Face Exercises

Think face exercises are useless? Before you discount them, consider that the circumstances of your daily life and your living habits directly affect your health and facial appearance.

Stop and think about your environment for a moment. Are you a working mother, always running on a tight schedule? Or are you single and too wrapped up in your career and social life to eat right, sleep regularly and exercise?

If you're stressed out and don't know how to renew your energy, this will show up in your face. Specifically, you will see bags under the eyes, under-eye puffiness, wrinkles, and pale or gray skin.

Your emotional tendencies also have a great deal of influence over your facial features. If you worry a lot, this is bound to surface via lines in your forehand and/or around your mouth. Some people question things in their lives so frequently that they form what is known as a "question mark line" between the brows. Other people habitually squint, which leads to lines around the eyes.

Also your personality, energy level and the emotional characteristics influence how your face looks. Heredity plays perhaps the biggest role in the formation of facial features and bone structure.

Face exercises, however, can help downplay these traits. In particular, face exercises can help:

* Diminish puffiness around the eyes
* Shorten and narrow the nose
* Smooth the chin, neck, and jawline
* Improve skin color and tone
* Lift eyebrows
* Recontour the cheeks
* Make lips fuller and more firm

Once you start using face exercises, people will believe you're 5-10 years younger than your actual age. And ladies, be careful, because you'll have to fight off all the men in their 20's inquiring about your availability (flattering but I wouldn't go there myself) and 30's (very flattering)...