DIY Facial

Day 9 - Facial

Equipment:

Cleansing Cream + Lubricating Cream + Freshener + Mask

Don’t put off your facial just because you don’t have any shop bought masks in the house, you can make your own - mixed fresh anytime you need it.

Mix two tablespoons of cornmeal with one lightly beaten egg white to form a thick paste, spread over face and let dry, then rinse off with cool water

So let’s begin:

Wrap yourself in a big towel, leaving arms and shoulders bare, tie back your hair.

Step 1: Cleanse thoroughly, either with cleansing cream or soap and finish with several warm rinses. Now fall to pieces, drop your head, let its weight fall willy-nillly, let your shoulders sag, your arms fall lifeless. Shake out your hands, rest there a minute

Step 2: Take your palms full of oil or rich cream and work into body massaging and kneading as you work your way up from your feet.

Step 3: Starting at the base of throat with fresh oil or cream and stroke up to chin, alternating hands 10 times, now work on an angle out to jaw hinge 10 times, now pulling with two fingers make 10 strokes from chin to ear.

Step 4: With upwards rotations of first three fingers massage from jaw to top of ear, then upward at an angle from corner of nose to temple, stroke 10 times. Now from below mouth corners, work up the laugh lines rouding over cheek to inner eye corner. Then rapidly alternating hands pat storke up up from chin to lip, repeat this all across forehead, quick little pats , between eyes. Then gently pat (don’t rub) around eyes from nose across cheekbones to outer eye corners.

Step 5: Steam with cloth wrung out of hot water to open pores and make ready for the mask. Cover all of face except eye area, make sure mask is thick enough to cover every pore, pack into wrinkles and crevices. Soak cotton pads with eye lotion lay over eyes and get into Hollywood Slant.
Relax for 15-20 minutes, think nothing except to count your blessings.

Step 6: Saturate a big blob cotton with skin freshener and repeating your stroking patterns wipe off mask, rinse off with cold water. Your skin is smooth as baby’s, your eyes are bright and dewy and your body is fresh and relaxed. Now you’re ready for a lovely make up.


I added exfoliation and extraction between the cleansing and mask, skin feels baby soft and the rest of me rather chilled (like the dry Riesling in my glass...)

Seasonal Beauty

Your face changes through seasons. Winter is cruel and drying, make sure you lubricate, lubricate, lubricate, even if your skin is oily.

Spring is the time to cleanse and lubricate, shed off all the old skin in prepareation for summer. Mild rains and damp weather are good for you, just look at the English roses!

Summer is the time to repair your beauty, you exercise, eat more fresh fruit and vegetables, drink more liquids, breathe more fresh air and get the healing benefits of the sun. But be careful, if you are foolish you can do a lot of damage, salt water, windburn and sunburn can take a horrid toll.
Don’t go out in the sun with perfume on your skin, it attracts bees not boys and the alcohol and sun can burn spots into the skin.


When sunbathing cover your body with oil with a “screen” and oil often, turn constantly as on a spit and come in before you burn . Wear large sunglasses to protect the sensitive eye area.
Even honey tone is ideal, moisturise and cleanse well after sunbathing.

Autumn is another time for deep cleansing.

And remember your body needs care too. If you feel dry and itcy in the winter make like a seal, give your whole body an oil rub once a week. Roll up in some big towels or washable robe and take a nap, then a warm bath, a brisk towel rub and you are a new woman.