the Face - toning & firming?

[Ceptuouse]

I was just wondering, I have a very chubby and horrible face thats why I dont want to go on a diet really, my body is fine, its just my face...

I was wondering, is it possible to tone &/or firm your face? Is this the right word to use? I really dont know if I have said what I want to say the right way, so I hope someone understands me

 

[notmanons]

You can't lose weight from a specific area.

 

[Ceptuouse]

 

[Hanne]

I believe I have read that in China 'facial exercises' are practiced for the purpose of toning.. whether or not it works I wouldn't know..

 

[Ceptuouse]

^ I thought something along those lines, [before I finish I must tell you that your avatar is so cute ] anyway in some Vogue, there was like this...imagine a dog bone shape you put between your mouth then tensed your muscles...

 

[pavement]

I remember looking around online for something like this, and found nothing conclusive.

 

[Ceptuouse]

Facial exercises for cheeks
# 1
Sit upright facing forward with lips closed but relaxed. Pucker and pout your lips using the muscles in your cheeks. (Feel with your fingers that you are using your cheek muscles.) Keep puckered for a count of 10, relax and repeat 10 times.
# 2
Have a relaxed smile with your lips closed and then suck in your cheeks towards and on to your teeth. Hold this for 10 counts, relax and repeat 10 times.
# 3
Look in a mirror while doing this exercise. Pout your top lip, turning the corners of your lips upwards and move your cheek muscles towards your eyes. You should at this stage try to get your top lip touching your nose. Keep in this position for 10 counts, relax and repeat 5 times.
# 4
Look in a mirror while doing this exercise. Smile as widely as possible - while keeping your lips closed and your mouth corners turned up. Try to make your mouth corners touch your ears. Next wrinkle your nose and see your cheek muscles move upwards and feel these muscles work. Keep for 5 counts, relax and repeat 10 times.
# 5
Keep your teeth and lips closed and blow air under your top lip and keep it there for 10 counts, then move it to your left cheek, hold for 10, to your lower lip, hold for 10 and then to your right cheek while holding it for a count of 10. Repeat 5 times.

 

[Ceptuouse]

Facial exercises for lips
# 1
Sit upright facing forward and purse your lips together. Lift your pursed lips towards your nose and keep there for 5 counts, relax and repeat 5 times.
# 2
Pucker your lips slightly and when in this puckered position try with your mouth muscles to bring the corners of your mouth together as close as possible. Keep lips in this position for 5 counts, relax and repeat 5 times.
# 3
Sit upright facing forward and keep your lips closed and teeth together. Smile as broadly as possible, without opening your lips, keep there for 5 counts and when relaxing start puckering your lips in a pointed kiss. Keep there for 5 counts and relax - repeat 10 times.
# 4
Move your lips into a puckered kiss and while relaxing the kiss keep your lips closed and curl your lips into your mouth across your teeth. Hold this position for a count of 10 and repeat 5 times.
# 5
Sit relaxed with your lips hardly open and pucker your lips outwards. While your lips are in the outward position, move your puckered top lip towards your nose. Hold in this position for 10 counts and repeat 5 times.

 

[Ceptuouse]

Eye exercises
# 1
Gently tone the muscles of the eyes by pressing two fingers on each side of your head, at the temples, while opening and closing your eyes rapidly. Repeat 5 times.
# 2
Sit upright with your eyes closed and relaxed. While keeping your eyes closed the whole time, first look down and then look up as far as possible. Repeat the facial exercise 10 times.
# 3
Sit upright with your eyes closed and relaxed. Keep your eyes closed while lifting your eyebrows and stretching your eyelids down as far as possible. Keep in this position for 5 counts, relax and repeat 5 times.
# 4
Sit upright with your eyes relaxed and open. Lift your eyebrows while closing your top eyelids until about halfway closed, then open your eyelids wide until the white of your eye shows over your iris.
# 5
Sit upright looking straight ahead with your eyes open. Look up then down, while keeping your head still. Repeat 10 times. Then look left and right - repeat 10 times.
Forehead exercises
# 1
Frown as much as possible and try to bring your eyebrows over your eyes while pulling the eyebrows toward one another. Then lift your eyebrows as far as possible while opening your eyes as far as possible. Repeat 5 times.
# 2
Lie on your bed facing the ceiling your head hanging over the edge. Lift your eyebrows as high as possible, with your eyes opening very wide. Relax and repeat 10 times.
# 3
Sit upright facing forward and while bringing your eyebrows down over your eyes, wrinkle your nose as far up as possible while flaring your nostrils. Keep for a count of 10, relax and repeat 5 times.

 

[modelbehavior228]

Lol, no, you can't just thin your face out. Though, whenever I even loose five pounds, people always notice it in my face first. Dammit, I can never have cheeks bones unless I don't eat . Grr ! Not to worry, my mom had a round face at my age and it thinned out in her mid 20s. Maybe it will for me, and you, one day too !

 

[satin chic]

How often/long do you have to do those exercises to see results?

 

[Ceptuouse]

Im not sure, but I found the perfect time to do mine...

1) When i get straight into bed
2) School classes

 

[taperjeangirl]

You should take before and after shots

 

[Couture_Tribe]

I am so going to try the excersices JR1 posted

 

[just_me]

I'm skinny but have a round face, when I don't eat i get fantastic cheek bones.. sometimes i just want to inject syringes in my cheeks to take the fat out! arrgh.

 

[stersita]

Jme! I'm so trying these too!

 

[Bluestar07]

I was just wondering, I have a very chubby and horrible face thats why I dont want to go on a diet really, my body is fine, its just my face...

I was wondering, is it possible to tone &/or firm your face? Is this the right word to use? I really dont know if I have said what I want to say the right way, so I hope someone understands me

ZA New York has something called "Wonder Shaper" for the face (it originally started with "Wonder Shaper" for the body) which it claims can tone up and slim the face and firms up the skin. The people who gave testimonials in the magazine said their faces became "visibly slimmer" but of course, as if they'd print negative feedback. I've never tried it myself.

 

[Tinetush]

Oh, I remember reading about a few exercises in some magazine, they are a bit like the ones JR1 posted but I think they are mostly about cheeks and chin. I have the magazine stuffed somewhere in one of my moving boxes, so I'll post it when I'm all unpacked.

 

[mia105]

What about excercise for a double chin? Is there such a thing? Well if there is do tell, I have always had a double chin no matter how skinny I have been.

 

[ballroombeliever]

What do the face exercises for lips do? make them bigger? Im planning to lose weight so i can have cheekbones, im only 16 though!