Simple but Effective Facial Exercises
One way of having fresh and young looking skin the natural and inexpensive way is to do facial exercises. Soon as you've started the exercises, you have to ensure that you can do it everyday until the time that you get used to it and then you can start scheduling it 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.
Exercising the eyes
Watching too much TV or working too hard on your PC can stress out the eyes. One exercise that you can do to relax your eye muscles is to just sit in an upright position and close your eyes. With eyes closed, look down as far as you can, then open it and look as far as possible. And then light your brows and keep it that way for as long as you can hold it comfortably.
Exercise for the Cheeks
The cheeks are part of the face which is easily noticed. You have to keep them relaxed and practice exercises which will help avoid them from sagging. An exercise you can do is to close your lips in a relaxed manner and slowly make a pout. This exercise should be repeated ten times. Smiling exercise is another effective way to firm up the cheeks. Just smile and then count to five before you relax back.
Exercise for the forehead
Wrinkles are first noticed in the forehead and this is why it is important that you give a lot of attention to this part of your face when doing exercises. You can relax your forehead muscles simply by sitting in an upright position and bringing your brows down. Then wrinkle your nose ten times - do five sets of this exercise. You can also lie on back and stare up the ceiling, then while staring, lift up your eyebrows. This can be done in sets of ten as well.
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.
Facial exercises are safe and cost-free way of getting younger looking skin without the evasiveness of surgeries. You can now prevent the signs of aging and wrinkling even with out surgeries or cosmetics.
Simply by including these exercises in your routines, you can stimulate your facial muscles, achieve firm skin and stall the signs of aging.
Jen Hopkins has worked in the anti wrinkle skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about non surgical face lift, 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
