There is nothing wrong with wanting to look your best, but time has a way of not making it easy. As the years go by, the muscles in your face start to lose their elasticity.
It’s this lack of resilience that leads to the formation of wrinkles. The muscles in the throat and neck are usually the first to succumb, and that can lead to a flabby, wrinkly neck.
Luckily, there are facial exercises that you can do to delay the onset of this problem, or start to reverse it if it’s already an issue.
Every facial expression you make adds to the adverse effect on your facial appearance.
The repetition of smiling, frowning, and other facial expressions can speed up the creation of wrinkles and other aging factors.
The good news is that there is a natural method to help combat this aging process.
Face Exercises are free alternative to other medical procedures to help strengthen the muscles underneath our skin in our face.
They help fight the natural signs of aging that can occur from years of facial expressions and using our face muscles.
It’s been proven that rejuvenation of the face through friction and massage are the best ways to look young and feel young.
Realize that the main reason your facial muscles sag is a lack of muscular exercise.
Like any other muscle in the body, constant exercise can make these facial muscles expand and develop, effectively removing the sagging look.
Wrinkled skin, on the other hand, has been proven to be made elastic again through regular application of friction.
Giving your face the desired look is very simple and it involves no cost. It’s for free. Only you need to add an extra task in your daily routine and that too for only 15 to 20 minutes and the task is very simple exercise
Facial exercises are a much better alternative than risky plastic surgery procedures which come with a whole host of potential side effects.
Exercises are natural, effective, and free. Just be sure to check with your doctor before starting the exercises, in case there are any underlying health concerns.
Also, be sure to not overdo it. These exercises will work, but you don’t want to risk hurting yourself when you do them.
Regular face exercises help strengthen the damaged face muscles after years of use. While it’s not easy to fathom years of smiling, frowning, and wrinkling our brow line does a toll on those muscles.
Over the years these muscles begin to weaken and out face begin to wrinkle due to the elongated weakening muscles.
So, it makes sense that strengthening these muscles can reverse these negative effects. We tend to the rest of our body at the gym so why not keep our face in shape.
Unfortunately it’s more or less impossible to go through life with no expression on our faces. We’d be pretty boring company, however, an all-star poker player possibly.
By regularly performing face exercises we can recapture our youthful image we had when we were younger, without going through any painful injections or surgeries.
In a nutshell what happens under the skin is this. As the muscles weaken and begin to elongate our skin will begin to sag.
Of course sagged skin on the outside is what causes those aging effects to occur.
By working the right muscles with face exercises you are able to stimulate blood flow to those muscles, and also increase the amount of oxygen that the skin receives.
By receiving more blood and oxygen the skin can begin to produce more health skin cells, helping to reverse the aging effects.
Since there is no equipment required face exercise can be done anywhere any time. Work them into your daily routine, or do some when you have a private spare moment.
It’s only a few minutes a day and the results you’ll experience are well worth it. Isn’t an improved appearance worth that amount of time?
What the facial exercise does?
Facial exercise protects facial muscles from slacking. Even if you are very good looking and young, as time passes your facial muscles will become loose, slack and creepy.
So, if you are young and smart and beautiful, doing facial exercise will prevent you from the slackness of face muscles when you grow old and if you are an old aged person then this will minimize the plasticity of you face muscles.
Facial exercise will make your face skin wrinkle free and shiny. This will tone your facial skin and give you a youthful look. At the same time after performing the exercise, you will feel calm and relaxed.
How to do facial exercise?
By getting punch from the famous boxer in the locality, the idea is not bad but the tough task is how heavy you need the punch and the champion may charge you for that.
However, facial exercise is completely free and you can do it your own. Only you need to do different exercise for different parts of your face like ear, nose, head etc.
If you are a beginner, do face exercise daily for at least 20 minutes for different parts of your face.
Nonetheless, after doing so one month you can opt for thrice in a week. Some spots of very minor type may start looking in your face, but this is normal and will disappear automatically within time.
How was applying friction on the skin done?
With the help of some lotion to minimize irritation (not too much lotion, though, as there will be no more friction), work on the areas that would normally leads to sagging such as the cheeks, the throat, the chin, the forehead and around the eyes.
Start as though you are polishing a pair of shoes. With a slight, circular friction on the surface areas, which should gradually increase in pressure.
But not too vigorous that you will end up abrading and irritating your face. This process will progressively restore the elasticity of your skin and smoothen out the wrinkles.
To exercise your facial muscles, use your palm heel. With enough pressure, massage your cheeks and other parts of the face in circular motion.
This process will build up the muscles and fill those “hollows”, those sunken areas around the eyes and the cheeks.
Do this also on the chin and throat. Make sure you apply an equal amount of pressure to the entire face so that the buildup of muscles will be uniform.
Do these exercises a few minutes daily–even while you are watching the TV– and you will soon see the “miracle” of a younger looking you.
The process of looking older does not have to be as fast as it is now.
With the right determination, and knowing the proper techniques, you can almost stop the advance of the “aged” look, no matter that your actual age is unstoppably moving ahead.
It’s been proven possible and there’s no reason you can’t achieve the same.
More Facial Exercises
If you want to sharpen your jaw line you can slap your chin with the back of your hand quickly and very lightly for at least 30 times.
Stroking your face with upward movement can relax your mind and body.
To reduce the small lines around your mouth you can curl your lips into your mouth and then try to bowl air through your mouth without opening your mouth.
This would help to stretch your muscles around the mouth. While doing this count till 5 and then relax, repeat this at least 10 times for better results.
But there has been a long running debate about facial exercise, whether they are really good or just make things worse. This can be found only when you talk to other people or consult your doctor about the same.
How to do eyes exercise?
1. Tone the eye muscles. To do this, apply pressure to your forehead from the two sides of your temple with your fingers. Though do it very gently.
2. Do close your eyes and sit upright. While closing your eyes, look first down and then up as far as you can see. Repeat this activity 10 times.
3. Close your eyes and sit upright. Now lift your eyebrows and stretch the eyelids down and up to the possible extent. Repeat this activity 5 times.
4. With open eyes, sit upright and be relaxed. Start closing your top eyelids, and lift your eyebrows until your eyelids are half closed. Now, open your eyelids, until you start seeing your iris.
5. Sit upright with your eyes open and look straight, then look down. Keep your head static. Repeat the activity 10 times.
Forehead Exercise
1. Frown as much as you can and try bringing your eyebrows over your eyes. In the process pull the eyebrows towards one another. Now lift your eyebrows as far as you can while opening your eyes.
2. Lie on bed and keep seeing ceiling. Lift your eyebrows upward with your eyes open. Relax and repeat the activity about 10 times.
3. Sit upright, seeing straight, start bringing your eyebrows down, wrinkle nose as much as possible, flaring your nostrils. Count up to 10. Relax and repeat the activity 5 times.
Facial Exercises for a Firm Neck
Let’s take a look at some effective exercises to help tone the neck and throat and reduce sagging.
For this exercise you need to sit on the floor and have your legs folded comfortably and your back straight.
Slowly tilt your head backwards and hold this position for 10 seconds. Return head to the forward position. You should feel the stretch in the jaw line as you do this exercise. Repeat this exercise for five sets.
Next, stay in the sitting position, relax your shoulders and look straight ahead. Turn your head slowly to the right and have your chin even with your shoulder.
Hold this position for five seconds and then return to looking straight ahead. Repeat on the left side so you are looking left and your chin is even with your left shoulder.
Hold for five seconds and then return to the facing forward position. Repeat this exercise three times on both sides.
While still in the sitting position keep your head facing forward and your shoulders relaxed. Tilt your head to the right side and hold for five seconds. Come back into the middle.
Tilt your head to the left side and hold for five seconds, then come back into the middle. Repeat this on both sides for three sets. You should feel the stretch in your neck during this exercise.
For the next exercise you want to be on your hands and knees. Drop your head down toward the floor and keep your neck, spine and elbows straight.
Slowly inhale. Exhale slowly and as you do so curve your back downward and lift your head upward. Repeat this five times.
Sit on the floor again facing forward. Tilt your head back slowly and move your jaw up and down. Hold this position for ten seconds then return to the forward facing position. Repeat this three times.
These simple exercises are very effective for toning and tightening the muscles in the neck and throat area.
If you do these exercises every day you will build stronger muscles that will give you a more youthful appearance. Performing the exercises every day will start to give you results in a couple of weeks.
Try to stay in a calm, relaxed mood while doing these exercises so the muscles are relaxed and more flexible for the exercises. Burning a candle or listening to relaxing music can help.
These facial exercises can be done in just a few minutes, but do not rush through them. You should do them slowly to prevent injury, and the routine itself should be a soothing one.
In fact, you can light a few candles and put on some relaxing music as you do them. Try to do these exercises every day, and you should start to see noticeable results within a few short weeks.