| Author | Message | ||
     Anonymous |
Hello, I am new to facial exercising. I am 48 have a healthy diet and I am very fit (for my age). I have been doing facial excercises since Oct 2008, when I noticed eye hooding. I am assuming that I have reached the age when my body just wants to stop working. I have had some good results in this short time, however I am developing more pronounced lines on my forehead and my eyebrows appear to be falling. I do the exercises once every day and can really feel the muscles working. Am I over doing it or is there anything else I can do for my eyebrows?? Any help / comments would be appreciated. Thanks | ||
| Thomas Hagerty Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 155 Registered: 05-2006 |
Anonymous (I prefer you do not post as anonymous) Are you doing Exercise Number Five - The Scalp Exercise and are you doing it correctly? Many people have told me that this exercise lifts the eyebrows and gets rid of eyelid hooding. The secret is, though, to really develop the occipitalis muscle at the back of your head. You can do this by holding the contraction of this muscle when you are doing the exercise. It's almost counterintuitive to think that a muscle at the back of the head can eliminate eyelid hooding. But I think it does this by pulling up and back on the upper face, thus smoothing out the forehead and perhaps easing the gravitational pull on the eyelids. This reasoning is highly speculative though. I don't think you can overdo facial exercise but you can do the exercises incorrectly. Of course you don't want to exercise the facial muscles or any other muscles night and day. Moderation in this as in all things is the best way. | ||
| Kevin N New member Username: Toga38 Post Number: 1 Registered: 05-2009 |
Thanks for your reply and my apologies for posting anonymously (just a little apprehensive being my first post). I am struggling to get a result with the occipitalis muscle. Sometimes when I just go straight into the exercise I can feel my ears move a little but when I am concentrating on what I am doing I don't seem to get any result. I had forgotten about the advanced exercise for this muscle. I will give this a try. If I am honest with myself; I would say that I have concentrated on all other aspects of facial exercising in comparison with occipitalis muscle. PS Do you have any suggestions / exercises for those deep frown lines between the eyes? | ||
| Thomas Hagerty Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 156 Registered: 05-2006 |
Kevin N: Eyelid hooding, horizontal lines etched in the forehead, and vertical lines between the eyebrows often have one thing in common - muscle contractures. Muscle contractures are permanent or semi-permanent involuntary contractions of skeletal muscles - in your case, the muscles of the forehead - procerus, frontalis, and other small muscles in the area. If you do the scalp exercise correctly for a period of time, you will find that the tension and involuntary contractions in these muscles will be eased or eliminated. The most important step in doing the exercise correctly is gaining complete control of the occipitalis muscle at the back of the head. Work on this using the pillow technique and the glasses technique. Go to my other website - My Approach - and read through these pages several times till you completely understand the concept. Also look at the drawings and visualize where the occipitalis muscles are. This sometimes helps. |
