Facial Excercises

I know in the modern day a lot of us men and women, have put on extra weight and it shows up around our faces. It's one thing to carry around a few extra pounds around the middle but when you start getting that double chin you know you are officially fat and you can't continue lying to yourself. However, I was browsing through my 1950s, Beauty book and found some "facial exercises". I have been doing them for the last few months and am happy to report that my throat is clear of the horrors of the double chin. As usual I don't want to keep valuable information like this to myself so here they are.They are really easy and you can do them while your driving if you wanted.

1. For strengthening the cheek and mouth muscles, and helping to prevent the nose to mouth crevices, do the following.

a. puff up your cheeks and blow hard against them, as if you were blowing the air into a balloon. Do this 6-10 times.

b. fill your cheeks with air, then keeping your mouth tightly closed, swoosh the air from one cheek to the other back and forth. With your mouth still closed, swoosh the air up under the upper lip and down inside the lower lip. Rotate the air rapidly in these four directions a dozen times.

2. "Making Faces"- Do this when your alone as you look ridiculous, but it does wonders. Purse up your lips as tightly as you can, at the same time squeezing your eyes together as tightly a you can. Now, Open both your mouth and your eyes as wide as you possibly can. Alternate rapidly between the first process of screwing up your face as tightly as possible, and then, opening mouth and eyes as widely as possible. This has a beneficial effect on almost all of your facial muscles, and is usually effective in reducing puffiness around the eyes.

3. For a firm throat: Tilt head back slightly, holding your finger under chin. Now stretch neck up- lift chin forward and over the finger. Done one half dozen or more times a day, this help to keep the chin and neck firm.

4. To eliminate a double chin: Drop head forward on chest. Now, leading with your chin turn your head slowly to one shoulder, rolling head up and around until chin touches the other shoulder, then back back to front again. The object is to make a complete slow circle with your chin leading at all times. Circle right to left 10 times- left to right 10 times.

5. To ease tension: This is particularly good for the office worker who is apt to be sitting at a computer or desk most of the day. Clasp your hands behind your neck- head thrown back, elbows straight out at the side. Now, keeping hands behind neck bring the elbows forward until they touch in front at shoulder level . Now, throw elbows back as far as possible. Repeat bringing elbows front and throwing them vigorously back 5-10 times.