To do this, I use a combination of smart skin care supplements, topicals, and a diligently consistent routine. Part of that routine is facial massage and gua sha, which I do almost daily. So when I spoke with skin care expert Debbie Kung, DAOM, LAc, in a recent episode of Clean Beauty School all about gua sha, I knew I had to ask about the area. (A nice bonus of having your own beauty podcast is you get to talk to all of the best experts about your personal beauty concerns and call it work.) But back to the forehead: How is it best used in this particular area? Well, Kung’s advice might surprise you—it certainly surprised me. “So for most people, their biggest concern on the forehead is lines, correct? So here’s where it gets a little weird. To treat this, I actually don’t focus on the forehead for a few reasons,” says Kung. “The first is that the forehead tends to get red very easily because there’s a lot of blood flow to the area since that’s where the brain is. Number two is that there’s bone there, so it doesn’t feel very comfortable, especially as we age and that muscle starts to thin. The third is that if you really want to work those lines, facial gua sha isn’t going to do the trick.” “There are meridians that run through the forehead that actually go into the scalp,” she says. “What you are going to want to do is take your tool, and starting at your hairline right above your eye, go back like you’re combing your hair.” She notes that you’ll want to keep your wrists loose and the stone flat against the hair—but you don’t need to worry about applying oil to the hair as you’re not pulling directly against the skin. Finally, if your wrinkles are deep-set, Kung recommends acupuncture: “You might need to go deeper than gua sha. Something like facial acupuncture will get below the dermis and help with the muscles since those lines are formed by movement,” she says.
