Hall’s routine for face-dunking, which, according to the video, includes using a glass bowl, a couple of cups of ice, and a whole bottle of Saratoga water, shows the face dunking taking him three minutes between 5:46 a.m. and 5:49 a.m. and then again between 9:06 a.m. and 9:09 a.m.
I submerged my face in the ice bowl a couple of times for a total of 30 or so painful seconds. Still, the process of mentally preparing, recovering between immersions, and drying my face off probably took closer to Hall’s three-minute slot.
The temperature shock was the hardest part, and it was challenging to keep my face in the water for more than a couple of seconds at a time.
The change in blood flow was apparent immediately. As soon as I dried my face, I noticed just how much redder my skin looked and how tingly it felt.
My skin did feel smoother to the touch right away… perhaps because the extreme cold had caused me to lose sensation in my hands.
My skin is sensitive and reacts strongly to temperature changes (my nose always gets bright red in cold weather), so this didn’t surprise me, but it did concern me how aggressively my skin reacted to such an extreme temperature.
Thankfully, the redness went away after a while, and the tingling stopped once my skin returned to a normal temperature.
