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I Wore the Skims Face Wrap for a Weekend—Here's What Happened

I love to feel contained. Lace-up corsets, lymphatic drainage onesies…I take comfort in being swaddled. So when Skims released the Seamless Sculpt Face Wrap—a compression garment that wraps the cheeks, chin, and throat in a contouring embrace—I knew it was something I needed. Immediately. Styled after the wrap you wear post-face lift, the website calls it their 'first-ever face innovation' that is made from the brand's 'signature sculpting fabric and features collagen yarns for ultra-soft jaw support.' The internet was quick to attack—but also snap up—the Sculpt Face Wrap. Even Anthony Hopkins got in on the fun online, playing up the Wrap's resemblance to the muzzle he wore as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. It all happened so quickly, in fact, that I couldn't buy one myself—resorting instead to sending desperate emails to the PR team and texts to the brand's founders (yes, that's Kim Kardashian and Emma Grede). Eventually, straight from Kim's personal stash to my house in Austin one came, via UPS overnight. Once it was unboxed—the Wrap came in Skims's classically minimal packaging, of course—I faced my first trial: How to put it on? Besides identifying the two slits as earholes, I was at a bit of a loss. Poised over my dining room table, my fiancé and I began to piece the thing together like we were in Good Will Hunting. Yes, the wrap should secure at the base of the throat…but if it does, there isn't enough material to get around my head. Figuring out what to do with my cheeks—do I secure them under the fabric, for more of a lymphatic squish, or over them, which is far more comfortable?—was a situation all on its own. Twenty minutes later, I was finally strapped in. Could Makeup by Mario-level contoured cheekbones be next? Lymphatic specialist Flavia Lanini, who counts Kardashian as one of her many starry clients, explains that the Wrap's design is based on the facial compression garments used in medical settings. 'Those are designed to apply gentle, even pressure across the face to help reduce post-surgical swelling and support healing after procedures like facelifts, buccal fat removal, or chin liposuction,' Lanini says. 'Wearing this type of mask can support the lymphatic system, especially if used with intention.'