No skin can keep our lifestyle a secret. The skin on our face reveals which side we sleep on, whether we laugh often, whether we spend a lot of time on our smartphone… Our expression lines bear witness to our experiences, but these wrinkles also have the disadvantage of marking the skin of the face. Centifolia reveals its beauty tips to prevent and reduce expression lines on your face, without going through cosmetic surgery.
How do expression lines form on the skin?
Around thirty muscles are involved in our facial expressions. Expression lines form specifically at the points of insertion of these muscles: on the forehead, around the eyes, around the mouth, etc. Which means that every time we exercise these muscles, the part of skin attached to them wrinkles. Over time, small fine lines appear and deepen, these are expression lines, also called frown lines (located between the eyebrows), crow’s feet lines (external corner of the eye or eyes) or nasolabial fold lines (smile lines). Alongside this phenomenon, the skin naturally secretes less and less sebum and hyaluronic acid, the muscles lengthen and become less toned, favoring the appearance of expression lines.
Expression lines are also accentuated by other factors such as prolonged and regular exposure to the sun, stress, significant weight loss but also depending on each person’s morphology or genetics.
How to slow down the appearance of expression lines on your face?
Three golden rules are essential to prevent and act on expression lines:
– Maintain a healthy lifestyle: eat in a balanced way with preferably fresh products, choosing foods rich in antioxidant vitamins and minerals (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, prunes, beets, artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, onions, peppers, etc.), limit sugar, drink at least 1.5 liters of water per day and move whenever you have the opportunity.
– Adopt a beauty routine for mature skin by choosing organic anti-aging treatments. Using anti-aging beauty products will allow you to act in a targeted manner on your wrinkles (eye area, mouth and forehead) and to provide your skin, thanks to these treatments, with the active ingredients it needs. Don’t hesitate to reread our advice for taking care of mature skin.
– Practice facial gymnastics or facial yoga: this natural anti-wrinkle technique combines self-massage and facial exercises, allowing you to relax the muscles of your face and firm them up. It can be practiced at any time of the day, for example during a break at the office or when cleansing your skin. Allow between 5 and 10 minutes each day. And monitor the results of the work of these muscles on aging around the lips, eyes and between the eyebrows.
Small anti-wrinkle facial gym exercises
This exercise will allow you to act on the frown line, the expression line located between the eyebrows. This anti-wrinkle technique acts on relaxing the muscle, then toning the area between the eyebrows:
1. Make light pinches on the area between the eyebrows with your thumb and index finger
2. Gently spread your fingers, still pinching the skin, to reach the outside of the eyebrow
3. Place your 2 index fingers horizontally at the base of the eyebrows, press on the skin, stretching towards the outside of the face.
4. Gradually accentuate the stretch by letting the 2 index fingers slide over the eyebrow.
To complete this anti-wrinkle exercise, you can use an anti-aging vegetable oil, a treatment which will make the massage more pleasant and will nourish the skin while delivering an anti-oxidant action: organic argan oil, organic rosehip oil, organic tigernut oil, etc.
This beauty exercise will allow you to tone the corners of the lips to keep them up as much as possible, for a young and toned smile!
1. Place your 2 index fingers in the corner of your lips (the tip of your finger should be on the corner of your mouth). Be sure to keep your elbows vertical so as not to pull too much on the corners. Try to put the backs of the hands in contact as much as possible so that the index fingers are facing outwards.
2. Pull your skin lightly with your fingers outwards. Your mouth should make an “O” shape.
Do not hesitate to check your posture in a mirror in order to control your gestures and not create other unwanted furrows on your skin.
