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Ten minutes a day will be enough to achieve radiant, vital and healthy skin, and strong and toned facial muscles. These exercises should be part of your daily routine.
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Puffiness in the face, dull complexion, dark circles and bags or accumulated tension in the jaws. They are the symptoms of a hard day’s work and the skin of your face is not immune to all that stress that every day subjects us to. And more so now that the appointed days of Christmas arrive.
But all is not lost. The latest trend in rejuvenation exercises is the facial yoga, a technique from Japan that stimulates the production of collagen and elastin so that your skin appears smoother and more flexible. And the best of all is that you will only have to dedicate a few 10 minutes a day.
The teacher Fumiko Takatsu is the creator of this training method that serves to tone and strengthen the 43 muscles that we have in the face. With stretches, small pinches, and gentle massages, the exercises improve thecirculacin sangunea, which helps oxygenate the skin and increases the arrival of nutrients to the cells.
Exercise series
Through a series of simple exercises that are repeated a dozen times each, you will notice improvements in areas such as eyes, lips, chin, cheeks, neck, or forehead, and you will see how wrinkles and expression signs are reduced.
Its effectiveness is proven in all ages and skin types, and famous as Meghan Markle, Gwyneth Paltrow or the spanish Eugenia silva have already joined this trend.
As in yoga, each exercise has its name
As with yoga, each exercise receives its own name. One of the most indicated to reduce forehead wrinkles is el bho, for which you will have to put your thumbs on the cheeks and the indexes on the eyebrows, drawing a C on the outer side of your eyes. Open your eyes wide and push with your fingers in opposite directions.
To reduce the dreaded crow’s feet and bags and dark circles, a massage in the area of the eyes, with small taps around the eyebrows and cheekbones, serve to activate the circulation of the area. Another recommended exercise consists of gently caress the lower eyelids, from the nose out.
The fish, the tornado and the trumpeter are three fun exercises that serve to strengthen lips and cheeks and prevent the appearance of barcode, those wrinkles that form around the mouth. For the first, you will have to sink your cheeks making the gesture of sucking on a straw.
In the second, you must travel the inside of the lips with your tongue, drawing a circle several times and in both directions. For the last exercise, you will have to fill the mouth with air and pass it from one side to the other.
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