Well, another lovely DVD discovery! “Facial Workout: Because muscles don’t end at the neck” is a beautifully created video, filmed in a lovely place, with exercises demonstrated by two women with two women beautiful youthful girl-next-door faces.
This video sets out to give you a facelift. But it’s not like you just there and don’t do any work. The whole theory here is that we get lines on our faces because we don’t exercise our face muscles enough. Give those muscles a workout and you can prevent or at least lessen the lines, depending on how long you’ve had them and how deep they are.
The video starts with a short explanation of its basic premise. But before you can think of getting bored, we get into the exercises. These are divided into short segments for each part of the face – forehead, eyes, mouth, and neck. There are many exercises to each segment, except perhaps the neck which only has one, disappointingly.
All the exercises are taught in a single format. First, a girl demonstrates the exercise and invites you to hold the pose with her for two rounds of 5 seconds. You get a brief explanation of what we’re doing and why and see anatomical diagrams on the side, leaving no room for confusion on which muscles we’re working. You are guided by a clear voiceover. Next, you go through 10 repetitions of the exercise. And finally 10 faster repetitions. That’s the format followed throughout the teaching segment.
The exercises themselves are great and doing them just makes you feel better and more relaxed! Here’s an example or two of exercises for the yes — and there are quite a few of those. Put your fingers at the sides of your eyes and pull them towards the temples gently making them sort of oriental. Gently,, but firmly. Now try to close your eyes without closing the lids. That is, constrict the muscles. Hold for 5 seconds. And then do 10 quick 1-second repetitions. If you’re doing it right, you’ll feel a slight pull on each finger from the muscles. Become aware of which outer eye muscles are being exercised.
The exercises are taught in the first two thirds of this video. The last third involves a quicker run through of the exercises in a routine that you can use everyday. You could also make your own routine of course but I found it nice to be guided through them. I’ve put the video on to my ipod and am mow tending to do them when I lie down. Well, all except the neck slide, which i don’t feel confident is going to do much to take away the lines for me now.
I guess it makes sense to exercise facial muscles too, and the idea of using fingers to add resistance is a good one.
I’m not convinced that I would get into the habit of doing it regularly, but I’m adding it to my list anyway! I’ve been pretty good recently, the only dvd I’ve bought in the last month is Fayzah’s fluid tribal. Which I accidentally bought twice.
Oh and I bought a samba dvd, a reggaeton workout dvd and I got zumba dvds when I did my course. So not really very good at all now I come to think of it!!
Yes, the problem with some of these exercises is they definitely get too boring to do everyday. I wish i could do the face exercises in my car, on the one-hour drive to work and back – but my driver would jump out of the window! And where would that leave me!!!!
Bought Fayzah twice?? Can’t you give it back and exchange for another?
“I wish i could do the face exercises in my car, on the one-hour drive to work and back – but my driver would jump out of the window!”
WOW! That would be a great opportunity Mala
he should not be watching you but the traffic anyway, right?? isnt Delhi traffic FRANTIC? 
I could do, but since I got free shipping it’s not really worth sending it back to the US. I’ll probably just sell one copy. Haven’t opened either yet!
I bet some of the exercises look pretty weird, the ones on the clip weren’t too bad though. I tried doing some of my own and I could feel the muscles working and getting tired. Maybe I’ll just have a look on the internet and devise my own workout instead of buying the dvd.
Well, I can describe them to you.
You can do ‘em quite easily.