Simple but Effective Facial Exercises
Facial exercise is one way of keeping the face young looking, beautiful and fresh naturally. Once you start an exercise routine for the face, you should do it everyday until you get used to it then you can tone down to exercising thrice a week.
There are many exercises that you can do for you face, here are some which focuses on improving the cheeks, eyes, lips and forehead.
Eye Exercises
Your eyes can be stressed out with all the PC work and TV watching that you do. You need to relax your eye muscles and you can do this by doing exercises for the eyes. Simply sit down and close your eyes. With your eyes closed, look down as far as you can. Then open them and look as far as you can. Then lift your brows slowly and keep it that way for as long as you are comfortable.
Cheek Exercises
The cheeks is another part of the face that is usually noticed and you need to keep them relaxed and do exercise routines for this part to avoid having them sagging. You simply need to close your lips in a relaxed way and slowly make a pout. This exercise should be done ten times. Aside from pouting, the smiling exercise is another effective facial exercises for the cheeks. Just smile and count to five before relaxing down.
Exercise for the forehead
Wrinkles are first noticeable in one's forehead. This is why it is important to give a lot of attention to this area when doing facial exercises. One can relax the forehead muscles by sitting upright and bringing the eyebrows down. Then wrinkle the nose for about ten times and do five sets of this. You may also lay flat on your back and stare up the ceiling. And while staring up, lift your eyebrows. Do this exercises ten times.
Exercise for the lips
Some exercises that you can do for the lips are to pucker up to bring the corners of the mouth together, count to five and then relax. This will need about five repetitions. You may also close your lips and curl them into your mouth, hold them in and count to ten.
Doing facial exercises is a cost-efficient way of getting younger looking and an improved appearance. You do not need splurge on facial surgery or cosmetics and these exercises are also non evasive.
By doing them regularly or including these exercises in your routine, the face muscles will be stimulated, keep the skin in place and prevent wrinkles and other signs of aging from developing.
Jen Hopkins has worked in the anti wrinkle skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about face exercises, and how to get rid of double chin. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.
Published June 15th, 2010
Filed in Health