There are faces that wear a double chin.  Uncle Harry, father of the groom, the owner of the double chin may or may not be morbidly obese but he is sporting at least an extra twenty pounds and that attributes to his portly appearance.

Hooded eyes on Aunt Hilda are easy to spot as eyeliner, mascara and shadow look somewhat strange on her droopy eyes; raising and wrinkling the brows are a typical movement for one whose eyesight is compromised when the eye brows and lids drop and those horizontal forehead lines have never been deeper.

Sagging cheeks drag down the skin as deep crevices are developed between the nose and mouth.  The fold is a dead giveaway that the zygomaticus muscles are in need of repositioning.

Sometimes folds are noticed in the lower mouth, too, as jowls and pouches form along the jaw line.  There is no disguising this look especially when it is coupled with a double chin.

Add wrinkles to the sags and droopiness.  Wrinkles and lines can develop across the forehead, the cheeks, the lower mouth and the neck seemingly overnight.  Oh sure, some of it is attributable sun damage early on but most wrinkles are a result of elongating muscles pooling into other muscles affecting where the end of the muscle attaches to the skin.  This downward motion, pooling, can create deep lines and wrinkles.

A misshapen face develops slowly over time.  When you’re in your 20s, 30s and 40s, your confidence level is high.  You look in the mirror with assurance that your appearance is ideal but when that 50th or 60th birthday rolls around, you realize that your youthful demeanor is fleeing. 

Do words like ‘matronly’, ‘aging’, ‘dated’ and ‘old’ describe your face and your body?

Men and women have searched high and low for the illusive Fountain of Youth.

Have you looked for an anti-aging remedy?  How many have you tried? 

How many cosmetic products have you purchased just hoping that this lotion or that potion would actually do something for your face?  All of us have purchased product after product to exfoliate, nourish, protect, tighten, etc, hoping to get rid of wrinkles, perk up drab facial skin and look younger.

Disappointment after disappointment prevails because lax facial muscles, the cause of looking old, cannot be lifted, toned or remedied using creams and preparations.

The best kept anti-aging secret is facial exercise.  Facial exercise acts as The Fountain of Youth. 

Just as you exercise your body using easy resistance and contraction techniques at the gym, you can apply the same principles to your face.

Thumbs, fingers and white cotton gloves are the only equipment you need to strengthen and refine those soft, atrophied facial muscles hidden under the skin.

A facial exercise routine takes only minutes per day to complete.  The muscles are small and they respond quickly to the movements.  Anchoring techniques assure results and the more faithful you are to the routine, the results will last longer and longer.

From the inside out you see results from the very day you begin the program.  You will feel how your facial muscles respond to each movement and in the mirror you will see the results.  Day by day the underlying muscles strengthen and refine lifting and sculpting your face.

It is best to document your results with digital photos.  Before you begin take three close-up photos:  a front view and each side.  At the end of every third week of exercise, take another set so that over the course of nine to twelve weeks, you have several sets of photos.

Will you look like you did at 20?  Not likely but you will look younger, prettier and more handsome using the most reliable avenue – facial exercise.

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If you choose to eliminate only the wrinkles that can be treated with Botox, will any of the remaining ones still leave you unsatisfied with your appearance? For example, if you want both your frown lines and marionette lines removed, you will likely need a different cosmetic procedure to have the marionette lines eliminated.

It should point out that Botox injections work best on crow’s-feet (wrinkles radiating from the outside corners of the eyes), worry lines (horizontal forehead lines), and frown lines (vertical lines, also called glabellar lines, that appear be­tween the eyebrows). These are wrinkles that are typically caused by chronic contractions of the muscles under or adjacent to these areas of the face. Laughing, smiling, frowning, and squinting are some of the common facial expressions that can cause these lines. If you have lines and wrinkles on other parts of your face that concern you, you may need other types of cosmetic procedures to eliminate them. With that in mind, consider these questions:

Which wrinkles and lines bother you the most? Are these lines and wrinkles the type that are best eliminated using Botox?

The followings are the types of lines and wrinkles:

From the top of your face down, bothersome facial wrinkles have the following names and locations. Notice that Botox is not the best choice for all types of wrinkles and lines.

Forehead lines: horizontal lines, often called worry lines. These lines form mainly because the underlying frontalis muscle, which stretches across the forehead, moves when you make facial expressions. When you lift your browsometimes referred to as the “aha” or surprised lookthe muscle contracts, which causes the skin that is covering the muscle to pull, wrinkle, and then return to its original position when you relax the muscle. Now consider the countless number of times you’ve used these muscles. As you age, your skin be­gins to lose its elasticity, it suffers from sun damage, and the constant contracting and relaxing of the muscle results in forehead lines. These can be eliminated using Botox or filler injections such as collagen or fat.

Frown lines: vertical lines, also known as glabellar lines, that appear between the eyebrows. These linescan make you appear serious, angry, or stressed even when you’re not. It is for the removal of these lines that the Food and Drug Administration gave approval for Botox in April 2002. These lines are best removed with Botox. If you’ve frowned a lot over the years and the lines are very deeply etched, you may also need wrinkle fillers (e.g., collagen, fat) to eliminate these lines. Your doctor will discuss your options with you.

Crow’s-feet: lines that radiate from the outside corners of the eyes. They’re also known as periorbital lines. If you have these lines, they’re most likely the result of smiling and squinting. If you look in the mirror ands mile or squint, notice how your muscles contract and cause your eyelids to nearly cover your eyes and how the muscles contract at the corners of your eyes where the lines appear. Crow’s-feet are best eliminated with Botox, plus adjunctive treatment such as collagen, chemical peels, or laser resurfacing.

Laugh lines: also known as smile lines or nasolabial lines, they are the two vertical lines that run from the outside corners of the nose down to the top of the outside of the upper lip. Even though they are called laugh lines, gravity and aging are also factors in their development. They can best be eliminated using wrinkle fillers (e.g., collagen, fat, AlloDerm, Cymetra, Gore-Tex, or SoftForm).

Lipstick or smoker’s lines: the tiny radiating lines that appear above the upper lip and below the lower one. It seems as though everyone has a different name for these annoying wrinkles, which are best removed using laser resurfacing, chemical peel, microdermabrasion, or wrinkle fillers tissue augmentation (e.g., collagen in­jections, AlloDerm, fat)in addition to Botox.

Marionette lines: the often deep lines that run down from the outside corners of the mouth toward the chin. These lines develop from a combination of factors, including gravity (the cheeks tend to sag from the force of gravity) and thinning of the supporting tissue that comes with age. These wrinkles are best eliminated using wrinkle fillers or laser resurfacing. Another option is a face-lift, a complex surgical procedure.

If you’ll still be bothered by the remaining lines and wrinkles, are you willing to have other cosmetic procedures done to correct them? Naturally, you will need to discuss all your options and prices with your doctor, but you should be aware that other procedures may be needed for you to get the look you desire. You also should know that while Botox injections don’t involve any recovery time, some other cosmetic procedures do.

Whether you see or hear information regarding the newest birth control method, high blood pressure medication or even a sexual enhancement drug, there are warnings galore that are muted by photos and scenes of happy couples, joyful women swimming and smiling bicyclers trekking through the woods.  After all, having an erection that lasts more than four hours is quite ear catching and daunting.

Under the guise of serenity and happiness the warnings are clear:  if you choose to use prescription drugs, be prepared for the side effects that will inevitably arise.  

Sit up and take heed if you want to maintain your youthful face because recent information published in the web version of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery suggests that continued relaxation of the facial muscles due to anti-depressant use could cause sagging in the face.

If you are one of the 190 million people in the USA who use anti-depressants you may not be aware that the prescription you are taking is most likely making you look older.

Just as anti-depressants relax the shoulders, back and body muscles, the face muscles, when relaxed for an extended period of time will elongate.  This relaxation and elongation is evident when you see soft, droopy facial skin with folds, wrinkles and less than glowing facial vitality.    

The look of old affects everyone even if you are not using prescription antidepressants; muscles elongate due to disuse.  We witness this in our thighs, waist, tummy and hips; our arms become less tight and shapely.  Droopy cheeks, hooded, lined eyes plus jowls and pouches, all in evidence by the time we hit sixty, are a result of sagging facial muscles that drag down the skin.

While using anti-depressants may speed up muscle atrophy in the face, please be mindful that using more drugs to plump and paralyze lax facial tissue may not return the look of youth you wishfully desire.  Injecting serums over time slowly morphs the user’s face in such a way that the skin looks freakish and the store-bought contours are never what Mother Nature intended.

Celebrities are notorious for over inflating their cheeks and certainly their lips.  Some of them can get away with using injections for awhile but certainly not forever.  The tell-tale signs are apparent up close especially in photographs from the red carpet and in blogs where the face is not touched by photo-shop experts.

Surgery is another avenue that men and women have used to stop their face from sagging.  This rather barbaric avenue that offers massive health risks has lots of stars and wannabes looking ridiculously the same as the cookie cutter effect has spread out of Hollywood across the world.

These depressing scenarios must add to depression.  Imagine looking in the mirror only to see a sagging face peering back at you.  How depressing.  And, to think that by using prescription drugs that are supposed to help you feel better actually contribute to the downward slide of muscles.

What is the answer to stopping the root cause, the downward slide of facial muscles?  Facial exercise.

Not twists, contortions or scrunches but isometric exercise using resistance with contraction and it’s easy to do and something you can use for the rest of your life if you want a firmer, lifted, more toned and tightened face.

Using your thumbs and fingers in white cotton gloves in the privacy of your home you begin to systematically transform your face lifting eyes, cheeks, jowls and more. 

Facial exercise produces a glowing face that portrays vibrancy, health and confidence. 

So, if you have been prescribed medications that might speed up the look of aging, facial exercise is an all natural at-home remedy that will help you look your best.

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With proper care and treatment you can avoid wrinkles. If you really want to look more stunning in your old age, then just follow guide lines given below for wrinkle treatment.

The first and fore most thing you need to do is, avoid exposure of your skin to sun, to avoid UV rays, which can cause damage to your skin. Do not neglect to apply sunscreen lotion while going out. Try to cover your body as much as possible without exposing it to sun and pollution.

Drink lots of water. It removes the unwanted materials like fat and other oily substances and helps to keep your skin hydrated always. In cooler or dry atmospheres, apply moisturizing cream to your skin.

Home remedies to avoid wrinkles:

• Olive oil shows better results in wrinkle treatment. Massage your skin with olive oil gently and regularly. Always massage in opposite direction of wrinkles.

• Carrot juice is very effective in healing wrinkles. Take a glass full of carrot juice daily for two weeks. You can find a lot of change in your skin.

• Apply the paste of ripen papaya on your face for some time and then take bath. Repeating this process daily will not only help in wrinkle treatment but also makes your skin glowing.

• Cucumber also helps in the treatment of wrinkles around eyes. Place a piece of cucumber on both of your eyes. It not only cures wrinkles but also gives relaxation to your eyes.

• Maintain a good diet with lots of fruits and vegetables to look more fresh and young.

• Avoid strain, stress and tension and keep your self active always.

• Take few drops of lemon and mix it with cream of milk. Wash your face with warm water and wipe it with hard cloth or rough towel and then apply the mixture of cream and lemon to your face and leave it for half an hour. By doing this for up to 15 or 20 days regularly, your face will be free from wrinkles and black spots.

• Cold water also helps in avoiding wrinkles. Do not wipe the face immediately; rather you pat it with dry hands.

Some advanced treatments for wrinkles:

• Low energy plasma skin regeneration treatment: In this treatment, new skin is developed on targeted area with the help of stimulated energy. This treatment reduces the appearance of wrinkles.

• Laser treatment for wrinkles: This is the advanced technique used for wrinkle treatment which uses carbon dioxide laser for treating wrinkles.

• Cosmetic surgery is also an advanced invention for wrinkle treatment. In this treatment, wrinkles are treated by surgery.

Wrinkles can be delayed, but cannot be avoided. So never expect complete transformation, just follow the given tips to look younger than your age. Visit Skin Care and Anti Aging