Show less A workout regimen is an excellent way to tone your muscles, lose inches, and control skin from sagging. Doing facial exercises, or facial yoga, is a natural way to make your face look younger by firming muscles and reducing wrinkles. These are also good exercises to do if you have a muscle problem on your face, creating stronger muscles for a toned and more confident look. There are approximately 50 muscles in your face, and exercising them has the added benefit of helping eye strain and releasing neck and facial tension.
Here's Everything You Need to Know About Face Yoga
Do Facial Exercises Make You Look Younger?
No matter how healthy you are, your face will change as you age. As you get older, your face starts to lose some of its subcutaneous fat—particularly along the jawline—making you appear more angular and tired. By 40, you've lost 10 to 20 percent of your collagen—the structural protein that keeps our skin elastic and makes us look young—causing your face to literally droop. And as the tissue around your eyes gets weaker, the fat that helped support them moves to the lower eyelids and takes the form of those mattresses under your eyes. But now we've got some good news. Researchers asked 27 women aged 40 to 65 to complete two sets of minute exercises with a facial exercise instructor. They continued doing this face exercises at home for thirty minutes per day for the next eight weeks, then did them every other day for the next 12 weeks.
You may have seen advertisements for facial exercise videos and books. There are several different programs out there, but they basically all lead to the same goal - to enable you to work out specific facial muscles or muscle groups. As you age you tend to lose muscle in your face, as well as in the rest of the body. In addition, although the muscles of the body get some activity through walking for example, the face gets very little exercise.
If we told you that you could gain all of the face-firming, -slimming, and -tightening benefits of a facelift without ever going under the knife, would you believe it? TLDR: just like any other fitness regimen, exercising the muscles in your face can result in improved tone and slimness. But we're here to find out if a facial fitness routine actually be so effective as to replace plastic surgery — or even an anti-aging cream. In short, yes — but you have to be committed to the regimen. In one study, testers who facially exercised for 30 daily over two months, then every other day for three months, reported an increased fullness in their cheeks, making them look nearly three years younger.