Want Brighter Eyes That Look Less Tired? This Gua Sha Treatment Could Do The Trick

Winner of The Weekly's Spa Awards 2021
What Best Eye-Lifting Treatment (Gua Sha)
Where SkinLab The Medical Spa
How Gua Sha Eye Treatment
Good to know 50 mins, $105 nett

If the culmination of late nights, eye rubbing, and water retention has resulted in tired, puffy eyes, and the dreaded dark circles, an age-old treatment method could help in getting you brighter peepers: facial gua sha.

With its roots in traditional Chinese medicine, it supposedly helps to stimulate skin, improve blood circulation as well as relax tense facial muscles.

SkinLab The Medical Spa's Gua Sha Eye Treatment, for instance, uses a two-pronged approach with traditional Chinese gua sha (named for the "scrapping" movement) techniques together with a modern understanding of facial anatomy and lymphatic pathways — this helps remove lymphatic fluid from the eye area, and increases blood flow as well as lifts and contours the skin around the eyes.

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The treatment kickstarts with a soothing head massage and a double cleanse to clean and prep skin thoroughly. Then, flat gua sha stones are used to gently scrape and massage the skin around the eyes.

This is bolstered by a lymphatic drainage massage that is said to help with eliminating fluid and toxin build-up as well as contribute to a more lifted and sculpted effect. And to end off, sunscreen and eye serum from SkinLab are smoothed over your skin.

There's no downtime, too, making it a great pre-event treatment for well-rested, brighter peepers in a flash.

SkinLab The Medical Spa has multiple outlets, visit its website for a list of locations.

A SkinLab The Medical Spa special, created by The Singapore Women’s Weekly.

Use promo code “GUASHAEYE21” on SkinLab The Medical Spa’s website during checkout to enjoy a first-time trial promotion of $48 nett (U.P. $105 nett). Select one a-la-carte session of Gua Sha Eye Treatment 50-mins.