Facial Acupuncture Bendigo
WELBY Holistic Healing Bendigo offers you a unique organic facial rejuvenation experience with treatment that combines ancient proven wisdom of traditional Thai, Japanese and Chinese anti-aging medicine.
Facial acupuncture is an ancient natural rejuvenation and renewal technique aiming to harmonise your facial muscle tone in order to reduce fine lines and wrinkles, improve sagging areas, enhance blood circulation, boost collagen and elastin production and brighten up your complexion without the potential adverse effects of cosmetic injections and procedures.
Facial acupuncture is also a full body constitutional therapy, which uses selected acupoints (energy points) on your body specific to your elements to complement the acupoints on your face. This is based on the philosophy that your face is viewed as an extension of all the meridians (channels of energy/ musculatures/ connective tissues that connect the body internally and externally).
At WELBY Holistic Healing we combine the traditional facial cosmetic acupuncture protocols with unique WELBY needling techniques that work on both the fascia (connective tissues) and motor points (where the nerves entering the muscles) to tone up the muscles that cause wrinkles and sagging areas.
A complete facial acupuncture treatment creates free flowing qi (vital energy – pronounced chi) to re-establish balance with your body, mind and spirit and allows the human body to reconnect as one and become whole again.
During your 90 mins facial acupuncture spa session
You can expect:
- Full body and skin type assessment
- Facial cleansing and exfoliation
- Organic herbal masks as indicated
- Body acupoints/ acupressure treatment
- Ultra fine needling around the face, around the eyes, jaw, neck areas
- Facial reflexology massage with organic cream and serum
- Refining pores with the use of a jade roller/ jade gua-sha techniques
- Essential oil spritzer
- Advice for ongoing skin care/ products
- Exercises as indicated
During facial acupuncture needling
You may experience:
- Slight sensation where needles are being inserted (no worse than plucking eyebrow)
- Facial sensations such as dullness, tingling and tightness (which is a strong indication that the treatment is effective)
After a series of signature treatments
You can expect:
- Softer skin, more hydrated and brighter complexion after 1 – 3 weeks
- Lines and wrinkles diminished, pores tightened after 2 – 6 weeks
- Improved tautness of skin, sagging areas starting to lift and plump up, more defined features after 5 – 9 weeks
- The overall “holding” stage – face continues to improve tone, eyes and nasal areas are more open, lines softened, skin hydrated, more even complexion and redness diminished during week 10 – 12
When Not To
There are certain conditions where facial acupuncture should not be performed.
These include:
- Severe migraine (not just typical headaches); clients should be migraine free for three months
- Recent cosmetic surgery (i.e. face lift) and also including Botox®, cosmetic injectables and laser resurfacing (3 – 6 months after injectables, 3 weeks for laser resurfacing and 2 weeks for chemical peels or microdermabrasion)
- During pregnancy
- During colds and flu
- During acute herpes (cold sores) outbreak
- During acute allergic reactions