The Japanese Skincare Revolution by Chizu Saeki is the best book I bought this year - filled with simple ideas and practical advice on what works best for your skin (bought from Flipkart - Rs. 781 - review here).
I tried out the lotion mask earlier (read about it here) and I love it. The water massage is another simple technique Chizu Saeki explains in this fabulous book.
Benefit: Stimulating the muscles of the face and providing a toning effect.
You would need:
Method: Hold the bottle a little away from your face so that the water stream hits your face with some force. Its not meant to hurt, should be just enough pressure to feel a massaging sensation but not sting or hurt. And keep your eyes closed while doing this so you don't put the water into your eyes. Move the water stream over your face in the same order as the arrows shown in the pic below - starting with your forehead (1) and ending with a circle around your face (20). The direction of the water stream should be in the same direction as shown by the arrows - in an upward direction on your cheeks, and around the eyes, mouth, and the entire face.
My take on this: I have tried this a few times - not been consistent with it - but I do feel it makes a difference. I feel fresher and my face feels refreshed after this. Its inexpensive, fast (about a minute) - anybody can do it. Try it, am sure you would love it too :)
Anybody tried the Aqua Radiance service at Kaya Skin Clinics? Seems to me to be a similar concept.
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| The Japanese Skincare Revolution - Chizu Saeki |
Benefit: Stimulating the muscles of the face and providing a toning effect.
You would need:
- A soft bottle that you can squeeze out water in a steady stream from - something like the bottles for sauce/mustard should work fine (book recommends wash bottle which I have not been able to get till now). A cleaned-out Parachute oil bottle too :) The water should come out in a thin stream, with a bit of pressure, and it should be steady. The water pressure is what would massage your face. (Not spray bottles, you need one single steady stream of water.)
- Purified/distilled water - I use the water from my water filter - clean drinking water.
Method: Hold the bottle a little away from your face so that the water stream hits your face with some force. Its not meant to hurt, should be just enough pressure to feel a massaging sensation but not sting or hurt. And keep your eyes closed while doing this so you don't put the water into your eyes. Move the water stream over your face in the same order as the arrows shown in the pic below - starting with your forehead (1) and ending with a circle around your face (20). The direction of the water stream should be in the same direction as shown by the arrows - in an upward direction on your cheeks, and around the eyes, mouth, and the entire face.
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| Image from: The Japanese Skincare Revolution (Book) |
Anybody tried the Aqua Radiance service at Kaya Skin Clinics? Seems to me to be a similar concept.
Wowwwww..this is quite new and looks amazing. I usually do this, whenever I want to take a longgggg, nice and lazy bath.....just pore warm water slowly in steady stream over my face at various points. It gives such a sooothing effect. And I follow doing that all over the body then..he he Didn't know there is a proper form of this thing, which has proper name and techniques too!! :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteI guess its just common sense tried and tested and put into a book :)
ReplyDeleteyeah... :D !!
ReplyDeletethe concept seems very similar to a jacuzzi na...streams of water on your body vis-a vis on your face...am sure its very relaxing too ...:)
ReplyDeleteYa it does seem that way..jacuzzi with only one stream of water :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteAm actually confused Radhika..:(( I didnt get the concept. :((
ReplyDeleteLike the water would keep flowing away na..how would it work on the pressure points?
ReplyDeleteOh I didn't realize I was confusing :-( You know those pichkooo bottles for sauce...like a stream of water will come continuously if you keep pressing na. You understood the lines on the face? Suppose you use your fingers, you slide your fingers along those lines to give a massage - not press press, slide and massage. Now instead of fingers, you use water pressure. Slide the water stream along the lines. The water will hit your face and massage it. Ignore the water flowing away. Its the hitting water that massages..of course it flows away after that ..hope I made any sense.
ReplyDeleteoh it makes sense ....actually you know I'll try to do this because I still cant imagine how a stream of water would do the massage.
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no cottooouuuu pads required in this. :D :D :D
ReplyDeletei would want to try this to see if it works, this seems so inexpensive, if it works great...thanks for such detailed explaination
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ReplyDeleteI have read about them but never gave these things a try...the lotion thing works pretty well as far as I have heard....
ReplyDeleteIt does..am just too lazy to do it regularly :)
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ReplyDeleteso simple....!! thanku rads!
ReplyDelete:) Do try and see if it works...is fun anyway :D
ReplyDeleteI like this, I need to try this next time im in my shower :)
ReplyDeleteSeems, just from teh picture, to be something very relaxing :)
thanks for the tip :)
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