Heart Shaped Gua Sha Tool

Are you like me and just love and adore an actual heart shaped gua sha tool, then this gua sha is for you. They come in 3 different colors, Rose Quartz, Blue Spot Jasper and Green Aventurine.

What is a Gua Sha

A gua sha tool has become more and more popular in the last couple of years. gua sha scraping is an ancient Chinese healing technique where they would scrape parts of the body to encourage the Chi to flow again. In recent years the use of a gua sha for facial anti-aging has increased as it has rejuvenating benefits.

Anti-aging Benefits of a Gua Sha

There are many anti-aging benefits to using facial gua sha massaging techniques

• It encourages the blood circulation
• Stimulates and helps drain stagnant lymphatic fluid
• Removes puffiness
• Helps release tension in your facial muscles 
• It can be used to relieve any jaw tension
• It can help sculpt your jawline
• The gua sha can help with facial sculpting
• Helps remove dead skin cells
• Prolonged use will help reduce effect of aging like wrinkles and fine lines

The accumulating effect of all these on your skin are the removal of fluid and toxin build up. This is then replaced with fresh fluid filled with nutrients. These nourishments will help heal your skin and remove fine lines and wrinkles leaving your skin rejuvenated and radiant.

How Should You Use a Gua Sha

There are a couple of tips that will help you not make beginner's mistakes. These are just a couple of examples of how you can use the facial massaging tool, you can repeat every movement 3 to 5 times or 30 seconds, depending how you feel.

• Apply oil to help the gua sha glide over your skin smoothly.
• Don’t apply too much pressure.
• Glide the gua sha from your brow outward to your hairline, in a wan like manner.
• Glide the gua sha just above your eyebrows towards your ears.
• Glide the gua sha underneath your eye from your nose towards your ear, but make sure you do not put too much pressure.
• Place the gua sha just next to your nostrils and glide the gua sha towards your ears over your cheekbones and underneath them, adjusting the pressure accordingly.
• From your chin, glide the gua sha towards your ear.
• With a pointy edge you can apply some pressure on your masseter muscle to remove the pressure on your temporomandibular joint (TMJ).
• Interchange the massaging strokes with long streaks from your ear down to your neck to help drain the lymphatic fluid into the blood stream.

These are just a few of the many techniques you can perform with a gua sha.

Pro-Tip: Place the gua sha crystal in the freezer for a couple of minutes before you use it, the cold touch of the gua sha will have an extra soothing effect to the skin.

Different Gua Sha crystals Available

Rose Quartz Gua Sha

The Rose Quartz crystal is all about unconditional love and self love and is associated with the heart chakra. It helps you gain inner peace and healing with the help of the pure love it emits. It can help in all aspects of life and helps attract self love and it is also known to benefit youth and beauty. Therefore this is a perfect go to crystal for facial anti-aging rituals. 

Blue Spot Jasper Gua Sha

The Blue Spot Jasper crystal is used to help you tune in to spirit. It has a calming effect and helps you gain more strength with decisions you make and helps your intuitive self. It helps you connect to your true self. The Blue Spot Jasper is associated with your throat chakra and therefore it can help you with expression and help you choose your words carefully while remaining true to oneself. 

This is a rare crystal for facial anti-aging rituals, however if you like to strengthen your connection to the spiritual world and help you express yourself this is the perfect tool to incorporate in your daily self care and or facial massaging rituals.

Green Aventurine Gua Sha

The Green Aventurine gua sha will help heal and bring you in harmony so you can have a sense of inner peace, love and compassion. It will help strengthen you and give you more confidence so you can feel more positive about life. It is also associated with luck, and has been known to remove any electromagnetic fields that are coming from the many electronic gadgets we are surrounded with. 

Green Aventurine's main job is to act as a healer, which is why this is also a popular go to crystal for the gua sha tool.