Archive for October, 2009
Face Exercises To Lift Your Morning Blues
This face exercises video lift my mood.
You see … I am not a morning person. I always need that extra 5 more minutes in bed. And I need motivation to rise and shine … my cup of hot steamy coffee with milk.
But this perky cereal lady change all that. She’s up with the rooster when the sun comes out.
Watch her plump and firm her face muscle to get a natural face lift.
Here are the cereal lady’s face exercises to make you beautiful:
Breakfast Chomp – Firm the cheeks.
Nutty Head Start – Remove the lines around the brow.
Happy Snaps – Firm the muscles around the mouth.
Starry Eyes – Eliminate puffiness around the eyes.
By the way, be gentle. I cringed when I see the street people pulling so hard on their face.
Enjoy the video … put some fun into your morning. But follow the exercises at your own discretion.
If you want to know more about face lift exercises, you can go here: Face Exercises.
Face Exercises – Start Early To Get The Edge Over Wrinkles
Face exercises now or later?
Some people prefer the safe and painless way to looking younger, so they give face exercises a try.
We all want to stay younger, longer.
However, flabby muscles and wrinkles on our face make us look old.
Face lifts seems like a normal thing to do these days(or is it?). But if the thought of surgery makes you anxious, you might want to look for other alternatives.
Doing the right face exercises can help you tone and firm your face muscles and create a more attractive facial contour.
Many people start doing face exercises after they encountered the lose of muscle tone. This is when they begin to notice the onset of flabby cheeks, droopy eyelids, saggy skin, or other problem areas on the face.
But better yet, you can make use of face exercises as a preventative measure. If you start early, you have the added advantage of building strength and tone on healthy muscles and skin.
This will keep you looking youthful and vibrant now and slow down the signs of an aging face in later years.
How are wrinkles formed?
There are many causes of wrinkles. Right now, we are going to look at the specific relationship between muscle tone and wrinkles.
The skin lies on top of the face muscles. Think of your face muscle as a cushion for the skin to rest on. One end of the face muscle originates from the bone and the other end is weaved into other face muscles or attached to the facial skin.
When the face muscles lose their tone, they also lose the firmness. As the muscles weaken, it can no longer offer support. The overlying skin sags, and you see lines and wrinkles.
Doing exercises for the face can tone up the facial muscles, which helps to diminish facial lines, resulting in healthier, smoother looking skin.
With regular face exercises, you firm and strengthen the face muscles. This gives your face a up lift appearance and a more defined facial contour. At the same time, your skin tone improves making you look healthier and younger.
It is easy to learn face exercises when you have clear instructions or diagrams to follow. It can be fun to join a class and do the workout together with others. Watching face exercise videos is another easy way to get started.
Whichever option you choose, the important thing is to do the face exercises that get you the desired results. Try it out now!
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Face Exercises – Tips To Get Optimal Results (Part 2)
Face Exercises - Get Results
In Part 1 of the article, Face Exercises – Tips To Get Optimal Results, we raised the question of why some people get results sooner than others when doing face exercises, while others see little or no results.
In addition, we discussed some tips in helping you to get started with your face exercises.
Here are more tips to help you get results when doing your face exercises.
1. Relax And Focus
Try to relax and empty your mind before starting your face exercise routine. A simple way to prep yourself is deep breathing. Close your eyes. Inhale, then exhale deeply. Repeat several times until you have quiet the mind.
You get better results when you are attentive during the exercise. There is no point in rushing through the routine and feeling stressed. If you are distracted constantly, you would lose track of what you are doing, or forget how many counts of an exercise you have done.
2. Stay Hydrated And Moisturize
Drink a glass of water prior to doing face exercises. Water helps to promote detox. Remember that doing face exercises when your skin is dehydrated can lead to wrinkling.
In addition, you might want to apply a light moisturizer on your neck and face or a lip balm on your lips.
3. Eat The Right Foods
A balanced diet is essential to staying healthy and looking radiant. If you want to get rid of your chubby cheeks or double chin with face exercises, you can achieve better results by also following a healthy diet that help you to reduce fat and water retention.
Eat right so that you get the required nutrients such as amino acids, vitamins, and minerals needed to firm facial muscles and form new collagen for that sexy, well-sculpted face.
4. Persevere, Exercise Regularly
Many people give up too quickly. For face exercise, you need to give it time to work. Some people see improvements within weeks while others may need a couple of months. In the beginning, you might need to do the exercise daily. Once you achieved your desired result, you have the option to exercise less frequently, though consistently to maintain the result.
5. Choose A Routine You Love
Nothing works better than doing something that you enjoy. This applies to face exercises too. There are many different approaches to doing face exercises, so choose a style that you like best. You are more likely to stay motivated and stick with it until you get results.
I know that for some of you, doing face exercises can be a mammoth task. You need loads of self discipline and motivation to keep it going. Well, my take is, if you really want something bad enough, you might as well give it your best shot when you try it.
Happy face exercising.
Face Muscle – Watch That Expression On Your Face
Face Muscle Expression
Prior to face exercises, I didn’t realize the intricacy of the face and face muscle. A cheek is a cheek … ok … the cheek is made up of flesh. But I never thought of it as cheek muscle.
Nowadays I get curious about every other face muscle on my face. It seems like each muscle of the face has a job to do. Some describe the face muscle actions as a ‘tug of war’ between elevator and depressor muscles.
An elevator function is to raise a face muscle while the depressor role is to pull down a face muscle.
For instance, if the Frontalis(elevator face muscle) is activated, we have raised eyebrows. Conversely, if the Procerus or Corrugators(depressor face muscles) is activated, the brow is pulled downwards into a frown.
As you can see, it is the movements of the face muscles that creates facial expressions. And these facial expressions in turn produce the dynamic expression lines on the face. As such, face muscles are sometimes called the muscles of face expressions.
The elevator and depressor muscles work as a team. When one set of face muscle is activated, it contracts(shortens); the other set of muscle relaxes(lengthens).
Another way to understand the working of face muscles is to categorize the muscles as agonist and antagonist. The agonist is a contracting face muscle whose action is opposed by another muscle(antagonist) that acts in opposition to it.
For example, one set of muscle open the eyelid, and another set of muscle get to close the eyelid.
I find that by learning how the face muscles work, I become more aware of my own face muscle movements. This has been helpful when I am doing my face exercises or when I am engaged in everyday activities.
Now, I am able to catch myself in the moment I’m about to frown, squint or turn my lips down. And for each self alert, it brings a smile to my face.
Yes, gotta have more smiles and less of the other undesirable face muscle actions.
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Face Exercises – Tips To Get Optimal Results (Part 1)
Face Exercises Result
Why do people have such different results when they try face exercises? Some notice improvements in a matter of weeks, others might take a couple of months, and still … there are people who get little or no results.
There are many face exercises programs available in the market today. Each program is customized differently.
There is the very basic exercise to tone and firm the face muscles to the more specialized exercises that help you to attain a more attractive well defined facial contour.
Here are tips to help you get the most out of your face exercise program.
1. Match Face Exercises To Your Needs
Start by knowing your own needs. Do you simply want to firm and tone your face? Or are you looking for exercises that come with skin care routine and anti aging? Or perhaps you are keen to lose the face fat together with your chubby cheeks and double chin.
Know what you need, then do the right type of face exercises to get results.
2. Do The Face Exercises Correctly
To get results, you want to follow authentic instructions and do the exercises correctly. Because face exercises can be simple, there is a tendency to DIY without following proper instructions.
You do not want to spend your time on exercises that don’t give you results. Do you? So, follow the proper instructions and do the exercises correctly.
3. Get To Know Your Face Muscles
Your face is made up of different face muscle groups. It is helpful to know which face muscle you are targeting in each exercise you do. Knowing where the specific muscles are located makes it easier for you to focus on working them.
And if you understand the relations between face muscle, facial expression and facial lines, you become more aware of your own undesirable habits, eg. frowning which leads to frown lines between the brows in the long run.
4. Exercise In Front Of The Mirror
For beginners, do your exercises in front of the mirror where you can see your own reflection. This prevents you from scrunching up your face in the wrong place. Observe the movements of your face muscles as you do the exercises. You can easily spot a mistake and self correct.
5. Start With Clean Face And Hands
There are some face exercises that require you to place your fingers on your face. I prefer to wash my face and hands prior to doing such face exercises. This prevents dirt or germs on my hands going onto my face, eyes or mouth.
So, there you have it. Five simple tips to help you get started with your face exercises. Look out for more useful tips in Part 2 of the article, Face Exercises – Tips To Get Optimal Results.
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Face Exercise To Create Fuller Lips
This is interesting. You can actually get fuller lips by doing face exercise.
If you have always wanted to have luscious lips, you would be interested in this face exercise video.
Imagine, first you do the exercise, then apply your makeup tricks to further enhance the lips fullness. Presto … alluring sexy lips that keep you smiling all day.
Perhaps you don’t get the perfect pout like Angelina Jolie, not yet, but good enough to put you in a happy mood.
Here is the face exercise video for beautiful lips. Follow along.
Face Exercise Step 1
- Drink a glass of water and dab on lip balm.
- Doing face exercise when you are dehydrated can cause wrinkling.
Face Exercise Step2
- Pucker up your lips.
- Press your hand on your puckered lips for 1-2 seconds.
- Pull your hand away. Blow a kiss into the air.
- Keep your forehead smooth during the exercise.
- Do a set of 15.
- Form a “O” with your lips(like you are whistling) and exhale.
- Do a set of 10.
- Close your mouth.
- Pout your lips.
- Hold for 10 seconds.
- Relax
- Do a set of 3.
To give your whole face a lift
- Smile big. Open your mouth and eyes wide.
- Hold for 10 seconds.
- Do a set of 3.
To plump your lips.
- Inhale through your nose.
- Hold your breath as you push the air to and fro between your cheeks for 10 seconds(imagine you are swishing mouth wash).
- Exhale as if you are blowing a horn.
- Do a set of 3.
Face Exercise Step 6
To bring out your lip colour
- Tap your lips firmly 5 times using your middle and index fingers.
To get beautiful lips, do the exercise daily as it helps to stimulate the production of collagen.
There are many face exercises that are customized to help you look younger and more attractive. If you are interested in looking good naturally, why not try the face exercise specific to your beauty and fitness needs. Have fun.
Face Exercises – What Jack LaLanne Has To Say About Facial Exercises
I remembered vividly Jack LaLanne and his living-room exercises. But I did not know that he was doing face exercises too!
Jack LaLanne is the “The Godfather Of Fitness”, and America’s well loved fitness and exercise expert since the 1950s.
In the era of black and white TV, he has “The Jack LaLanne Show”. It turned into the longest health and exercise TV show in history, lasting a total of 34 years(1951-1985).
There is a series of Jack LaLanne face exercises on Youtube. I have too many favorites(they are quite amusing with the quirky sound effects). Anyway, I picked these 2 videos for you. They explain the benefits of face exercises and a testimony by Jack himself.
Jack talks about face exercises and the face muscles using Henry Gray’s Anatomy Chart.
Jack replies to the question “Did you have face lift?”
I think Jack LaLanne looks amazingly youthful at his age. This fitness pioneer breaks all the gender barriers. He is the first fitness expert to inspire women to lift weights during a time when women wear pretty frocks. This makes me wonder, is he the first male trainer that shows people how to do face exercises.
Drop me a line if you know the answer.
Face Muscle – Why Can’t They Give It A Simpler Name?
Face Muscle
I must confess, it’s so much easier to do a face exercise than to learn the name of a face muscle.
For example, have you heard of Orbicularis Oculi, Buccinatorius or Mentalis?
If you read Latin, then not a problem for you, but for the rest of us, it can be difficult to remember the names.
Each of the term refers to a specific face muscle. In this case, it is the muscle around the eyes, cheek muscle and chin muscle.
We have more than 50 muscles in the face and neck, so it can be a pretty challenging task to master the names of all the facial muscles.
But why do you need to know about facial muscles?
Actually, you don’t have to. Even if you have no knowledge about the face muscles, you can still go ahead with facial exercises.
However, many face exercises make reference to specific face muscle in their training instructions. So, if you are familiar with the name and location of each face muscle, you can quickly and effectively focus on the target muscles. No more hit or miss, or worrying whether if you have place your fingers on the correct positions on your face.
If you are doing face exercises, it’s good to have a basic knowledge of the facial muscles. You will have a better understanding of your face structure and a greater awareness of the relationships between face muscles, facial expressions and facial lines.
The more you know about the working of the face muscles, the more confident you have in performing the face exercises correctly and each specialized exercise becomes more meaningful.
Come with me if you are interested to know more. I found an interactive website where you can teach yourself the name and position of each face muscle. Once you are on the website Artnatomy, click on “Application”(on the lower right hand side), and you can start right away. Have fun exploring.
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