Hi, I'm Alexandra Soveral, I'm a facialist based in London, and I'm here in New York
today to guide you through how to do a daily face massage.
I first came across face massage by watching my mum doing a routine in front of a mirror.
And I would mimic her in front of the mirror, because little girl wants to be like her mummy.
Later on I found out that my mum is quite unique—not many people do that.
So, let's start with a face massage.
All our products come with a face massage instructions that you follow step by step.
We start by using a minimum amount of oil.
You can always add oil as you go along, but if you start with too much oil all you're
doing is moving the oil around the face, not actually moving any of the underlying tissues
or muscles.
So, the first thing to do is just spread the oil everywhere.
Then you're going to warm up the muscles—this is really important, because that's what gets
the circulation going.
So just remember, upwards and outwards.
Big circles.
And because of the antioxidants, and because of the essential oils in the oil, your skin
gets quite rosy straight away.
Then if you feel that is not enough, you can add a tiny little pump more.
Always warm it up in between your hands first.
And now we're going to start by detoxifying the glands.
That is really important, because that is where all the toxins from the face drain towards
the back of your ear, and down your neck.
So you need to warm up the root of the lymph.
If you do the opposite hand with the opposite ear, you get a better grip of the gland.
And you want to feel the heat coming on to those areas.
And that's how you know the node has unlocked.
Then you're going to drain from the chin, underneath, follow your chin bone all the
way to the back of your ear.
This will take all the toxins from here, and opens up all the lymph path.
And drain down.
As you do this, you can feel all this area getting quite hot.
And that's exactly what you want.
And once you've done that, you want to now go back and move all the muscles from the
face up.
You can start with the chin, with tiny little circles, and you start moving the chin and
moving the muscles under the skin.
And really go up.
Basically, you want to lift this area.
And then the same on the forehead.
Little deep circles.
The next area is the eyes, and the eyes are really important.
This is where a lot of puffiness and toxins accumulate.
You start by doing an eye-draining massage.
A lot of people do the draining massage wrong, because they go this way.
That's a big no-no.
The drain on the eye is on the inner corners, so you drain towards it.
The secretion of the eye starts there—there's a little vessel there, just under the arch
of your natural eye brow, that brings water to the eye, and the drain is just underneath
there.
So, you want to drain towards it.
You can put your thumbs behind your ear lobes, and your ring finger, which is your lightest
finger, you can drain in, and then up.
Drain, and do lots of circles.
Once you've done that quite a few times, you want to now stimulate the secretion onto the
eye.
So, first you do with thumb and finger, the corners of the eye, that the optical nerve
gets relaxed.
Hold for 10 seconds, and release.
Then you want to do the natural arch of the eye.
Again, 10 seconds, and release.
And then again, you just do more eye circles.
Once you've done that, you're nearly done, but you mustn't finish without doing your
frown line.
That's one thing we all worry about.
So, you either have one or two, we call it a 1 or 11s at our clinic.
So, you twist it, whatever yours is.
Just twist the skin, and the muscle underneath it, until it's quite red.
Once you feel that is quite heated up, and quite red, I'm sure mine is, you're now going
to do the lines on the forehead.
And when a line goes one way, you criss-cross it the other way.
So, you do that from one end to the other.
And then again.
Do this as many times as you think is necessary.
And then end by just doing an overall massage.
Go back to the glands.
And you're done.