Fitness for forehead against wrinkles

Facial care cannot be limited to cosmetics. After all, our skin is attached to muscles, which no cream can reach. “It is the constant overstrain of some muscles and the lack of training of other muscles that is the reason for the appearance of a double chin, nasolabial folds and many other signs of aging. So our face needs exercise no less than our body,” Alena Rossoshinskaya is sure.

In fact, this idea is not new. At the beginning of the last century, French cosmetologist Nadia Payot developed massage and special cosmetic devices for passive facial exercise. She was inspired to do this by her friend, the famous ballerina Anna Pavlova. Thanks to constant training at the barre, the dancer’s body remained young even in her mature years, which could not be said about her face. Today, many leading cosmetologists continue to develop Payot's ideas.

The undoubted advantage of Alena Rossoshinskaya’s facial fitness system is that you can make your face younger without outside help. Moreover, some exercises are so discreet that they can be easily performed even on public transport. “Do facial fitness for at least 20 minutes a day - and within two weeks you will see a younger version of yourself in the mirror: with higher cheekbones, fuller lips, eyes will become larger, skin tone will increase,” the osteopath lists. And he adds that the maximum effect is usually visible after three months of regular exercise.

Initial position: lips relaxed, tongue stuck out as far forward as possible.

Execution technique: Curl your tongue upward as if you were lapping up water, like a cat. It is very important to feel tension during exercise. Repeat 25 times. Don't purse your lips. Make sure your mouth is free of wrinkles and creases.

Initial position: Press your palms tightly to your forehead above your eyebrows. The fingers of both hands face each other.

Execution technique: Pull the frontalis muscle down and slightly to the sides with your fingers, then slowly raise your eyebrows 20 times, resisting with your hands. On the 20th time, hold the muscles in this position, counting to 20.

Initial position: Place the heels of your palms on your upper eyelids, just under your eyebrows.

Execution technique: Look down while pushing your eyebrows up with your hands. Try to cover your eyes using only the upper eyelid. Hold this position for a count of 20. Relax. Do two more approaches.

Initial position: purse your lips, pressing them lightly with your teeth, and take the handle of the spoon into your mouth.

Execution technique: smile so that the free end of the spoon rises. Hold it for two seconds, return to the starting position and repeat 19 more times.

Initial position: Place your thumb between your lips, protruding forward.

Execution technique: Squeeze your finger with the inner surface of your lips. To enhance the effect, gently fix your lips above and below with the fingers of your other hand. Do 30–50 repetitions.

* A completely basic set of exercises can be found in the new book: A. Rossoshinskaya “Face Culture. Home lifting for face and neck" (Eksmo, 2014).

To speed up the aging of the skin on your face and neck, follow these recommendations:

If you don’t want your face to resemble a raisin in ten years, don’t forget to give your skin daily care in the form of moisturizing creams and cleansing masks, watch your diet and devote time to facial exercises. The sooner you start doing special facial exercises against wrinkles, the longer you will remain beautiful and young. Therefore, even if you are not even 25 and there are no hated creases on your face, this does not mean that you need to ignore this article. Of course, with irreversible age-related changes in the skin, when deep furrows have already appeared on the face, one can hardly rely much on gymnastics. In all other cases, exercise should not be underestimated. Try to fight your laziness and work on your face every day, and you will notice how your skin turgor will noticeably improve. The main thing is to perform the exercises correctly and be systematic. This will maximize the youthful appearance of your facial skin and normalize the functioning of facial muscles.

What you need to know to get started:

1. Do the exercises in the morning or evening. And for the best effect, twice a day for 20 minutes. Exercises can be done both in the morning and in the evening. And for greater effect – 2 times a day for 20-30 minutes.

1. Drink 1.5-2 liters of water during the day. Water will make your muscles elastic. If the body is dehydrated, then it is not recommended to carry out any gymnastics for both the face and body.

1. Before the procedure, first cleanse the skin of cosmetics and dirt. Apply a moisturizer that suits your skin type with massaging movements. This way you will prepare your face, warm up your muscles and skin.

1. To prevent strands from interfering with facial exercises, use a hairpin or scarf.

1. Perform the rejuvenating complex directly in front of the mirror. This way you can control the correct progress of each exercise. Subsequently, when you can perform facial gymnastics automatically, you will be able to perform the procedure without a mirror.

1. Relax. Your breathing should be calm and even.

1. To motivate and lift your spirits, turn on some music and imagine that your skin is getting younger every day.

1. During gymnastics, to relax your facial muscles, from time to time do a light massage of the area you were directly working on.

1. If you suddenly don’t feel well, then stop working out. Exercises should be done exclusively in high spirits.

1. Beginners are recommended to perform each exercise 10 times. After a week of training, one repetition of the complex is added. Thus, ideally it is necessary to perform several approaches: 5-10 repetitions of 10 times. Don't be alarmed, it doesn't take as long as it seems. But the result of your efforts will be noticeable within 1 month.

Exercise for a smooth forehead

Press the fingers of both hands to your forehead so firmly that their tips touch each other. Try to raise your eyebrows so that wrinkles do not form. If you perform this exercise often enough, over time you will notice that the wrinkles on the forehead have smoothed out, and the facial muscles have become accustomed to raising the eyebrows so that longitudinal wrinkles do not form.

Exercise for the brow area

Place your index fingers above your eyebrows. Pull your fingers down, raise your eyebrows up, working the muscles of the brow ridges.

Exercise for the eyebrow area

Press the inner tips of your eyebrows with your middle fingers. Index fingers - place directly above the middle ones. This is important, otherwise you will not only not get the anti-aging effect, but you will also aggravate the existing situation with wrinkles on the bridge of the nose. Lower your eyebrows as if you are trying to frown. At the same time, he holds the skin with his fingers, preventing folds from forming. Relax. Repeat 10 times.

Exercise for the area under the eyebrows

Raise your eyebrows as high as you can. Fix them in this position with the phalanges of your index fingers. Close your eyes tightly and do not open them until the end of the exercise. Squeeze with force and then relax your eyelids with pulsating movements. This is great for tightening and relaxing sagging skin above the eyes.

Exercise against crow's feet

Press the pads of your index fingers at the outer corners of your eyes, and press the pads of your middle fingers at the inner corners. Open your eyes wide and raise your eyebrows high. Feel the tension in your upper eyelid as you carefully lift it.

Exercise for the lower eyelid

The position of your fingers is similar to the previous one. Only now you need to look up with your eyebrows raised high. Squint your lower eyelids. If you do everything correctly, you will feel them with your fingertips.

Train your upper eyelid

Open your eyes wide and close your eyes tightly. At the same time, the eyebrows and forehead remain motionless. Only the muscles of the eyelids are involved in the exercise. Open your eyes, exposing the whites, and close them tightly, as if you are trying to drown your eye inside. This exercise not only eliminates wrinkles from the eyelids, but also benefits vision.

Exercise for a clear contour of the cheeks and upper cheekbones

Open your mouth, pulling your lips in as much as possible, trying to pull the circumlabial skin over your teeth. The open mouth in this exercise should look like an oval. Place your index fingers on your cheeks, in the area below the “bags under the eyes.” Smile, feel yourself pushing your cheek muscles with your fingers, and return to the starting position.

Exercise for the nose area

If you have noticed, noses grow and widen with age. This exercise will help you give your nose a more beautiful shape and remove wrinkles around it. With your index finger, slightly lift the tip of your nose, while straining your nasolabial muscles and the muscles of the wings of your nose as if you were trying to lower the tip of your nose down.

Exercise for the area around the mouth

Take a breath into your cheeks. Roll this “ball of air” from one cheek to the other. And then under the lips in one direction and the other.

Exercise for the lower part of the face

Pull your lips forward like a tube and begin to describe a circle with them. First one way, then the other, left and right.

Exercise for nasolabial folds

Press the area of ​​nasolabial wrinkles with your index fingers. Overcoming resistance, squeeze your lips tightly, “into a thread.” You should feel the muscles. Then relax your face and repeat 5 more times.

Chin exercise

This will tighten your face shape and smooth out wrinkled skin around the mouth and so-called “jowls”, strengthen the muscles of the chin and neck. Open your mouth slightly, pull your lips in as hard as you can. Place your index finger on your chin. Slowly open and close your mouth, trying to overcome the resistance of your finger.

You should finish the rejuvenating gymnastics by stroking the skin along massage lines: from the middle of the forehead to the sides to the scalp, from the nostrils to the temples. from the center of the chin to the ears.

It is not necessary to do all the exercises listed above. Create a set of facial exercises yourself, taking into account your problem areas. The main thing is not to forget that the anti-aging effect will be noticeable only if you use anti-wrinkle exercises regularly, namely, every day.

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. From 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.