A simple massage operation at home
Madam!
It is fresh spring, and after it summer will come with its warmth and its sun — and your face has a claim upon you! Its blood circulation needs stimulating, by way of a simple "treatment" which we shall go no further than to call a "massage operation," because you can perform it yourself, in your own home, if the means are not at hand to have it done in one of the beauty houses, which cost you a great deal...
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Here, then, is this home "treatment," in the service of your beauty. Among its benefits: it stirs the circulation of the blood, relieves the tension that arises in certain parts of the face, invigorates the muscles, and lends the face freshness and vitality!
To gain the greatest benefit, ask your friend for a quarter hour of her time and give her the same of yours, and take turns at this beauty operation — she for you and you for her. And if there is no way to do so, then do it for yourself, after sitting before the mirror and under the light, so as to
follow the instructions exactly. Now we pass to the steps themselves; you must repeat each step several times, after cleansing the face well:
1 — Roll your hair back, like this, and throw a towel over your shoulders to bare your neck. Cover your face
and neck generously with the cream or paste, and pass your fingertips from the chin to the temple, over the cheeks, in long, gentle strokes.
2 — Perform the operation with fingers steeped in the paste, for massaging with dry fingertips harms the skin and wears it down. Massage the sides of the jaw, beginning from the chin and moving toward the ear, with a light motion.
3 — With gentle strokes massage the forehead upward, passing from one side to the other. This operation relaxes the tense muscles and smooths the wrinkles away and removes them. Use your second and third fingers along their whole length, hand over hand. Like this.
4 — Now pass to the neck, from beneath the jaw, then from one ear to the other. The neck needs the same care you give the face, for its delicate skin, if neglected, is highly sensitive and quick to wrinkle.
