Celebrations prepare for Oscars red carpet

From facial workouts to laser peels, celebrities will be turning to a range of skincare routines to look their best for the Oscars red carpet on Sunday.

Estheticians, dermatologists and other beauty teams are busy preparing their clients ahead of Hollywood's top ceremony, the culmination of the awards season.

Among the regimens celebrities like Kerry Washington and the comedian Chelsea Handler apply is FaceGym, which describes itself as the home of facial fitness. FaceGym coach and trainer Gianna Graham told Reuters that just like going to the gym to work out your body and transform your body, you can do the same with your face and the 40-plus muscles you have in your face.

A trainer behind her massaged, rolled a ball and used an electric muscle stimulation device on a client.

It's reaching places of the face that our hands can't reach, so it's going to work out the micro muscles as well as the regular muscles of the face, Graham said.

You're going to have more hydration and smoothness under the skin. Darkness will dissipate under the eyes. The lift is what celebrities like to see. The sculpt is great for the camera. Weiser Skin offers a popular Hollywood laser peel in which liquid carbon is applied.

It's a great option for right now before a red carpet event, dermatologist Dr. Jessica Weiser, who is tight-lipped about her celebrity clients, said while demonstrating the procedure.

When we fire the laser at it, the carbon will come off and it will pull a dead skin cell layer with it. Weiser said that it accomplishes the effects of a chemical peel without any downtime, redness or peeling effect.

Los Angeles-based celebrity aesthetician Bianca Edwards, who once gave boxer Floyd Mayweather $5,000 facials, says she sees clients twice in the week before a major event.

"I would want to bring them in and do something like this first," she told Reuters while performing a Beauty Peel facial to remove dead skin.

And then maybe 48 to 72 hours prior to the actual Oscars I would bring them back in just for a quick mini facial. That's going to help lift. It's going to get them like a 72-hour facelift, she said.

Edwards uses her beauty tool, Ice Dice, to massage the skin.

These stainless steel pattern tubes filled with glycerin to hold their temperature and mimic ice on the client's skin, she said. I like to walk out looking like a glazed donut.