Looked into the mirror lately only to see a haggard, tired face peering back at you?

Are you asking yourself, “What happened to that young face I used to wear?” If so, you are the perfect candidate for a facial exercise makeover.

Without anything harmful or invasive, facial exercise, using isometric contraction with resistance, will begin to lift the stress and tiredness from your face.

Rather than resorting to injections that plump and paralyze or a surgical procedure that can empty your bank account, you can easily begin to engage those sagging facial muscles using proven techniques that will deliberately and systematically change and update your appearance.

How exciting is that?

Opting for facial exercise has many benefits – first, there’s no cutting of perfectly healthy tissue.  You probably have already figured out that when tissue is cut, excised and sutured that you set yourself up for infection and a physical result that may not be to your liking. Statistics have stated that over 30% of plastic surgery users do not care for their results.  Why is that? Is it because neither the patient nor their family recognizes that face they used to love? Maybe the family doesn’t really know hot to approach the subject of your new look because it is a glaring and startling departure from who you were.

The very same thing happens when you see your favorite aunt with her cheeks so wildly puffed that her eyes are barely apparent and the conversations are now difficult as you want to just ask her “What in the world happened to your face?!?”

One of the best features of using facial exercise is that you look like you looked years ago with a fresh, vibrant complexion while your once sagging muscles that produced hooded eyes, a double chin, down turned mouth corners, jowls and pouches definitely improve day after day. Most facial exercise users report that they look five, ten and even fifteen years younger after only 9 to 12 weeks of exercise.

Is a facial exercise routine cumbersome in regards to the time spent exercising?  Not at all. Once you learn how to execute, anchor and contract the muscles and muscle groups, you can easily complete the routine in just minutes a day and once you have completed the initial program, you can maintain your new look by exercising only three times each week.

Imagine, no recovery time, no stitches, no drugs and beast of all – No Surprises!

Choosing facial exercise over surgery and injections will keep you looking much younger than your peers. You have probably realized that facial plastic surgery and the accompanying lasers and injections do not necessarily make people look younger; rather, those man-made procedures can make a person look distorted, done and even over-done.

Facial exercise is natural, it works for everyone and there are no regrets. What could be easier? And, the best part is that you keep your beautiful face and people will recognize you! You’ll just keep looking better than you have in years without spending a lot of money or regretting your decision to let someone put foreign stuff in your face.

Exercising the face has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years with all the books, articles and discussions about what is often called “face yoga”, but it’s nothing new.

Jack Lalanne proposed that exercising your face can tighten the muscles, decrease fat deposits and make you age quite wonderfully.

As a result, many celebrities have been secretly using these techniques for decades, but perhaps there is some danger in using them after all.

Dr. Shultz claims that you can actually make yourself look order one day, because you only have so much elasticity in your facial skin, and by doing these exercises he believes that you are inadvertently speeding up the process of aging, going on to explain that there are only so many times that the skin can be stretched before it will just quit returning to it’s original state.

On the other hand, Jack Lalanne, who passed away at the age of 96 didn’t look a day over 60 when he did.

Then there is Eva Fraser, founder of a facial exercising program that she developed for herself under the training of German Madame Hoffman.  Eva began at age 50 and is now in her 80s, but you would never know by looking at pictures of her.

Some people have noticed that the biggest critics of face exercises are people in the plastic surgery and dermatology professions, which has led many to speculate that they might have hidden motives to steer people to their business which is more lucrative.  Why pay for their expensive services when you can simply exercise your face?

Although plastic surgery can be an option for some people, many don’t like the “plastic” look and fixed facial expressions that have become so stereotypical with these procedures, and instead have turned to using face exercises to zap away facial fat and as an effective way to reduce the signs of aging.

There are well over 40 muscles in the human face, with many exercises that are designed to work each on independently of one another.  Many of these facial exercises use resistance to build up and strengthen these muscles.  And the result? Tightening of the skin that covers them and decreasing the amount of space that fat has to reside in.

So, plastic surgery for you or facial exercises?

While younger people take their skin for granted, others spend thousands of dollars yearly on products that promise them dewy, healthy and youthful skin. These said products claim to keep the signs of aging at bay, including wrinkles, age spots and dry skin. These are also the same products that promise to prevent acne and other skin imperfections. While these expensive products can be beneficial for your skin, there are other facial skin care methods, including the use of facial steamer, which can also help maintain a youthful skin.

Here are the top five facial skin care tips you need to use:

1. Stay out of the sun or use a sunscreen. Skin experts have long warned people out of staying under the sun without protection.  While sporting a balanced and beautiful golden skin in the summer can reel in some admiration and appreciation, it will also give you skin damage in the process. Constant sun exposure is believed to be the culprit for age spots as you grow older. Sun exposure is also believed to exacerbate acne in people who are prone to getting them. Avoid any activities under the sun as much as possible. If you cannot avoid such activities, remember to use sunscreen adequately.

2. Stay hydrated. Out body is made up of 70% water. As such, drinking eight glasses of water on a daily basis can help the cells in your body, including your skin cells, maintain homeostasis. Another benefit of drinking an adequate amount of water is that it helps your body get rid of the toxins that may manifest themselves through blemishes, acne and dry skin.

3. Exercise.  Regular physical activity helps increase the blood flow, thereby keeping the skin cells healthy, promoting the excretion of waste products as well as harmful free radicals, which are known to cause damage to the skin. Furthermore, exercising can also help you decrease stress, which is known to exarcebate certain skin conditions such as eczema and acne.

4. Moisturize. If there is one secret on earth that most people need to know in order to take care of their skin, it is to moisturize as early as possible. Moisturizers do not only keep the skin hydrated and soft, it also helps protect sensitive skin as well as improve your skin tone. There are different types of moisturizers that you can choose from, depending on the type of skin you have. They usually offer moisturizers for people with normal skin, dry skin, oily skin, combination skin and mature skin.

5. Use a facial steamer. Steamers are known to emit steam directly into the face which helps to promote skin blood circulation, softens and opens pores for easy removal of dead skin debris and dirt as well as allows for deep cleansing, re-hydrating and rejuvenation. Some people with acne find that steaming their face at least once or twice on a weekly basis has helped improve their skin condition. There are also different types of steamers you can choose from.

If you want to have a dewy and youthful skin that is the focus and envy of many, you have to work hard at it.  Consider using sunscreen, exercising regularly and purchase a facial steamer to use often and don’t forget to moisturize regularly.