I obviously want to look young for as long as I can, but I don't think sagging skin makes us look "ghoulish". There's a fine line (lol fine lines) between keeping ourselves young but also not being afraid to age, as our society is really afraid of aging but it's a badge of honour, not something scary or "ghoulish".
Please check out the research done by Claude DeLouarn - with actual MRI scans he and his colleagues proven that muscles actually shorten with age, and the sagging of the skin is a symptom of it not having enough surface to be stretched over. In his works Dr Joel Pessa also comes to similar conclusions, as he had success in reducing the nasolabial fold by resecting the levator labii superioris muscle.
@@MagnumJohnson the title of the study is ""Improving the Acute Nasolabial Angle and Medial Nasolabial Fold by Levator Alae Muscle Resection" from 1992. Not sure you can find it online (I was so curious about it, I paid to get it haha).
We actually did look at that paper, but didn't include it as it's very similar to the findings of these two papers in this video. The mechanism of shortening the muscle and increasing firmness is the same as the video's study but instead it looked at more muscle groups ( levator labii superioris, orbicularis oris, zygomaticus major, and, among the suprahyoid muscles, the digastric muscle) so we found it to be more comprehensive, but yes, there does seem to be some evidence to support it working.
Can you make a video about facial differences when you have just woken up vs later in the day? I would love to know why I look 10 times uglier in the morning lol
Idk but I actually find myself not that bad looking in the morning xd on the contrary for some reason my face is more "lifted" especially my eyelids that even my eyes look less hooded. Not sure if that's just me.
Retinol (OTC) and tretinoin (prescription) are highly effective topicals that are more efficacious for restoring and preserving collagen and elastin than the ones mentioned in this video. I think they are worth considering for a lot of people.
So let me get this straight... wrinkles and sagging are caused by our facial muscles working constantly. Which is why we are going to combat wrinkling and sagging by... wait for it... making those muscles work even more strenuously. Yep. Makes total sense!
@@gonzalo_rosae I did try facial exercises in my late thirties, when I noticed the first signs of ageing (sagging in my case). The exercises made those early signs ten times worse and I ended up having a face-lift and a lipo at the age of 41. My surgeon explained to me that facial yoga and the like have no scientific proof of efficacy, but what these exercises are good at is exacerbating the already existing problems. So once you've started showing signs of ageing, surgery is the only effective way to go, I'm afraid. Another thing that bothered me in this video is the mention of facial muscles being the same as our other body muscles, so what works for the body, should work for the face as well. That is simply not true (and you'd think the guy behind this channel would know this). You see, our skeletal muscles attach directly to our bones. Whereas our facial muscles attach to other muscles or to our skin. Which basically means that every contraction of your facial muscle, even a minor one, results in pulling the skin. And the more you pull it, the more wrinkles and sagging you get, simple as that.
I love this topic. I have seen a few face yogi and wow their face really look contoured and tight compared to many who are same age and don't do face yoga. That really makes me wonder a lot. Since muscles in our body can be isolated to be built, why not the face? But it is a lot of effort and time though it's free haha. I don't think the face become bigger though cos so far the face yogis I see do not have a larger face. In fact their faces look quite lean.
I don't think face yoga is part of traditional YOGA, it just made up by people in recent years. There is whole science behind traditional YOGA, but god knows that face yoga helps or not?? Maybe there are benefit, maybe there is not....
@@IM-ep1be what? Face yoga is just another, albeit unnecessary, label for facial exercises. There are a handful of research papers documenting the positive correlation these exercises have on the skin's appearance. OBVIOUSLY it's not part of "traditional yoga" but "face yoga" definitely works. So yes, it does have benefits.
The research on facial exercises is still quite new, and I'm confused as to how repeated facial expressions can cause wrinkling but facial exercises supposedly doesn't, and even prevents wrinkling? How are facial exercises different from facial expressions, and if you have to do an expression while you're making those exercises, will you get wrinkles anyways? Sounds contradictory. Secondly, what about how much weight you'd need to load? Progressive Overload? Time under tension? Range of motion? Reps & Sets lmao
@@magda386 Surplus? Bogus. Simply maximize protein synthesis by eating a minimum of four meals with 20-45g of protein and optimal amount of five meals while mewing, with four hours inbetween each meal. Also go out for 10 minute walks after each meal to increase your TDEE, metabolism, and your digestive track's ability to recuperate and process the food, all of which will aid you in ... Going from a 5/10 to a 6/10, or 6/10 to 7/10, or etc. But oh, though you may not become much more attractive, you will be healthier, and nothing's more attractive than health, right? ...
I'm not sure, but I think skin and muscle are different things, although they work together to give the face a younger look. the skin has wrinkles due to elasticity etc, which diminish over the years, while the muscles tend to become more flaccid over the years. Thus, the exercises would help to keep the musculature firm, without the appearance of saggy cheek, for example. I also believe that it would help the skin by increasing blood circulation in the region, but it would not eliminate wrinkles (it could even increase, as the person would be pulling the skin while exercising). To prevent the skin from aging itself, you need to have a healthy diet, drink a lot of water, use sunscreen, vit C and sometimes some anti-aging creams (and, of course, relying on good genetics). In short: facial exercises AND a hydrated and well-groomed skin would be more likely to fight wrinkles and facial sagging :) (sorry for my bad english hahaha it is not my first language)
While doing facial exercises you should not create any expression which will cause you to form lines, working out a few selective muscles would help, but going all crazy, doing all sorts of expressions will fck up the face even more
I use the facial flex it helps keep my jawline smooth and lips plump. It was originally developed for people who had atrophy and constriction of the muscles around the mouth (microstomia). Is it as good as a facelift? No. But it's better than nothing!
I think it does work in the long term, most rich people do it like celebrities. It de-stresses the skin (stress being the biggest aging sign) and does face lifting.
@4:01, is the left photo after using the gadget? @8:12 I hardly can see any difference. Which is the before and which is the after? Could you label your photos?
I would love to try this but Im glad i watched your video first because I already have tmj issues from grinding my teeth at night. I certainly dont need to exacerbate the problem. I even get botox injected into my masseter muscles to prevent myself from clenching and grinding so much at night. Unfortunately it only last a few months and its very expensive for the amount i need to stop my muscles from contracting. And insurance doesn't pay. 😣 But at least when i get it i dont get horrible jaw pain and I also get less headaches.
I am not sure if you might read this comment but I have always been fascinated with the "Dimples vs Freckles" talk and I was wondering if you maybe can make a video about this talking about surgery on getting Dimples and tattooing Freckles or wich people find attractive or not Ps I have Dimples 🙂
I'm 16 and I have been trying facial exercises like mewing and jawline exercises,even though I'm quite slim I have a saggy face. Do u have a video on facial growth from teens to adults and do they actually work? And do they have adverse effects
the base line is how you look is legit like 99% genetics and i really am not sure mewing and stuff works - it isn't scientifically proven to work. be healthy and look after your body and learn to accept yourself because you really won't look how you wish doing these exercises (imo)
@@tyan_ldn he can work out to have a better body but worried about a skin and wrinkles at that age is a waste of time just use sun screen when ever you go out in the sun
Not touching your face works a lot. Especially not rubbing your eyes. As a child, I had severe allergies to pollen and mold, and I was always scratching and rubbing the skin around my eyes, to the point I wasn't even a teen (maybe 11) and I already had some eyelid wrinkles. My mom told me that whenever I wanted to scratch my eyes, I should just rub the tip of my nose instead, and now I'm in my 20s and people always comment on what beautiful eyes I have, and that I look 15-16 at most.
My son has rhinitis and is constantly rubbing his eyes,he has pills for it so it's not as bad anymore...will definitely tell him to rub his nose now lol...thanx for the tip.
Obviously scratching your eyes is not very good, mainly because you may bring germs to them and cause infection. However at your age looking 15/16 can happen due to normal development. Many people in a given age bracket can look different ages, that's a fairly common thing. For the compliment on your eyes, you just happen to be young and have naturally pretty eyes. You don't have to do or not do much, the shape of your eyes isn't due to scratching or not. You're at that age where natural beauty peaks for most people.
@@xander_k_ Yeah, most don't, but for allergy sufferers, it's almost a given they scratch their eyes and face... A friend who does makeup for a living says she notices right away who has allergies because these people usually have a darker eye area than normal, and more wrinkles around the eyes than people without allergies.
I have been doing facial exercises fro symmetrical face and yes it works but not that much. Also it will take a long time at least 1 year and then your facial structure will be complete change because of it. And it will not cause wrinkles.
Thanks for this awesome video. I'm confused about the Hwang et al. paper you showed - doesn't it indicate that the muscles grew but people thought their skin looked worse, not better? They say that the facial visual scale is "(0 = very good, 10 = very poor)" and table 5 shows e.g. FVS: wrinkles going from 3.9 to 5.1
That is correct, the FVS ratings reduced as the participants felt it looked worse, however clinicians felt it looked better. As you can imagine then, the data is very circumstantial and the better way of evaluating improvements would be with a more numerical approach such as muscle size and tonicity which did improve and since they're linked factors of decreased wrinkles, the study was considered a success. The wrinkle severity scale did improve which is all the muscle exercises ever really promised. The facial visual scale could just be natural ageing and degradation between week 1 and the final week leading to a lower score so the confounding effects were not controlled such as diet or sunexposure (and in my opinions it should have been removed from the study).
Yesterday Tina young ( youtuber ) apload this video about facial massage which claims that it will make your face slimmer I want to know your opinion in it
Can u explain men jawline in east Asia beauty standard? Jaw line reduction surgery is quite common and I can see that those guys look better with less defined jawline. What is this contradiction between east vs west beauty standard??
Im kinda confused, doesnt it make more sense to not work your face muscles if u want to have your bones more visible? Since jaw and cheekbones are bones making your face muscles bigger will make the less visible? Especially cheek muscles, if u make the bigger u will lose that hollow cheek effect that everyone finds attractive. I would love to hear more opinions on this.
Unless you do face yoga after you do it, I think not. When you moisturise your face, you’re not straining your facial muscles at all. Moisturising does still help with preventing premature ageing tho
I guess eating a balanced diet and avoid consuming too much sodium? Keep in mind that face puffiness can also be due to a build up of lymphatic fluid as well
No, they cause more wrinkles. That's why people who smile and laugh a lot get tons more smile lines. And that's why Botox works... It relaxes the muscle and causes it to stop contracting, which causes lines and wrinkles.
I love being white 😊 green eyes, blonde hair, pale skin that's very rare worldwide and compliments from strangers on my looks and light eyes 🥰 I feel sorry for people who have eyes, skin and hair all the same dark shade :(
@@julia9557 light coloured eyes are found all over the world and it's not unique. And light coloured eyes dont make someone attractive, bone structure matters more.
