Remember your mother’s warning to stop making faces or your face would freeze into one of them?
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Treat your Face Special
Facial skin isn' t just more delicate than the skin on the rest of your body, it is constantly being pushed and pulled with every laugh and frown.
You are exercising your facial muscles all day long and into the night. While genetics, sun damage and skin care play a heavy role, your attitude is still your strongest facial muscle. So lose the frown then check out some moves that will unfold your beauty.
The NAY Sayers
Not surprisingly, most plastic surgeons are the biggest naysayers of facial exercises. But here's the truth: under your beautiful face are muscles and muscles moved are muscles formed.
The premise behind the all doubting or debuking is that if we move our facial muscles all day long, "exaggerated movements" there will be little benefit.
Makes little sense when the consensus is that if certain muscles are strengthened, such as the platysma muscles in the neck, a tighter firmer look can be achieved. This tightening, however, will not put back lost collagen or elastin and the skin may look saggier still.
The YEA Sayers
FlexEffect, the brain child of Deb Crowley, is a popular training, program touted to erase lines, sags and wrinkles of aging skin. A former bodybuilder, Ms. Crowley describes her program as “facial building.”
Studies done under Ms. Crowley's direction where middle-aged women trained for 2 weeks, 35% had increased facial muscle strength and 100% reported increased firmness. The Facial Flex is registered as a medical devise.
Want Further Proof?
Bell's palsy is a weakening or of the facial muscles to the extent they become paralyzed. Its cause is trauma to the 7th cranial nerve.
Bell's palsy is a serious medical condition that requires eliminating the source of nerve damage and extensive treatment and retraining ... of the facial muscles! To restore the face, patients are taught to isolate and coordinate muscle actions to regain balance and symmetry.
The bottom line: Facial Exercises work - just as all muscle strengthening exercise works.
However, all the tightening in the world will not put back lost collagen or elastin and the skin may look even baggier on the tightened surface so make sure you use a quality facial firming product with your exercises.
