Facial Exercises: Your Secret Weapon Against Aging

Performing a regular regimen of face fitness can help maintain a youthful and healthy appearance. Unlike the skeletal muscles that are attached to bone, facial muscles are attached to the skin that covers them. As we age, these facial muscles start to lose their elasticity and tone, causing the skin to sag, creating wrinkles and lines.

Dedication and up most commitment are an important part of this, and the results will not occur immediately; you are going to have to really work to get results. That said, lines (especially fine lines) and sagging will be reduced eventually, and your muscle tone will be improved.

Both old people and young people can enjoy facial exercises; age doesn’t matter, your face is always going to get certain wrinkles and you can do these exercises even if you’re very young. They make discoloration (and puffiness) go down and make the face have a good tone and glow.

Facial exercises are not just for older people, but should be considered by younger people as well. Doing regular exercises can help reduce puffiness and discoloration around the eyes and provide the face with tone and general over all healthy glow.

One of the best ways to keep your face from getting wrinkles is by going through certain facial exercises every day. It doesn’t take much time; in ten minutes a day, you can perform the exercises that will keep your skin maintained. You can perform these anywhere and anytime you desire.

Facial exercises can be broken down into working these different muscles sets separately and together. Before starting any facial exercises, it’s important to lubricate the skin lightly with oil or water. To improve muscle tone around the eyes, a simple set of exercises should be performed. This simple exercise is done by partially winking the eye and holding it for a second. There is no need to exaggerate this notion or to scrunch the eye up. Perform fifty of these winks with each eye each day.

Stretching is essential to improve your mouth muscles. Put your fingers in your mouth at the corners and pull them out. This is not done to make your mouth get over-stretched, but rather to constrict the facial muscles and create tension near your fingers. Only make your mouth extend a quarter of an inch.

Neck muscles can lose a great deal of their overall tone over time. To tighten those muscles, tilt your head back slightly, somewhere between twenty and thirty degrees. During the process of tilting you head back, press your tongue against the roof of your mouth. You should feel tension just under your chin and in your neck muscles. To complete the exercise, tilt your chin back down leaving your tongue against the top of your mouth. Repeat this motion twenty to thirty times each day and you will see tighter tone in your neck muscles. Taking care of your face is important. As we age, we can take on a haggard look as wrinkles and sagging appear. If you want to avoid these signs of aging, you can add these facial exercises plus others to your daily schedule.

Taking care of your face is important. As we age, we can take on a haggard look as wrinkles and sagging appear. If you want to avoid these signs of aging, you can add these facial exercises plus others to your daily schedule.

Jen Hopkins has worked in the anti wrinkle skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about face exercises, and facial exercise. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.

- Jen Hopkins