From facial 'slapping' to drinking water at room temperature, celebrity beauty guru reveals how to make your skin glow from the inside out
- Beauty expert Ada Ooi is the founder of British skincare brand @001skincare
- Her high profile fans include Lisa Eldridge and Jude Law's model daughter Iris
- She revealed the 9 traditional techniques everyone can use to boost their glow
A celebrity facialist has revealed the beauty techniques she swears by for boosting your skin's glow 'from within'.
Ada Ooi, founder of British skincare brand @001skincare, spoke to FEMAIL about the practices that can be used to 'strengthen both the Yin and Yang' in order to balance your internal well-being - and in turn, make your skin more radiant.
She explained: 'Yin refers to any internal consistent movements like blood circulation, digestion. Yang refers to each organ the lungs, stomach, liver, spleen and kidney.
'A good balance of yin and yang is based on the body being able to circulate and recover smoothly while each organ functions with energy that's available without having to stress itself.'
Ada, whose fans include Lisa Eldridge and Jude Law's model daughter Iris, broke her nine tips down into three steps, explaining it is essential to find balance with the 'yin' and 'yang' before focusing on external techniques on the face...
A celebrity facialist has revealed the beauty techniques she swears by for boosting your skin's glow 'from within'. Stock image
PART ONE: STRENGTHEN YOUR 'YIN'
1. TAKE A HOT BATH
A hot bath encourages pores to open, working or the body to sweat and expelling toxins from top to bottom
2. SOAK YOUR FEET
A foot bath that covers the calves could have the same effect by boosting blood circulation and flushing excess fluid out of the body.
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3. STEP ON STONES
To further stimulate circulation and detox motion, I also suggest to lay a few stones in the bath tub/bucket to lie or step on.
PART TWO: STRENGTHEN YOUR 'YANG'
Ada OOI, pictured, is the founder of British skincare brand @001skincare
4. DRINK ROOM TEMPERATURE WATER
Don't cold shock the organs. Our body temperature is 36C, every entrance of food and drinks at ice cold temperature alerts our organs to work extra hard to compensate the temperature difference for them to function.
The imbalanced use of energy can also build up blood and fluid stagnation.
5. DON'T OVER EXERCISE
It does feel that we all live in a lifestyle that we're constantly juggling, between work, family, leisure and pleasure, if you think of our body as a machine, each mind action and physical motion is supported by our body engine.
Exercising helps regulate our circulation and boost oxygen levels, it also helps burn the extra calories we need for the abundant food we consume.
However, it needs to be done moderately so we're not over working our body and building long term fatique to ourselves. I suggest to alternate high and low impact exercises throughout the week.
PART THREE: FOCUS ON THE FACE
6. YOU NEED NEEDLES
Needle therapies like acupuncture, dermarolling, microneedling etc create an intrusion that gives a signal that the skin is injured thus gather blood cells, stimulate growth of collagen and elastin, boosting and speeding up the renewal process.
7. MASSAGE WITH BEAUTY TOOLS
Less intrusive treatments that you can do at home will be using devices of different temperatures (ice-cold/warm), shapes and massage motions to stimulate, guiding blood to flow to the (epidermis) top layer of the skin.
8. 'TAP' YOUR FACE
When I put my skincare products on, I like to use different tapping and light slapping motions to get blood pumping and flowing, for places where there is a wrinkle/line crease, I'll either pinch it, or stretch it then tap products into it.
9. INVEST IN ANTI-OXIDANTS
If I am to choose one essential ingredient family that is incremental to supporting skin, it will be anti-oxidants.
They are one of the main elements that exist in plants to keep them alive, combating oxidative elements in the nature - likewise when transferred to the human body, it helps our skin to resist and treat internal and external stimulations from hormones, stress, UV, pollution and temperature changes etc.
Ada OOI is the founder of British skincare brand @001skincare. Her practice is at 5 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, London
