Each one of us has a different way of expressing and receiving love. Some choose to shower their loved ones with gifts like skincare products or spend quality time with them to show how much they mean to them. For others, words of affirmation or acts of service could be a way of conveying love to their significant other. Commonly known as ‘love languages’ they help us form a strong bond with our partners and loved ones.
Using love languages to connect with our skin could help us understand the needs of our skin better and in turn, give it the TLC it needs to stay healthy and thriving. Here’s how you can use the five love languages to connect with your skin.
Quality Time: Spend quality time with your skin by giving it sufficient rest. Your skin goes into recovery mode between 11pm to 2am, where it repairs and rejuvenates itself. During this time it regenerates skin cells, produces collagen and nutrients that ensure you wake up glowing. While you’re asleep, the process of regeneration could be three times faster than during the day. This is why it’s essential to get a full seven to eight hours of quality sleep by going to bed and waking up at the same time.
Physical Touch: Taking a hands-on approach with your skin, literally, will help you get intimately acquainted with it, and help you accept every little beauty mark or freckle. Using a moisturiser, and long, firm sweeping strokes, gently massage your face starting in the centre and moving outwards and upwards towards the ears, before gently moving down to the neck. This will help release tension, relax the muscles of the face, provide lymphatic drainage and help reduce puffiness. If you prefer, you could put on a mask, and use your jade roller as well.
Words of affirmation: Today, self care is a natural extension of skincare and speaking kindly to yourself as well as to your skin can help put your skin in a good place. Stress can cause your skin to break out and age prematurely, while endorphins, which are the happy hormones, will leave your skin glowing. Try adding positive affirmations like “I trust my skin’s healing process” or “I completely love my skin no matter what” to your daily skincare routine. When you feel good, you look good, and you will be glowing from inside out.
Gifts: Your skin is the largest organ and works hard to regulate body temperature, keep you protected from the elements as well as germs. Valentine’s Day is a great occasion to treat your skin to products that work as hard as it does. The Bounce Firming Serum, is packed with the goodness of oats, which helps to calm skin while strengthening its natural defences. Other skin nourishing ingredients like adenosine and a cocktail of seed butters help to reduce wrinkles, improve elasticity, boost cell regeneration and fight free radical damage.
Bounce Recharge Cream is packed with antioxidant goodness thanks to vitamin E, Chinese Skullcap root, Licorice root, Chamomile flower and Rosemary leaf, which keep the skin moisturised, supple and energised. It also has all-star ingredient Niacinamide that regulates sebum, retains moisture, refines texture and evens tone.
Applying a sheet mask like the Baby Drops Mask, after you’ve finished your skincare routine helps seal in all the goodness while helping to further rejuvenate skin. A bio-cellulose mask, the Baby Drops Mask is packed with ingredients that soothe, improve hydration, boost elasticity and strengthen skin barrier.
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Acts of Service: Regularly treating your skin to a facial is the ultimate act of service. Not only will you be relaxed and refreshed, your skin will be glowing, hydrated and healthy. A good place to start is the Hydra Detox Balancing Facial that uses Alpha Hydroxy Acid and Beta Hydroxy Acid along with powerful suction to gently deep cleanse pores and slough away dead skin without causing any irritation or redness. The treatment ends with a nourishing skin serum topically applied with a rotating silicone tip to ensure it is well absorbed into the skin. This treatment works well on its own or as a precursor to other facials like the Needleless PDRN Healer.
Nourishing, hydrating, and most importantly, painless the Needleless PDRN Healer, is an absolute treat for all skin types. Using SkinElectroporation or S.E.P technology, it temporarily disrupts the skin’s aqua channels to help improve absorption of PDRN by up to 17 times. Rich in amino acids, vitamins, polypeptides, PDRN helps to improve cell growth and tissue repair. Plus, it is biocompatible with the human body and safe in the long run.
