LET’S GET PHYSICAL

A few years ago, we would have been baffled by a face roller, let alone a Gua Sha, but now you’re the odd one out if you don’t have some sort of crystal accoutrement in your bathroom cabinet. “When I first brought Gua Sha to the market five years ago, I was flatly rejected by every single retailer and now it’s the beauty buzzword,” admits Katie Brindle, founder of the Hayo’u method, a system of 60-second wellbeing rituals based on traditional Chinese medicine with a range of seven tools. In AW19, Net-a-porter saw a 100 per cent growth in facial rollers and Gua Sha, and Cult Beauty reports that orders for facial tools last year grew by 41 per cent.

The accessories might be a recent addition, but the concept of facial massage is not. Dating back to ancient China, practitioners used acupressure techniques