In this Most life-changing courses and subscriptions series I’m sharing with you the five things that have had a MASSIVE impact on my life. I’m writing about them chronologically, because if you read through it all, you will see how they also connect beautifully together as a whole. I’m not an affiliate for any of these programs, just a seriously happy & satisfied user!

Glow & Consistency by Anastasia BeautyFascia is both a course (Glow) and a subscription (Consistency), and both had given me something that I only thought was possible in my wildest dreams – the kind of natural face beauty I always desired.

Before we hop into the programs, it’s time for another backstory because context is so important here and really highlights the absolute magic Anastasia does.

My face was always a problem area for me for several reasons. I didn’t like how it looked. At all. I also used to suffer from chronic cystic acne that looked horrible and, even worse, was incredibly painful. There were times where if I accidentally bumped one with a nail, it would actually bring tears to my eyes. And sure, I could find some good angles when taking photos, my skin imperfections hidden under tons of makeup, and make myself cute. However, those brief moments didn’t take away from the fact that I had to live with my face for the rest of the time. My entire face. Not just a good-looking snapshot.

I often contemplated getting fillers, botox, even plastic surgery. I wanted a brow lift, nose job, lip fillers, botox in my forehead, and whatever else would help balance out my face and make it pretty. I’d come close to actually scheduling an appointment more than a couple of times, at least to get some damn botox if not anything else, but something always stopped me. It was like I just could not take that step.

Later, it became clear to me that changing my face by those means had never been the path I was meant to take. I have absolutely nothing about people changing or enhancing their look via surgical or non-surgical procedures. It just wasn’t for me.

I now firmly believe that had I somehow pushed through that clear “no” I kept hearing, I would have hated the result. It wouldn’t have given me what I was searching for. Not truly. My gut is telling me all I’d be left with was regret. So thanks, Higher Self, for not letting me take the step.

But let’s get to the weirdest part in all of this…

While I was doing the Manifestation Babe Academy, there were guided meditations where I saw my Higher Self…and also my dream self. The version of me who was already living the dream life. The version of me I aspired to be.

And she was stunning.

She was me, but always showed up with this natural beauty that deep down felt like my true self. My true face.

But how was that possible?

I couldn’t really comprehend how the way I looked then could ever become the person I saw – not without getting quite a few things fixed.

At some point, when I was done with MBA, Kathrin (Ms. Manifestation Babe herself) mentioned she was doing face massages because she also didn’t want botox. That immediately sparked my interest, but when I went to look up what she was doing, I couldn’t really find anything. There was no course for me to take, no tutorials, nothing.

So I moved on, deciding that I would just keep manifesting that dream face, leaving the “how” to the Universe.

A year or so later, as I was scrolling Instagram, Anastasia popped up on my feed. A bell went off in my head. Wait, wasn’t this the person Kathrin had worked with?

I went to check Anastasia’s profile and saw that enrollment for her program was opening in a couple of days. The program wasn’t even a year old at that point, so no wonder I hadn’t been able to find anything the first time around!

I hopped onto the waitlist and immediately enrolled in Glow when the email rolled out.

I was so firmly guided that I didn’t question a thing. I just knew I had to be in this program.

I started doing Glow on December 1st 2023.

My first wake-up call were the “before” photos. When I saw myself, truly saw myself, unposed and bare, I wanted to cry. My posture was atrocious, shoulders rounded, head so forward so that my neck was at a horrible angle. The huge eyebags. Massive facial asymmetry.

Honestly, there was so much going on there…

…well, you’ll see in a second.

I looked worn out. So damn worn out.

The outside did not match how I felt on the inside.

But seeing myself like that also made me even more motivated to get my result because I knew that face right there, staring at me from those photos, would not age well. It wasn’t even looking well at all.

Anastasia made it clear that how fast we receive our results depended on our starting point. And, guys, my starting point was not good.

Decades of bad posture and stress had done a number on me. I also used to have a habit of shrinking myself because I was uncomfortable with my height – I’m 1.74 m, so nothing too extreme, but when the majority of the people I hung out with were much, much shorter (and I also had an aversion to standing out), I’d fallen into the very unserving pattern of literally trying to make myself as small as possible. I was also hunching a lot to hide my boobs. Wouldn’t recommend.

So given the circumstances, I understood that it might take me a while to see the drastic results I’d seen other people post about.

I also started to understand that it made sense why I didn’t like my face. Because it wasn’t really my face.

It was a jumbled mess of consequences stemming from the aforementioned decades of stress and bad posture. It was the result of stuck lymph. Of muscle tension. Subtle bone shifts. Tissue moving to places where it didn’t belong. And just a whole bunch of things that Glow offered to undo.

The program lasted for 60 days and, much to my surprise, I started seeing changes way sooner than that. They weren’t massive, but they were there and they gave me hope. They gave me SO MUCH hope.

One of the first things that improved was my skin. The imperfections started fading, I was getting less and less acne – and to not keep you guessing, let me share that my acne has actually fully cleared by now. I’ll still get a pimple here and there (as you can see in my “now” photo, but those are rare, usually tied to my cycle, and also clear up in a few days without me having to do anything special about them.

The other changes might not have been as noticeable to others, but they were profound to me. My head-forward posture wasn’t as severe any longer. My shoulders were straighter. My face started getting less and less puffy. I started seeing my cheekbone definition. And, much to my joy, one of those extra large eyebags had gone down in size by quite a bit.

Needless to say, I was hooked.

Maybe someone else would scoff at the “small” result compared to what some of the others had received, but I felt the truth of Anastasia’s words when she said that sometimes it takes a bit more time. Damn, I felt that to my bones. And I knew that if I kept going, I would get my desire.

The gut feeling was backed up by the tangible proof of my face feeling different. The tissues I worked with started to change. I became able to do the exercises I couldn’t even perform at first, like grabbing and massaging my SCM or rolling folds on my temporalis. Things were getting unstuck, and I was there for it.

When Glow came to an end (which was a terrifying thought at first because I so was NOT done with these exercises), I was relieved to find that Anastasia offered Consistency. A subscription service where we get continuous access to the Glow videos, as well as a new monthly advanced class (with all the previous ones available in the library).

I signed up immediately and have been in the subscription ever since.

It has been a little over a year and a half now for me of doing the techniques daily. Okay, occasionally I’d skip a day or so if I was ill or traveling, but these massages and exercises have become such a core part of my daily routine that I can’t even imagine a life without them now.

They’re one of the most beautiful ways of self-care for me, they’re a grounding practice…and my face is becoming more and more that beautiful, dream face I had seen myself have in my visions. The face that actually feels like mine.

I still have room for improvement, I’m not even going to delude myself that I don’t. But you know what? I look forward to the journey.

Beyond the visual results, I have to add that I love how the techniques make me feel. It’s hard to imagine just how much tension there is in our faces until we are given the means and the opportunity to let it go.

It’s such a relief. A blessing.

Which is why I have immense, immense gratitude for Anastasia and the work that she does. She has changed my life. Her programs made my dreams come true. And I swear the entire quality of my life rose so much because of it.

If this called to you and you want to try Glow for yourself, you can learn more and get on the waitlist here. I think the price at this time is $300, but don’t hold my word for it. I couldn’t find a way to check right now since enrollment is closed and that’s the last price I remember seeing.

PS You can only get into Consistency after you have completed Glow, which is why I’m not linking it here.

Anastasia also offers so many free videos on her Instagram. Even if you’re not ready to invest in Glow, you can still start giving your face love!

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