Lips and Cheeks Exercises

How facial exercises help you look younger

As with any form of exercise, it must be done regularly to get the full benefit from them.
Having smooth and firm skin around your lips, cheeks and chin will greatly help in making you look years younger.
The lips and cheeks can be a problem area to treat, but facial exercises will go a long way to tighten and firm the facial muscles and get rid of hard lines around your lips and also firm-up slack cheeks.
Aged and neglected skin can be dramatically improved with facial exercises, but you also need to have a good skin care regimen to maintain your skin. For a superb range of facial skin care, please have a look at out Ageless range.

Other facial exercises

• Eyes and forehead
• Neck and throat
• General information

Although we list these exercises for your "lips and cheeks" - they will in fact exercise more areas in your face - and after performing these exercises, you may feel that the muscles on other areas of your face have also been used.

Instructions

These exercises should be done once a day, and this regimen can be continued for your entire life, or you could scale down to three times a week, after completing a month of daily exercises.
Some people report that minor spots or blemishes appear after starting facial exercises, and yes, it is normal.
The skin is once again stimulated to produce its natural oils and lubricants and these minor spots may appear when starting facial exercises.
When the skin is functioning efficiently and correctly again these spots will disappear. The skin gets lazy and stagnate, but with proper exercises these cells are once again activated to work with renewed vigor.

Facial exercises for lips
# 1	Sit upright facing forward and purse your lips together. Lift your pursed lips towards your nose and keep there for 5 counts, relax and repeat 5 times.
# 2	Pucker your lips slightly and when in this puckered position try with your mouth muscles to bring the corners of your mouth together as close as possible. Keep lips in this position for 5 counts, relax and repeat 5 times.
# 3	Sit upright facing forward and keep your lips closed and teeth together. Smile as broadly as possible, without opening your lips, keep there for 5 counts and when relaxing start puckering your lips in a pointed kiss. Keep there for 5 counts and relax - repeat 10 times.
# 4	Move your lips into a puckered kiss and while relaxing the kiss keep your lips closed and curl your lips into your mouth across your teeth. Hold this position for a count of 10 and repeat 5 times.
# 5	Sit relaxed with your lips hardly open and pucker your lips outwards. While your lips are in the outward position, move your puckered top lip towards your nose. Hold in this position for 10 counts and repeat 5 times.
Facial exercises for cheeks
# 1	Sit upright facing forward with lips closed but relaxed. Pucker and pout your lips using the muscles in your cheeks. (Feel with your fingers that you are using your cheek muscles.) Keep puckered for a count of 10, relax and repeat 10 times.
# 2	Have a relaxed smile with your lips closed and then suck in your cheeks towards and on to your teeth. Hold this for 10 counts, relax and repeat 10 times.
# 3	Look in a mirror while doing this exercise. Pout your top lip, turning the corners of your lips upwards and move your cheek muscles towards your eyes. You should at this stage try to get your top lip touching your nose. Keep in this position for 10 counts, relax and repeat 5 times.
# 4	Look in a mirror while doing this exercise. Smile as widely as possible - while keeping your lips closed and your mouth corners turned up. Try to make your mouth corners touch your ears. Next wrinkle your nose and see your cheek muscles move upwards and feel these muscles work. Keep for 5 counts, relax and repeat 10 times.
# 5	Keep your teeth and lips closed and blow air under your top lip and keep it there for 10 counts, then move it to your left cheek, hold for 10, to your lower lip, hold for 10 and then to your right cheek while holding it for a count of 10. Repeat 5 times.