How to restore facial contours at home

Around the age of 40, age-related changes in the shape of the face become noticeable. Excellent skin condition cannot hide the change in contours. “Bulldog cheeks” and sagging in the neck and décolleté appear. To understand how to tighten the oval of the face, you need to know the causes of sagging skin and how to restore it. Can be done in the salon and with folk remedies. It is important to focus on skin type, body characteristics and the recommendations of a cosmetologist. Only a complex effect can resist age-related changes.

How to tighten the oval face

Each woman decides for herself how to take care of herself after 40 years. Some choose a salon, others choose home methods. But you shouldn’t immediately run to the surgeon, or, conversely, give up and rely on age. First you need to understand the reasons and think through an action plan for skin rejuvenation.

The main factors for changing facial contour:

1. Genetics. If this feature is hereditary, it is worth starting prevention after 35 years.
2. Gravity. Only elastic skin and strong muscles can resist.
3. Excess weight. Fat masses stretch the tissues, and sagging becomes inevitable.
4. Age characteristics. Lethargy and sagging skin appear due to a lack of elastin and collagen. They are the ones who regulate turgor.
5. Posture. Stooping, incorrect gait, bowed head contribute to significant changes in the cheeks, corners of the lips, and neck.
6. Photoaging. Long-term exposure to ultraviolet rays destroys collagen fibers. This leads to withering.
7. Bad habits. Dehydration and cell intoxication are significantly evident. The skin loses its elasticity, freshness and shape.

To correct the contour of the face, it is better to act comprehensively. Start by eliminating negative factors and streamlining your lifestyle. Provide proper nutrition, exercise, and massage to the entire body. This will help both tighten up the oval of the face and improve immunity.

Injections

Injection techniques are intended for introducing substances containing medicinal components, minerals and vitamin complexes under the skin. Thanks to simple techniques, they reach the deep layers and improve metabolic processes. The overall healing effect is complemented by the appearance of new collagen. It improves skin elasticity.

Popular injection techniques:

1. Mesotherapy. Saturation of the epidermis with a cocktail of beneficial substances. Typically, such a complex consists of beneficial amino acids, various minerals, several vitamins, synthetic or animal supplements. The result is activation of blood circulation, growth of collagen fibers, and improved cell nutrition.
2. Biorevitalization. Hydration with hyaluronic acid. Signs of aging are slowed down by restoring water balance, increasing skin tone and turgor.

The results of such procedures appear only after several sessions. It is advisable to conduct such a course every six months.

Injection plastic surgery

The facial contour may change due to soft tissue deficiency. This problem is solved using injection plastic surgery. Its essence is to fill problem areas with liquid implants.

Fillers can consist of different components:

1. Hyaluronic acid. The voids are filled with concentrated acid to a certain volume. The biodegradable substance stimulates the attraction of water particles. The moisturizing and tightening effect lasts up to 1.5 years. During this period, the active substance is broken down and excreted from the body.
2. Polylactic acid. Refers to synthetic substances similar to natural ones. It tightens the facial contour, fights volume deficit, and helps the growth of collagen fibers. They maintain their shape for some time after the acid stops acting. You can expect results in about 2.5 years.
3. Fat. With liposuction, a natural implant is obtained from a person’s fat reserves. To be used as an implant, such fat undergoes mandatory purification.
4. Liquid silicone. Synthetic analogue of hyaluronic and polylactic acids. It has a temporary effect, but does not decompose and is not transported from the body.

Cosmetology clinics offer various ways to improve skin condition, eliminate signs of age, and change the volume and contour of the face. In addition to the price, which depends on the type of filler, it is necessary to take into account the qualifications of the doctor, the quality of the material and the conditions of the procedure.

Hardware rejuvenation

Techniques using high-tech devices allow you to painlessly and effectively solve the problem of swollen skin. They do not violate its integrity. By influencing blood circulation and lymph flow, they promote collagen renewal.

Examples of hardware methods:

1. Photorejuvenation. Light pulses penetrate deeply into the epidermis and work at the cellular level.
2. Laser lifting. Laser beams create mini holes in the skin and target tissue. The internal reserves of the body increase, and cell regeneration occurs. The skin structure is restored. And at the same time, the oval of the face is tightened.
3. Vacuum massage. Negative pressure affects areas of the face, evening out the relief.
4. Ultrasound. An added bonus to skin tightening is cleansing. Ultrasonic vibrations break down fatty deposits and remove them.
5. Thermage. The impulses received as a result of radio wave radiation affect collagen fibers. They shrink and create a tightening effect.
6. Space lifting of the face.

To correct the oval of the face using these methods, you need to undergo several sessions. Thermage and laser lifting procedures are considered the most expensive.

Thread lifting

Threading is a popular and effective method of soft tissue correction. Minimal disruption of the integrity of the skin and a short rehabilitation period make it convenient and safe.

Two ways to restore facial contours:

1. Thread lifting. Various types of threads are inserted into soft tissues. They form clear facial contours. The material may be disintegrating (removable) or non-absorbable. The threads affect problem areas and stimulate fibroblasts. This increases the rejuvenating effect.
2. Bioreinforcement. Mesothreads are produced from synthetic self-dissolving materials. During their existence, a collagen framework is created in the soft tissues.

To obtain such procedures, you must contact specialized clinics and medical institutions. Only a highly qualified doctor can competently form symmetrical facial features and painlessly perform a facelift. After 2-3 years, it is recommended to carry out correction.

Plastic

A more radical way to combat sagging skin is plastic surgery. Its task is to correct aesthetic defects. An aesthetic surgeon always warns about significant pain, numerous contraindications, a long rehabilitation period and possible complications.

Redistribution and fixation of soft tissues throughout the facial oval is carried out using rhytidectomy. The procedure allows you to eliminate excess fat in certain areas. Ptosis of the upper part of the face is corrected by front lifting. To correct the middle part, S-lifting is used.

Facial oval care at home

Self-care is a preventive action. It slows down the development of age-related signs and supports the functioning of the epidermis.

How to tighten the oval face at home:

1. Moisturizing and nourishing with cosmetics and decoctions of medicinal plants maintains moisture levels, saturates with nutrients and helps the formation of new collagen.
2. Using tonic lotions or washing with an ice cube gives elasticity and improves local blood circulation.
3. Self-massage in the form of patting partially breaks down fat deposits and increases blood flow. For micromassage (including lips), various mechanical and electrical devices are used.

A set of home measures for tightening facial contours maintains the results of a professional facelift, prevents early aging, refreshes and strengthens the skin.

By starting careful care in a timely manner, you can significantly delay the appearance of signs of skin aging. Small wrinkles are eliminated, folds are straightened, and sagging skin or soft tissues are reduced. The method for rejuvenating the facial contour takes into account the characteristics of aesthetic defects, their severity and price.

A woman’s age is revealed not so much by wrinkles as by the “floating” oval of the face. In addition, if wrinkles can be dealt with using creams and cosmetic procedures, and even with the same makeup techniques, then sagging, flabby facial muscles will no longer be able to be disguised. Solving the problem of sagging facial muscles (ptosis) will require a lot of time, effort and money.

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But don't think that everything is so bad. A facelift at home is possible. You just need a little effort, patience, and most importantly desire, and you can eliminate the annoying defect. Let's look at effective ways to do a facelift at home.

How to tighten the shape of the face without surgery: methods and methods

To begin with, it should be noted that a non-surgical facelift at home is effective only when signs of oval sagging have begun; in advanced cases, only serious salon procedures such as mesotherapy or biorevitalization, or drastic measures such as a surgical facelift, will help.

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Procedures for tightening the oval face at home are also good as a preventive measure. Regular exercise has a beneficial effect on muscle tone and delays the time of “muscle aging”. Unfortunately, most women begin to think about the problem after passing the 40-year mark, when jowls begin to appear. And good prevention would help postpone this moment.

In addition, age is not necessarily “to blame” for sagging ovals. The reasons for a floating oval at a young age may be the following circumstances:

1. Sudden weight loss. As a result of the rapid reduction of adipose tissue, the skin does not have time to tighten and sags. In addition, large and rapid weight loss often occurs not due to the loss of adipose tissue, but due to the depletion of muscle fibers, which, of course, has a detrimental effect on the shape of the face.
2. Constant fluctuations in weight also lead to the formation of ptosis. As a rule, in this case, the muscle fibers become very weak and thin, and as a result of repeated weight gain, their place is taken by adipose tissue, which is not able to provide the proper tone.
3. Genetic predisposition to early formation of ptosis.
4. Lack of care and bad habits (alcohol and smoking) also contribute to the early loss of facial contours.

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Naturally, the most effective methods will be salon procedures and surgical correction methods, but there are affordable means of lifting the contours of the face without surgery and salon procedures that every woman can do independently at home, these are:

1. Masks that tighten the oval of the face at home
2. Contrast procedures to maintain facial contours
3. Massage for facelift
4. Gymnastics for tightening the oval face
5. Hardware procedures for face lifting at home

In order to achieve a pronounced result, an integrated approach and regularity of procedures are required. In other words, your arsenal should contain all the methods of home “facelift”, each of which should be performed at least 2 times a week, for a course of at least one month, followed by prevention.

We will consider each group of these procedures separately, but looking ahead, we emphasize that the most effective methods will be those that directly affect the muscle tone of the face - massage, gymnastics, hardware and contrast procedures. Masks are mainly responsible for the condition of the skin, but at the same time they play an important role in maintaining the oval of the face, saturating the skin with moisture, which in turn nourishes the collagen and elastin fibers responsible for the external “framework” of the face - skin turgor.

Facelift at home using folk remedies

Folk cosmetology has collected a lot of recipes on how to tighten your facial skin at home. The most effective means are masks with a lifting effect.

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We will not describe all the masks in detail, because there are a lot of them, and each carries certain positive aspects. However, it is worth mentioning what ingredients should be included in skin-tightening masks in order to meet the “lifting” status. The leading components of such masks:

1. Egg white
2. Cosmetic clay
3. Cosmetic paraffin
4. Gelatin
5. Starch
6. Honey

All these components, as they dry, form a tightening film on the skin of the face, due to which the lifting effect occurs. Various moisturizing and nourishing components can be used as “companions” to the tightening components; it all depends on individual preferences and skin characteristics. Such masks are kept on the face for 20 - 30 minutes, until a tightness effect is formed.

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There are only a number of specific rules that must be followed when using home lifting masks:

1. Such masks should not be used more than 2 times a week, otherwise an addictive effect will occur and the masks will no longer have the desired effect.
2. When using such masks, any muscular stress on the face is strictly prohibited. So forget about facial expressions and conversations.
3. Lifting masks should only be “removed” by rinsing off. There should be no tugging, let alone tearing off the mask, otherwise the entire “tightening” effect will go down the drain.
4. After using the lifting mask, it is necessary to carry out a contrast washing procedure. This way you will remove the remnants of the mask and additionally tone the skin.
5. It will be nice if, to top it off, you apply a cream with a lifting effect to the skin.

After just a month of regular procedures, you will begin to notice that your skin tone has improved, and along with it, your facial contour has straightened.

Contrast procedures for facelift

Contrast procedures involve different temperature effects on the facial skin. As a result of such manipulations, a wide range of positive effects occur:

1. On the skin side: skin tone improves, pores on the face shrink, blood flow and nutrition of the skin increases.
2. From the muscles: with frequent changes in temperature, the nerve fibers that move the facial muscles contract. A kind of passive gymnastics occurs. Muscle fibers become more elastic.
3. On the immune side: changing temperatures hardens the body and strengthens its resistance to infectious and colds.

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The following contrast procedures are available:

1. Alternate washing with cold and warm water. It is important to start with a small temperature difference and gradually increase it to the maximum. Similar procedures can be carried out daily. And both in the morning and in the evening.
2. Alternately applying a warm towel and a linen napkin soaked in cold water to the face. The exposure time for each option is no more than 2 minutes. You should be especially careful with the cold version so as not to catch a cold.
3. Rubbing your face with ice cubes. This method perfectly tones the skin and “trains” the muscles. If you also prepare ice cubes with a decoction of herbs or fruit juice, they will also act as a vitamin and anti-inflammatory agent.

Such simple and uncomplicated methods have a reputation for tightening the oval of the face quickly and easily. Try it, even a week-long course of such procedures will show their effectiveness.

Massage for face lift at home

Facial massage, which tightens the oval of the face, is offered today in many salons. It is very effective because there is a targeted effect on the muscles, resulting in:

1. The blood flow to the muscle fibers increases, and accordingly they are enriched with nutrients and oxygen.
2. Lymphatic drainage increases, due to which swelling subsides.
3. The condition of the skin improves, all due to the same increased blood circulation.
4. Muscle tone improves, because massage is a kind of passive gymnastics that forces the muscles to “work” and keep their shape.

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There are several options for facial massage:

1. Patting and light pinching.
2. Point pressure.
3. Increased impact, rather even a memory of the muscles.

The last option is the most effective, but it also requires some experience and skill. During this massage, you should not rub the skin; it is important to press on the muscle, exerting an enhanced effect on it. Try pressing hard on the muscles, moving along the massage lines in small “steps” of your fingers. With each “step” you should make maximum pressing movements with a small rotational amplitude. If this massage is performed correctly, you should still feel your fingers for some time. But without fanaticism, bruises will not decorate a woman’s face.

In addition to active procedures and caring measures, nutrition is also important to maintain facial contours. Make sure you have enough protein, healthy fats and vitamins in your diet. But it’s better to avoid fast carbohydrates. They provoke the destruction of collagen fibers that form the skin frame and do not provide proper nutrition to muscle tissue.

In any case, no matter what massage option you choose, it is important to adhere to the following rules:

1. Do not stretch or rub the skin during the massage, as this will cause the opposite effect.
2. The massage is performed only with clean hands and on cleansed skin.
3. Massage should be done only with cosmetic oil or rich cream in order to achieve optimal glide and not injure the skin.
4. During the massage, avoid areas of inflammation.
5. And most importantly, the massage should be done by moving along the massage lines (from the center of the face to its periphery).

After just a month of self-massage, you will notice that your oval has noticeably tightened.

Exercises for tightening the oval face: videos and recommendations

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Face lift exercises at home are one of the simplest and most effective ways. There is nothing complicated or difficult about them; moreover, you will be surprised, but you have known all of them since childhood. Well, who among us hasn’t grimaced and made faces? Let's remember them:

1. Try puffing out your cheeks and closing your lips tightly. Now roll the resulting balloon from side to side.
2. Make the same puffy cheeks, but just roll the ball back and forth, inflating the lip area.
3. Pull your lower chin forward and move it back and forth and left and right.
4. Try to tilt your head back as far as your neck muscles allow, and then, alternately opening and closing your mouth, tighten your lower jaw with force. This exercise is effective for tightening the face and neck.
5. Stretch your mouth as much as possible, and then pull your lips into a tube.
6. Play with your forehead, alternately frowning and straightening your eyebrows.

In general, grimacing is good for your health and good for your facial contours.

By making it a habit to maintain correct posture and not lower your head, you will immediately notice that your oval has become clearer. The thing is that the muscles of the neck, back and shoulders are also responsible for the condition of the facial muscles. Pay attention to ballerinas, even in adulthood you will not meet more than one dancer with a sagging oval.

Another option for facial gymnastics that helps tighten the oval of the face is face-building, which is popular today. Its essence is to provide resistance to enhanced facial movements. The best video to tell you about this method of lifting the oval face at home.

Hardware methods for tightening the oval face at home

Of course, the best hardware procedures will be offered to you in salons - thermolifting, vacuum massage, darsonvalization, etc. All of them act as passive exercises for tightening the oval of the face.

But you can also conduct a session of hardware correction of facial contours at home. To do this, you just need to purchase a mesa roller. Small needles stimulate skin nutrition and have a massage effect, and by affecting the nerve endings located on the surface of the skin, signals are sent to the muscle, which also begins to work due to nerve contractions.

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By adding nourishing creams and masks to the procedures with the mesaroller, you will also saturate your skin with useful microelements.

These are simple but effective methods you can do yourself at home, without resorting to expensive cosmetic and medical services. The main thing to remember is an integrated approach and regularity of procedures.

Our grandmothers tightened their facial contours at home. They did without any creams or cosmetics from the store and used homemade masks. They just need to be used systematically.

Such masks are very beneficial for the skin. Not only have they lost their relevance, but they have become more popular. Before we give examples of tightening masks and mixtures, let's talk about precautions aimed at eliminating sagging facial oval.

Follow these procedures:

1. Hold a pencil in your teeth and write at least ten letters in the air.
2. Straighten your shoulders and make circular movements with your head in one direction and then the other. Next, tilt your head forward, press your chin to your chest, and then tilt your head back.
3. Perform water procedures for the flexibility of the skin in the chin area, gradually alternating rinsing with cold or hot water. Do this procedure, combining it with light massaging of this area.

In the video you can get acquainted with the following exercises, which will be very useful:

Mask recipes

1. With egg white

By making such a mask you will get a tightening effect. Beat the egg whites and add milk, honey or oils to the mixture. This mixture will perfectly tighten the skin. But it should not be used for dry skin.

Such masks have a nourishing and lifting effect on dry and sensitive skin. They can be used for any skin type. Also add milk, honey or oils to this mixture. The main thing in this composition is fresh homemade eggs, which can be replaced with quail eggs with more useful substances.

To make this mixture, melt the gelatin in a water bath. Different components are added for different skin types:

1. fruit puree of peach, strawberry, kiwi for oily skin;
2. cream, sour cream, jojoba, olives for dry skin;
3. eggs, herbal decoctions, honey, milk for combination and normal skin.

1. With sea kelp

A useful source for facial skin is seaweed, which is easy to find in the pharmacy. They have an excellent tightening effect and eliminate other skin problems: excess oiliness, rashes, pigmentation. The method for making a rejuvenating mask is described below.

Pour heated water over dry seaweed (1 tbsp) and leave to swell for several hours. This must be done in the morning. Apply the composition before going to bed. After acquiring the algae in its original form, they need to be crushed and then applied to previously cleansed skin. You can add other components to this composition: honey, egg, oils. The procedure should last at least 30 minutes. It is recommended to make such masks twice a week.

Stir 1 tsp. wheat germ, 1 tbsp. l. grape juice, 2 tbsp. l. pharmaceutical white clay. Apply the mixture to your face and neck. Then, after 20 minutes, rinse with water, patting the skin with a towel.

The main rule for using home remedies:

1. Freshness. Do not prepare them for future use, as the ingredients will spoil quickly and will not be of any use.
2. Alternate recipes from time to time so that your skin does not get used to a particular product.
3. Do courses of ten to fifteen procedures. Then, leave the skin to rest for a month or replace the composition with other substances with similar properties.

When to start using masks?

Masks must be chosen correctly so that the skin gets a tightening effect. Don't miss out on using these masks. Timely skin care will give results much earlier. So, the use of masks should begin when:

1. noticeable dryness of the skin is felt;
2. fine wrinkles become deeper;
3. the facial contour loses its expressiveness;
4. age-related pigmentation occurs;
5. age is approaching 35 years.

To increase the effectiveness of face lifting masks and creams, you need to combine them with a massage, which improves blood circulation and skin color.

You will see all this in this video.

Massaging rules

1. Wash your hands and face thoroughly, and then apply moisturizer.
2. To warm up your cheeks, run your fingertips eight times along your cheeks and temples from the wings of your nose.
3. When smoothing your forehead, do not press too hard and move your fingers up and away from the eyebrows.
4. From the center of the chin, make smoothing movements towards the earlobes.
5. Pat the contours of your cheeks and chin with the back of your hand.
6. Finish the massage by massaging under the jaw with the back of your fingers.

Do this massage in the morning every day for 30 days, combining it with tightening evening masks 3 times a week. In a short time, the sagging skin will disappear and it will tighten.

The rules of massaging are clearly visible in the video:

Contrast massage

Contrast massage is also very effective. To do this, take two bowls: one with moderately hot water, and the other with cold salted water (2 tablespoons per liter of water). Take a small terry towel and soak it in salty cold water. Having rolled it into a tourniquet, squeeze it out and, tapping it on the chin, walk along the facial contour. Next, soak it in hot water and repeat the steps again. Alternately change the temperature and do these movements up to eight times in one session, daily, before the main lifting massage.

Exercises

These tightening exercises in the following video will help you get healthy-looking facial skin:

Gymnastics will also tighten the oval of the face. Let's look at some of them:

1. The development of the muscles of the neck and face is facilitated by rotating the head in various directions, puffing out the cheeks and facial exercises.
2. Regeneration processes in the body are stimulated by a contrast shower or wrap.
3. Exercises for “lazy people”: pronounce the following sounds in a drawn-out manner: “o”, “i”, “u”.
4. The following exercise will also improve your mood: open your mouth as much as possible and try to reach your chin with your tongue.

Facebook building

The oval of the face is not difficult to correct with the help of face building (translated from English as face building). Each representative of the fairer sex can tighten the clear contours of the facial oval. All you need is discipline, diligence and desire.

1. Place your fingers on your forehead. The ring finger should touch the eyebrows. Next, raise your eyebrows despite resistance. Repeat several times.
2. Squeeze your eyelids tightly, then open your eyes wide. Repeat this ten times.
3. Place your fingers on the corners of your lips and apply a little pressure. Next, smile, again despite resistance.
4. Place your fingers on the corners (outer) of your eyes, and then tighten your lower eyelids. Take a break and repeat this five times.
5. Place your index and middle fingers at the corners of your eyes. Then look up and press into the skin with your fingers.

After face-building, use a cream with a tightening effect. This way you will achieve greater effect.

Watch this video, it will help you get rid of the unclear contour of your face.

Dedicate time to such activities every day and after 2 or 3 weeks you will admire the wonderful results. It is very important to do all this comprehensively and not be lazy.