Andronik
Scalp kneading: from the hairline to the back of the head
The skin on your head should move. Take hold of your scalp with your fingers and try to shift it — if it barely gives, you’ve found the reason your forehead won’t smooth out and your brows look droopy.
The top of the skull is covered by a dense tendinous cap. At the front the frontalis muscle is woven into it, at the back the occipitalis, and all of it works as one system. Between the cap and the bone there’s a thin loose layer that the tissues are supposed to glide over. Under constant tension it thickens, the glide disappears, and the face literally hangs from a shortened structure.
Place four fingers at the hairline and make circular movements — slowly, with noticeable pressure. The main test: the skin travels with your fingers, rather than your fingers sliding through your hair. Work systematically — forehead, crown, temples, behind the ears, back of the head, all the way down to the base of the neck. Don’t skip any area: the most shortened part is usually the back of the head, which your hands get to last.
Two to three minutes. You can do this in the shower with shampoo — then the exercise takes no extra time at all.
A mobile scalp is the foundation. Without it, everything else works at half strength.