It seems facial sculpting has become a natural alternative to Botox. And with the power of the hand, simply. In recent seasons backstage, the preparation of models’ skin has become as important as the makeup itself. Some star facialists, like Sophie Carbonari, even travel from city to city during fashion month. Beyond on the visible, via luminosity and skin remodeling, facial sculpting (massage) offers a more subtle effect that we do not immediately perceive with the naked eye. It releases the tensions and mental stress that tighten the features, drains the toxins that clog the tissues, stimulates fibroblasts to boost the production of collagen and elastin, increases the penetration of cosmetic active ingredients. It even allows for an energetic rebalancing of the body as a whole, because three major meridians (bladder, stomach, gallbladder) pass through the face and skull.
Top facialists
Stars of touch therapy, these three facialists provide, through their practiced hands, precise face sculpting gestures, beneficial for the epidermis. You just need to try their technique for a few minutes to recognize that the end results are quite amazing. It may be time to postpone your upcoming Botox appointment.
The Kobido by Francine Thekal
Virginie Efira adores it. “Its tapping of the faceplunges you into a state of absolutely hovering semi-consciousness.” An expert in the art of Japanese massage, she alternates on the skin, tissues and muscles, a succession of smoothing, kneading, percussion, vibration and pinching, to lift the face and restore our vital energy.
Sophie Carbonari’s skin score
For Sophie Carbonari, the facialist shared by all the models, the protocol is set at the time of makeup removal, “when I can really feel the skin mattress with my fingertips. I then alternate movements of acupressure, shiatsu, of kobido and lymphatic drainage in a tailor-made partition.”
Megan Markle, Kendall Jenner and Victoria Beckham swear by it. By working on the contours of the face, but also on the inside of the mouth where we store tension, the facialist redraws the volumes and lifts the features. “Massage restarts skin microcirculation and replenishes depleted cells with oxygen and nutrients.”
The location: Skincare Studio Aime in Paris
“Like a living map, which we can read, understand, decipher, the skin of the face is unique,” explains Caroline Bertrand, the facialist at Skincare Studio Aime. Here, following careful cleansing, all the facial muscles are stimulated to reactivate blood and lymphatic circulation. An hour later, the well-oxygenated tissues reveal an amazing glow. Invited throughout the year, facialists from all over the world, like Andrea Pfeffer, will even work exclusively at the studio.
Tools
As an extension of the hand, these often ancestral tools, based on lithotherapy, reproduce and enhance the skin gymnastics of the great facialists. Gua Sha, from traditional Chinese medicine, smoothes, decongests and revives circulation. The roller, smooth or ribbed, also stimulates the action of lymphatic drainage but with controlled pressure, for added safety.
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