FAQ:
Facial exercises
Facial exercises
do nothing good for your face.
When you
exercise muscles, you move them, but it's the movement of those muscles
that caused your wrinkles in the first place. Squinting for decades
causes crow's feet. Scowling for decades causes those vertical lines
between your eyebrows. Raising your eyebrows causes the horizontal
lines in your forehead. If you
exercise those facial muscles, you'll just make your facial lines worse.
Many of the
wrinkles are caused by changes in the skin: loss of elasticity, thinning
of the skin, the changes of sun damage. Those changes have nothing to do with muscle function;
they are caused by time, heredity, and sun exposure.
"Toning"
the facial muscles won't help, and facial exercises don't "tone"
the facial muscles, anyway. No amount of exercise will tighten your
neck.
Sorry to be the
bearer of bad tidings. But while I'm at it, electrical stimulation,
acupressure, and magnets also will not rejuvenate your face.
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