Blog – L'Amour et la Musique

I love when I randomly stumble on a combination of products that is e x a c t l y what my skin needed in that moment. I decided to try some gua sha with the Votary Super Seed oil last night and it’s so *so* good for this application (on my skin). Definitely a richer oil and the way it gets worked in to the skin through the stone is 😱😍. Post gua sha I added a little more oil mixed with a few layers of the Inlight Floral tonic (I did this before and after the stone work), and then right before bed I added a petite (very petite) dab of Ayuna Terra which I’ve been quiet on because it’s very hard for me to be effusive about an extraordinarily expensive product but the short point there is I LOVE it (more than Cream II 🙆🏻‍♀️🙈). Couldn’t believe my skin this morning. Had to share this combo. Also, been doing revised thinking around gua sha information and education (which is everywhere). Any person doing TCM or CCM body gua sha will tell you to never slide or scrape up the neck. Yet all the estheticians tell you this because “lifting.” So I basically have been reverting to a completely intuitive facial massage etc practice drawing on tons of accumulated knowledge from varied sources over many years. Also I had such an enlightening discussion with Michelle Ranavat for Your Purpose is Beauty (coming mid-Feb!) and her intuitive Kansa wand practice. I’m just forever pondering these questions of authority and professional claims to knowledge and practice in the beauty space. Definitely fodder for a deeper discussion somewhere, sometime soon... @theboxwalla @inlight_beauty @lessisbeauty @votarylondon @wildling_beauty @ranavat . . . #skincareroutine #guasha #boxwalla #boxwallabeauty #votary #votarylondon #ayuna #lessisbeauty #wildlingbeauty #bianstone #empressstone #inlightbeauty #beautyjournalism #independentbeauty #vsco #lamour