Sitting at your counter or dressing table or wherever it is that you would love to do your skincare routine.
You reach over and you grab your headband and you gently pull it over your hair and face so it sits around your neck.
You gently run your fingers through your hair to push your hair away from your face and gently pull the hairband back across your forehead over your ears and the reassuring tightness of the elastic in the headband makes you feel secure.
You reach over now to your eye makeup remover.
You feel the cool bottle as you pick it up in your hands and turn it upside down.
You squeeze the bottle gently so that the liquid comes through onto soft cotton wool.
You separate the two cotton wool rounds in your hand and you feel the cool refreshing liquid on the soft cotton wool rounds.
You close your eyes and you press the refreshing pads onto your eyes.
You hold them there for a second whilst they cool,
Soothe and rejuvenate and you apply just a gentle pressure so that the liquid can melt away any eye makeup.
Eventually you start gently rubbing your eyes in circular motions.
You go in towards the middle at the bottom and then scoop gently around your eyebrows coming outwards to your temples.
In underneath the eyes to the middle,
Across your brow bone and sweeping outwards across the eyebrows.
In underneath towards the middle and out across the eyebrows.
You check and your eye makeup is completely removed.
Your eyes feel tingly,
Rejuvenated and fresh.
You lean over now to your cleanser.
You take two firm pumps.
You then place your hands on your face firmly,
Pressing the cooling cleanser into your cheeks,
Then either side of your nose,
Then your forehead and your jawline.
You then take time to gently use circular movements,
Massaging the cleanser into your skin,
Melting,
Dissolving any facial makeup on your skin.
You use this time as a relaxing facial massage.
You use circular movements on your forehead to release tension from your furrowed brow.
You use pushing movements to stretch your forehead and you take a moment to give yourself a relaxing temple massage.
You then come around and focus on your cheeks,
Using circular movements outward to gently lift the skin.
As you run your fingers up and outwards across your cheekbone,
You can feel the tension of the day drifting away.
It feels so nice to scoop the fingers underneath the cheekbone.
And as you use firm pressure to massage your jaw,
You can feel any last resonance of tension melting away.
You stimulate your skin gently by pinching your jawline pinching your chin and gently pinching your lips.
You then reach for more soft cotton wool and you use gentle respectful sweeping motions to remove the cleanser.
Piece by piece,
The cotton wool becomes away more and more clean.
Until the last time the cotton wool remains white.
There is now not a single molecule of makeup on your skin.
You now come to exfoliate the skin.
You take two more pieces of cotton wool rounds and pump the exfoliating acidic solution onto the cotton wool rounds.
You start on the forehead in between the brows and push the cool exfoliating solution on the cotton wool rounds into your skin and sweep outwards across your brows.
You bring them together again from the temples into the center of the forehead and sweep outwards.
You bring them together one more time in the center of the forehead by the hairline and sweep outwards.
You then bring the cotton wool rounds in the middle of your chin underneath the jawline and you sweep all the way out slowly towards the earlobes.
You then bring the cotton wool rounds into the center of your chin and gently sweep out towards the middle of your ears.
You bring the cotton wool rounds into the center underneath your nose and you gently sweep across the top lip.
Then you bring one cotton wool round into the middle of your eyebrows and sweep downwards on the nose.
First in the middle then once either side.
And now that the cotton wool has slightly less acidic solution on it it's perfect for the delicate cheek area.
So you bring the cotton wool rounds to either side of your nostrils and gently sweep out to the top of your ear.
Then you bring them in to the middle of the side of the nose and gently sweep out again towards the temple just slightly catching the under eye area and crow's feet.
These potent ingredients are now at work gently dissolving the bonds that keep dead skin cells attached to the face.
You feel refreshed,
More youthful,
So clean.
And it is so satisfying that the skincare is working this hard for you after such a simple application.
You also feel good knowing now that any other serum,
Eye cream or moisturizer that you apply is going to penetrate so easily and so deeply into your skin.
Prepare to apply your retinol serum.
You pick it up and you twist the bottle until it clicks.
You administer two to three pumps of the bright yellow serum onto your fingertips.
You begin on the forehead.
You push up slightly from between your brows,
Up your forehead to your hairline and outward to your temples.
You then come down to the center of your chin and massage the retinol outwards to your ears.
You gently sweep down your nose and across your top lips.
And with the majority of the retinol application already on your face you sweep the last little bit on your fingertips across your delicate cheeks.
Now you focus on hydrating the skin.
You pick up your hydrating serum and for the second time you apply two to three pumps to your fingertips.
You gently massage them between your fingertips.
And this time because your cheeks need just a little more hydration than other areas of the skin,
That's where you start.
You gently push your fingertips into the apples of your cheeks and gently sweep outwards towards the top of your ears.
You then go to the forehead,
Starting in between the eyebrows and gently rolling your fingers out towards your temples.
You then come to the center of the forehead and gently sweep outwards before coming to the center of the forehead by the hairline and sweeping outwards towards the temples once more.
You come down to the jawline,
Starting at the chin and apply a slightly firmer pressure,
Aiding relaxation of those powerful jaw muscles.
You come to the nose and top lip then gently use your fingertips to press all over the skin.
Your skin already looks more radiant,
More glowing.
You're so pleased that you're taking this time to do this relaxing routine.
Then we come to apply an eye cream.
You gently press the pump of the eye cream until you have about half a pump on the very tip of your ring finger and you start in the outermost corner of your eye by the crow's feet.
You don't rub but you apply gentle repetitive pressure,
Pressing the eye cream inwards from the crow's feet underneath the eye area,
Working your way up towards the inner eye.
But you gently move towards the underneath of the most inside part of the eyebrow and you use a gentle pressure to push the eyebrows up,
Up,
Up,
Working outwards from the centre of the brow to the temple and you repeat this two or three times,
Pressing in,
In,
In,
In,
In towards the centre of the eyes.
Moving up to the brows,
Gently pressing out,
Out,
Out,
Out,
Out,
Sweeping across the crow's feet,
Gently pressing in,
In,
In,
In,
In towards the centre of the eyes,
Moving to the top of the brow,
Out,
Out,
Out,
Out,
Out.
You keep your eyes closed,
Gently apply some pressure to the temples.
You're feeling so relaxed,
Your skin is feeling so fresh.
Last but certainly not least is your moisturiser.
You pick up the bottle,
Open the cap and gently administer three pumps to your fingertips.
Again,
Because your cheeks need just a little more nourishment than other areas of the skin,
You gently press your fingertips onto the apples of your cheeks and you use very gentle circular motions to massage this moisturiser into your cheeks and out to your ears and use your fingertips to create very small circular motions.
It feels so good to be giving yourself this time,
This attention,
This nourishment as you massage this moisturiser into your cheeks and jawline,
As you gently use the palm of your hands to press your face,
Feeling the reassuring pressure and the cooling presence of all of the skincare that you've just applied.
You signal to yourself and your skin that this relaxing routine has come to an end.
