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EYES

This exercise is excellent for the eye area, which usually goes slack faster than any other part of the face. It is particularly designed to prevent or eliminate crow’s-feet. It is in two parts.

Part one Looking into a mirror, lower your chin to your chest and open your eyes looking straight ahead. Then, slowly and in eight definite steps, close your eyes by bringing the lower lids up to the upper, all the while looking into the mirror until the very last moment. Hold this position with your eyes tightly shut for four counts, then release in the same eight definite steps. Repeat four times. Once you can control these movements in definite steps, you are ready to go on to the toughy that really does the work.

Part two Place both elbows firmly on your dressing table and, using two small folded pieces of cotton fabric or tissue, place your index fingers over them on the crow’s-feet areas and press firmly. Lower your chin to your chest and, looking straight ahead into the mirror, do the same exercise as before but this time working against the pressure of your fingers, which hold the skin in place, as you move lower lids up to eight counts, hold for four, down for eight, rest for four. Do this three times. You will be surprised what it does to tone the eye area and even to brighten the eyes themselves.

CHIN AND NECK

Exercise one This exercise strengthens and firms the platysma, which covers the neck from jaw to chest and when firm keeps the skin on the neck smooth and free from turning crepey.

Tilt your head slightly backward, placing your hand gently on your throat. Now make your mouth into a hard “o” shape, then pull the muscles around your mouth downward and outward into a turned-down “smile“—a smile in which the corners of the mouth turn down as though you were making the sound “ee.” Now push your mouth back to “o” again, then back to “ee,” repeating the change a dozen times.

Exercise two This movement tightens the muscles in the neck and lower jaw while bringing circulation to the skin of the face.

Lying on your back on a firm bed, or better still on a table, let your head and neck hang over the side, bend your knees and place your feet flat on the surface you are lying on. Now you are ready to begin. Slowly, to the count of five, lift your head up so your chin is on your chest. Then, opening your mouth, jut out your lower jaw as far as it will go. Hold for five counts Finally, keeping your lower jaw thrust forward, let your head flop back over the edge of the table and hold for another five counts. Return your lower jaw to its normal position and repeat. Do this exercise six times.

Exercise three This exercise strengthens the pterygoids, at the side of the jaw. With your lips together, smile to the sides gently, then push your lower jaw as far forward as possible. Now, maintaining the tension, move your jaw from side to side four times and then return to the starting position. Repeat the full movement twelve times.

CHEEKS

Exercise one This exercise helps eliminate nose-to-lip creases by strengthening a tiny muscle, just above the side of the mouth, called the canius, as well as the muscles in the cheeks themselves. This will lift the area between nose and mouth corners upward.

With your lips together, smile upward at the corners of your mouth as hard as you can. At the same time, try to make your lips into an “o” shape so that the muscles are pulling against each other and the whole area is tightened. Hold for five seconds. Repeat twice.

Exercise two This exercise is designed to remove telltale hollows in the lower cheek area, soften lines, and lift mouth corners. It needs to be done in two parts. The first will train the muscles to your conscious control. It should be followed for a week before beginning the second part. The second part works on the principle of isometric resistance, but it will be effective only after you have trained your muscles in that area to work.

Facing a mirror, smile to the sides—smile so that there is no movement in the muscles of the eye area—in a series of small definite movements to the count of eight, all the while making sure there is no movement whatever in your eye area; if there is, then you are not using the right muscles. Hold the smile for a count of four. Then, to a count of eight in definite steps, release the smile, returning to the starting position. Rest for a count of four. Do the exercise five times. When you can do this smoothly and with control, then leave it behind and go on to the second part.

Using a piece of cotton cloth or a folded tissue, left elbow firmly placed on your dressing table, with thumb and middle finger grasp the left cheek area, ensuring that the cloth is centered under the thumb to prevent slipping. Then, holding your cheek firm, smile to the sides just as you did in the first exercise but this time on the left side of the face only, so that your muscles are working against your grasped cheek- again to a count of eight, hold for four, release in eight, and rest for four. Then, using the right hand, do the exercise on the right cheek. Do each side three times.

Exercise one This movement strengthens the frontalis muscle, on the forehead, which is the antagonist to the corrugator, which pulls the eyebrows together in a frown. It will help soften frown lines between the brows.

Looking into a mirror, as slowly and gradually as you can, put your brows down, closing your eyes tighter and tighter into a frown. Now open your eyes wider and wider, lifting your forehead as you do. Repeat six times.

Exercise two This is for smoothing out a lined forehead. It also has two parts. Once you have mastered the first, forget about it and go on to the second.

Facing a mirror, raise muscles of your forehead in tiny controlled steps to the count of eight, all the while opening your eyes wider (good for you if you tend to be a squinter) and getting the feel of your muscles in this area. Hold for a count of four, then release slowly in eight steps. Do this five times twice a day.

When you have mastered this completely, do the second part, but before you do any of the other exercises, because it needs to be done with a cream-free forehead.

Ensure that your forehead is clean and dry and, taking three pieces of cellophane tape cut to the breadth of your forehead, place them on the brow area, using a small piece to fit between the eyebrows. The tape will act as resistance the way your finger did in the cheek exercise. You work against it for really effective muscle toning. Move your brow up in tiny definite movements, this time to the count of six. Hold for four, opening your eyes wide and looking straight ahead. Release in six. Do this exercise five times.

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