In this episode of Quick Takes With Bangalore Times, yoga teacher Parul Agarwal talks about five face yoga exercises which tone your facial skin and wipe away wrinkles. “All you need is to practice a few simple facial exercises to look younger and tones face,” she says.
Forehead exercises to reduce forehead wrinkles
This exercise works on our forehead lines and helps lift and tighten your forehead. Over a period of time we develop lines on our forehead. The exercise is done at a count of ten for a set of three.

Blinking eye exercise
These are for the lines and wrinkles around your eyes and helps heal the dark circles. Ten counts three sets of opening your eyes wide and then squeezing your eye. After which keep your eyes closed for ten seconds and relax.

Get cheeky
As the name suggests, it helps tone the muscle of your cheeks and also help prevent them from becoming hollow. For this all you need to do is move air in your mouth from one cheek to another and slowly release the air from your mouth.

Excercise to reduce laugh lines

This exercise is for your smile and laugh lines. And this exercise helps uplifts and smoothens the area. All you need to do smile and kiss and do it for a set of ten.

Chin tuck exercise

It is about the chin area and jaw line and this is extremely simple exercise and works on your double chin as well.

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Here is a list of facial care products for different skin types which can help you look flawless, naturally.

As we enter the festive season while being socially distant, no one wants to compromise on anything essential. Be it the heartfelt prayers, family gatherings, reliving the nostalgia or the natural facial glow.

As most of us are skipping on our monthly salon visits, one can easily follow the facial care routine at home. With products from homegrown brands who rely on toxin-free formulas made with natural ingredients, it is possible to attain that natural radiance in a quick and safe manner. Be it the Durga Puja, Navratri and Dushhera, followed by karwa chauth and pre diwali bashes,

Here is a list of facial care products for different skin types which can help you look flawless, naturally:

Mamaearth Skin Illuminate Face Serum With Vitamin C & Turmeric For Radiant Skin

Mamaearth Skin Illuminate Face Serum with the power of Vitamin C and Turmeric helps you to achieve radiant glow. It also reduces hyperpigmentation and fine lines. Vitamin C is considered to be one of the most well-known and has been a preferred solution to many skincare problems. The Mamaearth face serum is free from harmful toxins such as paraben, mineral oil and silicones.

Price: INR 599/

Available at: MamaEarth website across India at offline stores and all major e-commerce portals such as Amazon, Flipkart and Nykaa.com.

Upakarma Ayurveda VitaminC and Saffron Night Face Serum

All natural ingredients of Vitamin C and Saffron Night face serum by Upakarma Ayurveda help in achieving radiant and glowing skin. This night serum has the ability to soften, and proactively diminishes the look of fine lines, age spots, and smooths out skin imperfections appearing during the day. While Aloe Vera extracts essential vitamins and Hyaluronic acid in Vitamin C Serum provides instant hydration to the skin, it also fights the damages which are caused by UV radiation, reduces hyperpigmentation and prevents skin ageing. Upakarma Ayurveda is India’s fastest growing Ayurvedic startup. These face serums are 100% vegan, gluten-free and cruelty free and it contains no silicone, mineral oil and parabens.

Price: INR 949/- for vitamin C face serum and INR 799/- for night serum with saffron.

Available at: https://upakarma.com/ , across India at offline stores and all major e-commerce portals such as Amazon, Flipkart and Nykaa.com.

Super Smelly mud-based Acne Warrior Oil Control Pack and activated charcoal-based Go Glow face pack

Super Smelly’s range of Mud-Based Acne Warrior Oil Control Pack and Activated Charcoal-based Go Glow face pack can help you with unclogging the pores, healing acne along, exfoliating, softening and brightening the skin, preventing blackheads, along with drawing out impurities and toxins from the skin naturally without getting it exposed to any toxic ingredients. Recognized as a winner in the ‘face pack’ category as one of the best innovations by consumers in a nationwide survey conducted by Nielsen this year, these face packs have also been certified by Safe Cosmetics Australia. These are gender-neutral and 100% toxin-free, and are made with naturally derived ingredients, which are gentle and effective on the skin of a Gen Z.

Price: INR 599/- onwards

Available at: https://supersmelly.in/ and all major e-commerce portals such as Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket and Nykaa.com. The brand currently also retails its range across over 250 retail outlets in Delhi NCR.

Aadvik’s Camel Milk Skin Care Range

The beautiful gift from the desert, Camel Milk Body Butter and Day Cream is now made available in India for the first time by Aadvik Foods. The richness & softness of camel milk gives your skin a moisturizing effect & a healthy glow. Camel milk is rich in natural Alpha-hydroxy acids which replenish skin, helps in anti-aging, and acts as a natural toner. It is rich in iron and vitamin C & D as well. The lactic acid in camel milk also helps to brighten the skin and even the skin tone. Aadvik’s Camel Milk Body Butter and Day Cream is free from Paraben, GMO, Mineral oils and By-Products.

Price: INR 375 (Camel Milk Body Butter) & INR 250 (Day Cream)

Available at: https://aadvikfoods.com/ and all major e-commerce portals such as Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal.

mCaffeine Naked & Raw Coffee Body Scrub with Coconut

mCaffeine naked & raw coffee body scrub is made out of Pure Arabic Coffee and Cold Pressed Coconut Oil, the scrub exfoliates your dead skin and helps you to get rid of blackheads, sun-tan and impurities it even polishes your skin and also deep cleanses your pores making your skin smooth and glowing. mCaffeine is India’s first brand that has a wide range of caffeinated personal care products.

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A team of plastic surgeons from Georgetown University Medical Center found that when a man opted to undergo facial plastic surgery, he was generally perceived as more attractive, trustworthy, and likable by others post-procedure.

“The tendency to judge facial appearance is likely rooted in evolution, as studies suggest evaluating a person based on appearance is linked to survival — our animal instinct tells us to avoid those who are ill-willed and we know from previous research that personality traits are drawn from an individual’s neutral expressions,” said senior investigator and board certified Facial Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon, Michael J. Reilly, MD, an associate professor of otolaryngology at Georgetown’s School of Medicine. 

This study, published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, did not focus solely on perceptions of gender — a man being perceived as more masculine, say — as a similar 2015 study on facial plastic surgery effects on women did.

“Taken together, our findings suggest that both men and women undergoing facial cosmetic surgery can experience not only improved perception of attractiveness, but other positive changes in society’s perception of their persona,” Reilly said.

Reilly and his colleagues set out to determine if society really does prefer men with square jaws, chiseled cheekbones, and more prominent chins. To do so, they used before-and-after pictures from facial plastic surgery procedures done on 24 men who had one or more of the following surgeries: upper eyelid lift (upper blepharoplasty), reduction of lower eyelids (lower blepharoplasty), face-lift, brow-lift, neck-lift, nose reshaping (rhinoplasty), and/or a chin implant.

The team designed six surveys, and each included eight photographs — four photos of a patient before surgery, and four after. No survey contained both photos of a single patient.

More than 150 participants (mostly between the ages of 25-34, white, and with a college degree) took the surveys without any knowledge of the study’s intent. Via the surveys, they were asked to rate their perception of each patient’s aggressiveness, extroversion, likeability, risk-seeking, sociability, trustworthiness, as well as attractiveness and masculinity.

The researchers then built a model to assess the participants’ perceptions of men who had undergone specific plastic surgery procedures. They found that specific personality and appearance perceptions were linked to specific facial procedures with chin augmentation being the only procedure that did not have an effect on perceived personality traits or attractiveness. 

Upper eyelid augmentation increased a man’s likeability and trustworthiness. Lower eyelid augmentation decreased perceived risk-taking. A brow lift improved perception of extroversion and risk-taking. A face-life increased one’s likability and trustworthiness. A neck-lift increased perceived extroversion and masculinity. And a nose job improved attractiveness.

“It is really interesting that different anatomic areas of the face have varying degrees of contribution to overall personality perception,” Reilly said. “And it is also noteworthy that the study did not find a significant change in masculinity. Just one procedure, a neck-lift, was found to enhance that trait.”

Reilly said that these findings suggest that the current “menu of cosmetic procedures for men” are not as gender-enhancing as they may be for women. In a similar study conducted on 30 female patients, increased femininity was significant post-procedure.

“Cicero described the face as the ‘mirror of the soul,’ meaning that a person’s physical appearance is the personal characteristic most obvious and accessible to others in social interaction — so it’s not surprising that subtle changes in neutral facial appearances are powerful enough to alter judgments of personality,” Reilly said.

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