Facial Exercises - A Facelift Without The Pain

No need to be worried by sagging jowls, crow's feet or frown lines ? even if you hate the thought of surgery. Facial exercise can help you look younger without the pain and expense of a facelift.

Facial exercise is the non-invasive approach to lifting and toning your facial features. Exercising the muscles under your skin increases the amount of oxygen to the facial muscles and helps rejuvenate the cells, giving your face a younger and healthier appearance.

Doing the right facial exercises regularly can lift and tone your whole face - including your chin, cheeks, and eyebrows - and what's more, it should take no more than just a few minutes of your day. It's never too early to start - even if you are under 40 - you should start facial exercises to maintain the great muscle tone you have for as long as possible.

To understand just how facial exercise works, you first need to understand what wrinkles and lines are. You may assume that wrinkles are the result of the skin stretching - but the truth is that skin wrinkles when the underlying muscle weakens and is no longer able to offer support. The result - sagging skin, bags, lines and wrinkles.

Unlike other muscles in your body, the muscles of your face are connected to both the skin and the bone, forming a cushion for the skin to rest on. It's when your face muscles start to lose their tone that wrinkles and lines appear. Facial exercise ? like any other exercise - can tone up those muscles resulting in smoother, healthier looking skin.

You may be worried that facial exercise may actually cause wrinkles because of the repeated facial movement. This is a popular misconception that simply isn't true. With regular facial exercise you strengthen the underlying muscle which will improve your appearance, defining facial features and making you look much younger.

It is important to remember, though, that just as with any other kind of exercise, facial exercise can cause problems if you don't do them properly. You need to learn how to do each exercise by following clear diagrams and instructions, attending a class or watching a video.

While facial exercises do lift your face - the results aren't as dramatic as a surgical facelift. Do the exercises regularly though and the difference in your face may be enough to make people think you've had cosmetic surgery.

And there are some big advantages over cosmetic surgery. Unlike cosmetic surgery facial exercising won't cost you a lot of money. Nor will you need to undergo a second painful and expensive procedure after 5-10 years as gravity undoes the surgeon's work.

Facial exercise - like any form of physical exercise - brings extra oxygen to the skin's surface reducing toxins and enhancing the delivery of essential nutrients. The result is more youthful looking skin that glows. You certainly won't get that from cosmetic surgery.

Of course you do have to build in time to do your facial exercises into your day. To start with if your face muscles are seriously weakened it may take you a little while to bring back tone and develop muscle mass. Just like going to the gym after you've neglected your body for a long time.

Once your face is toned and lifted and your face muscles are at their optimum strength then it should take no more than half an hour two or three times a week to maintain your new youthful look. Not a lot of time to spend on looking younger ? and the results will last as long as you want them to.

Eileen Gravelle is an author and web publisher who writes extensively on all aspects of anti aging including non-surgical facelifts through facial exercise. Eileen's website: Simply Anti Aging is a complete anti aging resource with articles, practical advice. product reviews and celebrity features for women in their forties and beyond who want to look younger and feel great as they get older.

Slot Machines Get A Facelift

You may not have thought it but women and slot machines have a lot in common. If you ever go into the middle of the casino, close your eyes and just stand still for a moment you'll know exactly what I am talking about. Next time you visit the casino, just do it and you will remember this comparison and know what you read here is the sound truth.

If you don't visit a casino very often you will notice how the slot machines get a new make-over the next time you set foot in one. The machines come in all denominations and sizes too. For example, the new machine could be loudest one on the casino floor ringing out as though a jackpot has been hit each time the smallest of wins occurs. The manufacturer will find something wrong with the earlier version of a particular machine and low and behold go back to the drawing board for more gaming excitement and a fresh new look. Then, the new and improved version will be louder and brighter, with a lot more appeal than the earlier incarnation.

Like slot machines, some women need more frequent or dramatic make-overs than others. The women you see in casinos are from all walks of life; some come in dripping with expensive diamonds and pearls and head straight to the $100 machine. You also see another "denomination" in T-shirts and jeans, pouring out the last of their child benefit into the nickel machine. The size thing doesn't really need to be addressed, but women are like slot machines, that is a fact.

If you are still standing in the casino with your eyes closed you will hear the slot machines over anything else. However, if you listen really closely, you will hear something like a yelp. It's a woman who's jabbering away, completely oblivious to the comparison that we have made today.

If she wins at the slots, we know exactly what will happen. Everyone in the casino will hear her whiny, screeching voice above the noise of the one-armed bandits and the casino in general.

So the next time the casinos have a new slot version to hit the floor and the lady your with is getting on your nerves with her hand stuck out for "more", think to yourself, what would the casino do?

Isn't it obvious? Go back to the drawing board of course!

David Walker runs online casinos UK and fruit machine cheats websites. A free email course: "Seven Days to Better Betting" is available at both of these websites.