4 Face Yoga Exercises with Eminence Masque
Yoga has long been celebrated for its mind and body benefits, including its ability to help turn back the clock. If you turn to yoga to keep your body trim, it’s time to focus your efforts on an additional target: your fine lines and wrinkles.
Enter, face yoga. Through a series of facial exercises, face yoga promises to relax and tone your facial muscles. These repetitive movements lift and firm the skin, giving the appearance of a non-surgical facelift. Sold? Here’s how to incorporate face yoga into your skin care routine.
How Often To Do Face Yoga?
Leading face yoga expert Danielle Collins recommends practicing face yoga for 20 minutes, six times a week. She says: “As a general rule you will start to see more of a long term improvement in your face and neck after two weeks. After two to four months, you will notice you have less fine lines and less tension and people will notice you look healthier and more energized. Within six to nine months people have reported that they look and feel many years younger and feel more relaxed within themselves.”.
Eyes: Crow’s Feet & Drooping Eyelids
1. Using your fingers, gently apply pressure to the inner and outer corners of the eyebrows.
2. Look to the ceiling and raise your lower eyelids to squint, then relax.
3. Repeat 6 times.
4. Squeeze eyes tightly shut for 10 seconds to complete the exercise.
Jaw: Smile Lines And Sagging Skin
1. Place your palms on your temples and push your hands up and back to lift the sides of your face.
2. Open your mouth into an “O” shape and hold for 5 seconds.
3. Repeat twice.
Forehead: Horizontal Wrinkles
1. Place both of your hands on your forehead, facing inward.
2. Spread your fingers out between your eyebrows and hairline.
3. Gently sweep your fingers up and back, applying light pressure.
4. Relax and repeat 10 times.
Neck: Loose And Sagging Skin
1. Look straight ahead and cross your hands at the bottom of your neck.
2. Using your fingertips, gently stroke your skin downwards with your head tilted back.
3. Bring your head back down to your chest.
4. Repeat twice.
supplement your face yoga practice with skin care products
As the face ages, the fat pads between the muscle and skin begin to atrophy and loosen, causing the skin to lose shape and begin to sag. Stimulating actives like the paracress extract in the Snow Mushroom & Reishi Masque can enhance your face yoga routine by helping the skin regain a strong and toned appearance. The result? A firmer and healthier-looking complexion.
