Your face holds several special “beauty points” that, when gently massaged for a few minutes each day, can help you effortlessly glow with youthful and natural beauty.
Find the Right Points for Easy Facial Beauty
Many people wish for a rosy, fresh complexion — like a blooming flower. But just like flowers need fertile soil to thrive, your skin needs good blood circulation and energy to look its best.
Frequently massaging facial acupoints helps improve blood flow in your face. Doctors use acupressure points to ease discomfort in the head and face, regulating the skin, muscles, and sebaceous glands. In daily life, a simple gentle massage can improve your skin tone and appearance.
Here are several important beauty points that significantly affect your appearance. Save these and remember to massage them often!
1. Yangbai Point — Clear Acne and Soften Frown Lines
Location: Directly above the pupil, about one thumb’s width above the eyebrow.
Benefits:
Brightens the face, making skin look clean, rosy, and glowing.
Softens forehead and glabellar (frown) lines, making skin firmer and more elastic.
Relieves wind-heat, eases fatigue, reduces fine lines and sagging, and treats acne and pimples.
Helps drooping eyelids, crooked mouth or eyes, and blurry vision.
Stimulates eyebrow hair growth, useful for thinning eyebrows.
2. Tongziliao Point — Prevent Crow’s Feet and Improve Skin Tone
Location: In the hollow 0.5 thumb-width outside the outer corner of the eye.
Benefits:
Improves skin around eyes, preventing crow’s feet and softening eye muscles.
Enhances skin’s rosy color.
Helps with red, swollen, or painful eyes, blurry vision, crooked mouth or eyes.
Good for those who often stay up late or have poor sleep.
3. Sibai Point — Reduce Puffiness and Lighten Dark Spots
Location: Below the pupil, at the infraorbital foramen (under the eye socket).
Benefits:
Prevents wrinkles and dark circles, reduces puffiness, smooths the face.
Whitens skin, lessens freckles, melasma, and dull complexion.
Helps prevent eye diseases like nearsightedness and glaucoma.
4. Juliao Point — Improve Nasolabial Folds and Facial Swelling
Location: Where the bottom of the nose wing meets the vertical line below the pupil.
Benefits:
Boosts facial energy and blood flow, brightening complexion.
Lifts sagging cheeks and improves nasolabial folds, making the mouth corners perk up for a firmer, fuller face.
Clears wind and heat, relieves nosebleeds, toothache, and facial swelling.
5. Dicang Point — Restore Elasticity and Lift Mouth Corners
Location: About 0.4 thumb-width beside the corner of the mouth, aligned with the pupil.
Benefits:
Restores skin elasticity, reduces wrinkles around mouth and nasolabial folds, lifts mouth corners.
Helps with crooked mouth, drooling, facial pain, and toothache.
6. Chengjiang Point — Brighten Dull Skin and Relieve Oral Issues
Location: Center hollow below the lower lip.
Benefits:
Regulates the Ren Meridian to improve facial blood flow.
Brightens dull, sallow skin.
Fades melasma, sun spots, and age spots; reduces eye bags.
Relieves gum swelling, mouth ulcers, facial drooping, drooling, and swelling.
How to Massage
Facial skin is delicate, so use gentle pressure and slow, smooth movements—don’t rush. Aim for a mild soreness feeling, which is common if blood flow is blocked or weak.
Massage each point for 3–5 minutes, twice daily—once in the morning and once at night. Massage half the time clockwise and half counterclockwise to balance stimulation and relaxation.
Massage when your face is clean and makeup-free, such as after washing your face at night, after applying a mask or skincare products. The slight soreness means it’s working, and you’ll feel more comfortable afterward.
Too Many Points to Massage? Try Gua Sha
Your face has many beauty points—like Touwei, Quanliao, Chengqi, and Yintang—that help improve wrinkles, brighten skin, reduce inflammation and acne, and ease eye discomfort.
Massaging each point for several minutes can be time-consuming. Instead, you can use facial gua sha (scraping therapy) to stimulate your entire face.
Before and after gua sha, lightly tap these points with the edge of the gua sha tool to help regulate meridian flow and blood circulation. This way, both overall circulation and targeted points get enough stimulation.
Tips:
Don’t scrape back and forth; always scrape upward to lift the face.
Wash your face and apply toner, lotion, and cream before gua sha.
After gua sha, don’t wash your face or expose it to cold; gently wipe off excess oil if needed.
Facial gua sha should be gentle; some redness is normal and will fade by the next day.
Immediately after gua sha, your complexion will improve but may return to normal soon—consistent weekly or daily gua sha is key to improving long-term circulation and skin health.
Final Thoughts
Consistently massaging your facial beauty points boosts blood flow, improves skin condition, and slows aging signs. Daily gentle care tightens and plumps your face, revealing a natural, healthy glow.
Whether you choose acupressure or gua sha, doing it properly and regularly lets your beauty shine from within. Remember, true beauty isn’t an overnight miracle but the result of daily loving habits that help you look and feel your best every day.