Cross-section groove on female necks gallant French dubbed the necklace of Venus - Collier de Venus. One wrinkle can still go for decoration, but no more! Agree with your own neck: you cherish and nurture it, and it sacredly keeps the secret of your age ...
In fact, caring for the neck needs much more carefully than the face. It's not as difficult as it seems, but it still requires some effort. But then you at any age to the question "A beautiful neck - a dream or reality?" You can safely answer "reality". And pull off the scarf covering your dignity.
Search for a star!
American movie star Katharine Hepburn, who looked at the age of 70 in incomplete forty without any plastic, advised: that there were no wrinkles on the neck, look at the stars more often! When you tilt your head, a thin and wide subcutaneous muscle (platism) stretches, which runs from the clavicles to the lower jaw. This is an excellent exercise for her! Since in real life we often look at ourselves under the feet, rather than in the sky, there is practically no work in platinum. And from forced inactivity, it weakens, becomes sluggish, slips and ceases to tighten the skin. As a result, round folds and wrinkles form on the neck, the face "swims", the second chin appears ...
The skin in this area is very tender and vulnerable also because there are almost no sebaceous glands. Without the lubricant produced by them, the outer covers are exposed to adverse effects - ultraviolet, wind, excessive humidity or dry air, industrial emissions ... Is it any wonder that the neck gives out the age of the woman more than other problem areas, for example, hands or chest.
Pay as much attention to this area as possible! It needs to be cleaned, including weekly peeling (but not scrubs, and fruit cosmetic acids AHA in low concentrations - up to 5-7%), nutrition and moisturizing.
Twice a day use a special tool for the care of the neck and décolletage zone or a usual face cream (preferably with collagen and vitamin C), intended for normal or dry skin. Apply it correctly, directing movements from the bottom from the center upwards to the side surfaces of the neck, so as not to stretch the skin. In no case do not smear the cream with your hands - push it into the neck with the cushions of your half-bent fingers. This is more important than you think.
Cosmetic minimum program
Lubricating the neck with cream, make a toning massage, so that the skin is tightened and became more elastic.
1. You need to sit up straight, lower your shoulders, raise your head and throw it back slightly. Then try pressing your palms to the side surfaces of your neck and gently, without pressing, to stroke it from the corners of the lower jaw to the clavicles. And swipe the movements, slightly pressing the ribs of the hands across the neck muscles.
2. Now you need to "break" the skin: try to clasp your neck with your hands so that the thumb is in front, and the others are facing the back of the head. Begin to produce light rhythmic embracing movements with your fingers, while lightly pushing from behind.
3. Pound the neck and the back of the head from top to bottom, then backwards.
4. It is very important to stretch the cervical musculature with the right hand on the left side and vice versa. Clamp the muscle between the thumb pads and the four others and massage it with plucked movements.
5. Lower your head, let the pads of the index and middle fingers of your right hand feel the bony protrusion (the spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra) where the back passes into the neck and the pit beneath it. Massively massage this area. Then find a little lower another outstanding vertebra (the first thoracic), as well as a pit beneath it and repeat the massage. Finish the procedure best, easily stroking the front, back and sides of the neck.
Moisturizing and nourishing cream works better if after applying in the evening make an easy relaxing neck massage according to the recipe of Japanese cosmetologists.
1. First, press the tips of the middle fingers onto the paired points in the subclavian fossa (look for it under the clavicles on the gray of their length). Count to three and release.
2. Stroke the neck with the middle, index and ring fingers of both hands simultaneously. Up with the back side, with a little effort, and downwards with the pads of your fingers. Repeat 5-6 times.
3. Stimulate the tip of the middle finger of the right hand in the center of the neck at the point where it passes into the chin. After clicking on the point, count to three, and then release, wait a bit and then try again.
The skin on the neck will be tightened, and wrinkles will begin to smooth out after 5-6 days of regular contrast procedures - a kind of gymnastics for the subcutaneous vessels.
Before you wash in the morning, first 20-30 times rinse your face with warm water (40 °), then as often as cold (15 °).
Do not forget about hot compresses - they need to be applied every other day to the well-cleansed neck skin.
1. Wet a piece of linen cloth or a layer of gauze folded in several layers with hot water, squeeze it well and hold it on your face and neck for 5 minutes. Then immediately wash with cool water.
2. Every day, wipe your face and neck with a cotton ball moistened in salted water at room temperature (1 teaspoon per glass). Dip a linen towel into this solution and massage by tapping it lightly on the chin.
Lifting in Hollywood
Do six simple exercises on the recipe of Katherine Hepburn during the day. If you repeat them regularly, you will not need any contour plasty of the face and neck braces!
Tilt your head back and get your nose out with the tip of your tongue.
Holding the head straight, push the lower jaw forward and close the upper lip of the lower one.
Smile as much as possible, count to four. Lower the corners of your lips down and strain your neck. Count to four and relax.
Cross your arms, put them on the back of the head and press them on your head: let the neck muscles resist this pressure!
Weave the fingers under the chin and press on them with their back sides, and the head and neck should resist this pressure.
Lie on your stomach, stretch out your arms, lift the body and tilt your head as far back as possible. Repeat 6-8 times.
Rescue the drowning
Even if you are accustomed to sink in the cream to the very neck, this does not mean that you pay enough attention to it. What about masks? Most of us impose them only on the face, and unjustly offend the neck. But even if you do not forget about it, it does not mean that you are doing everything right. Such a gentle and whimsical zone is not always suitable for all facial masks! Yes, this is reality. Degreasing and matting, which are applied to oily, combined or problematic skin, the neck is contraindicated because it is excessively dried, depriving the protective hydro-lipid film. Here you need special compounds - restoring the balance of moisture, nourishing, toning and smoothing. Buy them in a pharmacy or cook at home.
Folk recipes:
1. Melt 2 tablespoons of honey in a water bath, pour in a little 2 tablespoons of flour and enter the egg yolk. Mix the resulting mixture, whisk and apply to face and neck for half an hour. Rinse with cool water.
2. Pour boiling water over 3 tablespoons of dry or fresh chamomile flowers, cool, mix the "steamed" (steamed flowers) with a tablespoon of honey, one yolk and a teaspoon of any vegetable oil (preferably olive oil). Apply the mixture on your face and neck with a cotton swab for 5-10 minutes. Do not allow drying!
3. Beneficial effect on the neck potato wrap, which should be kept for 20 minutes.
Boil potatoes in a uniform, peel it from the peel, mash with a teaspoon of olive oil and glycerin. If glycerin is not present, triple the dose of olive oil. And you can just mix the warm mashed potatoes with the beaten egg. Lay the mixture on a layer of multi-layered gauze, wrap it around your neck and cover it with parchment paper. After removing the mask, rinse the neck with warm water and grease with a thick nourishing cream. You have a beautiful neck!
Gymnastics from a double chin
Do you want it not to exist? - Train the neck muscles: when they are actively working, fat does not have a chance to settle in the wrong place. The success of classes will be more tangible if you do the first three exercises in the water. Remember them when you take a bath or swim in the pool. Or you can simply pour boiled water in a wide bowl with tea brew or infusion of string, celandine, chamomile or dog rose. Dip the bottom of the guide into this tub and start the gym.
Pull out your lips, tightly pressing the corners of your mouth to your teeth. Counting to 10, slowly begin to tighten the lips to the center. And now move the compressed lips 5 times to the left and right. Do you feel the muscles of the neck and chin tighten? Now you can relax and hold your hands in the face from the bottom up - this will help relieve tension.
Try to open your mouth and say a long "ah-ah," without stretching and not squeezing your lips at the same time. Happened? And now count in the mind to 15 and, without moving the jaws, slowly close your lips. You will not be able to do this until the end - the mouth will remain slightly ajar. You need to stay in this position, counting to 10. Then you can relax. Once the exercise is well mastered, repeat it 3 times a day.
Jaw the jaws more tightly, stretch the lower lip as much as possible. Count to 15. The subcutaneous muscle of the neck - platinum will also stretch! Relax, and then try to stretch both lips at once. Repeat one more time.
Try to whistle for 5-10 seconds, tightly pressing the corners of the mouth to the teeth.
Then inflate your cheeks as hard as you can, close your mouth and start moving the air in a circle - from the left cheek above the upper lip to the right cheek and from beneath the lower lip to the left cheek. Then lightly tilt your head back and start gently blowing air. Imagine blowing a speck of dust. Repeat 3-5 times.
Put your elbows on the table and, with your lips pressed together with a pipe, tighten the jaws tightly. It is necessary to move the closed fingers of the palms from below upwards along the jaw from both sides of the face. In doing so, do not forget to press lightly on the tensed muscles. Then you also need to massage your cheeks in the direction to your mouth. Closer to the end you need to squeeze your cheeks with your hands and count to 10. Relax. Slap your face and neck several times.
Down with the stress!
To the skin of the neck remained elastic and not amenable to age-related changes, one must hold high his head, maintaining a proud posture. Only this way you can remain a happy owner of a beautiful neck - the dream or reality of every real woman. Working at the computer does not help it improve - you type the text down your face, and when you tear yourself away from the keyboard, you reflexively stretch your neck to the screen and then you are genuinely surprised: where did the wrinkles and the second chin come from? Even worse, when you have to act under time pressure or under someone's pressure: stressful situations cause the neck muscles to clench, which causes the posture to be disturbed and the vertebrae are deformed. All this is not the best way to affect the condition of the skin!
Anti-stress gymnastics
Give such a "workout" for the neck at least 5 minutes in the morning and evening, repeating each element 7-10 times. If the order of the movements is not specified separately, then do them all from the top down: from the border of the growth of the hair to the shoulder joint. You do not need to squeeze the neck with the palms of the side and in front: there pass the most important vessels, after squeezing which you can cause loss of consciousness. And do not forget to watch the breath: it must be rhythmic, calm, without delay.
1. Lower your head forward, pulling the back muscles of your neck. Slowly tilt it back, pulling the front ones. Repeat 2 times. This exercise perfectly helps with the second chin!
2. Put your hands on the back of your head. Slowly lower your head and count to 10. Return to the starting position.
3. Grab your head from the top with the right hand (palm to the left in the area of the crown and temple). Put your left hand down. Tilt your head to the right, pulling the neck muscles, and count to 10. Return to the starting position and repeat again, and then do the same in the other direction 2 times.
4. Do a wide and slow rotation of the head, stretching the muscles of the neck and shoulder girdle. After completing one turn clockwise, repeat the same thing against it - just 2 times. And try to move as smoothly as possible. So the load on the muscles will be greater.