Glass skin, dolphin skin, glazed donut, dewy dumpling—you've seen the hashtags. You may have also seen a friend use a skincare tool in the middle of the day. And if you ask them what their butterfly-shaped, flat, handheld massage tool is, they’ll be quick to answer: “It’s a gua sha. It promotes lymphatic drainage and helps produce collagen.”

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Sure it does. But at least three words from this response were rarely, if ever, heard during an everyday conversation until a few years back.

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In recent times, we’ve evolved from slathering on greasy ointments to meticulously selecting beauty products for our specific skin types, concerns and goals. We’ve also come a long way from using whatever we found on our mothers’ dressers to reading labels for ingredients. We have an AM routine, a bedtime routine and on some days a pre- and post-workout regimen. Then there are some of us who may also indulge in ‘beauty snacking’—replay the gua sha conversation but add to that, an under-eye patch applied while sitting at a work desk.