As we get older, our skin under the chin and jawline becomes looser. There are various facial exercises which can help minimize this change and reduce jowl formation.
One of the best exercises is jaw tapping, which tones muscles in your face and neck. Also beneficial is chin tuck, which tightens skin around your mouth and jawline.
1. Chin taps
Non-invasive solutions exist that can also help firm jowls and reduce fine lines around the neck, such as collagen peptides which stimulate production of collagen and elastin for firming skin; and radiofrequency which is a popular non-invasive solution for tightening skin.
The Chin Taps Facial Exercise is an effective way to strengthen and tone muscles around your jaw and chin, and reduce jowls. Simply place the tops of your fingers gently against your lower chin, tap three times with each fingertip and repeat.
Face Yoga for Jowls will not only target jowls but will also tighten neck skin around your mouth and jawline. To do this, start by sitting comfortably then tapping rapidly with fingertips on skin near jawline and chin using fingertips on skin around jawline and chin using fingertips – this increases circulation as well as getting fresh oxygen into cells for improved health and rejuvenation of cells.
2. Jaw lift
Sagging jowls can be an inevitable part of getting older, but you can stop their progression by performing certain facial exercises. Chin taps can be particularly helpful as they strengthen the muscles under your jawline to tighten skin and give you a more youthful appearance.
Facial yoga can also help tone muscles and increase blood flow to the area, while regular facial workouts may reduce stress and anxiety, two of the major contributors of jowls.
Treatment options exist for decreasing jowls, including noninvasive skin tightening procedures like Ulthera and ThermiTight, Kybella injections that dissolve fat deposits under your chin, face lifts and PDO threads that lift sagging jowls to redefine jawlines. Your choice will ultimately depend on personal preferences, downtime tolerance and degree of jowling; combination facial surgery and nonsurgical procedures could yield even better results.
3. Facial yoga
Facial yoga has become an increasingly popular face exercise to tone, tighten and reduce jowls. Celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Meghan Markle and the Kardashians have used Facial Yoga to define a sagging jawline while stimulating blood circulation for a healthy glow.
To perform the Cow Face exercise, open your mouth wide as if about to yawn – Clayton says this will engage the cheek muscles and orbicularis oris surrounding lips, before passing air between left and right cheek for 1 second each and repeat this 10 times.
Facial exercises like these can be an effective way to combat jowls and improve the appearance of skin, but results take time and dedication to see. Combining facial exercises with cosmetic acupuncture may produce even better results, strengthening muscle, reducing jowls and giving the face a more youthful look.
4. Chin tuck
Jowls may look cute when seen on dogs, but when they appear around your jawline they’re anything but. While this part of aging, there are ways to minimize jowls – from surgery and fillers to facial yoga and cosmetic acupuncture – which could help.
Clayton recommends chin tucks as an easy exercise to tone and tighten muscles in the neck, jawline and jowls. Simply open your mouth wide as possible before closing slowly without touching upper and lower teeth with either jaw. Doing this works out your orbicularis oris muscle around lips as well as masseter muscles in jaw, which help strengthen cheeks more firm while softening jowls less dramatically.
This technique also strengthens your neck intrinsic flexors and lower cervical extensors, which often become weak due to poor posture. Strengthening them can prevent neck pain, neck hump and postural kyphosis (an abnormally curved spine). Furthermore, this approach may reverse forward head posture which causes poor alignment for face, shoulders and upper back postures.
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