Kinesio tape is originally used to provide support and counteract pain and inflammation in the muscles of athletes and sportsmen. The tape is designed to support the body's natural healing process, but the tape also stimulates various receptors and helps with lymphatic drainage by microscopically lifting the skin.
Kinesio tape has since been used in the beauty industry as a natural alternative to both facelifts, but also an easy method to reduce facial swelling as well as fine lines and wrinkles, as it helps to increase lymph and microcirculation and thus both drains the face of lymph fluid and smooth the skin.
The tape can advantageously be used overnight, as it must sit on the skin for between 4 - 8 hours, where it will work by smoothing the skin and the underlying muscle, which means that fine lines and wrinkles are smoothed out and thereby reduced. Like kinesio tape, the patches retrain muscle memory and release tension in the facial muscles.
Use the tape by cutting it to size and placing it over the wrinkles you want to work with.
If you want to try implementing kinesio tape in your beauty routine, you can buy our Facial K-tape here .