Facial yoga to fight wrinkles?

[AB Asks]

A new trend has hit America and it claims to reduce wrinkles and worry lines. It involves pulling a number of (silly faces) to stretch and tone the facial muscles. Do you think this could actually work? Or is it another person making some money off the back of our vanity?

[eyeshade]

This not new, I and my mum and my mums mum have done this for years, look up and down, pull your mouth wide and stretch your neck muscles etc, it is supposed to be good for the skin etc. USA are behind the times yet again. the more absurd the face, the better the effect.

[eyeshade]

Actually if they're making money out of it perhaps I have missed my niche. Anyone want any facial yoga lessons?

[Neilzulu1]

What a load of boll#cks.

[eyeshade]

Have named my new company FACYO (Facial Yoga)!

[bigmamma]

My dog would think I had gone crazy , and my son would tell me it's too late :-)

[johnlambert]

It's called gurning and been asround in the UK for years, trust the yanks to be 300 years behind the UK and then claim they have 'invented something

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_a_face


http://www.abdn.ac.uk/surgery/staff/images/gur ning.jpg

[joko]

wrinkles are caused by the repeated creasing and folding of the skin in the same place over and over again, much like the permanent creases on our inner elbows, wrists, ankles etc ... how will forcing these creases further more often banish them?

They may well tone up the muscles and facial structure, but I don't see how it can decrease and iron out whats already on the skin.

if you crinkle and fold a piece of paper or a sheet of metal, numerous times, the fold gets deeper and eventually very weak.
if you keep doing it it gets worse and will eventually break..
iron it and the fold is flat but still visible.