No beauty product in the world—no matter how expensive or "revolutionary"—can ever match the transformative power of a consistent face yoga practice. This isn't something the beauty industry wants us to believe.

A lot of modern "beauty routines" seem to be rooted in a kind of subtle aggression toward ourselves—scrubbing, stripping, peeling, freezing, burning, injecting. Procedures and products that essentially say, "Your natural state is SOOO not good enough. Let's scrape it off and start over!"

Taking time for ourselves isn't selfish – no matter what that niggling inner voice might be telling you. It's an absolutely necessary aspect of being the best humans we can be.

If you had told me ten year ago that I would be a face yoga instructor, I would probably have choked on my tea and said something like "Face what? Is this a joke?"