Facial Sculpting
This work isn’t about changing your face; it’s about releasing tension, restoring flow, and supporting the muscles and tissues that hold your expression. It’s pro-aging, grounding, and deeply nourishing, reconnecting you to the beauty and vitality you already carry.
Facial Sculpting, Lymphatic Drainage & Buccal Massage
Facial massage for tension, symmetry, and natural lift
While many people think of this kind of work as “facial sculpting,” it’s really much deeper than that. These sessions work with the muscles, fascia, lymphatic system, and bones of the face to support how your face feels and functions, not just how it looks.
Through a blend of sculptural facial massage, lymphatic drainage, and buccal (intra-oral) work, we help:
Release chronic facial and jaw tension
Support healthy aging and natural lift
Reduce puffiness and stagnation
Improve symmetry and expression
Calm the nervous system and support emotional release
The visible benefits (lift, glow, smoother lines) are the bonus of working with the body’s own intelligence.
Facial Sculpting
works with the muscles and their attachment points, especially around the cheeks, jaw, and midface. It helps restore tone where things have become lax and softens areas that hold chronic tension. This improves circulation, encourages natural lift, clears heaviness, and supports clearer facial contours.
Lymphatic Facial Massage
focuses on the body’s drainage system to move excess fluid, reduce puffiness, brighten the complexion, and relieve pressure in the face and around the eyes. Because the lymphatic and nervous systems are closely linked, this part of the session is incredibly calming and supportive for the whole body.
Buccal Massage
reaches muscles inside the mouth that contribute to jaw tension, TMJ discomfort, headaches, asymmetry, and tension around the lips and cheeks. Working these deeper layers helps soften tight patterns, reduce pain, and balance the left and right sides of the face. Many clients feel emotional release as the tissues let go.
Together, these methods help ease headaches and jaw pain, improve symmetry, support collagen and tissue nourishment, and allow the face to feel lighter, more open, and at ease. Because facial muscles reflect our emotional and stress responses, this work also deeply supports the nervous system, helping the body shift into rest and repair.
Each session is customized to what your face and body need that day. You may receive external sculpting, lymphatic drainage, buccal work, and neck/décolleté support. Results can be felt immediately, while deeper, lasting changes build over a series as the tissues relearn how to function with ease.
Recommended Booking
Facial sculpting creates the most meaningful change when it’s done consistently. While one session can bring relief — especially for jaw tension, headaches, or facial tightness — deeper, longer-lasting results come from a series.
Recommended plan:
• Start: 6 sessions, once per week
• Then: 4 sessions, every two weeks
• Maintain: 1 session per month
Book at my office in the Westmorland neighbourhood in Portland, OR
Contraindications
This work is not appropriate for everyone. Please avoid booking (or contact me first) if you have:
First or third trimester pregnancy
Active inflammatory skin conditions: severe acne, active rosacea flare, open lesions or infections
Recent Botox (please wait at least 5 weeks)
Dermal fillers in treatment areas (many fillers do not pair well with deep facial work; I recommend an alternate facial option if you have structural fillers like Radiesse or Sculptra)
Recent thread lifting (wait at least 3 months and confirm with your provider)
Recent major facial surgery or dental surgery (please get clearance first)
Active cancer treatment or cancer in remission without written clearance from your oncologist
If your situation is more nuanced (mild rosacea, past injectables, ongoing medical treatment), you’re welcome to reach out so we can determine together what’s appropriate and safe.