WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The Vampire Facial is meant to rejuvenate skin but a New Mexico spa closed last year after two patients were diagnosed with HIV after the procedure.

• The facial is available at Restoration MedSpa in Winston-Salem, and the owner says they take every safety precaution
• The facial involves drawing the patients blood, and separating the plasma from the red blood cells. Then the plasma is applied to the face with a micro-needling pen
• Unlike Restoration MedSpa, the closed New Mexico spa was not certified by the company that trademarked the Vampire Facial

The facial is available at Restoration MedSpa in Winston-Salem, and the owner says they take every safety precaution. Only physician assistants are allowed to perform the procedure.

"When we draw your blood, we draw your blood. We spin it, and we apply it in the same room. There is no chance that we're mixing up blood, that we're using somebody that's not credentialed to do it," Marisa Faircloth said.

The facial involves drawing the patients blood, and separating the plasma from the red blood cells. Then the plasma is applied to the face with a micro-needling pen.

Faircloth says it comes from an orthopedic practice.

"They realized that wounds that are far away from the heart don't heal well. They don't have as much blood flow. So they started putting blood, the patients own blood, into the wound and had better healing properties."

Unlike Restoration MedSpa, the closed New Mexico spa was not certified by the company that trademarked the Vampire Facial.