Facebook building for forehead wrinkles

Face builders and everyone who is not indifferent to beauty, today I will tell you about training the forehead area. First, a little anatomy.

Occipitofrontal muscle covers the arch from the eyebrows in front to the highest nuchal line in the back. This muscle has a frontal belly (venter frontalis) and an occipital belly (venter occipitalis), connected to each other by a tendon helmet (galea aponeurotica, s. aponeurosis epicranialis), which occupies an intermediate position and covers the parietal region of the head.

Frontal abdomen more developed than the occipital. Unlike the occipital abdomen, the muscle bundles of the frontal abdomen are not attached to the bones of the skull, but are woven into the skin of the eyebrows. Therefore, the forehead is a very mobile part of the face and is susceptible to early wrinkles and creases of facial origin.

Corrugator muscle (m.corrugator supercilii), begins on the medial segment of the superciliary arch, passes upward and is laterally attached to the skin of the corresponding eyebrow. Some of the bundles of this muscle are intertwined with the bundles of the orbicularis oculi muscle. This muscle pulls the skin of the forehead down and medially, resulting in two vertical folds above the root of the nose.

Muscle of the proud (m.procerus) begins on the outer surface of the nasal bone, its bundles extend upward and end in the skin of the forehead; some of them are intertwined with fascicles of the frontal abdomen. When the procerus muscle contracts, transverse grooves and folds are formed at the root of the nose.

All the exercises described below are shown in this video:

Exercise No. 1 Raising eyebrows up

Place your fingers above your eyebrows. Push your eyebrows up with force, using your fingers to resist. Make sure that during the exercise there are no horizontal wrinkles on the forehead, try to relax your shoulders and lower them down, tightly fix the skin above the eyebrows.

After completing the exercise, tap your fingers on your forehead.

Effect: The eyebrow lifting exercise strengthens the frontalis muscle, lifts and tones the eyebrow arches, and protects the forehead from the formation of wrinkles.

Exercise No. 2 Bringing together eyebrows

Place your ring fingers under your eyebrows, your middle fingers above your eyebrows, your index fingers next to each other, with your fingers facing outward. Make a sad/upset expression on your face. The bridge of the nose wrinkles, the eyebrows creep down towards the center. Now fix your forehead and eyebrows with your palms. Repeat the grimace. You will feel tension in the central part of the forehead and eyebrows. No creases or folds should form.

Effect: wrinkles at the inner bases of the eyebrows are smoothed out.

Exercise No. 3. Muscle of the proud

We place our palms in a triangle, leaving a small space above the bridge of the nose, and try to lift only the central part of the forehead from the bridge of the nose upward. Make sure that during the exercise there are no horizontal wrinkles on the forehead and vertical wrinkles between the eyebrows.

Effect: training the proud muscles prevents the appearance of a transverse fold on the bridge of the nose, smoothes out vertical wrinkles between the eyebrows.

Exercise No. 4. Eyebrow angles up

We fix the center of the forehead with our palms. Raise only the corners of the eyebrows up and to the sides. Try pulling your ears up in this exercise.

Effect: The exercise helps to lift the drooping outer corners of the eyebrows upward and improves the shape of the eyebrow arch.

The forehead muscles take part in such emotions as amazement, surprise, admiration, fear, effort, disgust, etc. The forehead is a very active part of our face, therefore a positive result directly depends on the control of facial expressions. You can read about facial control in this article.

With regular training of the forehead area, it is possible to remove horizontal wrinkles, vertical wrinkles between the eyebrows, prevent and correct a fold on the bridge of the nose, strengthen the muscle frame, and restore the position of the eyebrow arch.

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Like everything else in our body and appearance, the forehead ages over time. Age-related changes appear on it, more often they are expressed in changes in the quality of the skin and in the appearance of wrinkles on it. It is generally accepted that the forehead muscles weaken over time, which is why folds form in this area. However, the real reason for the formation of wrinkles on the forehead, on the contrary, lies in the hypertonicity of the frontal muscles, which, when clenched, form those very hated folds. To relieve this spasm, training that includes exercises for the forehead against wrinkles is well suited.

Causes of forehead wrinkles

There are different approaches to performing forehead gymnastics. For example, face-building for the forehead suggests strengthening and pumping up weakened muscles; Cantienika, Revitonics and Osmionics, on the contrary, recommend relaxing them. Having studied the works of gurus in various areas of facial practice, we came to the conclusion that it is better not to pump up already spasmodic muscles, but, on the contrary, to help them relax.

Due to the fact that during active facial movements the forehead muscles actively work, muscle spasms occur in these places, for example, between the eyebrows and in the center of the forehead. Deep folds are formed there and creases appear on the skin.

In general, in addition to the frontal muscles, other muscles in the face, head and neck also spasm, leading to an imbalance in the entire muscular system. Hypertonicity of some muscles causes weakening of the tone of others. Due to such changes, a person’s appearance changes, reflected in all areas of the face and body as a whole: swelling appears, eyes droop, eyebrows and corners of lips droop, wrinkles appear around the mouth, facial features are distorted.

Therefore, to prevent and slow down the aging process, as well as to restore the tone of the forehead muscles, it is good to carry out relaxation, relaxation of the forehead muscles with the help of exercises, taping and massage with vacuum cans, and not, as is often said, pumping them up.

Contraindications to performing gymnastics for the forehead

If you have any open wounds or problems with facial muscles, then the practice is contraindicated for you. Otherwise, doing forehead relaxation exercises will benefit everyone.

Forehead massage should be done with caution for those who have blocked the functioning of its muscles with Botox injections. In this case, it is recommended to first consult a cosmetologist.

A set of exercises for the forehead

Gymnastics for the forehead against wrinkles includes exercises for all areas of the forehead and affects not only the forehead itself, but also other muscles of the face and head as a whole.
So, let's get started and find out how to relax the forehead muscles with exercises and massage.

Spasms of the muscles of the frontal zone leads to wrinkles between the eyebrows on the bridge of the nose, lowering the level of the eyebrows, narrowing of the orbicularis oculi muscle and drooping of the eyelids. This exercise against wrinkles on the forehead helps to relax cramped muscles.

1. Place one palm above your neck at the back of your head. The second is on the forehead.
2. Mentally transfer the energy, following it with your inner gaze, from the forehead to the back of the head and in the opposite direction for 4 seconds in each direction. Think of it as a vibration. Execution time is from 30 seconds to a minute.

Photo from the book by N.B. Osminina "The world of the face and its secrets"

1. Place your elbows on the table. Place the bottom of your palms on the bone above your eye. Lower your face so that your fingers are on your hair and your little fingers are in the center of your forehead.
2. Mentally transmit energy in the form of vibration with your inner gaze, following it from the wrist to the fingertips and back for 4 seconds, three approaches in each direction.
3. Place your palms on your forehead, feel that they are moisturized and glued to the forehead muscle. Slowly move your palms up, trying to straighten wrinkles and lift the frontal muscle.

1. Place the bases of your palms at the temples from the eyebrows and further to the back of the head. With your fingers spread out like a fan, clasp your head along the entire surface of the temporalis muscle. The tips of the fingers are directed towards the coronal (highest) area of ​​the head
2. Stretch your palms slightly towards each other towards the crown of your head. Transfer the energy between your palms with your mind's eye following this vibrational water for 4 seconds in one direction, 4 seconds in the other. Perform 2-3 times on each side.
3. Gradually the skin between the palms and scalp will become moisturized. Slide over the muscle underneath, smoothing and pulling the temporalis muscle away from the temples and toward the coronal region.
   It feels similar to when you pull your hair into a ponytail at the highest area of ​​your head.

1. Grab both sides of your eyebrow with your index fingers and thumbs.
2. Squeeze your eyebrows in the center into a horseshoe with your fingers and pull the captured part slightly forward from the bone for thirty seconds.
3. Then stretch your eyebrow in an arc for eight seconds, straightening it from the center to the side. Perform once for each eye.

At the inner edge of the eyebrow there are muscles responsible for wrinkling the eyebrows and the formation of vertical wrinkles. Let's look at two techniques for smoothing them out.

1. Place one index finger above the other horizontally in the area between the eyebrows and move them in different directions, as if erasing a wrinkle. Massage this way for 30 seconds.
2. Pinch the inner surface of each eyebrow with the index finger and thumb of the corresponding hand, stretch it slightly and hold the pinch for 30 seconds.

Photo from the book by N. Osminina “Fitness for the face. Revitonica system."

1. Place the first phalanges of the index and middle fingers towards the beginning of the eyebrows at the bridge of the nose.
2. Make pulsating movements with your fingers to the sides. The forehead muscles react quickly and begin to stretch to the sides.
3. At the same time, you need to imagine how the tip of your nose stretches forward and downward in the same rhythm. The nostrils do not widen.
4. The ears can also participate in this movement; move them in the same rhythm to the back of the head.
5. At the end of the exercise, place the fingers of your palm on your forehead so that your fingers touch in the center along the hairline and begin to pulse towards the back of your head, imagining that your nose and chin are stretching forward, creating counteraction with the movements of the root of your tongue and ears. Perform 30 times at any time.

1. Squeeze your fingers between the eyebrows on the right and left sides. Hold for 30 seconds.
2. Smooth the work area from the bridge of the nose to the hair. Do this 3 times.

These wrinkles will begin to disappear after relaxing the forehead and performing the previous techniques, since all our muscles are interconnected, and by bringing some to normal tone, we normalize the condition of others. In addition to the above techniques, forehead massage in this exercise will help:

1. straightening and disappearance of wrinkles in the frontal area;
2. smoothing the skin of the forehead;
3. alignment of eyebrows;
4. if you do it before bed, it will improve the quality of your sleep.

It is best to perform the exercise with your forehead wrinkled and your eyebrows raised.

1. Place the index finger of one hand with the entire side surface above the eyebrow.
   Use your thumb to place pressure on your temple, placing it to the side, ensuring the skin is stretched horizontally. Your palm should form a kind of visor with which you cover your eyes from the sun.
2. Throw your other hand over your head and draw spirals, starting from the eyebrow to the hairline. It is necessary that with each spiral movement the skin is pulled up and the eyebrow rises higher.
3. Do the same on the second eyebrow.
4. Apply to the middle of the forehead. Place your palms on your face so that your fingers touch your forehead and your little fingers touch each other and press against the midline of your forehead. Using massage spiral movements, move from bottom to top, rolling out wrinkle rollers.
   The direction of movement is from bottom to top and from center to periphery. We emphasize the movement of the little fingers up along the midline of the forehead, pushing them with a mimic raising of the eyebrows.

Photo from the book “Fitness for the face. Revitonica system"

With age, all facial tissues are pulled towards the center, so you need to learn to move them back, try to pull your temples to the back of your head and imagine how the skin from the bridge of the nose stretches like rays across the entire face. Try to keep the tension so that it becomes a habit. This lifting exercise can be called ear wiggle.

1. Place your index fingers at the point where there is a depression behind the earlobes and pulse, as if transferring energy, towards the coronal region (the highest point of the head) 60-100 times.
2. Place your finger in the groove in front of the top edge of your ear, with your middle and ring fingers at the hairline at your temple. Pulse.

1. Start lightly patting movements with your fingertips from the bottom of the cheeks up the cheeks;
2. In the temple area, place the bases of your palms on your temples and move your palms up to the top of your head;
3. On either side of the highest part of your head, grab and pull your hair, guiding your scalp alternately forward and backward, right and left;
4. Next, grab the hair at the hairline and pull it for 7 seconds, release the hair and grab it somewhere else. Go through the entire head in this manner.

In conclusion of the set of exercises, we would like to recommend you an excellent set of exercises for a smooth forehead in the video:

Tips on how to stop frowning

Focusing on the forehead area when doing exercises will help you start tracking your facial expressions.

Since it is difficult for people with active facial expressions not to wrinkle their forehead, it is recommended to stick a patch to this area while at home. With it, any unconscious muscle work in this area will remind you of unwanted wrinkles and force you to consciously straighten your forehead.

In order not to consciously wrinkle your forehead, you can use the device as in the picture:

You can also use muscle relaxant creams, which, like injections, block muscle movement, but in a gentler and lighter form. One of these creams with a 100% natural composition from a Russian scientific laboratory is the muscle relaxant cream from Mirra.

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