Facial Massage – a necessary part of cosmetic skin care. It improves blood circulation and metabolism normalization facilitates the allocation of metabolic products, that is, it helps your skin to breathe, and thus prevents blood stasis, strengthens the tissue and muscles, longer keeps the skin smooth, young and supple.
You can massage yourself, but more efficient and safer to use the services of a professional. He will do and better, and clever, as when a facial massage important role played by many factors: the correct movement, type and condition of your skin, the tool that is used for massage and the duration of the session.
Depending on the type of massage and skin type, the wizard selects the desired cosmetic. If skin is oily, use powder with antiseptic Dries up oily massage action or emulsion, gel (with water). For dry skin use oil with herbs with antibacterial activity, emulsion, slippery cream. Normal skin you can use any drugs.
There are three main types of facial massage:
Classic, with a variety of strokes and grindings. Typically used for cream or massage oil. This massage will be very useful if: skin fading, facial muscles lose tone, dehydrated skin, if there are scars, wrinkles, and just want to look better.
The plastic, which is used rhythmic, strong, compressing traffic, which are on the main lines of massage. A he used to talcum powder, without cream or butter. This massage is recommended if: the skin faded, thinning, hanging, the facial muscles lose tone, at a face often couperose, pigmentation, skin thin by nature, face puffy, swollen, or have facial wrinkles.
Plucking (massage by Jacquet): stroking, kneading, deep tweaks, vibration. A to talc. This massage will help if you have: seborrhea, as well as scarring, infiltrates, congestion spots after acne, comedones, a thick skin. Its use is shown, and after the hygienic cleaning of the skin. Facial Massage lasts no more than twenty minutes. And the thinner the skin, the shorter should be the session. Once the skin is red, massage should immediately end. Normal skin tolerates full session.
If you do decide to do a facial massage yourself, listen to our advice:
Before treatment massage thoroughly clean the face and neck from cosmetics. The hands, of course, also must be clean.
Begin the massage with the overlay pads thumbs of both hands on the back of the nose between the eyebrows. Through a rather strong and even some pressure, slowly move your hands along the cheeks to the jawbone. This helps drain the blood from the facial veins and prepares the skin for the massage.
Apply the massage cream, gel or oil, and spread it across the face. You can use the following recipe: wheat or oat flour, mix with cream to a state of paste. The resulting paste has a strong cleansing effect on the skin, removing dying cells. Massage oil can be cooked himself, mixing half a glass of almond and castor oils.
And remember the main thing – touching the skin should be soft, light, moving, totally unacceptable strong friction and tension!
Facial massage is conducted on the main lines:
* From the middle of the chin on the lower jaw to the earlobe;
* From the corners of the mouth to the bottom of the earlobe,
* Of the upper lip and nose wings to the top of the pinna;
* On the side of the nose – to the temples;
* Upper eyelid – from the inner to the outer corner of the eye;
* Lower eyelid – from the outer to inner corner of eye;
* From the nose on the back of the nose to the tip and from the back of the nose down to the lateral surface;
* From the middle of the forehead to the temples along the brow and scalp;
* On the front surface of the neck upward;
* On the side of the neck down.