Closer to 40 years old, irreversible signs of age-related changes appear on a person’s face, and the first thing that spoils the beauty of the face is nasolabial folds. From the point of view of Eastern wisdom, the folds laid from the wings of the nose to the corners of the mouth indicate the maturity of a person, and their absence by the age of 30 is more likely to indicate a failed person. But this fact does not console women who want to look youthful at any age. Before you start the fight against this defect, you should understand the causes of the appearance of folds.
The folds around the wings of the nose are facial wrinkles that deepened over time and turned into furrows. At a young age, their appearance is facilitated by a smile and laughter. Over time, the skin loses its elasticity, it sags due to gravity, small facial wrinkles pass into deeper nasolabial folds. The defect is deepened by a decrease in adipose tissue on the face, which occurs due to age-related causes or rapid weight loss, as well as shortening of the facial muscles.
Causes of malfunctioning facial muscles
Hypotonic muscle. Impaired drainage due to venous or lymphatic stasis leads to the appearance of edema, reduces muscle tone and the skin sags. There is a prolapse of the cheeks, the manifestation of which is nasolabial folds.
Hypertonic muscle. It occurs when shortening facial muscles. Muscle spasm promotes stretching of the skin, which eventually loses elastin and collagen.
But it’s impossible to live without a smile, and one cannot and constantly take care of how not to spoil the skin during laughter. Aesthetic medicine comes to the rescue, which allows you to adjust the nasolabial folds.
Correction methods for nasolabial wrinkles
Fillers are cosmetic preparations created from hyaluronic acid, they are injected directly into the wrinkle itself with the help of a thin needle. The procedure takes from 10 to 30 minutes, the effect is noticeable after a couple of days. Popular products, such as Restylane, Surjiderm, Juviderm, are biocompatible with human tissues and practically do not cause allergies. The listed funds are not too different from each other, but it is better to entrust the choice of the drug to the doctor.
Lipolifting. An injection method that uses a person’s own fat cells taken from the thighs or abdomen. The procedure takes no more than an hour, but after it you need to spend a day in a hospital. The effect of lipolifting is maintained for a long time, some just have one procedure for life.
Plasma lifting. Human plasma is injected into the problem area, enriched with platelets. The tool causes the active production of its own elastin and collagen by the skin, which is tightened naturally. The procedure does not cause negative reactions, since the blood of the person himself is used.
But not all women are ready to carry out wrinkle correction by injection, all procedures are quite expensive, their implementation causes painful sensations. How to remove nasolabial wrinkles in folk ways?
Japanese massage
Put your fingers in the pit near the wings of the nose, do massage pressure movements towards the lips and back. Imagine drawing small eights around your nose.
Then proceed to massage movements from the bridge of the nose towards the cheekbones. Stroking movements are performed several times in both directions.
In conclusion, massage in the direction from the bridge of the nose to the temples, pressing the skin quite hard, then smoothly go to the side line of the cheeks in a downward direction to the neck. Movement should reach the shoulders.
An easy way to remove nasolabial folds - gymnasticsInflate your cheeks as much as possible, then slowly blow out the air.
Retract the cheeks between the teeth of the upper and lower jaw.
Gather a full mouth of air and roll it from one half of the face to the other, then above the upper lip, then under the lower.
Pull your lips into the tube, then smile.
Pull the upper lip forward with effort. Exercise strengthens the muscles of the face, which are little used by man.
And finally, another exercise invented by the Japanese. Hold the neck of a plastic bottle 1/3 full of water with your lips. Duration is 20 seconds.