Microblading. Some people get a bit scared by this and

it's all about getting rid of the peach fuzz to

allow for better product absorption. Even you as

an untrained masseuse can see results. Quality

of your oil will also help your skin benefit from

your massage. I prefer our Icing Your Face.

Some people think this is a fad, and some people think this is a bit weird as

well. They don't like the idea of getting cold or feeling cold, but

it really helps after a cleanse to tighten your pores. It

will help get rid of... Welcome to the Holistic Skin Guru, where

what's on the surface is just as important as what's underneath.

I'm your host, Aamena. Let's dive deep into the world

of holistic skincare. Welcome

back to Skin School. And this session, we're

going to be talking about four at-home treatments that

you can do today that will cost you almost nothing. Believe

it or not, if you think that you need to spend hundreds

of dollars and even thousands of dollars to get your results,

then you are completely wrong. Let me teach

you some of my secrets. Not only are these things free, you

probably have stuff around that you can use already in

your home and these are things that I have learnt over

the course of my career and to help me understand

how to get the best results for my clients. The

first tip is using a good quality oil to

massage your face. Now, there are some doctors

out there that think massage is a whole lot of hogwash, but

we know as a holistic skin therapist, we can see it

when we're doing a very technical massage on our clients. We

actually see the skin respond and we see that lifting occurring.

Now, even you as an untrained masseuse

on your own face can see results. But the

quality of your oil will also help your skin benefit

from this one habit. I prefer our sea

buckthorn or vitamin A but you can use anything that

is organic and light such as coconut oil and even

castor oil mixed with some black seed oil. Now

black seed oil is known to be high antioxidant.

It is amazing for the skin. And

in the Arab world, we say that it is a

cure for everything except death. So if you mix that with

olive oil or castor oil or even coconut oil, it

becomes a really, really good medium to do your

massage. So when we're doing massage, what

is it actually doing? It's helping your lymphatics.

So, I mean, you can watch my video on

Instagram. It's pinned at the top of our page, Skin Fit New Farm,

where I show a seven-step lymphatic drainage

and massage routine that you can incorporate with your vitamin A

every single night and you'll start to see really amazing results.

But lymphatics is a really good

way to start because it opens up and stimulates the

blood flow and it gets the skin to wake

up. Researchers in Japan found that People

that practice daily facial massage showed measurable differences

in their cheeks and facial structure. It will

help with sagging skin as well. Now, tip

number two is using a gua sha when doing your massage to

help your lymphatic drainage process. Now, I would encourage you

to first do the seven steps on my Instagram. And

once you get familiar with that, it probably take you maybe three or four goes

before you are feeling confident with that. Then you can

start incorporating a gua sha. I like to use God's

tools first, you know, our fingers are really great. And once you're

used to that process, you can then start using your gua sha. to

help you with your lymphatic drainage and really get that blood flowing. So

check out the 7 Step Massage Routine. It's been to the

SkinFit New Farm Instagram page. And,

you know, like it and share it with your friends. As

long as it can help as many people out there as possible, it'll keep me

smiling. Tip number three is microblading. Now,

some people get a bit scared by this and it's all about getting rid

of the peach fuzz that's

on your skin to allow for better product absorption. But

make sure you practice this before and always work

in a downward formation and And

no, you won't grow a beard. So, you know, don't worry about that. Hair growth

is determined by hormones, not how we remove it. So we

can retard hair growth, but we can't cause more hair to

grow by simply removing it. Your hormones do

that. So don't worry about that. You can watch plenty of videos online about

how to dermaplane and get rid of that peach fuzz and

your product will absorb a lot better. Tip number

four, is icing your face. Now,

some people think this is a fad and some people think this is a bit weird

as well. Like they don't like the idea of getting cold or feeling cold, but

it really helps after a cleanse to tighten your pores and

to get the skin to appear like glass skin, like the Koreans who

are so good at doing it. It will help get rid of any puffiness

that you may have after waking up and it leaves your

skin looking and feeling absolutely fresh.

So those are four simple at-home treatments that

you can do today if you have the right things at

home. They're inexpensive. It just takes a little bit of

your time, a little bit of practice. And once you get going,

I promise you, this is something that you become addicted to

and your skin will be so thankful for it. Now, just going back

to the dermaplaning, some people are really scared to

use blades and things like that. you can substitute that

by having sugaring. If you don't know what sugaring is,

it's an in-salon treatment where you can come in and get your face sugared.

It will remove a lot of the dead skin cells and all the peach fuzz

from your face, and your makeup will just go on so beautifully.

But best of all, your products will absorb into

your skin a lot better than before. And

making sure that the products that you currently use, especially

your cleansers, don't contain any silicons because

silicons sit on the top of your skin, act as a barrier

to any products that are coming after. So we wanna make sure

that our products are nice and clean and they don't have any of

these added nasties. So no sulfates, no

silicons, that way your product, your ingredients

will absorb into your skin a lot better and you'll get really, really good results

from your at home care. It's really funny that Gua

Sha has taken off the way it has because I see so

many surgeons and doctors online trying to

debunk this to try to make it sound like it's some kind

of a myth and it doesn't work. I get it, you know, it's

encroaching on their territory because the more people that

use Gua Sha and massage methods, the less people

come into their surgery. So we're actually preventing

that skin laxity that happens later on. We're preventing

it by incorporating these kind of techniques into

our daily care. And I understand why doctors are

nervous because it just means that there's less people coming

into their chairs, into their treatment rooms and

yeah, it's one of those treatments that's been around for thousands of

years. If you look into ancient Chinese

home cares around skin, gua sha has been around

for thousands of years. So it does help the skin, it

increases blood flow, And it really helps the lymphatics

to start moving beautifully. When your lymph is healthy, you

are healthy because your lymphatic system sits directly aside

your immune system. And so if the one is working well,

so is the other. So we want our lymphatic system to

work really, really well. It's the only part of our

body or system that doesn't have its own pumping

mechanism, so we have to do it ourselves. I

can show you really quickly the seven steps. The first

one is to open up the termini and just above your collarbone, you

just need to tap that lightly. very

lightly, just with the pads of your fingers and very

close together and just give it a light tap about six

or seven times. This opens up our termini and starts

to help the lymphatic system to work. It's

like the start button. And then after that, we want to just very,

very gently on either side of our neck, just do a very light

pumping action. And from there, we're going to go

to beside our ears and do a very, very light pumping action.

And that is as gentle as it is when

it comes to lymphatics. After that, we'll apply

an oil all over your face, and then we're going to

do some drainage. We can use our knuckles and start draining along

there. And we've got lymph nodes under our ears. We've

got them in different areas around this area here.

And so we're just going to work that towards our lymph nodes

and start getting that draining process. This is going to help

us get that more snatched look. It's going to help all

of that stagnation that's been sitting there.

Sometimes we feel a little bit bloated. It's going to get rid of that bloating

feeling in our faces. and really give us that snatched jawline.

If we wanted to improve overall, what we would do

is what I call the L-shape, and we just put our

hands, make it into an L-shape, put it on either side

of our nose like that, making sure there's full contact with

our skin. And then we just drain all

the way to our hairline. The important thing

to understand is our lymph runs on the circumference of our face

and all the way down the center of our body. So we always want

to work towards that to drain. We can drain

under our eyes. And another quick tip is if

you wanted to lift your brow, then we would

be looking at doing a lifting movement like that.

making sure that we're using the opposite hand for the opposite eyebrow, and

always making sure that we have a good quality oil on our

skin so we can get that drainage happening. Good

luck. Thank you for joining me on Holistic Skin

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