To look younger, many women opt for Botox and other invasivetreatments to lift wrinkles and minimize crows eyes. But what if you could workout your face just like you work out your body, creating a chiseled and tonedlook? These anti-aging moves have been done for thousands of years to keepwomen looking youthful – try it and turn back the years on your own clock.
1. This is an essential warm-up move that’s part of many face yoga routines. Start by blowing exaggerated raspberries with your lips and cheeks – the bigger the vibration the better. This resets your face back to a relaxing state.
2. Puff your cheeks out like a pufferfish and shift the air in your mouth from one cheek to another 5 times. Then release, making a small O. This helps keep cheeks firm.
3. For high cheekbones and a taut jawline, look up at the ceilingand pucker your lips as though you are about to kiss. Hold for five seconds andrepeat 4 times. You can also stick your tongue out while looking up at theceiling.
4. Bend your head sideways to the right, stretching your neckmuscles. Hold for a few seconds and repeat on the other side. Afterwards, rollyour neck clockwise and anticlockwise to help reduce the appearance of a doublechin.
5. Open your eyes wide as though you are startled or frightened.Pull your forehead skin back with interlaced hands to assist the exercise.
6. Drop your jaw so that your mouth is open, and make a small Oshape. Then, widen your lips as if you’re going to smile, but keep your jawdropped. Repeat this small O followed by big O ten times.
7. Make a fish face like Finding Nemo! Smile with pursed lips and suck the inside of your cheeks in. Perform this five times for firmer lips and cheeks.
8. Smooth your smile lines by breaking down tension in the muscle from the inside out. In this exercise, you use the tongue. Stuck your tongue inside your mouth, making a tiny circle on the labial line, doing five circles in one direction and five in the opposite direction, on each side.
