Review (5/5): This nifty, solidly built, silent, little tool is THE BOMB!
I am amused at what I let friends talk me into. As an Aesthetic RN (Yeah, that's right, Botox, Fillers... painful Machines both large and small ;-) I fancy myself to have a healthy skepticism about the latest fads in health, beauty, and 'De-age-ification'. A girlfriend of mine REALLY wanted me to buy this Rose Quartz Roller. She gave me lots of reasons about lifting and tightening which fell on deaf ears. But then she mentioned Lymphatic Drainage. That got my attention. There is a snippet of good research to support lymphatic drainage as a valid de-age-ification tool. Not enough to get me to buy this thing. But, the research exists.
The reason I bought the Rose Quartz Roller is because I have ALLERGIES. When I was a child in the Midwest, I was allergic to the month of June. Now, I live on the Left Coast and my “hayfever” is 365/24/7. I take daily antihistamines, I pop an additional Mucinex and 12 hour pseudoephedrine to clear out my head weekly. When it gets really bad, I end up on my back, on my bed, drugged up, hot steam going, and massaging my face to aid my lymphatic drainage. This process helps. I can usually get things cleared up enough to breath through my nose and get to sleep.
NOW, I have this handy little tool. When I have a few extra moments in the morning or evening I quickly run it in counts of 10 strokes over my lymphatic pathways. I either work from the chin up or from my eyes up then my cheeks down. Always sweeping from the center outward, I was taught to work the pathways of the face all the way down the outside of the neck, to the clavicles. With this roller, it takes me very little time. I can feel the motion of all the annoying stuff in my sinuses as it clears. The small roller end is great for the eyes and upper face and the larger end simplifies the lower face and neck. The Rose Quartz Roller changes lymphatic massage from something I would take the time for when I absolutely had to do it, to a fun and easy once or twice a day part of my self care routine. This nifty, solidly built, silent, little tool is THE BOMB!
Then bonus round... Someone asked me yesterday what the new thing was that I was doing because she thought I looked “amazing”!