It is a myth that facial exercises may make you look younger, just as exercising the body tones up your body muscles, thereby making you look younger. But facial exercises are something else.
The explanation is that facial muscles on your facial bones are thin and flat muscles, whose function is to give expressions to your face. Facial exercises, through repeated tightening of the facial muscles, only accelerate the formation of wrinkles. Facial exercising does not enhance the tone of your face, nor does it strengthen your facial skin.
The muscles of facial expression are attached to the skin on your face, and repeated tightening or exercising of those muscles folds your skin over and over until wrinkles are formed on your face. Facial exercises are only a wrinkle workout for you.
Remember, Botox utilizes the same principle of reducing the movement of the muscles around the horizontal lines of the forehead or the smile lines of facial expression in order to make you look younger temporarily. The success of Botox attests to the importance of not exercising your facial muscles.
However, don’t stop smiling! Smiling serves to animate your face, giving it a pleasant expression of youthfulness. Smiling is like a natural exercise, but facial exercising is something else—like using steroids for muscle building.
For absolute facial beauty, do not exercise your face. There are books about facial exercises: they make money from you, but do not make you look younger for longer. Massage is something else: it relaxes and soothes your skin.
Stephen Lau
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