Facial Slimming Exercises
As one of the leading facial contouring experts in Beverly Hills, I have some pretty insightful thoughts on slimming belts, stretches, and exercises that can supposedly be used at home to help you slim your face. If you want a quick summary of this post here it is: there is no scientific basis behind these treatments.
Facial Slimming Exercises: The Basics
There are multiple online articles and Youtube videos that describe different exercises you can do to remove a double chin, improve wrinkles, and slim your chubby cheeks. Performing these exercises or facial yoga as some blogs describe it, can supposedly improve facial contours by changing the muscles and reducing the fat.
Can I make my face Stronger?
Scientifically speaking, the muscles in our face a thin, small and weak. We have one muscle group of significant strength and those are the muscles of chewing such as the masseter. This muscle is the only one, that with exercise (i.e. chewing gum) will get larger. The rest won’t change no matter how hard you ‘work out.’
Can I do exercises to reduce the fat in my face?
This part is even more silly. When it comes to using exercise to lose fat from under your chin for example, fat won’t simply dissolve because it is stretched. I won’t change my mind on this topic until I see someone get a six pack by simply sitting in bed and flexing her abs. It just won’t happen. Targeted fat reduction is very difficult even in large areas like the abdomen let alone small areas like the cheeks or neck.
What about Facial Slimming Straps?
These straps are similar to the ones I use after facial contouring surgery to keep the tissues tight and flat. There is no scientific logic that repeated light compression will do anything other than decrease blood flow temporarily. It might cause your face to look slimmer for a minute or two right when you take it off but no way you can see a permanent change here.
Facial Rollers
You might have seen or read of the benefits of facial rollers which can be used to prevent wrinkles and improve your skin. Now we are at least talking about something with some scientific foresight. These rollers will gently improve the microcirculation or microscopic blood supply and will even help circulate lymph. Combined, these can improve overall skin health but are unlikely to change the appearance of wrinkles. The big myth here is that the material of the roller will make a difference. The result is mechanical and using jade versus rubber won’t cause the slightest bit of difference.
So what can you do for facial slimming aside from surgery?
Kybella
I don’t recommend this treatment in general, but you can certainly rid yourself of a hereditary double chin with this injectable. Deoxycholic acid is a detergent that is injected just under your chin and then will slowly dissolve the fat. The downsides of this are that you will swell up and in general unless you only have a slight amount of stubborn fat it just doesn’t make financial sense.
Coolsculpting
This is a similar treatment to Kybella except instead of using an injected detergent, you use a device to get the fat so cold that it dies. It works. It can be expensive. You skin won’t tighten much afterwords.
Profound RF
This is a radiofrequency energy that will help reduce fat and also provide some skin tightening. The biggest downsides here are how much you swell and once again cost. This procedure demonstrates the best results of the above options in my opinion.
The answer you don’t want to hear: Drink water. Eat healthy. Exercise. Those, even done poorly are better than wasting time, money and energy on at home ‘remedies’ that are unproven internet treatments.
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What an interesting article debunking the useless products and promises manufacturers make to feed us females in their quest for turning back time. I would be first in the queue for a facelift if I could afford it and thank the author of this article for saving me wasting my money.
I don’t see why doing certain facial exercises won’t work as moving muscles on a consistent basis should improve toning. Most of us can’t afford a surgical treatment and from reading this, it seems like most rollers or masks aren’t worth the money which is helpful but a bit hopeless too for those of us that want something affordable and would show a difference. It would be advantageous if he or she (the doctors in this article) knew of an at-home treatment that would work overtime rather than disposing of treatments that received 4 or 5-star reviews by the people that tried them. It just would be helpful to suggest what could or would work instead of costly facial surgery or injections, sculpting etc. Maybe they need to try a few of these to see if the reviews are warranted, rather than eliminating them all together.
Thanks for helping me let go of wasting time on jaw exercises – which are embarrassing to keep up at work and cause discomfort to my jaw joints.
Even the Jawsersize brand- before and after results dont show convincing results but at least they are honest pictures.
I always kinda laughed at the jade and rose quartz roller trend- I know that much. they are pretty little accessories but all the vibrating chin wands and pressure based methods I figured only displace fat temporarily like memory foam. Have u every seen the Simpsons episode when Homer clips his fat to his back pulling his skin tight in the front to impress Marge? hahaha
Cool sculpting and drinking water are legit though? That surprised me that that would actually help.