Exercise/Massage your Face for a more Youthful Look!

When you’re engaged in your daily facial skincare routine, you might like to consider adding a little bit of exercise to the process.  Whether you call it facial yoga or facial exercises, you should find that spending the small amount of additional time it takes to complete these does help to tone up the muscles in your face, and so help you in a crusade to maintain a youthful appearance.

The exercises only take a few minutes and they are quite simple to complete.  Some of the exercise involve you using your hands/thumbs to stretch the skin – for example sliding your thumbs between the corners of your eyes and your temples (eyes closed of course) to aid in your fight against lines created by crow’s feet, or by shaping your mouth in various poses – such as making an exaggerated kiss or pout to make the muscles work and so tone them up.  There are websites and books that you can look at to see how to do these simple exercises, or if you have a regular facial from a beautician you could ask them to show you any exercises that they think might help with any specific areas you are concerned about.

Although there are mixed opinions as to whether or not these exercises do benefit the skin, if you use a moisturizer at the same time (no skin on your body should be dragged so the cream or lotion will help your hands glide across your face so you can gently stretch it) you are not only doing the exercises, but as you work the exercises, you will work the moisturizer deeper into the skin and so it will hydrate the skin making it plumper.

Whether or not you believe the exercises will work, you will find that they do mean you are giving yourself a mini facial massage, and this has the added benefit of relaxing you.  The massage stimulates the facial blood vessels and relaxes the muscles so that it improves the skin’s elasticity.  This should help you keep any wrinkles or lines at a distance, or improve the appearance of any you already have.  Use an aromatherapy moisturizer for an even more relaxing experience as you exercise and massage your way to younger looking skin. 

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This entry was submitted by Dan Sciarra. Dan is also one of the main writers on Fruity Beauty and has written lots of different articles to do with IPL skin clinic.