Thursday, September 20, 2007

Give Your Face A Good Workout ! (Facial Exercises For Wrinkles)


FORGET EXPENSIVE CREAMS...GET RID OF WRINKLES WITH THESE SIX FACIAL EXERCISES:


We spend so much time exercising our bodies, it's easy to forget about the one part that everyone looks at mos-our face. It's packed with muscles, and you can use these six simple exercises to firm them up. It takes only 10-15 minutes a day to smooth those wrinkles using these techniques.

YOUTHFUL GLOW:

* With index fingers and thumbs, massage your face in small rotations.
* Massage up towards the top rim again for about a minute. This action stimulates the flow of blood to the face.
* Finally, using small, quick, circular movements, begin to massage all the crevices and the spiral of the ears.
* Use the pads of your index fingers.

LOWER-EYELID LIFT:

* Place pads of middle fingers at outer corners of each eye.
* Slowly raise lower eyelids as though squinting into the sun. Do this in four to six upward movements.
* With lower lids still raised, close your eyes and squeeze tightly upwards, or almost close the lids.
* Hold for a count of 10. Now slowly release, open eyes, relax and breathe.
* Repeat once more.
* Make sure your eyes always look straight ahead.

SMOOTH FOREHEAD LINES:

* Place all your fingers just above your raised eyebrows.
* Close your eyes and feel a strong pull downward with your brow, eyes and nose.
* At the same time push up slowly with your fingers on the forehead from eyebrows to hair line-and hold for five minutes. Repeat once.
* This is like ironing out your wrinkles.

TURKEY NECK ELIMINATOR:

* Raise your chin while slowly drawing up the centre of your lower lip over your top lip.
* Place your tongue tip at the base of your gums. Hold for ten minutes, relax, repeat once again.

LOWER-FACE LIFT:

* Place lower lip over top lip. Stretch chin up, and smile.
* Lift chin slightly. Hold for six to 10 counts. Release slowly and repeat once more.
* This will help to get rid of jowls.

BASIC UPPER-CHEEK LIFT:

* Place three fingers on each side of the face, in the hollow of your cheeks just below the cheekbones.
* The back teeth should be lightly touching the top lip slightly raised.
* Slowly lift the upper cheek muscles in six movements.
* Hold for a count of six, making small pulsing movements.
* Return slowly in six movements repeat.
* Keep your eyes relaxed.

HOW TO DO IT?

* There is no cream that can lift a muscle -you have to exercise it. Facial muscles can be trained to become firm and strong.
* Work your face muscles for at least 10 minutes a day, four days a week. When you have built the muscles, two days is sufficient.
* Do the exercises at any time as long as you are not tired.
* Learn a few exercises, and then play music that follows your rhythm.
* Use a mirror to check what you are doing.
* Muscles should feel stronger in the first fortnight. Subsequently you will notice changes.
* Results depend on age-some see improvements in two months, for others it may take four months.
* Like all exercise, you need to work at it.

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