Gua Sha Facial Ritual Smoothing Stone by Caire Beauty

Rose Quartz

Cleanse your face and apply a facial oil, serum, or moisturizer to provide lubrication for smooth gliding and prevent skin irritation.

Holding the gua sha almost flat against your skin, smooth it slowly and deliberately using light to medium pressure. This angle helps glide over the skin gently without tugging, which is key to avoiding irritation.

1. Jawline to Upper Face: After applying your favorite serum or facial oil, start by gently stroking the long curved side of your gua sha ritual stone in an outward and upward motion, using a combination of 3 to 5 longer and short slides.
2. Third Eye: Slide the double-headed side of the gwa sha from between the middle of your eyebrows, straight upwards to the hairline to activate your third eye. Five times up. This chakra is actually located right at the pineal gland so it’s biologically an area that controls imagination and spiritual connection. And you can also soothe tension headaches!
3. Forehead: Sweep 5 strokes from the center of the forehead outwards, left and right.
4. Eyelid & Brow: Choose the most curved side of your stone to make 5 short upwards movements from your eyelid to just above your eyebrow. If it feels great to you, do more! Don’t forget to give the love to both sides.
5. Under Eye: Using the larger ‘knob’ on your heart stone, lightly stroke from the side of your nose, down and across the undereye area, all the way outwards towards the temple. What you’re doing is moving the stagnant lymph out and eliminating underlying toxins, caused by stress, lack of sleep and exercise, too much alcohol. The usual suspects!
6. Cheek: Using the double knob side, make the same sweeping touch-motion as you did with the undereyes, but this time starting from the side of nose, sliding across the cheek, upwards to the middle of the ear.
7. Mouth: Using any side of your ritual stone; glide from the outer mouth up to your ear.
8. Chin: Stroke from the soft area under your chin (everyone has a soft area under the chin, so don’t freak out!) up to the jawline.
9. Neck: Using the long or the double knobbed side, massage downwards from your earlobe, down the neck to the middle of the collarbone.
10. Full Face: Finish by sweeping from the center of your forehead (start right at the hairline) down to your temple, then past your ear until you reach the neck. Do this 5 times for a final clean sweep of the lymphatic system and to stimulate natural circulation. Your face will now feel energized and look visibly brighter.

The wonderful thing about the gua sha stone ritual, is that it’s ultimately so easy to do. You can do it once a week or every day. There is absolutely no right or wrong. The above Ten Step Ritual technique can be adjusted as you see fit for yourself.

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Try using different sides of the stone or doing 10 strokes on each part of the face. Or doing the entire technique in reverse order (except for Step 10 – which should always be the finishing touch!) It’s so soothing and how great does it feel to know that you are draining away stagnant, sluggish lymphatic waste – and allowing your body’s natural skin health to re-assert itself.

Use the gua sha two or three times a week to help deliver long term benefits and keep you glowing.

Don’t use the Gua Sha if you’ve had any injectables such as Botox or fillers in the last 4 weeks, or on breakouts or irritated skin. After using, wash the gua sha tool with mild soap and water and dry thoroughly to prevent bacteria growth.