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Facial Massage, How to Massage a faceMassage improves the circulation, which makes your skin look fresher and more glowing. It can discourage tension frowns and furrows by de-stressing facial muscles, easing headaches and lifting tiredness. It's therefore a good idea to massage your face whenever you can find the time. INSTRUCTIONS FOR A COMPLETE Facial massageCleanse the skin first and be very gentle: don't drag the skin. A light oil blended to suit your skin type allows the fingers to slip over the skin and encourages more fluid massage movements than creams that tend to "sink in". Use brisk movements tor a morning wake-up massage and slow, soothing strokes for an evening calm down. 1. Rest the palms of your hands on your face with the fingers touching your forehead and the heels of your hands on your chin. Hold for a moment, press gently, then slowly draw your hands out toward your ears, as though smoothing away tension. You can use this palming technique on its own whenever you feel the need to soothe and refresh a tired mind or eyes; it is especially helpful if you regularly use a VDU. 2. Stroke firmly upward from collar bone to chin using each hand alternately Tilt your head to the left and stroke the right side of your neck, then repeat on the other side. 3. Using both hands pinch along your jaw line with your thumbs and knuckles of your index fingers to help prevent a double chin. Start at the chin and work out to your ears. Pinch close to the bone so you don't stretch the skin. 4. Slap gently under your chin with the backs of both hands while keeping your tongue curled back in your mouth. This stretches the skin under your chin. 5. Make an "0" shape with your mouth and curl your lips tightly over your teeth. With both index fingers, make small pressures over your chin and round each side of your mouth. 6. Using both hands stroke outward from the corners of your mouth across your cheeks to your ears, releasing tension in the powerful cheek muscles. 7. Close your eyes, then with one hand following the other stroke from the bridge of your nose over your forehead to the hairline, smoothing away those tension lines. 8. Massage away frown lines. Make short, firm strokes upward from the bridge of your nose, across to the start of the eyebrows, then diagonally back down to the bridge of the nose. 9. With your fingertips make circular pressure movements over your forehead. Work from the bridge of your nose to your temples, covering the entire forehead up to your hairline. 10. Stroke your forehead gently with your fingertips to soothe it. Work from the centre out to the temples. Finish by lightly pressing the temples. Clench your teeth slightly to strengthen your jaw muscle as you do this. 11. Circle your eyes with your middle fingertips. Stroke firmly from the bridge of your nose outward over your eye brows. Press on the temples, then stroke very lightly under your eyes with the gentlest of touches. 12. Pinch along both eyebrows from above the bridge of your nose to the temples. Gently press into the indentations in the browbones just under the eyebrows. Finish the massage by repeating step 1. |
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