Low Key Cult 004: The Oxygen Mask

Michael Jackson Had A Hyperbaric Chamber. I Have This. Moonwalking Into Porelessness: My 30-Day Oxygen Mask Challenge

So here’s a sentence I didn’t think I’d be writing in 2025:

Michael Jackson and I now officially have something in common.

Back in the day, rumour had it that MJ apparently slept in a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber to stop his surgically beleaguered nose from falling off. More recently, it’s been reported that LeBron James recovers using HBOT, Tony Robbins combines it with cryotherapy and stem cell treatments (as one does), and Joe Rogan, actually, nevermind.

I however, am doing something slightly more ‘Everywoman’: a 30-days-in-a-row affair with my Oxygen Instant Facial Refuelling Mask (from Beauty Pie, of course, where a lot of the Swiss face-regen stuff that would normally set you back a week’s rent can be had for relative peanuts).

Said mask is one of those ‘best kept skincare secrets’, and works like a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in a tube - no tabloid headlines, no nose drama -except my pores disappearing which I am 100% pro.

I’m now 19 days in, and the transformation is suspiciously good. More pores seem to be self-cleaning. My skin is bouncy like a Pilates ball. I wash my face in the morning (just water) take a deep breath into the magnifying mirror, and think- Wow. ⭐️

Now of course, I’ve also got my regulars in rotation: nightly retinoids, vitamin C and niacinamide, Collagen Peptide Creams. But I swear this mask - the oxygen-infusing, vitamin A and salicylic acid marvel, is making everything else work better. I now look like a slightly smug 8 year old, if that 8-year-old had a disciplined skincare routine and a borderline obsessive interest in LED face masks.

You might be thinking: “But How Does It Work?” So here’s the quick and nerdy version:

🧪 There’s a naturally occurring enzyme on your skin that breaks H202 (in the mask) water and oxygen.

🧑‍🚀 The bubbling you feel? It’s the oxygen forming and getting trapped under a cushiony oil layer, creating a pressure effect- pushing the 02 deep into your skin.

⚛️ Once inside, that oxygen relaxes blood vessels, boost circulation and triggers your body’s repair response.

In short, it makes your capillary walls more permeable. And capillaries are the velvet rope holders of your skin’s circulatory system- and like all good bouncers, they get fussier with age. When you’re young, your capillaries open-concept, all flow and flexibility. By 40, they’re a stingy Airbnb host with too many house rules and not enough towels.

Of course there are other ways to oxygenate your skin.

🧘‍♀️ Yoga Headstands (guilty).
🛁 Wim Hof-style ice-baths (also guilty).
💨 Intermittent Hypoxic training (i.e. holding your breath and hoping for glow. Hard pass.)
🧬 Blood facials. (you see where I’m going with this, right?)
🐙 Cupping. (do avoid the face, unless you want to explain those bruises to someone special)

But honestly? I’ll take the Oxygen Mask. No psych-up required. No claustrophobia. No rethinking my entire circulatory system. It just works. And isn’t that just what we all -not so secretly- want?

Coming Soon: Day 31. Will I be addicted? Will my pores stage a comeback (unlikely). Will I start floating around like an overfilled balloon? (No.That’s helium.) Stay tuned.

Want to try it for yourself?
The Oxygen Mask lives here. It’s an even better deal for Beauty Pie members, but honestly? Worth every cent, either way.