Exercise Your Face to Look Healthier & Younger
by Cynthia
Rowland
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Could facial exercise be the answer to the age old question –“Can I
maintain a youthful appearance?” Must I spend my children’s inheritance to
stave off Mother Nature’s footprints across my face? Do you have a
problem area on your face that you would like to change? Double chin,
droopy eyes, jowls, pouches, crows feet or marionette lines? Aging is as
sneaky as sun damage and it seems that in a twinkling of an eye, your face
can look so different that you might wonder just who is that person
staring back at you in the mirror?
Could facial exercise be the
answer to the age old question –“Can I maintain a youthful appearance?”
Must I spend my children’s inheritance to stave off Mother Nature’s
footprints across my face?
You can certainly turn back the clock
with facial exercise that employs resistance and isometric contractions of
the muscles using the thumbs and fingers. This doesn’t mean that you will
look sixteen or even twenty again but shaving off ten or fifteen years
from your appearance with exercise rivals the results of most plastic
surgery procedures.
Plastic surgery techniques do not stop the
aging process; muscles in the face continue to make their downward slide
dragging the skin unnaturally, creating the need for more and more
surgical procedures. With exercise, the muscles become stronger, the skin
looks revitalized and lifted. Most importantly, facial exercises can be
performed inexpensively at home.
The muscles of the face elongate
just like the muscles in your arms, thighs and buttocks; in fact, the
muscles in the face will have elongated about one-half inch by the time
most people have reached the age of 55. The elongation is the result of
atrophy of the muscles and gravity. Even though we talk, sing or laugh,
the muscles continue to soften and become lax; it’s only when the facial
muscles are specifically exercised do they begin to plump up and support
your skin better.
The elongation of facial muscles affects every
area of your face. For instance, the “apples” in your upper cheeks may not
be positioned prominently, in fact, when a smile is made, rather than
seeing fullness high on the cheeks, the muscles may appear flat and midway
between the nose and mouth.
If you add one-half inch to the length
of your forehead, your eye area suffers because the downward motion
compresses into the brows. What happens if you add one-half inch or more
to the area under the chin? The dreaded wattle is developing. One-half
inch added to the jaw line means jowls are forming.
Beginning a
facial exercise program to sculpt and contour the face may seem daunting
at first because the movements and positioning feel somewhat awkward.
Remember when you first learned to ride a bicycle? It was so scary! But
after a few days of lumps and bumps, you were pedaling like you were a
pro. It’s the same with facial exercise, once you become familiar with the
movements, you will marvel that these simple steps can easily produce a
younger looking face.
You will want to take beginning photos
before you start a facial exercise regimen so that you can track your
progress and you will want to update your photos at the end of every third
week. In about three weeks friends and colleagues will begin noticing that
something is definitely different about you. They may think you have
changed your hair in some way or that you are sleeping better but you will
know what they’re seeing is your pretty face returning.
In hardly
any time at all, you will notice how smooth and refreshed your skin looks;
your face glows with radiance from increased oxygenation to the muscles
and those sagging, droopy muscles are now portraying a more youthful
looking you. Without surgery, drugs or anything harmful you can turn back the clock and
look at least 10-15 years.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cynthia Rowland is widely recognized as an expert in all natural
facial fitness with over thirty years experience in health & beauty
related fields. Cynthia Rowland, Anti-aging Expert. I Save Faces
http://www.facialmagic.com/
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