Here's the rundown on crystal tools you can easily incorporate into your beauty routine for applying beauty products, giving yourself massages and more. Because crystals are gorgeous but they can help you look and feel gorge too.
Facial Rollers
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These ancient beauty tools are usually made with Jade and are known to reduce puffiness, relieve facial tension and stimulate the blood flow all while draining the lymphatic system. Most Jade rollers have two different sized rollers - use the smaller on under-eye bags. There are different facial massages you can do, but focus on rolling across the forehead, across the cheekbones then along the jawline with upward strokes moving from the middle of the face. The best way to use these every day is to apply serum and use the roller to really work the product into the skin. You can find plenty of affordable Jade rollers online in addition to beautifully packaged ones from new brands like Mount Lai (pictured). We also love rose quartz rollers as well - it just depends on your preference!
Gua Sha
Another ancient beauty tool that stimulate blood flow, releases facial tension and de-puffs underage bags. Often they're used in massage to scrape the dead skin cells away and improve circulation (often to pretty painful-looking results: Google with caution) and adherents swear it's much less painful than deep tissue massage. But they also make a great tool for a much more gentle stimulating facial massage. Celebrity natural skincare goddess Georgia Louise is famed for using a rose quartz "butterfly stone" to lift and sculpt during her facial appointments and sells one online in a butterfly shape - for $75 freakin' dollars.
Don't want to make room in your budget for a $75 Goop-approved facial massage stone? We totally understand. Here's an affordable set of five rose quartz massage tools, that includes a Gua Sha for face and other tools meant for body, hand and foot pressure point massage. You can also find a really affordable rose quartz beauty or this classic jade gua sha for under ten bucks.
Crystal Facial Grids
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Getting centered and meditating is the best beauty tip of all! Might as well throw some crystals on your face during the process. Perfect for during a bath or after giving yourself a facial, the cooling crystals will relieve facial tension and some crystals are said to have anti-aging properties. See the above picture from Crystal Rookie-approved book Crystal Muse for ideas on crystal placement. Grab the below crystals for your next crystal grid:
Aquamarine - anti-aging properties
Rose Quartz - the classic self love stone
Fluorite - anti-stress and anxiety (AKA removes facial tension/stank face)
Quartz - for clear skin
Shungite - detoxifies the skin
From L to R: Clear Quartz, Fluorite, Clear Quartz, Aquamarine, Rose Quartz, Smoky Quartz
