Was Neptune In Aquarius the Age Of The Beauty Machines?
So i got an amazing new Pisces face lady, fresh in from working with slebs in L.A and she totally knows her stuff. She does a killer massage that can send you from stressed out potential maniac practically breaking your finger texting aggro crap into hyper-Zen mode, drooling softly into her organic towels. Her client list is very interesting.
Anyway, i was amazed to find that she is virulently against lasers and says that Sydney (the city i live in) is over-run with lasers – i am talking about Fraxel & Co. There are a whole lot of different ones, super-costly but said to have sensational results. I got I.P.L. once to blast off some sun damage on my decolletage but it was so painful, blister-inducing, expensive with next to zero results etc that i didn’t do it again. But i’ve always felt a bit guilty for not lifting my game and getting in with the laser crowd. A woman at a nail spa even tried to get me do it saying “don’t let the pain put you off.”
But Pisces Face Lady says the trend has peaked, the complexion-fanatics she knows in L.A. are all galloping away from it bigtime as it’s basically a controlled burning of the face, no matter how you trick it up. Plus it’s hush-hush but it is not a procedure without some risk and side effects. I asked her if this was just something she was saying because she didn’t have a laser machine and she swore no. She’s not even haute hippy – Piscean Face Lady likes l.e.d lighting & micro-currents + injectibles where appropriate.
But laser face stuff AND microdermabrasion AND daily exfoliating are all finito. Last era. She said they’d begun in the late 90s but totally peaked. People with fancy expensive machinery naturally still want to get their $ worth so they’re pushing it but proper massage (firming, lymph draining etc) is The Everything. And so that is what got me thinking that the machines (microdermabrasion, beauty lasers) were all a manifestation of Neptune in Aquarius. It kind of makes sense.
As – omg – does the end of Saturn in Libra, sign of beauty-care. Everyone is re-assessing their skincare & beauty regime, paring it down for the Zap Zone, making it more authentic. It doesn’t have to be olive oil and mantra-chanting but it sure as fuq should not be super-costly petro-chemicals with bog freshener fragrance & having our cute faces burned or ground away at to force more collagen or whatever.
Thoughts?
Image: Pippo Fortis.
If this is the reassessing of the times, I’m all for it.. skin care, hair removal, ok Pisces Neptune, what you got then?
I’ve avoided the Lazar, I’m worried if I let someone in to that insecurity that they will addict me to their agenda and get me to see myself worse than I am, when I’m already talking myself into my face at this age.. I look at images of my past, now I can see the beautiful person there, but the mirror never quite gets me to relax. Its just the way it is. I don’t want to let anyone else into that mess… because its just ripe for abuse.
Totes biased here as I’m an acupuncturist in the spa industry but I have to agree! Micro and ipl are the reduced to flogging bulk deals on coupon sites. Facial acupuncture is booking out like never before
so does it work? x
Absolutely! Increased Qi and blood flow to the face = decreased stress tension and fluid being held in the face. Stress, tension, poor circulation = dodgy skin tone, puffiness etc etc….. Also areas of the face relate to organs and areas in the body, kinda like face reflexology or iris diagnosis
I’ll take acupuncture any day. I find it relaxing and a spiritual high. Lasers seem a bit extreme!
ok sure, but what is a ‘firming’ massage? Are they the ones that you know, cost extra? I thought the only thing that firmed anything was pilates, bicep curls, lat pull-downs and lunges. and soft-sand running (well, the only thing that soft-sand running firms is my resolve to never run in soft sand again hahahaha). And staying 19 years old. Forever.
and sleep. and hydration. and not hitting the turps, smoking, caffeine, processed food. and sleeping in an oxygen tent. in the Himalayas. while being massaged with neroli-infused jojoba oil by cabana boys who have been raised by High Priests and only know how to speak using compliments and kinds words, and when they walk they leave trails of gold dust.
nice. I am sold on this uptopia.
firming massage… er, by thai boyladies??
So when is our rejuvenatory Himalyan holiday? No, seriously proper facial massage does rad things
that’s true. the magicians (I no longer say beauticians) at my salon have magic hands that can iron out stress from my face. so there is that…!
I’ll look into the Himalayas thing soon…. I’m sure I read an ad for it somewhere..maybe I dreamt it
My mum had laser treatment in LA back in the early nineties. Not only was the procedure painful as hell and reduced her to being a recluse for months whilst she healed, the skin around her mouth has never regained the same pigment tone, so requires darker make up than the rest of her face. Thanks to her experience and years of working in the entertainment industry and seeing similar horrific results from lazers and botox, I plan to grow old gracefully without any intervention.
when saturn hit my venus i found miss donna a herbalist who makes cleansers etc. and my skin has never been better – for real http://www.missdonnaherbs.com.au/ she uses recipes from her grandmother and everything smells like herbs – no weird faux smells
We on the same page wolf!
I LOVE her! Her hand cream cured my friend’s skin condition that the pharma products weren’t helping. She is such a lovely woman – wholesome. Everything is so gentle but it works.
One simple reason NOT to do Lasers et al: The “Real” Housewives of Anywhere. Seriously, who wants to end up looking like a redly swollen puffer fish from having your skin singed off?
I think judicious sun-screening, hydration, props nutrition, exercise, healthy sex, switching up products AND resolving to aim for zen around free radicals (whatever form they take from Qi Vamps to second hand smoke) is much better than having one’s face sanded off.
like the notion of relegating qi vamps to mere free radicals
second that.
I am 40 and everyone thinks I am 30 – the only thing I have used is Creme DeLa Mer not everyday about once a fortnight – three weeks or if skin feels dry. I also only was my face with warm water and washer – no soap. If you touch your skin and it feels silky leave it the Fuq alone and it will stay that way! Also think good thoughts – don’t ever go to bed with angry resentment on your face!
You so Virgo
Redlipstick-
Anger and squinting causes frown lines- agreed!
Think I’ve asked this before – but recurrent deep cystic acne on the sides of my neck – which I’ve had ever since I hit puberty – what can be done?? The only releif I ever got was laser treatment, it totally cleared up for a couple of months and was heaps better for well over a year. Derm says the infection is so deep-seated that nothing will touch it. Nothing works, especially not exclusive diets. i think this last is because i am a very airy Gem Aqua moon, and i burn calories just by sitting. Whenever i get exclusive with my diet, it stresses me to the max and if i cut out dairy, wheat etc (sugar’s no problem, can do without easy peasy), I simply find that i spend my whole life trying to shop and cook and get enough calories into my gob. I thrive when I eat whatever and don’t think about it ( i still remember a month of looking like a supermodel on a diet of bacon sarnies, Coopers and sex). So, aside from diet stuff because the above is hard-learned and I will never be able to do vegan howvere well its prepared without fainting from lack of iron, fat, and sheer pasty calories – any thoughts?
Me again with the acupuncture!
Bangin my drum tonight! Do it…. just do it! Cystic stuff sounds like liverish so food is in there somewhere kitten! The liver also processes emotion so your onto something there …But maybe just try spelt or quinoa if you find the wheat free thing tricky….whatever you do go the acupuncture lol! …….. anyways not a health forum post… dont get me started!!
I’m sure its the emotion more than the food thing. Oh my god so much shit is coming up right now, a lifetime of shit. Acupuncture sounds like a goer. next question – anybody recommend a good acupuncturist in inner-city Melbourne?
yup!! Maybe I should rename myself Needle fish or something!
xx
Stephen Clavey is in the CBD (not sure if hes a v or ph but you’ll find him, ) there are a bunch of other people that work at the same clinic… all good by recent reports! Good luck.
And yes Emotions big time clogger upper
You should call yourself “fugu”!!!! =)
Christine at City Health, near RMIT.
And yes, acupuncture good for that kind of recurrent adult acne. Too much heat apparently – boiling out of you. Gross when you think of it like that but it also kind makes sense.
Is that your understanding of it Fire Fish?
Genius – Melbournites abound!
That’s certainly my take on it. I’ve apologised all my life for my temper – just this week it’s come to me that i have nothing more to apologise for. Quite simply, certain peple just expect too much of me, they really go for me, and they exppect me to do the apologising because i always feel everything is my fault. And it’s not. Acupunture shall be duly added to my list along with my counsellor! Thanks gals
To continue with my rant, Liver is also about boundaries and appropriate vs bats-crazy anger…. ok nuff now, going to do some work! Glad to hear your taking care of you little seabird x
Bats crazy anger, boundaries…appropriate responses, boundaries…oh hell…do you know me?
hahah! Sea Bird…. no hon just been walking the crazy path of haute hippy neptune for a wee while now…..my own bats included!! x
I had similiar issues and anger boiling under the surface. Felt taken advantage of until I put up stronger boundaries.
you have to make the body more alkiline babes. Bit of baking soda in the water. I drink it and its helped my redness. take the heat out of the body. emotions. foods whatves. x
Yup! Heat prob from the liver maybe the Stomach…. Def from something being stuck somewhere
… like to keep it simple xx
ok. firstly I am having very good results with hypnotherapy. If you are into kinesiology I know a very good one in melb. He’s not cheap though. Sounds like organ and hormones. Food is a factor but its coming from elsewhere. ping me for deets if you want x
My acupuncturist, on our *second* meeting told me that I was very passionate, that that’s good and that I should channel my passions, as trying to control them made me rebellious, which in turn manifested in inappropriate behaviour around food and alcohol…
I lay there half giggling, half crying for about 5 minutes. At this point, he hadn’t stuck a damn needle in me. Bloody Vulcan just used his *mind*…
I love the way experienced body therapists can read you like a book
Hmm.. I DO like the idea of facial acupuncture – the hormonal acupuncture is going gangbusters !
Don’t suppose you can recommend a facial acupuncturist in Perth ?
Hello beautiful. I so know where you come from with the eat-anything-it’s-fuel-for-slender-machine plus anger-fury-righteous-rage physical energy type.
A thought from me: emotions such as anger have a scientifically proven hormonal process in the body. This may eventually involve the liver, sure, but first and foremost it’s limbic brain, adrenals..the hormone centres. Emotions bring fight or flight.
If you thrive when you eat whatever, i wonder if the old adage the skin is the intestine turned inside out is true? You need fats and proteins, so look at getting them but making them clean. I do high fat meat, full fat yoghurt and cheese, but no pastry/floury dough as it makes me feel clogged. I do carbs to be balanced but i only enjoy rice and pasta or occasional sourdough. Too much white carb makes me sad, no kidding
And i hate to be all reformed about it but check liquor… are some liqours cleaner than others if you don’t want to give them up? My body’s a science lab but haven’t found the answer to the healthiest liquor on earth. Non drinking me has a sexybeautiful liver now apparently. ANd less sugar for my poor hypoglycaemic insulin rich bod! i think intestines hold a key to skin, as does the pituitary, and the effects of lingering cortisol. The pituitary controls testosterone as well, which has some acne links.
Here, then click side link to testosterone.
http://www.yourhormones.info/hormones/adrenaline.aspx
Millie! Yes! Here’s what i must eat to stay healthy. Spinach, organic lamb chops with fat, full-fat high quality cheese (not the camembert variety – that’s too much for my ssytem although i love it, more the grana padano type), full-fat yoghurt, either or soy milk or real unhomogenised milk, both are fine, lots of fruit, lots of greens, limited amounts but must have of sourdough bread and some pasta – I don’t digest white rice very well, gotta soak the brown overnight – i don’t digest most big grains or legumes very well – canned canneli beans cooked for an hour are about my limit. I have instant reactions to things, lots of stuff gives me terrible gas, and eating what I’m ‘suposed’ to eat (ie cutting out meat, dairy, grains), makes me just totally leave the planet and enter a headspace that doens’t need t be seen.
Alcohol…I just remembered the first and only time I had acupuncture – I was abut 15 – it did actually take the heat from my face, I felt it. But the acupuncturist, who was in Brisbane, an old Chinese man, said to me “Never drink alcohol – for your system it is quite literally poison”. I can’t drink alcohol except small amounts of really good red wine (small meaning half a glass) or a snifter of port and only with food. Any more and I will actually just vomit it straight back up again.
I love the taste of coffee but if I drink it every day I become like a different person. Chocolate makes me antsy. For some reason, real croissants made with butter make me happy and are easily digestible, but just about all other forms of flour including rye is no good. But plain pasta is fine. There’s more to food than the simple ingredients.
I know all my stuff is emotional. I am so up in my head and I have had some very strange conceptions of myself which are all untangling now. All my stress is on my face. I don’t like this because it’s…visible….which means…I need to deal with it to make it go away…..
Thankyou for the link xx
Oh, and sugar. If I indulge in sweet things, I quite literally itch about 5 minutes later, my skin goes red and starts to prickle and my heart races. Concentrated sugar is wrong. But I don’t care what science says, in my body, honey and maple syrup break down differently to sugar. How do I know? I just do.
Or the old one –
Never eat anything that you wouldn’t put on your face.
Never put anything on your face that you wouldn’t eat.
ohhh ouch…. mine calmed down in my mid 30′s…
Basically major shedding of qi vamps + eating lots of healthy dark green veggies+ not stressing so much about eating the perfect diet helped. Also living by the ocean and getting out of a hot dirty city really helped. moonbathing seems to be good too
I tried all the antibiotics, etc. and none of them worked. I’m a big fan of the “oil cleansing method” as well- it is great for me.
Best of luck! Its a normal thing that can eventually pass.
Yes, this sounds right. I know it’s how I react rather than what’s happening. So just this last week learning it’s not me, because i internalise everything then let it out in these tremendous upheavals that are hideous both to be near and to go through. So if i just went “well, you’re dong it again and that sucks but I choose to just leave now’, that would rock. And eat some more spinach.
What is oil cleansing? Do you mean of your skin? Because i find two things work really well on my skin – one is Dr Hauschka’s cleanising cream, and the other is to massage in some sesame or castor oil and then simply press a steamy cloth over my skin until the excess oil and dirt has been cleaned away – then splash with cold water and finished.
Oh yes I hear you about stopping internalizing. Just had a dream last night telling me to trust others to take care of themselves however they please. Stopped having acne about the time I finally starting seeing the ugly parts of people, not just the good. Otherwise all that toxic anger just builds up.
Thanks for the clarification- I meant the oil skin cleansing method. I use jojoba oil- sometimes with a pinch of baking soda, egg, oatmeal or vanilla. I think I could probably just use cookie dough LOL!! More info at
http://www.crunchybetty.com/nitty-gritty-on-the-oil-cleansing-method
XO beautiful! You can get through this. libretta
yes, eat lots of leafy greens like spinach in salads or cooked greens. Antioxidants!
What is a cooper?
Coopers Ale – brand of beer from South Australia – way before the craze for boutique beer in this country, there was Coopers!
Good to know. Will have to have one if I ever get there.
Best night ever: Coopers Pale ale in hand, dancing along to afro-reggae group, Kalabash. Happy, happy.
Spot on Mystic. Have re-vamped beauty philosophy this week!
i hate to be such a butthole. but neptune in aquarius was rebelliousness on high which translates in the phsyical world to: not giving a FUCK about physical appearances because appearances support commercial global hegemony. maybe im just too pre saturn return. neptune hasnt fully gotten off my late aquarius moon i suppose but i dont think twice about beauty unless it has to do with INNER beauty. which i accept can manifest as taking care of yourself. but what i dont accept? regimes that havent even come to in dreams to speak of their true beauty. in fact any information that doesnt come through dreams is probably mostly worthless, unless DUH you can RELATE it to dreams.
ps im actually drunk thus neptune should really get outta my first house //////// moon. MM i must thank you for giving me soooooooo much insight into my chart and thusly my life thereaftser. like really. you are actually so brilliantly and together-ly in touch with the universe i could only dream of becoming so sincere
Ive just dicovered oil pulling, completely amazing for skin, detoxing, flu prevention etc
heres the website!!!
http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/oil_pulling.html#SANDY
xxxx
,,, on that last note- you basically swish organic oil around in your mouth for 15 minutes a day(before food or water in morning is best) and its like magic, i was doing a detox and discovered this and the clarity of mind/skin etc after a few days was astonishing
I love oil pulling – do it sporadically – but thank you for reminding me!
nothing better than actually feeling the gunge being pulled out f your system!
Totes 3rd!
I’ve done with org. extra virgin coconut and olive oils but always wondered if others used something different……
on this site theu give feedback about all the different oils and what they have done for people
Well thanks to inspiration found herein I’m using coconut oil for oilpulling, cleanser and moisturiser and my skin is looking pretty good. Very simple. I also had to go on some progesterone cream and was quite pleased to discover afterwards that it’s a proven anti-wrinkle skin re-elastisizer and so it seems to be. It also worked a treat for the medical reason I insisted the GP prescribe it for. I discovered the skin stuff after I started using it and of course started rubbing it into my face. Crepey eyelids are firming up. A miracle!
oregano oil pulling is brilliant and so works. i had a stressy time with an ulcer on my gum and this healed it calmly, whereas as other mouthwashes made it sting.
Rosa scarless healer cream is my latest find. Am forty something and my skin is smoother than i remember, avail from health foods it is awesome. It is brown and smells herbal hippy, but it darn works and gives a tan to face, and a good base for makeup, sooo smooth.
isn’t oregano way to strong? Or u dilute it?
hi MM, yes i did dilute it at first, but ulcer was getting worse, so i went full strength and it healed up v. quick xx
Haven’t had to try yet but I’ve read that coconut oil does wonders for mouth ulcers.
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sucking on a romeo and juliet
;istening to short memory
disappearred with romeo & juliet
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jolene
johnny marr
a jumped up country boy
it’s like a juke box in here
eyes of emerald green
Please don’t take him even tho you can
ro,meo and juliet don’t breathe in
Ha i be your mirror
cigar goes out
aquariam lovespnico so love goes on
aqua gets libra a driink
machinegunfallatio
hilarious. Having a nice birthday love?
I love machine gun fellatio.
ha the cigar has turned to the gull chasing the wind
who knows if i am the king of the eye sorears chasibf the wind but
and named my cat after she who is your mirror
I hope you are drunkenly rambling through your record collection (as opposed to your iTunes)
My sun is in the last hours of Aqua. Does this mean I am still being affected a lot by Neptune? Am I still having a Neptune transit? Any help welcome.
yes, depending on how big you run your orbs. But neptune is tracking back to zero pisces, so you may be feeling some vagary. Given you’ve been through most of it already its perhaps more like a harking back to something that happened within the last couple of years, than something new or unexpected. Depend on how last degrees your sun is though. (a couple of degrees is kinda reasonable)
thank you, Anon
tom waits is telling me to leave and so is the aquarian
tom waits lets his piano drink – you shouldn’t always believe what he says.
If you go, please don’t drive to get where you’re going. Call a taxi ok hon?
I wouldn’t necessarily trust Tom Waits either!
YOU are lovely – tom’s sober nowadays – and the aquarian is a good chaperone… mostly x
Glad to hear, though I did enjoy the drunken ramble-by-proxy down memory lane. my night was batshit boring! xx
What about retinals?
Ooh I hate to be the only one, but I really do love IPL. I have super pale Irish skin and IPL has been awesome at zapping off the freckles I’ve hated since I was old enough to reach a mirror. In my late twenties I started to get dark pigment on the tops of my cheekbones from the sun (even though I’m super cautious to stay out of it) and it looked like dark circles under my eyes. Then, a few sessions of IPL later, no dark marks, freckles gone, pores on my nose shrunken right down and a luminous glow. And, even though it is pretty painful, I seem to have really good endorphin reactions because I find I’m really relaxed afterwards.
Facial massage and acupuncture sounds heavenly but I think I’m hooked on IPL for the moment (and it’s good motivation to stay out if the sun) xx
Ha! This is entertaining (including CUW’s solar returning input!). Had been indulging fantasies on about microdermabrasion the last few weeks too.
Not that I have had it.
It is ironic because I know better really, I have done energy healing or pranic healing on faces – it is a bit like air acupuncture. It was eery how it was like reality reknit itself and facial scars etc. just blurred. I mean I really should be doing that for myself.
But sometimes it is easier to dream of quick fixes than do the work.
Neptune in Aquarius hey? I wonder if a quartz vogel crystal or pranic healing crystal counts as a machine? Reiki being the organic version.
Omg. totes.
Have been preaching to everyone who will listen in the last few days about brushing teeth with baking soda, oil face cleansing, no fancy moisturizers, natural shampoos etc etc ad nauseum. Much more than usual, like with a sense of urgency.
Spot on.
Thanks for the timely post Mystic! I just got lymphatic drainage via facial cups/bells and I swear it works well for parts of the face that just get stasis.
I’ve noticed that over time, since the 90′s, the exfoliating procedures have gotten more gentle. I remember you used to be able to buy like super-strong AHAs in a face wash that would remove entire layers of skin.
So…any thoughts on permanent facial hair removal, if not a laser?
electrolysis burns you and leaves scars – no-one ever tells you that
I’m sorry to hear you got burnt, CUW, but I had fantastic results with electrolysis. I had amenhorea in my 20s which led to terrible facial hair, as you might expect. Laser didn’t work. Electrolysis results brilliant though it took a long time. No burn, no scars. Like anything, from massage to device-based therapies, you have to find someone who knows what they are doing.
No need to be sorry, my point was that they never tell you that. But I guess no-one’s going to tell you about something that is an outcome of them not knowing how to do their job properly.
I believe it…really want to try facial acupuncture. But I also am obsessed with trying out that oxygen facial machine thing that Madonna uses. haha
Also one of the guys doing the face acupuncture here calls it “no-tox botox” lol
Okay so any reccies for genius cosmetic acupuncture places in sydney?
as in not some bunk bed in china town with sea horse skeletons hanging off the ceiling, excellent and skilled as those establishments undoubtedly are
Oh c’mon Mystic you no love kidney yang and qi tonifiers hanging off the ceiling? j/k of course!
I had one session with a cosmetic acupuncturist. It’s a waste of money.
You need to have so many sessions, yet the results are barely noticeable. At least he was honest with me and said there’s no way i would get the same results as a facelift.
I calculated it would cost me well over $1200 just to look “refreshed”. Not worth it. I’d rather spend that money on a holiday
funny, i also do energy work on people, and thats the best facial i have ever had, somehow channeling chi/prana for an hour plus is like 3 hours at a spa,,,,and i get paid LOL
a post about beauty
cigars will not make it happen even if they are called romeo and jullet
and your house will stink tomorrow
alcohol is ugly don’t drink it
especially not when there’s a mallet handy
A mallet? You did something to your duck whilst drunk?
You are up quite early though, can’t be too bad?
I only drink good looking alcohol personally.
i think you mean a “mallard” lol
Ipl big fan! The quality of the machine and operater the key. I have never!! Been hurt and or burnt. Actually I find it quite relaxing. As a dark headed beauty ( all over) unwanted hair removal has changed my life!!!! I do nothing now for bikini season/ sexy season you name it. I live my life care free and that to me is priceless!
Brilliant tips and wisdom here as always! Am sitting here with nettle hair conditioner oil on, having just brushed my teeth with baking soda and now googling oil pulling. Can’t wait to try it.
To add to some of the comments re body therapy/acupuncture and emotional/physical ills, I have found osteopathy absolutely brilliant for clearing of toxic emotions/mind merde. I go there for neck/shoulder pain and am always amazed at the internal shifts that also take place. I swear I can actually feel my negative emotions, anger etc draining from me after a treatment.
In defence of microdermabrasion: I had a course of 6 treatments when I was 32 to treat decades old acne scars and it totally transformed my skin. My skin continued to improve for about a year after that course of 6. Ongoing? probably not as it is harsh, but for people with serious scarring, no amount of massage or topical products is going to help.
Did you get it done by a beautician or a dermatologist?
love the beauty check in posts.
My skincare routine is mainly a lot of internal starts. I am doing a raw shake with maca powder and greens. Loving facecare routine. I see the food I put into my body on the same level as what I put on my face or don;t put on.
I am 32, I am never picked for older than 26
Just lately I’ve been going a bit more natural with beauty products. Aluminum free deodorant, fluoride free toothpaste, trader joes shampoo that is animal cruelty free, and body wash containing organic ingredients.