By Giving yourself a Gua Sha Facial at home is fairly simple as long as you follow these key steps:
- Start with a clean face and clean hands.
- Apply facial oil (four to 10 drops) over the face and neck, starting with the forehead and moving downward (following the direction of lymph fluid drainage).
- Warm your tool between your hands.
- Sweep up your neck on both sides, going very lightly over the Adam’s apple (if you are male).
- Sweep under your chin from the middle of your face out to your earlobe, keeping your tool flat.
- Sweep from the middle of your chin over your jawline toward your earlobe. You can also gently jiggle at your ear to encourage the fluid to drain down the neck to the lymph nodes at the base, just above your collarbone.
- Sweep underneath your cheekbone, aiming to move fluid that tends to be stored here and direct it towards your hairline. You can also lightly and gently jiggle your tool at your hairline.
- Sweep over your cheekbones, finishing at the hairline.
- Sweep under your eyes extra gently.
- Sweep over the eyebrow out toward the hairline and then up from the brow bone over the forehead to the hairline. To cover this area best, do it in three to five smaller sections.
- Sweep from between the eyebrows and up to the hairline.
- Sweep from the middle of the forehead out to the hairline.
- Perform the same steps on the other side side of your face.
- Finish the treatment by sweeping down the neck to the collarbone.
You should sweep each area three to five times. It’s important not to sweep over each area too many times, because this may cause counterproductive overstimulation. Try to keep your tool almost flat to your skin at about 15 degrees. Don’t hesitate to try out using tools with various shapes and also using various sides of a tool to best fit the contours of your face.
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