(Perdita Nouril/ Women’s Health) — ‘The ability to control time’. It’s always my stock answer when anyone asks me what superpower I dream of having most. Whilst I haven’t quite been blessed with said superpower yet (I live in hope), living in lockdown for the past 18 months has meant I’ve acquired bags of time in relation to my old life. One teeny silver lining? I’ve been mastering the glow-giving art of facial Gua Sha.
Not that long ago Gua Sha hung on the wellness periphery. But Chinese medicine-based skincare has been gaining traction thanks to its natural approach with the added oomph of thousands of years of practice behind it.
Pronounced ‘gwa sha’, it translates to ‘scrape wind, as the treatment involves scraping or pulling a flat jade or rose quartz stone along oiled skin. You’d be forgiven for thinking the tool looks a little bit like the footprint of a baby dinosaur. (…)