Thanks so much Tom. You have a great voice, positive attitude, your exercises are easy to remember. Really appreciate that you're sharing your wisdom. xxxx
you´re the man Tom, balding at 28 I was searching the net for all kinds of natural cures. found your websites, doing all exercises now. after only 2 days of facetraining i notices incredible changes, i looked so much better. it also improves overall symmetry of the face. after about a week while doing scalp massage i noticed the base of my hair got thicker. i´do a little twist to the regular exercises though
my eyes go from looking droopy to cat eyes temporairly when i do this. Will my eyes look like this permanently if i keep doing this? My cheekbones are right up under my eyeball so it has to be a muscular issue with me
Hi Tom! I am 22, yet I started noticing wrinkles under my eyes. Do you believe this exercise will help get rid of them? It's really embarrassing to start having wrinkles at this age. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge Tom!!!
Mariam, at your age you should not have wrinkles under the eyes. Check out this thread on my discussion forum - www.shapeyourface.com/syfbb/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=203#p586 Even though it's about dark circles under the eyes, the ideas might help you. And, yes, the exercise that I demonstrate really helps with the area around the eyes. Do you have any thyroid problem. Sometimes this can cause the skin around the eyes to look older.
Tom Hagerty Last time I had a check up everything was okay with my thyroid(6 months ago), it seems like it's time to check again. These wrinkles appeared recently, thank you so much for your fast reply! I will let you know if there are any news
Mariam I found this video so helpful.I also found useful for eyesight without glasses was Elumpa Simple Vision Alchemist - it will be on google if you need it.
to everybody balding: it´s all about blood, laxity, and attitude massage your scalp hard, go jog, shower coldly with head bent down, put towel over your hair and do some laxity exercises while drying hair, do face and scalp exercise. and TRY TO LIVE A RELAXED LIVE, AVOID FRUSTRATION (this causes dht rise), do fun sports, nothing like World of Warcraft PVP like I did for much to long. and also do not masturbate multiple times a day (DHT rise)..and YOUR HAIR WILL GROW back, believe it.goodluckguys
I wonder if this facial exercise will give you a relaxed attitude after losing three photo finishes in a row. Of course I never lose a photo finish so there is no problem. Read my comment to you on the Amazon page. Thanks for the positive review of my book.
Even though I knew that personality traits like honesty, courage, and intelligence were more important than a strong face, I wanted a face like Marlon Brando or Kirk Douglas. I was turned off by soft, flabby faces without character. Even in my 80s I still admire and want for myself a well-defined face. A few nights ago I saw an old movie of Brando, One Eyed Jacks, that I liked a lot. Brando's girlfriend in the film was Pina Pellicer, a Mexican actress. She had the face, but lots of talent too. I looked for her on Wikipedia after the movie and found that she committed suicide in her early thirties. Evidently a great face is not enough to get you through life.
Even if you have great results with the exercises, and you probably will, you should continue doing them till you are too old to care. It's the same with physical exercise. If you develop a symmetrical body you can't just stop exercising. You don't have to exercise as much but for maintenance you should do some. When you get into the routine you will find out that it's almost a pleasure to do any kind of exercise. It's more fun than sitting in front of the TV for hours at a time. It will keep you looking and feeling young.
hello Tom! it's me again :) i really want to do this exercise, but whenever i try to, my undereye lid's skin starts to wrinkle up, and i am wondering, will the repetition lf this exercise cause permanent wrinkles? or will the muscle stretch the skin? this is my only concern, please please help me out! Thank you so very much for your videos, i really appreciate what you're doing :)
This exercise that I demonstrate will strengthen and slightly enlarge the muscles around the eyes, including the small muscles of the eyelids. The skin that covers these muscles will benefit from the exercise, meaning fine lines will disappear in time. I do this exercise three times a week (four sets of twenty repetitions). Even though I use no lubricant on the skin around the eyes, I suggest that you do use some simple lubricant. Also, stay out of the sun and don't smoke. These are the activities that age the skin around the eyes.
Mariam, a short answer to your complex question would not help you much. In fact, there is no generic answer to any question about facial exercise because the full answer depends on the age, skin condition, body weight, and health of the person who wants some guidance. Go to my website - www.shapeyourface.com - and register on my discussion forum (send me a username and password). Your question about lower eyelid skin is one that many people have. If you post your question on the forum with some information about yourself, I'll answer it fully.
I dont get how to close the lids. When I close them tight, no muscle moves. I must contract the muscles around the eyes by willpoewer, they will not contract by closing the lids. What is wrong? And if I contract them by willpower, the whole eyes lid area crinkles (not frowning or using any other muscle) if I really want to feel the muscles work strongly.
The muscles that control the movement of the eyelids, the palpebral muscles, are small; the muscles that control the movement of the area around the eyes, the orbicularis oculi muscles, are large. But after you exercise them for a while, you'll gain control of them. When you establish control of them you'll no longer need "willpower" to contract them.
Tom Hagerty Would you explain more, please? I, too, don't understand about closing the eyes strongly. Also, how avoiding tightening the muscles around the eyes will strengthen the muscles around the eyes.
He aprendido bastante a mantener una buena postura facial y con ello unos buenos ejercicios para los músculos de mi cara , muchas gracias Lety Marina Beltran de Colombia
Letty y Elizabeth Me alegra que se hayan gustado mi video. Creo que es más instructivo ver a una persona mayor demostrar los ejercicios porque los resultados son más realistas. Con una persona joven se esperan músculos faciales tonificados; con una persona mayor los músculos faciales a menudo se ven en mal estado. El "secreto" para permanecer joven es el ejercicio facial y no engordar.
This exercise is effective in making the upper eyelids and lower eyelids look younger and more expressive. But sometimes "extra creases" in the upper eyelids are a genetic factor. If that is the case, nothing can be done to eliminate them. I never state how long it takes to accomplish something because it varies from person to person.
Hello Tom. What sort of lubricant do you suggest? Women's skim creams for around the eyes are different than for the face. This might be just marketing, but I wonder what you think.
The following is from a long article by Paula Begoun: All of the marketing hype you've heard about how eye creams are specially formulated for the sensitive, thin skin around the eyes, and getting rid of puffy eyes, dark circles, and sagging skin is simply not true. In fact, most of us don't need an eye cream (or eye gel or eye serum)! The only time you should use a product around your eyes that's different from the one you use on your face is if the skin under your eyes happens to be drier than the skin on the rest of your face. For example, if your skin is oily, it doesn't need an emollient moisturizer, but rather a gel or liquid formula. But if your eye area is dry, it needs a more emollient moisturizer, although it doesn't have to be labeled an eye cream.
You will definitely feel a heaviness in the muscles around the eyes (the orbicularis oculi) when you first start to exercise these muscles. After a month or perhaps two months, when the muscles around the eyes get used to the contractions, this heaviness will disappear.
No, the heaviness will not cause any droopiness or sagging when you first start to do the exercise. If you start to exercise you arms or legs, they might hurt at first. The facial muscles are the same: they might hurt but they won't droop or sag. The exercise for the muscles at the front of the neck might produce a deep pain when you start though. The platysma and sternocleidomastoid are delicate muscles. You have to take it very easy when you start to work these muscles.
I talked a lot about this exercise for the area around the eyes but I forgot to show how to do it in the English version. Go to this page on my website - www.shapeyourface.com/exercise-one/ - and click on the Spanish version. You'll see a full demonstration here. This is an exercise that really works to keep the eyes looking young.
