Self-care is all about you and taking care of you! You should incorporate self-care habits into your daily routine so that you can be healthy and happy. Start your self-care journey with a few new daily habits to work on at one period of time.
It takes three weeks to create a habit and once you conquered a few and you feel confident about them, move on to a few more. You are worthy of the journey for you. Remember, if you feel better about yourself, you can improve how you help your loved ones too. You should talk to yourself like you’re someone you love with your whole heart and soul.
I’ve committed to a few daily self-care tools that make me smile about taking time for me. Some simple things that I am faithful about each day are: drinking enough water, reading, morning and night skincare routine and moving my body daily with walks or yoga. I am improving my sleeping habits, I use a facial peel twice a week and three to four times a week I use a Gua Sha Facial Tool from Willing Beauty Skincare.
What is Gua Sha?
Gua Sha has been around for hundreds of years. It is an ancient traditional Chinese medicine and Gua means ‘scrape’ and Sha means ‘petechiae’ (tiny, flat red, purple spots on your skin) in Chinese. A Gua Sha Facial Tool is a jade stone used to gently scrap your face. Gua Sha is a natural technique that improves the health and wellness of your skin. The practice of Qua Sha involves repeated strokes on the same area of your face. You repeat the strokes three to five times and then move to the next part of your face.
Benefits of a Gua Sha Facial Tool
Willing Beauty’s Qua Sha Facial Tool is crafted from natural, white jade which is a symbol of health and harmony. The use of this tool is grounding, calming and brings you peace and luck. Our Qua Sha Facial Tool massages your face and strengthens your skincare routine. It leaves your face lifted and radiant after each use.
The Gua Sha Facial Tool has many benefits including:
- Improve your circulation.
- Stimulates your blood flow.
- Drains your lymphatic system.
- Releases tension.
- Helps to clear congestion.
- Clears your skin.
- Helps your skincare products absorb better.
- Reduces puffiness.
- Promotes your collagen production.
- Smooths your fine lines and wrinkles.
- Smooths fascia.
- Lifts and sculpts your facial muscles.
How to use a Gua Sha Facial Tool
The use of a Gua Sha Facial Tool is different for everyone. You will learn to find what works best for you. To begin:
- Cleanse your face first and foremost.
- Apply a layer of face elixir (Willing Beauty’s Born to Glow Skin Elixir – which has many more uses, you can learn more here about Born to Glow!) to your face and neck.
- Hold the Gua Sha stone almost parallel to your skin.
- Hold down your skin with your opposite hand, apply gentle strokes with light pressure 3-5 times in each area.
- Start by breathing deeply and warming up the outer areas of your neck with light up and down strokes
- Next, move along both sides of your jawline.
- Then, move to the center of your face and sweep your cheeks outward.
- Next, your under-eye area out towards your temples.
- Then, finish with your eyebrows and forehead.
Willing Beauty’s Gua Sha Facial Tool is heart-shaped and the guide below shows which sections of the tool for different areas of your face.
Things You need to know to use Your Gua Sha Facial Tool
- It is important to ALWAYS use a face oil before you use a Gua Sha Facial Tool as it helps the tool glide easily across your face.
- Ensure to WARM UP your neck (#3 above) before starting on your face as it opens up the pathway for drainage.
- Ensure to drink LOTS of water after your Gua Sha massage to help rid your face of toxins.
- You can USE the comb edge to lightly minimize forehead wrinkles.
- You can USE the pointed end for tension relief.
- Use the Gua Sha Facial Tool 2-3 times a week so you have the best results.
How to care for your Gua Sha Facial Tool
- Wash with a gentle soap before and after every use.
- Completely dry the stone
- Handle with care as it is jade and is fragile.
- Store in the provided Gua Sha Tool canvas pouch.
I have been using our Willing Beauty Gua Sha Facial Tool since its release 8 months ago and I have found an amazing difference in the absorption of my Willing Beauty Skincare HY+5 Regimen (click below image) which I would love for you to read more. My face feels brighter, jawline is not as tight and I have less sinus pressure and pain.
There are fantastic benefits to using this ancient healing Chinese technique on a regular basis to enhance your self-care needs. A Gua Sha practice is good for you and certainly complements your daily skincare routine.
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