Celebrity facialist Abigail James shows you how to do anti-ageing face massage in four tiny little minutes – making it quick enough to do every day
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Use a natural plant based oil for the massage, get a couple of pumps of the size of a blueberry, warm and the apply it to the whole of your face
- Press it, include neck and decollate, and glide it across
- With this lifting massage we are going to do a few lymph moves first and then pumps: stretch your neck backwards, stretching the muscles down
- Gliding across the whole face starting with your thumbs under your jaw, pushing back and hold
- In this particular massage there is a bit of face yoga inspiration: gliding under and stretching outwards, and pinch – all these moves are fantastic for the jowly bits
- Right to the ears and then to lift up, hold and then push
- As we age we often get lines around our mouth, we’re going to massage around this quite firmly, working all the way around
- Then, when you get to the bottom, hold at the chin and push up
- It’s nice if you have a relaxed jaw because it means you can actually get into the muscles easier
- Hold and push up, and take that stretch all the way to the side of the face, stretching up and then lifting up – the hold is really important to encourage those muscles where we want them to be
- Do it to both sides
- You can hold this for five or ten seconds or even longer, then taking those holds and lifts for our crows feet areas and also up to the brow
- Do some zigzags across the forehead, working on those thrown lines and across, not forgetting the middle lines almost some stepping with your fingers to erase those
- Lift the brows and smooth out (it’s nice to do lots of face pressure points, instead of worrying about specific pressure points), and just press it and hold with a little bit of and upward lift
- Smooth it all back down the neck and finishing with some neck stretches.
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Famous for her healing hands, facialist Abigail James is one of the beauty industry’s most revered experts whose knowledge and skills are regularly requested by those-in-the-know on both sides of the Atlantic. The British-born mother-of-three’s ‘skin coach’ method combines nature with science and technology to deliver her whole health, ‘Vibrant skin vibrant life’ results-driven approach. She is the author of Love Your Skin: The Ultimate Guide to a Glowing Complexion
(18.95 Kyle Books)
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