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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.
Face Exercise Step 3
- Form a “O” with your lips(like you are whistling) and exhale.
- Do a set of 10.
Face Exercise Step 4
- 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.
Face Exercise Step 5
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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Face Exercises – Some Think It’s A Waste Of Time
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Some people believe in face exercises, and some think it’s silly and ineffective.
Which group do you belong to?
Do you say “Yay!” to face exercises?
Or do you shake your head and say “No way”.
I was intrigued by the controversial opinions about face exercise, so I went online to look for some clues.
The sense I got from it all is, there seems to be more kudos than critics on this issue. There are active discussions about face exercise on beauty and fitness boards, where people share facial workout tips and compare results.
Veterans of face exercise shared their personal success stories and encouraged the newcomers to test it out. Of course, there are also posts by people who have tried some form of facial workout, but failed to get the desired results and were disappointed.
Nonetheless, the general atmosphere is a supportive community of people who are passionate about face exercises, who enjoyed doing and talking about it.
It’s kind of hard to brush off the many positive experiences from regular people who tried face exercises and found that it works.
But despite the many “It-Works” testimonials, there are professionals in the medical and beauty industry who claim that face exercises do not work. This made face exercise enthusiasts questioned whether the claim was made based solely on knowledge and theories, rather than facts and findings.
So I guess one way to prove whether these statements against face exercises is true or not, is to test the exercises out yourself.
And before you start, why not look up personal testimonials and find out which type of face exercises people are already doing. Read about their experiences, and learn how they get optimal results with the exercises. This handy information will give you a good start and help you set realistic expectations of what face exercises can achieve.
Another misconception is that face exercises will give you wrinkles. Your facial skin may look crinkle while you are performing certain face exercises, but this doesn’t mean it will create wrinkles.
If you follow the correct instruction, a face exercise should not over stretch your face muscles nor the skin. However, if you have any skin problem(eg. sun-damaged or dry skin), it is advisable to seek the advice of your dermatologist prior to any face exercise.
The purpose of face exercises is to work specific muscles in the face and neck in order to tone and lift target areas as such the cheeks, chin, jaws, lips and brows. These exercises help you to regain muscle tone and reduce sagging facial skin.
I am happy for you if you have seen improvements to your facial appearance with face exercises. On the other hand, if you have tried but see little or no results, then perhaps you might want to consider a few things here.
- Are you doing the right face exercise for your needs?
- Are you doing the exercise correctly?
- Do you exercise as frequently as required?
- Some face exercise programs come with a special diet plan for optimal results. Are you following the meal planner?
- Did you give it reasonable time for results to show? It can take a few weeks to a couple of months before you see noticeable improvements.
I would leave it to you to decide whether face exercises really work or not. For those of you who had seen improvements to your facial contour and skin tone, I know you are now grinning from ear to ear.
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