'It hurts like childbirth!' Woman who filmed herself groaning in agony as peeled off a face mask earns viral fame after her video is viewed more than FOUR MILLION times
- Erica St Louis, of Washington, DC, shared her struggle online last week
- Filmed herself while trying to remove a cleansing mask from her face
- But peeling it off proved much harder and more painful than she expected
- She filmed herself during her ordeal and shared the video to warn others
A woman who struggled to remove a surprisingly clingy face mask has become an online sensation thanks to a video of her ordeal, which has been watched more than four million times.
Erica St Louis, of Washington, DC, thought she was in for a relaxing time when she decided to try out the mask. She had watched several videos of other women using similar products, apparently without any problem.
But when St Louis tried to peel the mask off her face, the experience took a painful turn. It hurt so much, she said, that she chose to record herself while attempting to remove it as a warning for others.
Spa struggle: Erica St Louis, of Washington, DC, thought she was in for a relaxing time when she decided to try out a face mask - but the experience turned out more painful than expected
'You're supposed to exfoliate, then put this on your face, and then wait 30 minutes and rip it off,' St Louis says at the beginning of the hilarious clip.
'And there are all these videos online of these women doing it. And they just put it on and then there's a little time lapse of them and they just peel it off. And that's total c**p because this hurts so bad.'
The video, which she shared on Facebook, shows St Louis struggling to remove the mask for almost 10 minutes.
'It's literally ripping every tiny hair of my face,' she says as she pulls on one end of the mask.
'I didn't plan to do this but people need to know what this is like.'
Not letting go: The singer shared a video of herself attempting to peel the mask off her face, only to find out it seemed solidly attached to her skin
Uncomfortable: St Louis wondered how so many other women seemed to be able to use the same type of product without any problem when her experience was so painful
Fair warning: She decided to record herself while peeling off the mask so that others would know before trying out similar products on themselves
St Louis, a singer, at one point compares herself to a dinosaur because she has two flaps of the mask hanging on each side of her face.
'I don't get how these women look good doing this,' she says while pulling on the product.
St Louis eventually manages to peel off the mask and takes a closer look at it.
'I see the roots to every tiny hair on my face,' St Louis says. 'Every single one. Holy cannoli, did that hurt.'
Her video has been now been watched more than four million times on Facebook.
'WHY did nobody tell us it hurts like childbirth?!?!' she wrote in the video description. 'Hopefully my misery is at least good for a laugh!'
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