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9 Easy Anti Aging Facial Exercises

Do you have a feeling that your face appears older than your actual age?

Would you like to get a fresh, radiant, and more youthful skin?

Then, it’s time to flex those face muscles!

In this article, you will find 9 powerful anti-aging facial exercises that can effectively strengthen those muscles and give you a newer, younger look.

More importantly, it will please you to know that each exercise on this list requires NO equipment, coupled with the fact that they are cost-free, non-invasive, and simple.

Let’s get started:

9 Easy Anti Aging Facial Exercises

1. Neck Lift

Neck lift is yet another effective facial exercise for reducing aging signs and improving the texture/appearance of the face. It helps in tightening the neck, eliminating double chin and jowls.

How to Do It:

To start with, pucker both lips over to a side until you start feeling a tight stretch right in your cheek.
After that, turn your head to that same side, lift it up at exactly 45-degrees. You ought to feel a stretch in the neck region.
Hold this for close to 10 seconds and repeat. Repeat the same on the other side.

2. Forehead Smoother

The Forehead Smoother is among the best anti-aging facial exercises as it helps in relaxing the forehead muscles and reducing wrinkles.

The beauty of it is that if you can be so consistent enough with this relaxing movement it will help minimize the appearance of aging sings such as wrinkles and fine lines with ease.

How to Do It:

Make a fist with your two hands.
Put your middle and index finger knuckles directly in the center of your forehead, and then place pressure.
While doing that, maintain the pressure and gently slide your fists out to either side.
Lastly, stop by pressing your knuckles into the temples, in a gentle manner.
Repeat this movement four times.

3. Cheek Plumper

Cheek Plumper is effective for working the muscles in your cheeks in order to improve its firmness and give it a more youthful appearance.

How to Do It:

Close your lips, in a light manner.
Suck your cheeks in to form “fish lips” with y mouth.
Maintain this position for about 10 seconds.
Repeat the move 5 times.

4. Eye Bags

Eye bags are not just great for promoting younger skin but play a significant role in eliminating crow’s feet, puffiness, and eye bags – all of which are enemies to your skin.

How to Do It:

Firstly, put your index and middle finger in a V formation right at the edge of your brow and directly on your cheekbone.
Keep pulling as much as you possibly can until you are able to feel a significant stretch in your eye area.
Maintain this for 5 seconds and repeat 2 additional times.

5. Jawline Workout

Jawline Workout helps in working Platysma muscle [the muscle connecting your jawline to your shoulders] in order to prevent it from sagging.

By so doing, you will be able to shield yourself against double chin and other related skin conditions.

How to Do it:

To begin with, you need to tilt your head back and place your tongue in such a way that it will be able to touch the roof of your mouth. Please note that you’re likely to feel a mild stretch in your neck, but don’t let that stop you from continuing.
Lastly, bring your neck back to the default position. Repeat this 10 times for each set.\

6. Eye Firmer

When you stretch your eyes and apply pressure to the surrounding areas, it can help reduce the lines formed by the dreaded crow’s feet and smoothen eye bags as well as calm puffy eyes.

How to Do It:

Form a “V” shape, using the fingers and put them directly on your eyebrows.
Apply mild pressure, and then look directly to the upward [ceiling] direction – without your head being tilted.
Lift your lower eyelids in order to create a squint.
Relax a bit, and then repeat it 6 times.
To end with, squeeze your eyes shut for close to 10 seconds.

7. Giraffe Neck

The neck is certainly one of the areas where signs of aging can easily be noticed, probably of the thin skin covering it.

This is where the importance of Giraffe Neck comes in; it will help increase the firmness of your décolletage while also improving the smoothness of your jawline and mouth area.

How to Do It:

Locate your collar bones and place your fingertips on it.
Tilt your head toward the back and pucker your lips, in a tight manner.
While your head remains tilted back, jut out your lower, and then put your fingers on the collarbone.
After that, bring your head to the chest and repeat again for 2 additional times.
Hold this for 4 deep breaths.

8. Temple Lift

Part of the skin benefits of Temple lift is that it helps in lifting your temples, which goes a long way in preventing aging sings like Droopy eyelids while also smoothening out sagging skin and folds around the eyes region.

How to Do It:

Lift either of your arms up over your head, while you place your fingers on your temples.
Place your ring finger directly on the corner of your eyebrow.
Now, gently press down to lift, then drop your head just towards the shoulder.
Keep this pose for a couple of minutes.
Repeat the same move but this time on the other side.

9. Eye Lift

Eye lift as the name suggests helps in lifting drooping eyelids and sagging skin while also smoothening the nasolabial folds to promote more youthful skin.

How to Do It:

To start with, you need to press your shoulders down and raise either arm straight up.
Drop that particular arm over the head and then put your fingertips on your temple.
In a gentle manner, press down with your fingertips in order to raise your face up and back.
After that, drop your head over to the shoulder, while your chest still remains open.
Lastly, hold and exhale slowly.
Repeat on the opposite side.

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