Who’s been to a ‘FaceGym’ in London?
The clue is in the name, FaceGym is a workout for your face, rather than a facial. Just as in regular exercise you would flex, stretch and tone the muscles in the rest of your body, a warm up, cardio and cool down into your gym session, FaceGym is all about applying a similar ethos to your face.
FaceGym is the UK’s only gym studio for the face. The FaceGym face trainers perform a range of lifting and sculpting workouts designed to train the 40+ muscles in the face. Results are amplified with high performance skincare products and non-invasive technology.
With an advanced menu of treatments, combining facial exercise and aesthetic technology, there are FaceGym Studios all over London, but at the top end of the scale is the studio in Selfridges, a private room one-stop destination for discreet advanced machine lunchtime face-lifts.
How can you do a FaceGym workout at home?
If you don’t have time to visit the FaceGym treatment room in Selfridges, then it’s time to go DIY with your facial exercises.
There are easy at-home exercises you can do. Some simple chin exercises performed in the morning and evening every day will help, but you have to be consistent with them. Do each of the following exercises 10 times:
Chin Press Up x 3
- Make a V with your hand and rest your chin in the V.
- Pull your lips over your top teeth, hold for 5 seconds and repeat (do this 10 times).
Move the hand to either side of the chin with the length of your fingers covering your ears, and make Cheek Burpees
- Place your right hand on the right side of your face. Lightly use your hand to pull the
cheek’s skin back. - Now, breathe out forcefully toward the left for ten reps. Try as hard
as you can to work against the stretch created from your hand! - Now bring your left hand to your left cheek and repeat the same exercise for ten reps.
- Say the sound Eeeee with your mouth x 10.
- Put your ring fingers inside your mouth on either side, pull the skin to the side and use your jaw muscles to bring the fingers back in to touch your teeth x 10.
Hey Smiley
- Smile by pulling the corners of your mouth outward, don’t grimace, or crinkle your eyes.
- Imagine you are saying the letter ‘E’. The rest of your face should be totally still.
- Keep holding this position. It may feel like you are doing very little but you are actually targeting exactly those small muscles around your mouth and working them to help avoid any sagging at the corners.
- Release for a few seconds and smile again.
- Stretch the mouth to the sides like two hooks were pulling them out. Hold for at least ten seconds, then release.
FACEGYM Selfridges London
400 Oxford St · In Selfridges, Oxford Street · 07387 672185
FACEGYM Coal Drops Yard
Unit EY10, Coal Drops Yard, Stable St · In Coal Drops Yard · 020 3976 5265
FACEGYM St John’s Wood
41 St John’s Wood High St · 020 7586 5568
FACEGYM Notting Hill
London · 020 7792 1401
