New Year, New You – With Toned and Tightened Facial Features

Does your new year include a resolution that you want to look like a better version of yourself? Why not start the new year off with a younger, tighter looking face? Have you been unsuccessful in turning back the clock on your aging skin? Have you spent tons of money on cosmetics, creams, treatments and still feel your face has not achieved the results you desired? If so, start exercising your face!

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Jowls, Pouches and Facial Exercise

Do you suffer from sagging facial skin? Have you been unsuccessful in turning back the clock on your face? Have you spent tons of money on cosmetics, creams, treatments and still feel your face has not achieved the results you desired? Stop spending money needlessly and start exercising your face!

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What Face Are You Wearing for Halloween

Halloween is the time of year when looking scary can be appropriate. But during other times throughout the year, looking scary probably isn’t desired. Wouldn’t you love to get rid of those creepy wrinkles, frightening saggy eyes and that dreadful double chin? Here’s how!

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How to Save Your Face When You Drop 20 Pounds

Losing weight is a great health benefit, especially since two-thirds of Americans today are either overweight or obese. But what happens when you lose 20 pounds? Your body may look slimmer and more toned but how does one tone their new, slimmer, sagging face? Here’s how!

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Appreciate Your Body — Or Alter It with Caution

Many, many men and women who undergo even the simplest cosmetic procedure have regrets that they altered their beautiful, God-given facial features. Whether the face has been plumped or paralyzed or cut and sutured, this type of change can be startling to the psyche. We need to remember that we can effectively change the shape and contour of our faces with exercise. Will we look 16 again? No, but we can look 5, 10, even 15 years younger and when we look in the mirror or see our friends and family, we’ll most likely be happier knowing that we look our best.

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Wake Up Your Makeup

Standing in the midst of a large department store looking at the array of cosmetics can be daunting. How do you choose the ideal brand for your needs? What is your objective? Do you have particular products in mind that your friends have described or did a certain advertisement lead you to the door?

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Best at-home spa ideas for summer

Have your summer vacation plans been squelched by your pocketbook? Why not pamper yourself with your own at-home spa day? Itʼs easier and more economical than you might think and you probably have plenty of the products you need in your bathroom cabinets. If not, quality spa products are as close as your nearest pharmacy or big box store.

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How Much Would You Pay for Lumpy Lips?

Is your face a victim of too many injections? More and more we see shocking results develop from repeated use of injections that plump and paralyze. In the case of Anita (her name has been changed) who works for a reputable plastic surgeon, who has had his share of face time on TV, her face…

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My Face Lift (Not): The Magic of Facial Exercise

Lynda Lippin, sans makeup, after her Facial Magic face lift.

A few years ago while we were working at Parrot Cay, my husband started to play with my chin wattle. What started as a cutesy joke quickly turned into a fight.

Me: “Don’t play with my wattle; you’ll only make it worse!”
Hubby: “But I love everything about you, and it’s so cute!”
Me: “IT’S NOT CUTE!”

Gravity is not our friend as we age. As an exercise and fitness professional, I know that exercising muscles in our bodies keeps them toned and helps keep the skin attached to the tissue underneath, so it makes sense to me that exercising facial muscles would do the same. However, exercising the face is tough for at least two reasons: there are a lot of small specialized muscles (43, in fact) and unlike most of the body’s muscles, most facial muscles have only a single bony attachment, and some have none at all.

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