Facial exercise - another unconventional way to fight wrinkles

Exercise firms the body. Why not the face? If you want to fight wrinkles, but don’t like the cost or risk involved with expensive cosmetic surgery, you may want to consider trying facial exercises. When done properly, facial exercises can reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Just like leg lifts for legs, facial exercises firm and lift the skin on the face and work out the muscles beneath.

There are currently many different videos and books that can be found on the subject. You can search your local library, or find a resource online. In the meantime, you can firm those lips, get rid of that sagging jaw, or tighten those eyes with the facial exercises shown below.

Lip Firming Exercises

The skin around the mouth is one of the first places affected by aging. Firm the area around your lips by performing the daily exercise shown below:

• Take a deep breath and close your mouth to inflate the skin around your lips. Keeping the upper lip smooth and line free, hold the pose for 15 seconds. Repeat 8 to 10 times.
  

Jaw Firming Exercises
The chin and jaw area tends to sag with age. To rejuvenate the skin, simply massage the jaw area to release tension and increase blood circulation. The following massage techniques and exercises can firm the skin in this area:

• Using the three middle fingers of your right and left hands, press the skin under each side of the chin. Hold the pose for 8 to 10 seconds. Then, repeat the exercise on the outer parts of the jaw.
  
• Press your lips together and smile until you feel tension under your jaw. Hold the pose for 8 to 10 seconds before releasing. Repeat this exercise 6 to 7 times each day.
  

Eye Firming Exercises
As we age, the skin underneath the eye sags, giving the appearance of under eye bags. Performing daily exercises can give the skin a lift. Here is an example of one such exercise:

· Placing your fingers underneath your eye, gently lift the skin under your lower lids. Do not scrunch your eyebrows. Using the muscles of your lower lids, lift the weight of your fingers. Hold for one second and release. Repeat this exercise 20 times twice per day.

thanks for the tips!

Facial exercise sound good in theory, but they do not prevent wrinkles.

In fact, if you stretch your face too much, you can make microscopic tears in the face which contribute to wrinkles.

Take a good look at people that chew gum. They do not have any less wrinkles in their mouth/jaw region as a non gum chewer.

That doesn't work, lol. Wrinkles are caused by facial movements, of course. That will just make them worse!

interesting.

I have some that I would like to try, I just always forget! :rotfl:

Agh, on second though, this probably isn't the best idea. I got the info from here: CareFair.com - Facial Exercise - Another Unconventional Way to Fight Those Wrinkles. The other information on the site looks good though.

thanks for the tips!

Thanks for the info. I seriously need to firm up my jawline.

I always thought facial exercises caused wrinkles too.

Thanks for posting

In excerise class we would have a three to five minute work out on excerising your face. I never noticed (for me) any improvement on my face, but my body from the neck down felt great

Shar

this sounds interesting. thanks for sharing.

anyway, i'm sure one thing is good for your face : laughing !

Facial exercises are amazing, especially for those who don't want to inject chemicals or pay for costly therapies. I found that I got best results when doing the exercises with a product that added resistance. I went through a few but finally found the best solution with the envisage facial exerciser. I rave about it to everyone and am even buying two more for my sisters, the product is amazing! Everyone keeps telling me how rested I look and my wrinkles have faded dramatically. Has anyone else had a similar experience with this product? 

Has anyone tried these?

I have heard of them before as well but instead of touching the face the idea was to wriggle the mouth and lift eyebrows etc.

I don't think that by toning the muscles in the face that you can affect the skin. The skin just covers the muscles.

I do know that massaging the skin to increase blood flow has a positive effect on wrinkles. The blood flows to the skin and drops off nutrients that will keep the skin revitalised.

This is very interesting!  Have you ever tried the Tua Viso before?  My Husband and I love this product!  Its a non surgical face lift machine that exercises the face muscles through a routine called "Facial Gymnastics".   It has drastically reduced my wrinkles, sagging bags under my eyes, and lines.  My husband and I get asked if we've had a facelift or how we look so young!  I'm in my 60's and I have even better skin now then I did in my 20's!  I hope this helps ya'll! 

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I am one of those who believe what facial exercises can do, because I've seen it with my very own eyes how it improved my sister's appearance since she started doing what she learned from Facercise. I tell you, she never looked better, all thanks to facial exercises.