Facial Cupping, practiced for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is today one of the most recent beauty trend for its sculpting and rejuvenating benefits. It can be easily practiced at home and included in your skincare routine. Only 5 minutes for about two times a week to lift and tone muscles, enhance your skin glow and release stress!
Through a controlled micro-trauma the suction created by the facial cup promotes a self-healing process that brings oxygen and nutrients to the skin part underneath the cup, stimulates the production of fibroblasts and collagen, and encourages the removing of toxins and waste products by the lymphatic system. A very powerful non invasive natural treatment for your skin. But it is not just a beauty treatment! Below you will find out why.
The human face possesses over two dozen individual muscles that become stiff and tense as any other muscles of our body. We need to work out and stretch them to maintain good elasticity of the skin, prevent wrinkles, for the overall skin health but also to decrease stress. The face in fact is where we hold our emotions:
“Throughout our lives, we tend to make some of the same facial expressions over and over based on our personalities and habitual reactions. With repetition, chronic tension builds up in our facial muscles just like it does in muscles throughout our body. This is why as people get older, their faces may gradually become lopsided or stuck in a stressed or frowning expression.”*
The result of this prolonged tightness and stiffness keeps us stuck in certain expressions and this lead us to be stuck in that emotional state too.
By practicing regularly face exercises including facial yoga and facial cupping you can help release these tensions feeling more relaxed, outstretched as well as keep your skin more elastic, brighter, more toned, by preventing wrinkles and age signs.
Better results are achieved when you put yourself in the hands of a Facial Cupping Practitioner. They will be able to provide a more targeted treatment based on your area of concern and they can guide you on how to maintain results by performing regular facial cupping sessions along with safe and effective self-treatments at home.
Bear in mind that facial cupping may be not the best treatment for you especially if you have a very thin skin that bruises easily, open wounds (for instance due to acne in the acute state), multiple moles. Your practitioner can advise you but always seek firstly medical advice for any concern you may have.
*https://somaticmovementcenter.com/facial-muscles
