Face Yoga is the latest trending yoga routine to enhance face beauty with face exercises. Face yoga techniques include massages, stretches and certain exercises that work on the face muscles, makes the skin tight and increase the blood flow in the face area for an improved glow. The end result of face yoga is face toning, upliftment of sagging or drooping skin, reduction of face fat and a younger-looking appearance. Face yoga is quite famous among females, but it offers great benefits to men as well.
Men often aspire to have chiselled jawlines, defined cheekbones, and taut skin like models and big-screen actors. A good face also helps men in making a good impression in their corporate culture and peer groups. Face yoga can help men in achieving all this and more such as wrinkle-free skin, and better skin by building muscle under the skin to keep it taut and prevent sagging.
However, face yoga for men doesn’t transform their genetics or completely halt the ageing process, instead, this facial exercise practice helps in achieving increased facial muscle tone and definition along with slowing down the ageing process that generally gets accelerated due to stress, pollution and a bad lifestyle. Additionally, it is important to understand that simply face yoga can’t be your singular fitness routine, rather it should be made a vital part of your regular exercising routine. A couple of face yoga techniques merely need five to seven minutes of daily practice to gain results.
Here are some of the Face Yoga techniques for Men:
Fish Face
This is one of the most common and easiest techniques to reduce cheeks fat and reduce laugh lines. As the name states, it requires the face to be made in a fish style by pressing lips together and sucking cheeks inside as much as possible. You can hold it for five minutes or as per your strength and repeat it five to six times.
Jawbone Presses
This exercise helps strengthen your jaw for a more defined jawline. To perform this, place your face in your hands by placing your thumbs under the chin next to each other. Now use your fingers to take your skin towards your ears on both sides at the same time. Remember to give moderate pressure and slide your thumbs while taking them apart from each other along with your jaw and try to open your mouth during this. You can create this pressure five to seven times.
Catching Snowflakes
Double chin is a highly common problem amongst men who face this with increasing body weight. This is an effective way to reduce double chin or chin fat. To do this, tilt your head backward so that your face is towards the ceiling. While you are in this position, open your mouth and close it, in a way you are trying to catch snowflakes. You can open and close your month 20 times and repeat this five to six times.
Vowel Repetitions
This is again one of the easiest exercises that will take you to your classroom in the school. This exercise can be performed anywhere and anytime to tone your cheek muscles, slim your face and prevent sagging skin. In this, you need to slowly repeat vowels like A, E, O, U & I aloud and in a way that your mouth opens completely, and stretches your mouth & face with each letter. Also, ensure that you pronounce each vowel for a longer duration for effectiveness. You can do this 20 times in total.
Forehead Raises
It is common to get wrinkles and lines on and around the forehead and the eyes, especially for men from all the stress they endure during their lifetime. This exercise helps in preventing them. Do it by placing your index finger of each hand above your eyebrow and try to frown & pull your eyebrows apart from your fingers. Ensure that the pull is moderate and use your facial muscle to try and lift your eyebrows as you do when you are surprised. And use your fingers to pull them down towards your cheeks. Hold this position for five to six seconds and do this 15 times.
Cheek Lifts
This exercise is effective in enhancing your cheekbones with a simple technique. Put the three fingers of each hand on each cheek right under your eyes. Try to press down with your fingers and lift your cheeks by smiling as much as possible. Hold your posture at least for three to five seconds and repeat this 10-15 times.
Conclusion
A simple practice of a couple of the above-mentioned exercises can help you achieve a fat-free defined and attractive face. Men face a lot of problems with their face. Be it ageing or dark circles, the first signs of stress and ageing are reflected on a man’s face. With face yoga and different kinds of exercises a man can make sure that his face looks as bright and beautiful as he feels from inside.