City, Arcadia and Rosemead — hubs for Asian communities. In addition to CXG, other popular local head spas include Yang Si Guan in San Gabriel, Tou Dao Tang in Temple City and M Head Spa in Rosemead, all of which have opened within the last year and a half. Join us at our cozy asian influenced spa located in Los Angeles.
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