| Growing old gracefully is passé. Rather than | | | | . I just want the mouth God gave me back. It was |
| accepting those fine lines and wrinkles or drab gray | | | | perfectly cute and I had nice big lips . . ." |
| hairs, many boomers and zoomers have decided to | | | | Too late for her. Once a face is cut or injected it will |
| fight aging until they have gasped their last breath. | | | | never look the same. |
| The question is: Has man-made beauty gone too far? | | | | Fooling around with your God given good looks has |
| Is the search for the Fountain all in vain? At the end of | | | | reached epidemic proportions and for celebrities, |
| the day, is anyone satisfied with their face? Has the | | | | maybe surgery and injections seem like the logical |
| medicalization of beauty produced scary looking faces | | | | solution to keep looking fit in front of the camera but |
| that has you concerned that you could be one of | | | | extreme measures are not needed to maintain a |
| them? | | | | youthful looking face. |
| Fighting the look of the aging face is a multi-billion dollar | | | | Hidden facial muscles droop from disuse and gravity; |
| business and there are many components vying for | | | | this makes your face look misshapen, even old. In fact, |
| the almighty dollar. The US plastic surgery industry | | | | when facial muscles lose their firmness, the downward |
| claimed almost $10 billion in revenue last year while the | | | | sagging affects your skin as folds, creases, pouches |
| US skin care and color cosmetic industry copped | | | | and wrinkles form. |
| billions more. | | | | What works to keep your face, including upper eyes, |
| Did you know that injections and surgeries, lotions and | | | | jowls, pouches and more, in tip-top shape is a regime |
| potions do not actually stop the cause of aging? | | | | of facial exercise using resistance and contraction. |
| Rather, skin care products, injectables, even surgeries | | | | Sound too good to be true? Well, it is not. Just as |
| must be repeated over and over again. Skin care and | | | | exercise sculpts and reshapes arm, torso and leg |
| injected materials are absorbed into the body and then | | | | muscles, the same type of exercise can contour and |
| filtered through not only the liver but the kidneys as | | | | lift the face. |
| well. | | | | These exercises require the use of your fingers and |
| The continued downward slide of sagging facial | | | | thumbs in white cotton gloves that hold and anchor the |
| muscles may mean that a surgical face lift is in your | | | | very small facial muscles. The act of anchoring these |
| future. This procedure will involve cutting healthy tissue | | | | muscles that attach to bone on one end allows a |
| and re-cutting again in less than ten years to maintain | | | | contraction to be made. This action plumps the |
| the look. | | | | muscles that support your skin so it drapes more |
| Does this mean that the face will forever be assaulted | | | | naturally over your features. |
| if one opts for looking younger for the rest of their life? | | | | Rest assured that isometric and contraction exercise |
| I think so because big pharma is not going to stop | | | | will give you a younger looking face. |
| creating synthetic substances for physicians to inject | | | | You only need to exercise a few minutes each day to |
| into faces. And surgeons, after all, cut and suture. | | | | achieve results and in just days, you will notice that |
| Page Six and other tabloids frequently portray | | | | your face looks refreshed, revitalized, tighter and |
| actresses with their over-inflated lips and wind swept, | | | | younger. |
| no contour, surgically altered faces. Some tabloids | | | | Imagine the confidence you will feel when people |
| even post laments and quotes from those actresses | | | | notice your new face, the face you thought was gone |
| who rue the day they allowed someone to cut on their | | | | forever and the satisfaction of knowing you did it |
| beautiful faces. "I'm hating that I did that to my mouth . . | | | | yourself! |