Massage Technique
This is a kneading movement perfomed by lifting, squeezing, and pressing the tissue with light, firm pressure.
Petrissage
These are concentrated treatment products often composed of mineral clays, moisturizing agents, skin softeners, aromatherapy oils, botanical extracts, and other beneficial ingredients to cleanse, exfoliate, tighten, tone, hydrate, and nourish the skin.
Masks
This is a magnifying lens surrounded by a circular light, providing a well-lit, enlarged view of the skin.
Magnifying Lamp
These are distilled capillaries caused by the weakening of the capillary walls.
Couperose
This is a thin, open-mesh fabric of loosely woven cotton.
Gauze
This is a vigorous movement in which the hands, placed a little distance apart, on both sides of the client's arm or leg, working downward, and applying a twisting motion against the bones in the opposite direction.
Wringing
This is a therapeutic use of plant aromas for beauty and health treatment.
Aromatherapy
This is the use of electrical currents to treat the skin.
Electrotherapy
This literally means "lack of lipids". It describes the skin that does not produce enough sebum, indicated by the absence of visible pores.
Alipidic
This is a loss of elasticity, where wrinkles may appear due to sun exposure, dehydration and hyperpigmentation.
Aging skin
This is a deep rubbing movement that requires pressure on the skin with the fingers or palms while moving them over an underlying structure.
Friction
This is also known as Roll-off Masks. It's a type of peeling cream that is rubbed off the skin.
Gommage
This is a rotating electric appliance with interchanable brushes that can be attached to the rotating head.
Brushng Machine
A condition that requires avoiding certain treatments, procedures, or products to prevent undesdirable side effects.
Contraindications
This is obvious pores down the center of the face where pores are not visible or becoming smaller toward the outer edges of the face.
Combination skin
This is a light, continuous stroking movement, applied with the fingers (digitals) or palms (palmar) in a slow, rhythmic manner.
Effleurage
These are oil or fatty ingredients that prevent moisture from leaving the skin.
Emollients
This is a mechanical exfoliation that involves shooting aluminum oxide or other crystals at the skin with a hand-held deise that exfoliates dead cells.
Microdermabrasion
This is he follicle opening.
Ostium
The purpose of this is to determine whether the client has any contraindications that might prohibit certain skin treatments.
Client Intake form
This is a massage movement accomplished by grasping the flesh firmly in one hand and moving the hand up and down along the bone while the other hand keeps the arm or leg in a steady position.
Chucking
These are individual doses of serum, sealed in small vials.
Ampoules
This is used to stimulate blood flow and help products penetrate the skin.
High Frequency
These are also known as "blackheads". They are follicles that are impacted with solidified sebum and dead cell build-up.
Open-comedomes
This is a disorder in which the hair follicles become clogged, resulting in infection of the follicle with redness and inflammation.
Acne
In massage, this is the rapid shaking of the body part while the balls of the fingertips are pressed firmly on the point of application.
Vibration
These are oil-absorbing, cleansing masks that have an exfoliating effect and an astringent effect on oily and combination skin, making large pores temporarily appear smaller.
Clay-base masks
This is a procedure in which comedones are removed from the follicles by manual manipulation.
Extraction
This is the point on the skin, over the muscle, where pressure or stimulation will cause contraction of that muscle.
Motor Point
To perform facial treatments on men always move with the pattern of the ____________ in downward and outward movements.
Beard
This is also known as percussion; it is a movement consisting of short, quick tapping, slapping, and hacking movements.
Tapotement
These are products that help increase the moisture content of the skin's surface.
Moisturizers
This is a facial machine that heats and produces a stream of warm steam that can be focused on the client's face or other parts of the skin.
Steamer
This is also known as a facial treatment. It is a professional skin treatment that improves the condition and appearance of the skin.
Facial
This is a treatment that uses concentrated light that flashes very rapidly. It can promote wound healing, and is abbriviated LED.
Light-omitting Diode
This is a frm of Petrissage in which the tissue is grasped, gently lifted, and spread out. Mainly used for the arms.
Fulling
These are concentrated products that generally contain higher concentrations of ingredients designed to penetrate the skin and treat various skin conditions.
Serums
Galvanic current accomplishes two basic tasks.
Desincrustation, the softening and emulsifying hardened sebum stuck in the hair follicles, and Iontophoresis, the process to enable water-soluable products that conain ions to penetrate the skin.
This can be accomplished by using mechanical or chemical means.
Exfoliation
This is an aromatherapy product used in facials to provide deep cleansing, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial benefits.
Eucalyptus