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Face Exercises That Prevent Premature Aging

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This a wonderful book that shows you step by step exercises that truly help the elasticity of your face and improves the muscle tone. You will be so thrilled, as I was to know the information in this book is both reliable and helpful in keeping your face wrinkle free.

These exercises work. No question about it - they really work. I'm 40 and was starting to notice the old age droop in my cheek and eye muscles as well as the characteristic bulge from untoned tongue muscles. Within one week of doing these exercises I noticed significant improvement. The cheek droop line is tightening up and receding. The muscles of my eyes and forehead have tightened up and lifted again. What's more, unlike with Carol Maggio's book, these exercises gave me a way to do these exercises without creating new wrinkles - a big reason why I stopped the exercises from Maggio's book.

The directions are step by step and very clear. I appreciated the drawings demonstrating the muscles targeted by each exercise. Pages 16 and 17 for example showed how the underlying face muscles of a young person (p. 16) look compared to an older person (p. 17).

Here's an excerpt to give you an idea of what a bit of the text is like to go with the illustrations.

"The illustrations show the contrast between facial muscles before and after premature aging. In the illustration on the left, the muscles are strong and tight. They support the skin around the eyes and the contours of the cheeks, lips and lower face. Notice how the cheek muscles insert into the mouth muscle and provide support for it.

prematurely aged eye muscles are too weak to hold the skin firmly in place. This causes squint lines, hollows, and bags to form in the skin around the eyes. In addition, cheek muscles sag and no longer provide support for the cheeks and the mouth muscle. When the mouth muscle lacks the support of strong cheek and chin muscles the lips tend to turn inward. Jaw and neck muscles become limp and slack and the skin attached to them becomes loose and shapeless."

If you are considering a face exercise book you can't go wrong giving this book a chance.

I tried the exercises in this book for three months to see what results I would achieve. Unfortunately, I didn't notice any noticeable results. I even had a friend take a picture of me before and after 1, 2 and 3 months to see if I could see a difference. I didn't. A friend of mine who does facial exercises told me to get a copy of another book on facial exercises called Facercise. I did the same thing here. I took before and after pictures at 1,2 and three month intervals. I was excited when I could see a change in one month. I actually had several people tell me I looked different after 2 months. That's all I needed. I can feel my muscles burn when I do Facercise. I didn't get that feeling at all when I used this book. Sometimes you have to try different things to get the results you expect. I just wish I'd started with Facercise first, not the other way around.

This book describes and shows illustrations on the best excercises to help prevent, and to slow the signs of aging of our face. I am always looking for new ways to prevent myself from getting old before my time. Like alot of others, I ignored the warnings of what spending too much time in the sun, without using sunblockers to protect my skin, would reveal in years to come. I started worshipping the sun when I was in my early teens, and now at we'll say 40-ish, I've been trying to correct some of the damage I started back then. When I saw this book on Amazon, I knew that trying new strategies to renew my youthful appearance could't hurt. It made sense to me that excercising the face was as important as excercising the body to keep it in shape and help to return some of the muscle tone we lose as we age. I liked the book because it focuses on all the problem areas of the face, including the neck area as well. I have been using a few of these excercises regularly, and have noticed some change, especially in the chin area in only a few weeks. I wish I would have known about these excercises a long time ago. But it's never to late to start. I care about my appearance, and am willing to work on getting my face looking more like it did in earlier times, and keeping it younger-looking for many years to come. The only thing I wasn't as positive about with the book, is that using all of the excercises on somewhat a daily basis is actually unrealistic to most of us that don't have an extra hour in the day to spend on all of these excercises, but even a few minutes will be worth it in the end result. Just keep your chin up, and enjoy improving yourself in any way possible. And remember the sunblock! Thank you Jeanette for sharing these excercises for all of us to use. Sincerely, Diane Poff

I recommend this book very highly. The exercises are clearly illustrated and they are easy to do. I noticed changes in my face within two weeks. Several times since then, people have been surprised to learn that my 15 year old is my daughter and not my sister. I am on cloud nine! This is a wonderful resource.

This book offers clear facial drawings, allowing the reader to see the facial muscles and understand what these exercises are hoping to accomplish. The book treats the reader in an intellegent manner by giving reasons for each exercise. I highly recommend this book for those people eager to learn how the build up the facial muscles and improve a person's overall appearance.

This book was very disappointing. There are no photos in the entire book; instead there are just line drawings. I tried a couple of the exercises and immediately had significant jaw pain. I have issues with TMJ, but had not experienced any jaw pain in almost 15 years. Just one of these exercises was enough to bring back immediate pain. This was the first book that I have ever returned to Amazon.

This book is informative; it has an entertaining introduction and then gets straight into the exercise program. The exercises are illustrated and simple to perform for anyone who wants a easy facial firm up.

In this book I found what I was looking for. It has excellent pictures, clear instructions, explanation of how our face ages, specific exercises for the different areas of the face, and the goal of each exercise. I especially like using my "will" to get my face muscles to move. Although I don't do the exercises consistently every day, I see progress anyway. I was able to tighten my cheek muscles so that my cheek dimple, which had sort of slid down toward my jaw, is now higher on my face. Cute! There are some exercises that I can do at my desk at work, which I like. Great book for those who want to know WHY the exercise works.

Follow the exercises in this book and your face will feel firmer.