Misconception #1: “Facial massage stretches the skin”
Our skin is plastic, so it can stretch. But at the same time, it is elastic, and elasticity is the ability of our skin to return to its original position. Therefore, stretching the skin on the face is not an easy task. You also need to know the lines of maximum stretch and pull along them.
If your massage therapist sets just such a goal, he will need a lot of time and effort. Elastin fibers have the ability to stretch and return to their reverse position until His Majesty Time intervenes in this process. After 35 years, the synthesis of collagen and elastin in the skin decreases, these fibers are mixed with harder and coarser connective tissue fibers, and the skin loses its ability to contract.
Diet for losing cheeks
When following a weight loss diet, excess weight is removed from all parts of the body. All nutritionists unanimously argue that the diet should not be short-term, but become a way of life.
Accordingly, it is better not to reduce the quantity and quality of food consumed, but to learn to eat healthy . Every person's diet contains foods that contribute to rapid weight gain, including on the face.
These products include the following:
- sweet and flour;
- salt;
- mayonnaise-based sauces and ketchup;
- beer and snacks to go with it;
- semi-finished products;
- alcohol.
This list should either be completely excluded or the consumption of the listed products should be reduced to a minimum.
It is necessary to replace these products with healthy ones that promote proper metabolism and, accordingly, weight loss.
Useful products include the following:
- vegetables and fruits;
- calcium-containing products;
- fiber-rich cereals;
- clean water at least 2 liters per day;
- green tea.
Sweets can be replaced with a small handful of dried fruits , a couple of dark chocolate bars or a protein bar.
Misconception No. 2: “Massage is not necessary at all”
A very worthy misconception if you are young, healthy and beautiful. If one of the components is missing, then you need to do a massage before it’s too late. This is the simplest and most physiological method of modern naturopathic medicine. What can replace the warmth of human hands and the ease of obtaining the desired result?
The massage therapist does for you what you are too lazy to do: strengthens muscles, restores joint mobility and skin elasticity, facilitates the functioning of the cardiovascular system, and removes swelling. It also helps you cope with stress and physical overload, restores immunity and restores the joy of life.
Misconception No. 3: “You should start doing massage after 40 years old”
The age of 40 is a late age, since at this moment the body is preparing for menopause and has already started all the aging processes of the skin. It is necessary to warn them, not to allow their face to sag limply, their eyes to become dull, and their skin to turn gray.
You should start at the age of 25 with preventive massages once a week for a course of 10 times. And after 30 years, do a course of 10 massage sessions every other day twice a year. And when the age of decreased hormonal activity of the body approaches, you will be ready for it, and your skin will not immediately lose its elasticity and will not sag.
Is it possible to tighten the contour of the face at home?
Due to some circumstances, it is not always possible to visit beauty salons and pamper yourself with massages, masks and other skin care treatments.
Don't get upset and give up. You can also take care of your face at home.
Various methods, including food, are used in the fight against sagging cheeks. If you look in the refrigerator, you can probably find lifting assistants there, on the basis of which face masks are made.
Masks nourish the skin, help improve color and tighten the facial contour.
In addition to cosmetic methods, there are a variety of exercises and massages that also help with the “bulldog cheeks” effect. The main thing is not to let yourself go and not bring the situation to a critical point, when nothing will help except surgical intervention.
Misconception No. 4 “The duration of a massage can be 2 hours or more”
A harmful misconception that can affect the health of lovers of long-term massage. There is a physiological norm for tactile effects on the human body, and exceeding this norm leads to negative consequences for the entire organism.
Skin receptors (mechanoreceptors) quickly adapt to tactile influence, your sensitivity to massage techniques decreases by 30-50%, and the effectiveness of the massage decreases accordingly. You can lie there for another 3 hours, but this will not do any good to the body, but it will cause harm...
Compare your feelings with eating sweets: you ate one piece of candy - it’s delicious, but a box of it is bad. Muscle receptors are structured completely differently.
Nutrition
At the first signs of skin aging, especially after losing weight, it is important to pay special attention to your diet. The diet should contain all the vitamins, minerals and trace elements necessary to maintain her health and prevent sagging.
The menu must include:
- fresh vegetables and fruits;
- greenery;
- dairy products;
- fish;
- poultry meat;
- nuts;
- cereals and cereals (buckwheat, rice, oatmeal, millet, pearl barley).
To preserve the beauty and youth of your face, you should avoid excessive consumption of sweet, salty and spicy foods, smoked meats and fatty baked goods. To reduce puffiness, which creates the appearance of sagging, you need to drink plenty of clean water and limit your salt intake. Water plays a special role in the body's metabolic processes, and its lack leads to dry skin and loss of elasticity.
In addition to healthy food, you need to add a healthy lifestyle. Stop smoking, drinking alcohol and moving a lot. This will help maintain the overall tone of the body, improving the condition of the skin.
Misconception #5: “Massage should be painful”
Did you know that pain is a necessary mechanism for human adaptation to the environment. Muscles are our main blood depot. Under the influence of pain impulses, the muscle contracts and blood and fluid with toxins are squeezed out into the internal organs, subcutaneous fat, glands and main vessels, causing a toxic-slag attack throughout the body. Instead of healing, we get the most powerful intoxication.
With age, our intercellular substance becomes like a swamp, where large protein molecules, fragments of viruses, and antigens are deposited. And to prevent premature aging, it is necessary to drain the swamp and improve lymph formation, and not add new toxins. We need to change the paradigm: massage should not be painful, but deep.
A real massage will give rest not only to tired muscles, but also to an inflamed mind, since they are in a direct and feedback relationship: brain-muscle-brain.
Misconception No. 8 “Massage can be replaced with hardware cosmetology, injections, etc.”
Is it possible to replace day with night, the sky with the sea, the sun with rain? Everything is beautiful in this world. Human hands are the most physiological and safe method of influencing a person. Why replace it with something? The effect on a person must be complex and combine both modern advances in medicine and ancient proven techniques, such as massage. The massage has stood the test of time.
Three thousand years is a long time. Let's see how modern technologies, which are at most 10-15 years old, behave. For trouble-free operation of skin cells, constant nutrition and oxygen are necessary, as well as the removal of metabolic products. The main function of the skin is protective. For the human body, the main thing is inside it, and not outside. Therefore, all the most valuable things are transferred primarily to the internal organs, and the skin, even the most flabby, still successfully copes with its function. Therefore, the blood supply to the skin occurs according to a residual principle, and after 35 years, half of the capillaries feeding the skin close.
Under the influence of massage, reserve capillaries open. Special massage techniques, such as hemolymphatic drainage, will help deliver oxygen and nutrients to each cell and quickly remove toxins, reducing swelling. Massage is part of the necessary care for everyone who wants not to age. The hands of a massage therapist will not only cause mechanical movement of blood and lymph through the vessels, but will also have a reflex effect on the entire body.
Yes, nowadays hardware cosmetology allows you to solve many problems. And there are proposals to replace human hands with “handles” and other devices for influencing the skin, subcutaneous fat, and muscles. But, no matter what the modern apparatus is, even if it combines a whole list of all kinds of influences, when performing one procedure, as a rule, the action of one or two physical factors takes place.
And one moment.
When creating a device and programs of procedures, they assume a certain statistically average consumer with average indicators of various degrees of manifestation of the problem. And each of us is an individual from the standpoint of anatomical structure, physiological parameters and existing deviations and even manifestations (symptoms) of diseases.
Hardware cosmetology has a complex effect on a person - yes, but as a replacement for massage - no. Now about injections and specifically about mesotherapy. Everything is great if we carry out the introduction on fertile soil, ready for consumption with the presence of some reserve potential. What if this is not the case?
If tissue swelling occurs, the capillary vascular network does not function properly, which will be that important link in the disposal (consumption) and intended use of substances administered intradermally. Then our actions can be compared to food that was put in our mouth, but could not be chewed and swallowed.
Therefore, before starting mesotherapy to solve aesthetic problems, and in order to get the desired result, it is necessary to carefully prepare the vascular bed. And this is only possible with the help of manual (performed by hand) massage.
Effective prevention of jowls - what is it?
We have already said that jowls on the cheeks are formed 60% due to the fault of “packets” of adipose tissue - Bish’s lumps.
You should inhale and puff out your cheeks. You should hold this way for 6 seconds and relax. In the first seconds the sensations will not be very pleasant. There may be some discomfort. But to achieve the desired result, you should perform at least 15 approaches. Over time, the discomfort will cease to bother you.
The exercise is similar to the previous one. The only difference is that the air in the mouth should be slowly rolled from one side of the jaw to the other.
The peculiarity of this exercise is that the air needs to be driven in a circle, helping with the tongue. To achieve the best effect, do the exercise slowly.
Taking a deep breath, then through the lips, which are compressed, the air must be pushed out. Initially, air can be pushed out through one corner of the mouth, then through the other.
You need to puff out your cheeks strongly, and then try to hold the air while pressing with your palms.
You need to puff out your cheeks, close your mouth with your hands and exhale through them.
The mouth is opened, lips curled into a tube. The lips are pulled forward several times.
Oddly enough, but children's fun, inflating balloons allows you to strengthen not only your lungs, but also your facial muscles. You should inflate one balloon per day.
The head should be tilted towards the chest and then to the left. Feeling the tension on the right side of your cheek, you need to linger for a few minutes. The exercise is repeated for the other side.
The lips are folded into a tube and the tongue sticks out, which needs to reach the chin. The neck muscles will be as tense as possible. You need to stay like this for a couple of minutes.
Those who smile often are not at risk of sagging cheeks. Such pleasant exercises train almost all facial muscles.
The index finger of one hand should hold the skin under the cheek. And with the index finger of the other hand, make movements that imitate a man shaving. The skin should not be stretched. It should be a light massage.
Such actions will relieve muscle hypertonicity and prevent the formation of jowls. To make massage more comfortable, you can apply a couple of drops of massage oil to your cleansed face. Each movement must be performed at least 30 times on one cheek and then on the other.
Misconception #9: “Men don’t need facial massage”
Men's skin is thicker, subcutaneous fat is thinner. Thinning of the skin of men occurs gradually throughout life, and in women it occurs rapidly with the onset of menopause. In men, collagen fibers are packed into denser networks, and the specific gravity of collagen in the dermis is greater than in women.
A decrease in the synthesis of sex hormones in women occurs in a short period of 2-3 years, and in men gradually over 10-15 years, so there is no such drastic change in appearance as in women. Yesterday a girl, today a grandmother. For women, massage is necessary, but for men it is very, very desirable. The adaptation of men to stress is very, very weak compared to women. Our face, through facial muscles, actively participates in the manifestation and suppression of emotions.
Why don't we use work with a man's face in order to protect him from the terrible consequences of his inability to adapt to life circumstances: strokes, heart attacks, ulcers, etc. Each area of the face is associated with certain emotions and their containment, for example: the lower jaw is associated with anger, aggression, rage. By relieving tension in this area, we will save the liver, stomach and heart
How to fix sagging cheeks with makeup
Decorative cosmetics cannot tighten sagging cheeks, but they make them less noticeable.
Rule #1. To correct a face with bulldog cheeks using makeup, you need to visually distract attention from them.
A simple system will help you:
- dark eyeliner (after 45, give preference to brown rather than black shades),
- double layer of mascara on eyelashes,
- blush that perfectly matches the tone of your face.
Rule #2. Dark shades visually reduce the area to which they are applied.
Therefore, after completing your makeup, carefully brush the bronzer brush over your lower jaw and in the chin-neck area. This way you will visually disguise sagging skin and align it in tone with the shadow under the lower jaw. Jowls will visually merge with this shadow, but remember the sense of proportion!
The line of the lower jaw corrected with bronzer will merge with the shadow under the chin and visually rid the face of small jowls.
Misconception No. 10: “Anyone can do massage”
Of course it can. Just like singing, drawing, playing football or getting involved in politics. The question is the quality of the result. A massage therapist is, at a minimum, a profession, and ideally a calling. In no profession, even the most creative, did self-taught geniuses and nuggets achieve unique results; everyone (Mozart, for example, or Pushkin, or Leonardo) learned from someone, and the truly outstanding ones continued to learn and improve throughout their lives.
And how does a professional massage therapist differ from them? It never occurs to anyone to go to an exhibition of paintings by people who cannot draw, or to a concert of a singer who cannot sing. And this is often what happens with massage. It may very well be that someone who does not know how to do this is “drawing” on you.
Try different specialists and compare the results. And further. In any profession, there are certain “qualification levels”, and achieving various kinds of indicators of mastery is impossible without a huge investment of time and effort by a professional in study and practice. Talent, hard work, experience - this is what his success is made of
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How to lift sagging cheeks with plastic surgery
Of course, cosmetics cannot tighten the skin itself. But the right makeup makes the oval clearer, visually improving it.
To do this, it is recommended to pay attention to the following tricks:
- Concentrate your attention on something else. Many experts advise painting your eyes brighter after 45-50 years. To do this, you can apply 2 layers of mascara to your eyelashes and line your eyelids with eyeliner. You should also definitely use blush.
- If you darken the problem area, it will appear smaller. To do this, use a bronzer that is applied along the contours of the face. The main thing is not to overdo it!
- All areas that appear sunken should be highlighted in a lighter tone.
- Don't forget to prepare your skin before applying makeup. To do this, clean it and moisturize it with cream.
- Use modern cosmetics: makeup base, foundation, highlighter.
At the moment, technologies in cosmetology are so developed that getting rid of sagging cheeks and cheekbones with the help of surgery and special injections is not difficult. In this matter, the decisive factor is the amount of money you want to spend on your transformation and the realization that interventions often lead to irreversible negative consequences in appearance.
One of the options for removing jowls in a cosmetology establishment is vibromassage procedures for the face, neck and head using a special biomechanical stimulation device, thanks to which the root cause of the problem is eliminated, namely, all the muscles on the face come to a natural tone, the skin is smoothed, sagging disappears, and blood circulation improves. and lymph flow, the natural production of elastin and collagen by the body is “turned on”, promoting natural rejuvenation.
This procedure is also possible at home. The price of the issue is the cost of the device and training in self-massage on it.
