Smartphones, telecommuting, our necks are put to the test with our eyes glued to the screen or keyboard. Our action plan.
Working from home isn’t all good. The problem? An ill-adjusted workplace, especially when you find yourself slumped over on your sofa. Our (bad) posture that accentuates the neck crease that has already been well activated by the introduction of texting into our lives. Because if with age (about 45 years) the oval is inevitable, it happens ten years earlier with the phone. Three experts advise us to combat the #textneck effect.
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We moisturize
The neck stands out as one of the first signs of aging. “The skin there is very delicate, like the outline of the eyes. As a result, when you apply your facial treatment (cream and serum), you need to get down to this area, which needs to be treated as soon as possible to avoid sagging skin,” warns Dominique Rist, International Director of Spa Protocols at Clarins.
We are a mass
However, be careful to go light on the cream or oil when it comes to massage, warns Delphine Langlois, co-director of the Academy of Fascialists. “It shouldn’t slide too much.” In order for the treatment to penetrate well, place your hands in a prayer position at the level of the neck and go up to the nape of the neck. “Then we can use Jacquet pinches, dry and tonic, the crease should be perpendicular to the crease.” He also recommends the small palpate-roll technique; you take the crease between your index and middle fingers, the idea is to create a bead and push it outwards from the center of the neck with your thumb. Facial specialist and masseuse Melinda Bognar, who currently lives in Paris at the Musée et Heroine treatment house on rue Charlot, also recommends a thorough massage of the trapezius; the vessels are well-circulated and therefore deprive the skin of essential vitamins and minerals.’
We are stretching
Delphine Langlois reminds us that you should stretch the platysma muscle, which is present on the neck and décolleté; All imagining that we have a string that pulls the chin up. For Melinda Bognar, you can also simply tilt your head back, sticking your tongue out to touch your nose. An exercise that also helps to erase the double chin. “You should repeat these gestures in the morning and in the evening to strengthen collagen and help the skin to eliminate wrinkles.”
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We are getting help
For both facialists, the 90-degree gua-sha makes it possible to work the wrinkle in a sweeping motion from the bottom up, while flexing the neck to tighten the skin. They also like suction cups that can be used with the oil by pulling the crease between the thumb and forefinger while the other hand folds the crease with the suction cup to plump the skin. Finally, in the perfect grid on wrinkles, Ridokkin, a tool of Chinese medicine, is also used “in large tonic movements back and forth, from the base of the neck upwards,” concludes Delphine Langlois.
Source: Le Figaro
