Pump Your Face: 5 Myths About Facebook Fashion Building – You’ll Be Surprised!

Facebook builders explain the aging process as loss of muscle tone. Trainers working under this technique offer relaxation and muscle contraction exercises, which should eliminate wrinkles and bags under the eyes, tighten the oval of the face, remove the double chin and other aesthetic defects.

But the effectiveness of building Facebook has not been proven scientifically or experimentally, the technique has no medical justification. At the same time, reviews of people who practiced it often testify to the negative consequences of the exercises, for example, an increase in facial wrinkles on the forehead, around the eyes and lips. This is due to the lack of sufficient knowledge of the anatomy of the face and the processes that occur with age in the body in most coaches and their followers.

The formation of wrinkles is not affected by the loss of muscle tone, but by their excessive tension. Another reason is the age-related breakdown of bone tissue and subcutaneous fat. Fatty deposits separate and sag, due to loss of volume, wrinkles, plagues, deep folds appear on the skin. Exercises for the facial muscles are not able to stop this process.

Irreversible changes occur in the skin itself. It becomes dry and less elastic. In places of systematic compression and hypertonicity, the skin can no longer straighten, which leads to folds.

Thus, aging not only affects muscles, but all tissues. In this regard, the rejuvenation process should be approached holistically, and enhanced facial muscle training can only make wrinkles more pronounced, even if they have not yet appeared or are barely visible.

Another popular illusion of Facebook building followers is to compare the work of body and facial muscles. But the latter have a different structure and operating principles. The mimic muscles at one time are attached to the bone, and the other part is woven into the thickness of the skin. When contracted, they move skin areas, changing facial expression. Muscles are closely related to each other, so it is impossible to relax or activate only one of them with the help of exercises. The older a person is, the more the depressor muscles that perform downward movements are prone to hypertonicity (especially in people with a type of muscle aging), so calisthenics only exacerbate the problem. The face takes on a tense appearance, the folds are accentuated. Attempts to “puff up” the cheekbones with exercises in hopes of sculpting the face can cause spasms and reinforce the “contemptuous” expression. For most people, it’s not muscle toning that’s most relevant, but muscle relaxation. But massage or gymnastics, even with daily use, do not give a lasting effect.

Fascination with facial construction and, therefore, hypertonia can lead to accelerated aging. For example, a number of exercises for platysma (subcutaneous muscle of the neck. – Ed.) to get rid of the second chin only improve the visualization of the strands, violating the clarity of the oval of the face. Contracting due to the hypertonicity of the platysma muscles, the tissues under the chin stretch. For a clear line of the lower jaw, on the contrary, they do the Nefertiti Lift – relaxation of the neck muscles with botulinum toxin.

Visual aging can also result in tense depressor muscles that lower the corners of the mouth, eyes, eyebrows, giving the impression of fatigue and exhaustion.

One of the most popular building exercises on Facebook is a variety of lower jaw movements. The task of training is to refine the neck-chin angle. Also, with its help, adherents of the technique strive to draw the outline of the lower jaw more clearly. But this exercise can be extremely dangerous. Few people take an TMJ x-ray before beginning facial construction, so a person may not be aware that they have joint dysfunction. An incorrectly calculated amplitude leads to a dislocation of the jaw. By the way, another very unpleasant and common consequence is over-pumped masticatory and temporal muscles. This leads to the fact that the face becomes wider, and even worse – there is hypertonicity of the masticatory muscles, leading to bruxism. Do not be surprised later why you suddenly started grinding your teeth in a dream, and your tooth enamel is thinning before your eyes. In addition, migraines develop from overuse of the temporal muscles.

The main fallacy of adherents to the construction of Facebook is to promise to replace professional cosmetic procedures with gymnastics and to try to convince others of their futility. Trainers use a simple but effective marketing ploy. If a visit to a beautician requires money, you can do gymnastics for 10 minutes a day for free, without leaving home, supposedly achieving the same effect. However, in reality, facial fitness marathons are very expensive, and the effect does not live up to expectations. Make no mistake in expecting a miraculous transformation in facial fitness. It is better to devote 5 to 10 minutes to relaxation and preventive massage and do not forget that the best source of youth is our positive emotions!