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Wear Glasses? How to Work the Forehead, Temples, and Eye Area Around Your Frames

By Yu-Ting Lan, from Taiwan · 6 min read

If you wear glasses most of your waking hours, you already know the little grooves they leave: the two dents on the bridge of your nose, the tender spots behind your ears, the way your temples feel faintly pressed by the end of a long reading day. Then you go to work the eye area with your bojin stick and the frames are right in the way.

This comes up constantly with my students, because most women over 55 wear glasses, and nobody designs a routine assuming you don't. So let's talk about how to work the exact places your glasses affect most, comfortably, without fighting the frames.

Why glasses change what your face needs here

Glasses rest on three points all day: the bridge of your nose and the tops of both ears. That's steady, low-level pressure on the same small spots, hour after hour. It's not harmful, but it does mean the muscles around your brows and temples spend a lot of the day quietly braced, and the skin at the bridge of your nose takes a constant little pinch.

You feel it most at the end of the day. That faint headache-adjacent tightness across the forehead, the tenderness when you finally take the glasses off, the pressed feeling at your temples. Those are exactly the areas a few gentle minutes can ease.

How the method works around frames

The answer is simple: take the glasses off and work with a bare face. You wouldn't do bojin over your glasses any more than you'd wash your face with them on. The method is the same one you already know, order and angle and comfortable pressure, applied to the areas the frames have been pressing all day.

Because you're working the exact spots your glasses affect, a stainless steel bojin stick shines here. Its rounded tip is small enough to reach the narrow groove alongside the bridge of your nose and the tender band just in front of your ears, places a broad stone can't settle into as precisely. If you only have the gua sha stone you own, use its smallest curve or corner for those spots and its flat edge for the forehead.

The 5 steps for a glasses-tired face

1. Take your glasses off and add a little slip A small amount of oil or cream so the tool glides without tugging.
2. Warm the forehead first A few flat, gliding passes across the brow with the broad edge, from the center outward toward the temples.
3. Ease the temples Slow, gentle passes at the sides, where the arms of your glasses sit, using comfortable pressure that reaches the tightness without pressing hard.
4. Work the bridge and brow with the rounded tip Small, careful movements alongside the bridge of your nose and under the brow bone, the narrow spots the frames rest on. Gentle here; this skin is delicate.
5. Finish down the neck As always, carry everything down and off, so what you loosened has somewhere to go.

Honest expectations, and a safety note

This won't stop your glasses from leaving marks, and it won't change your prescription. What it can do is ease the end-of-day tension in the exact places the frames press, gently and temporarily, so your forehead and temples feel less braced. The relief builds with consistency rather than arriving all at once.

Tonight, take your glasses off a few minutes before bed and spend two gentle minutes on your forehead and temples, the places they've been pressing all day.

Want more on the eye and brow area? See heavy, low brows making your eyes look smaller, or start with a tense forehead you only notice at the end of the day.

Yu-Ting Lan is a Taiwan-based international bojin instructor and the founder of Héhé Studio. She has taught her bojin method to more than a thousand students, from complete beginners to grandmothers, across Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.