Facial exercises are for crazy people?

your doctor is right. facial exercising is quack science and most often part of a get-rich-quick scheme that has been going on for hundreds of years...dont u think that if it worked we'd all be doing it? your face ages becs of lost collagen, hyaluronic acid and elastin (not muscle) that erodes from years of sun exposure and free radical damage. its a natural process that can only really be reversed if you add it back (injections like restylane) or getting your body to repair damage (example: heating skin tissue with a laser). ladies save your time and money, buy a great sunscreen and see a cosmetic dermatologist if you're determined to get results tia

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I know for sure that in Europe facial exersising is Very popular!!! and it works!!!

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Hi Anise, I do believe facial exercise works! It makes perfect sense to me that as you loose muscle mass, which makes you look toned, on your body if you don't work-out regularly, the same applies to your face. I am 45 years old, have been working out for most of my life almost on a daily basis, in combination with a healthy diet, and I'm very happy with how my body looks! I am Dutch, and it's true that facial exercise is quite popular in Europe. A very good example of how well it works, is my aerobics teacher. She's 42 and has been doing facial facial exercise for years, and looks at least 10 years younger! I Just started the Flex-effect program (you can buy the package with DVD and exercisebook on-line at the Flex effect website for about 70$). If you look at this website under the subject of 'Thermage' you will find that here it also says that the muscle mass is important, without that, even after a face-lift you would get sagging skin again. And Tia who writes: 'dont u think that if it worked we'd all be doing it?', no, because the key her is consistency: You have to commit to doing the exercise 5x a week for 30 minutes! A lot of people don't have the time or the interest to keep up with it. (don't know if I will be able myself :-). (The same applies to being overweight, no? everyone knows how to get in shape, still there's a lot of overweight people...) Also, applying a sunscreen on a daily basis of course is neccesary to prevent against new wrinkles, it's not tighten sagging skin!

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I ordered the facial flex pack which took ages to arrive. I got so impatient waiting and wanted quick results for my aging face. Ive just turned 38 and have noticed deep Nasolabial Lines and lines from corners of my mouth, lines under my eyes, I looked awful.. I caught a glimpse of my reflection in a shop window and looked like an old hag with vertical lines from my face which I had never noticed before. I had also just lost weight quickly which probably contributed to the way I looked. Anyhow I panicked and went into a local beautician where she recommended hyaluronic acid which would only last 3 months. I was so depressed I got it done and costed a fortune, regretted it the next day as my face felt really uncomfortable. Anyhow in the meantime my facial flex arrived and started using it straight away.. After a week of using the facial flex the Nasolabial Lines were lifting and not as vertical also the lines around my mouth were gone. Im not sure if it was the injections or the facial flex that did the job, but i looked like 25 again. But 2 days ago noticed one side of my mouth sagging again and now thinking maybe it was the injections that gave the youthful appearance. I am now afraid to use the facial flex incase it causes sagging lines around the mouth! Im not a believer in injections etc and prefer to make improvements naturally. Any advice?

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Facial exercises absolutely work! I have been doing them for years. Consider this, you know how children are usually a younger version of their parents? Their faces just like tighter and younger. Same concept. I do not trust the medical profession. Many doctors are trained in medical terminology, but have a poor understanding of the body, anatomy and the working connection of the body. Muscles in your face are no different than muscles anywhere else in your body. It kills me when they say doing face exercises give you wrinkles. Ridiculous. In two months face exercises make your face more beautiful and muscles tighter. Do it yourself and I GUARANTEE you will be a believer. PROMISE. You know how I'm so sure? Well, there are times when I'll do them for a few months then stop and when you stop the results stop. Then you notice your face beginsd to lose the tightness. This is the only reason I can think that doctors and others would try yo spread their propoganda about not doing them. This must be a bad attempt to scare people from doing them. Do them and you will thank me later.

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I'm not going to weigh in on whether facial exercises work, but I'm wondering if doing facial exercises could actually result in more fine lines and wrinkles? Just wondering because I feel like these "exercises" would be unnecessarily stressing your skin!

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That's a good question because I know people that are really animated in the way they talk and with their facial expressions and I think they're getting excess wrinkles so it would only make sense that if you're forcibly making your face contort on a daily basis it would have to do some harm.

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Facial exercises do work. I've never bought a book or DVD and I wasnt even doing them for cosmetic reasons. I started playing the saxophone and my instructor taught me exercises to strenghen my mouth muscles, to increase indurance when I play. This is going to sound like an exaggeration but the truth is, within 2 weeks, people were noticing the development of my face. It was becoming much more angular and toned and I completely wasnt expecting it. Im going to buy a book about different exercises now. I wish i had before and after pictures because honestly, my appearance has changed, not dramatically of course, but its much improved and athletic looking. I'm also a nurse and studied anatomy and can tell you your face and its tone, its circulation and its muscles are the same as any other muscle group. With exerises, they will grow and become toned.

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Drink lots of water and keep the surface of your skin moisturized. Get plenty of sleep. Wear sunscreen when outside and use a toner. All of these things combined made a dramatic difference in my skintone after I had a baby and woke up one morning and realized I had jowls! Yikes!

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For many years, and after consultation with dermatologists with whom I have worked (I'm a medical journalist) I have believed that facial exercise causes, rather than ameliorates, facial sagging and wrinkling. However, having tried LouLou's exercises as an experiment after seeing a number of raves about them on the boards that I frequent, I have to do an "about turn." Within eight days, my NL folds were significantly "lifted" towards the upper cheek, and my facial fullness had risen to the cheekbone area. Whoever wrote that bit about facial muscles plumping up, by the way, is inaccurate, as they don't actually "plump" but flatten. Although they are not attached to the skin, in the same way as the muscle of the arm attaches to the elbow joint, the flattening and tightening (pulling upwards of the zygomaticus and buccinator muscles) allows the skin to better drape over the cheeks and cheekbones. I have difficulty writing this as it seems really ridiculous the way I have seen results. Others report that it has taken longer to see results, but many are noticing significant building in the cheekbone area in a very short period of time. It's not a case of the Emperor's New Clothes either as my friend commented on it and my 3/4 profile is way different and more youthful. I will happily discuss this with any dermatologist who cares to personally question me about it.

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