Enjoy a Gossip Girls afternoon for you and three friends from Paul Edmonds worth over £300 - and six Biolustré treatments for runners-up, each worth £60
Eva Fraser is over 70 (though she'll probably hate us for saying it!) and looks 20 years younger.
Her face-saving, skin-saving secret is facial exercises which
she has developed over many years. We asked her to share her
favourites with us here. Practise one, some or all of these
as a daily routine to wake up a tired face and prevent lines
and sagging. For a more detailed workout, follow Eva’s
book or video, or consult her at her facial workout studio in
London for your individual programme. While doing the exercises,
feel relaxed and breathe slowly and rhythmically.
1.
Face tapping - to get the circulation going
Tap 20 times on each dot with the pads of your middle
fingers. From the bridge of your nose work out along your
eyebrows, then in round the top of your cheekbone. Tap
up from the sides of your mouth to each inner eye. Then
out from the chin along the jawline to each ear. Make
sharp, light, very quick taps as if you are testing a
very hot iron.
2.Ear
massage - to get your face glowing
With index fingers and thumbs, hold the top rim of your
ears and pull upwards. Massage, making small circles between
fingers and thumbs. Move down all round the rim of the
ears, pulling ears out gently and massaging, as above.
When you reach the lobes, pull them down slightly and
massage for about one minute. Repeat this sequence if
you have time. Then, with small, quick circular movements,
massage all the crevices and spirals of the ear. Use the
surface of the nails of your index fingers, or the pads
of your middle fingers.
3.Throat
massage - to beautify your neck
Put the fingers of one hand on one side of your throat
and the thumb on the other. Make rapid circular motions
up and down the throat. Repeat with the other hand.
4.Gum
stimulation - for glowing gums
With fingertips or knuckles, make circles just above the
jawline along the gums.
5.Under-chin
slaps - to sharpen your jawline
Slap quickly and lightly under your chin 30 times with
the back of one hand.
6.Hair
massage - to stimulate hair growth and soothe headaches
With the pads of your fingertips, massage in small circles
all along the front of your scalp for at least 30 seconds.
Then take large fistfuls of hair and gently pull upwards.
Now clench your hands into fists and lightly pound your
scalp about 20 times.
7.
Face stroking - to soothe, relax and generally uplift
face and mind
N.B. This is not massage but very superficial stroking.
Start with the flat of your right hand against your
chest and stroke up to your jawline, then immediately
follow with your left. Continue alternating like this
for at least ten strokes.
Next, immediately smooth the palms and fingers of your
hands over your face - very, very lightly. Start at
the jawline, move up and over your cheeks and each side
of your nostrils, gently over the eyes and over the
forehead to the hairline, then back down the sides of
your face to your jaw. Repeat five to ten times in a
continuous motion.
Now glide your middle fingers towards the bridge of
your nose, out along your eyebrows, down your cheekbones
and back to the bridge of your nose. Make ten of these
light circular movements.
Then, with your middle fingers on the bridge of your
nose, stroke up towards your forehead. Place all fingers
(not thumbs) on your forehead and smooth outwards towards
your temples; hold for a moment, pressing down slightly.
Continue lightly down the side of your face, back along
the cheekbones and up from the bridge of your nose.
Do this ten times.
8.Temple
pressure - to lift eye area and whole face
Leaning back in a chair, place the base of your palm or
the pads of your fingertips against your temples and push
upwards. At the same time, suck your tongue against the
top of your mouth keeping your back teeth together. Hold
this for a count of ten, increasing to 20. Slowly release
and relax.
9.
Exercise your mouth - to lift lip lines
Sit or stand, looking into a mirror. Open your mouth quite
wide, as if about to yawn. Pull in the sides to form an
oval. Now curve your lips over your teeth. Then, very
slowly to the count of ten, close your lips until they
are about 1.5cm (1/2in) apart. You will feel an upward
pull. Release very slowly.
10.
Finish by closing your eyes for a few moments,
breathing deeply and gently and allowing yourself to drift
off into a peaceful place - a summer garden, a warm deserted
beach or, Eva’s favourite, the clouds.
TIP Eva’s preferred body
exercise video is the Medau technique by Lucy Jackson.
