Hi and a warm welcome back to my channel.
My name is Danielle Collins and today
I'm going to be showing you
a little routine that you can use if you
get dark circles under the eyes.
Now dark circles can be genetic, they can
be related to allergies,
they can be related to intolerances.
Perhaps they can be related to
lack of sleep or a lot of stress, so lots
of reasons why we can get dark circles
and sometimes they can be quite hard to eliminate
but what I’m going to show you is a few
techniques you can do which really
boosts the circulation,
help to improve the lymphatic drainage
around the eye area.
So, whatever the reason you get
those dark circles, these techniques
should at least help to reduce
but hopefully, if you do them regularly,
they will eliminate them.
I've seen lots and lots of people use these
techniques and completely eradicate
their dark circles under the eyes
and what I really recommend is after
this you make sure you drink a big glass
of water. It's just gonna help that
detoxification process.
And another top tip is make sure you
don't drag the delicate area around the
eyes in day-to-day life.
This can really aggravate those dark circles.
So you want to make sure you've got
super clean hands, nice long spine,
shoulders relaxed - and we're going to
start by just taking our index finger, just come
under the eyes and work all the way round.
So nice and gently. Now if you find you’re
quite heavy-handed here
or you feel as though you're dragging
the skin, you may want to grab a mirror and actually
see if you're dragging the skin, I would change that
just to that ring finger instead.
We tend to be a little bit gentler
when we use that one and really work
with the breath here. So breathe in
through the nose
and breathe out through the nose as you do it.
So this is really aiding with that
lymphatic drainage, so we're helping to
remove those toxins, giving that lymphatic system
a little helping hand. It really responds
well to massage and we can
really help to drain any lymph
and then just come into this little
acupressure point here, just holding there.
Take a deep breath in and a deep breath
out and then, as we're doing acupressure,
we're just going to move down to a
little acupressure point here.
This one is great for the cheek area,
it's very good for circulation around the cheeks.
However, this one is very renowned,
particularly in ayurveda, for being good
for reducing dark circles under the eyes.
It just helps to release any stagnant energy,
just help that prana flow a little bit
more effectively, so even though we're
not directly working on the eyes here,
this all makes a big difference.
Then just take that same index finger with
both hands now
and just working all the way around the eyes,
nice and gently here. Use your breath,
inhale through the nose, exhale
through the nose. And we're using quite
light touch here.
We don't want to go too heavy-handed again so
start super gentle. You can build up a
little bit but remember, gentle is still
helping to boost the circulation.
Really bringing all the fresh blood,
fresh nutrients and oxygen right
up to the skin surface and this is
really going to help to feed the skin
and really reduce the appearance
of those dark circles. So just going
around a couple more times there
and then just bring your hands down.
So doing both those
techniques of the massage around and the
tapping every day
and both your acupressure points every
day and remember to drink your water
and be really delicate with this area,
particularly when removing eye makeup.
If you'd like more information about
face yoga, you can go to faceyogaexpert.com,
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Take care - bye bye.