Exercises For A Younger Face

I came across this in an email. I get updates from Dr. Mercola who gives advice on everything from a balanced colon to the advantages of a stress-free mental outlook. I thought I'd share!

The Best Exercises For Your Facial Muscles To Stay Looking Young

From Dr. Mercola

Your facial muscles need exercise just as much as the rest of your body. And facial exercises work just like regular muscle exercises.
Intent.com suggests the following to keep your face looking young:

1. Raise your eyebrows as high as you can and hold them for five seconds.



2. Open your mouth as wide as possible and stick your tongue out as far as you can and hold for a few seconds.

3. Using your three center fingers, press down on your cheeks and smile as hard as you can to raise your cheek muscles against your fingers.

4. Move your nose as much as you can from side to side.

5. Lift your eyebrows as high as you can, open your eyes as wide as possible and frown at the same time.

6. Pucker your lips out as far as possible into the shape of an "O." Then change your expression into a wide smile. Repeat several times.



7. Sit in a comfortable chair and look up at the ceiling. Pucker your lips and stick your tongue out as far as possible to exercise your neck muscles.

8. Tilt your head so you are looking up at the ceiling, open your mouth and close it several times. This also exercises your neck and keeps the droopy chin & neck away.

Until next time!

photo bug

I have taken quite a few pictures this year, most for money. I would love to do this all the time but the invention of digital cameras has made every idiot with a
point & shoot into a "photographer". What makes my pictures different from others? Aside from photoshopping most of the pictures I take, I've had The Rufus Experience.

My jr college photo instructor, Rufus Lovett....wait, wait, let me be correct: O. Rufus Lovett. Whenever students would ask him what the O stood for, he would say, "obnoxious". I got just the basics in his class but I also got something more profound. He instilled in me the desire to make every shot THE SHOT. This counted for more in the film days.



When I was about 12 my mom got a great SLR film camera. She took some great pictures and I caught that bug. When I take a photo, my goal is for everyone to look at it and "ooh & aww" over that picture. I know it's hard to do every time and with digital cameras it's easier to discard the bad shots. But that desire, that drive from Rufus is still there.



When I was in my early 20s I worked at an appliance/TV store. I worked in the office counting the money and assisting the sales agents. One day a man came in. I had know idea who he was but he knew me. He was a local photographer and had seen some of my work. I guess that he and Rufus were friends. Rufus had come in just about a week
before purchasing a small refrigerator and I guess he told his photographer friend I worked there. Anyway, this man I had never met before came in and told me he saw my work and knew I was talented. He told me I was wasting my time working in
retail and I should work toward becoming SOME sort of photographer. I try to remember that, try to keep it on the surface to spur myself on. I may not be a rock star but I can be a rock star photographer!



Until next time.