The Skin Nerd: What is face yoga and does it actually work?

Training your facial muscles can provide many sculpting and anti-ageing benefits.

Yoga can help stretch you out and get the blood flowing - but can flexing your face really help tone up the cheeks?

Laughing, eating, chatting – it seems like we flex our faces enough daily to be excused for thinking this is an area that doesn’t require an additional workout, right? Well, although it is true that we move our faces a LOT, it isn’t that straight forward. Turns out there is an art to facial fitness and if we get it right (and do it often enough) it can lead to powerful, lifted results.

Many facial areas can be targeted with exercise, but what we are primarily looking to address here is skin laxity. A natural part of ageing, laxity occurs in all hoomans due to genetics or overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays (aka photodamage). Over time, collagen and elastin production is diminished and as these are responsible for giving the skin its elasticity, the skin begins to loosen and eventually sag.