Our facial muscles need as much exercise as much as the rest of our body. As facial skin and muscles lose elasticity and start sagging over time, regularly exercising our facial muscles ensure that they will stay firm, support the skin on our face against gravity and have good circulation so that we can decrease wrinkles and droopiness in old age.
Thankfully, facial muscle exercises don’t require any equipment or gym memberships, and can be done pretty much anywhere in just a few minutes. Many facial exercises work just like regular muscle exercises, where you are working against resistance and building strength over time for greater fitness and of course, to feel fabulous.
Check out the following facial muscle exercises to start doing on a regular basis, all of them which can be repeated five to ten times in the mornings when you wake up and in the evenings before you go to bed. No Botox or plastic surgery for you in your golden years!
1. Raise your eyebrows as high as you can and hold them for five seconds.
2. Open your mouth as wide as possible and stick your tongue out as far as you can and hold for a few seconds.
3. Using your three center fingers, press down on your cheeks and smile as hard as you can to raise your cheek muscles against your fingers.
4. Move your nose as much as you can from side to side.
5. Lift your eyebrows as high as you can, open your eyes as wide as possible and frown at the same time.
6. Pucker your lips out as far as possible into the shape of an "O." Then change your expression into a wide smile. Repeat several times.
7. Sit in a comfortable chair and look up at the ceiling. Pucker your lips and stick your tongue out as far as possible to exercise your neck muscles. You can also simulate a chewing motion (or chew gum!) while you are in this position.
Bonus tip: regularly massage your face, too! Press your fingers into your facial muscles and give yourself a mini-massage in gentle, circular motions from top to bottom. This increases circulation and also helps your facial muscles relax if you have been looking really stressed.
Sometimes it helps to look at videos to get a better sense of how facial muscle exercises work. Check out the following facial muscle exercise demonstrations, all of them hand-picked for brevity and clarity. (Ok, and some of them are kind of hilarious, too.)
Enjoy your facial work-outs!
PHOTO (cc): Flickr / seandreilinger
This is fabulous, to be remembered and need to do it regularly.
Surprising that there can be exercise for nose, chin, eyebrows…………..
Rajesh Sharma