Facial Gymnastics: The Best Anti-Aging Facial Exercises

Effective and easy facial gymnastics exercises to tone, firm the jawline, and prevent wrinkles.

The photo is misleading: no, Agathe isn’t making funny faces! She’s practicing facial gymnastics (or face yoga). Specifically, she’s demonstrating the “like a fish” exercise, which involves mimicking a fish by puckering the lips forward and upward to work the neck. “Like a fish,” “like a smile,” “like a balloon,” “like a kiss,” “like a breeze,” “like a twist,” “like a brow lift”... Behind these quirky names are effective movements to tone your skin, smooth your features, and boost your complexion’s glow. Ready to give it a try?

What are facial gymnastics?

Facial exercises are a natural practice aimed at strengthening and toning the facial muscles through specific movements, without the use of hands! By engaging the facial muscles, facial gymnastics works as a targeted workout to firm the contours and restore volume to sagging areas. Regular practice helps combat skin laxity and prevent the appearance of wrinkles by directly stimulating the subcutaneous muscles.

Facial exercises can be done at home, regularly in front of your mirror!

Why do facial exercises?

Tone and reshape

Muscle relaxation leads to sagging skin. Facial exercises focus on muscle activity to maintain skin firmness. These facial exercises naturally stimulate the subcutaneous muscles and blood and lymphatic microcirculation. Their goal is to reshape and tone the face. Therefore, regularly practicing facial gymnastics helps strengthen the skin’s elasticity and firmness.

A natural lifting effect

Facial exercises focus on active movements aimed at toning, firming, and supporting the contours of the face, targeting specific areas such as the cheeks, the eye contour, the lip contour, as well as the chin and neck. These exercises target the deep muscles of the skin to reduce expression lines while also sculpting the face's contours, resulting in a natural lifting effect!

Facial exercises: a natural anti-aging solution.

Facial exercises focus on muscle activity to maintain skin firmness. By directly targeting the facial muscles, they help tone and strengthen them, supporting the skin and preventing the appearance of wrinkles. This natural approach works deeply for a gradual and lasting improvement in skin appearance. The anti-aging benefits are noticeable day by day: more toned contours, smoother and more radiant skin.

Facial Gym: How to Get Started?

After cleansing your face and applying your skincare, position yourself in front of the mirror. Spend about 5 minutes on your facial exercises... And don't be afraid to exaggerate the movements!

Here is our effective facial exercise program to firm the entire face.

Our best facial exercises explained

• Like a Fish: Make a fish face with your mouth by pinching your lips forward and upward to target the neck.
• Like a Smile: Flash an exaggerated smile and then form an "O" shape with your mouth to work your cheek muscles.
• Like a Balloon: Inhale air through your mouth and puff up your cheeks, directing the air under your upper lip to target the nasolabial fold.
• Like a Kiss: Simultaneously blow kisses from side to side, moving from right to left, to target the cheeks.
• Like a Breeze: Inhale air to hollow out your cheeks and work the dimples.
• Like a Twist: Open your mouth, stick out your tongue, and move it from side to side to work the jawline.
• Like a Brow Lift: Look up towards the sky and raise your eyebrows to work on forehead wrinkles or fine lines.

A few tips to maximize the effectiveness of your facial exercises

Do your facial exercises after applying the anti-aging night serum NIGHT, which promotes skin elasticity.

The most important thing to measure results is:

1/ To exaggerate the movements and hold the positions for a few seconds.

2/ To be consistent in your practice: do your facial exercises in the morning and evening if possible.

Facial exercises in my beauty routine.

Facial exercises explained by Agathe:

Also read: “Facial yoga and facial exercises for younger-looking skin.”