Want an open-eye look without Botox, plastic surgery, or blepharoplasty? In this video, I’m sharing the true cause behind hooded and droopy eyelids—and it has nothing to do with your skin!
The real culprit is hidden deep underneath in your facial muscles and fascia. When your orbicularis oculi, frontalis, and cranial muscles get tight, they pull your eyelids down, making your eyes look smaller, tired, and sad.
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Valeria Veksler, a registered nurse and face fitness expert, explains how to achieve an \"open eye look\" and reduce hooded or droopy eyelids naturally. She argues that these aging signs are caused by muscle tension and fascia rather than skin issues, offering a non-invasive alternative to Botox or surgery through targeted facial exercises and manual therapy.
Your eyes look like this, but you want to have open eye look without Botox or plastic surgery?
Keep watching this video. My name is Valeria Veksler. I'm a registered nurse, face fitness expert,
and a board approved provider in manual therapy and body works, and I've been practicing face
fitness for more than eight years, and today I want to share with you how to create an open eye
look without having to do any cosmetic procedures, and how to get rid of hooded eyes, droopy eyes,
sagging skin above your eyelids completely naturally through face fitness techniques.
So let's go ahead and get started. So the reason why you probably notice that your eyes start to
look more droopy, and it actually makes your eyes visibly smaller, maybe tired looking, maybe sad
looking, and this is all not because of the skin. The skin here has nothing to do with your hooded
eyes. It's actually what's underneath the skin that creates those aging signs, and it's so
important to learn this information, to watch this video till the end, because a lot of people don't
know about this. Plastic surgeons will not tell you this information, nor the cosmetic providers,
because they simply don't have access to this information either. So today I want to share with
you which tissues start to create tension, and the skin starts to look more droopy and hooded.
And let's start with the number one culprit, and that's facial muscles. Facial muscles,
they naturally supposed to be relaxed, because when they're relaxed, they do not cause any
deformities for our skin. And our skin is actually connected to our muscles through fascia. Fascia is
like a glue that connects our skin to it, and when our muscle becomes tight, the muscle actually
shortens and causes the skin to get folded as well. And one muscle that contributes to hooded
eyes is orbicularis oculi muscle. This muscle is a round muscle that surrounds our eye, and every time
when we squint, when we smile, when we frown, this muscle starts to get tight, and it pulls the skin
with it. So who here tends to squint a lot, or frown, or maybe when you're laughing you're using
the muscles of your eyes, you probably have noticed that this causes a lot of droopiness
in your eyelid area. So you need to target your orbicularis oculi muscle. The second muscle group
that is super important and contributes to hooded eyes is your frontalis muscle. So if you're the
type of person that not only has hooded eyes, but also forehead wrinkles or forehead lines,
that's probably because your forehead area has a lot of tension. If you're the type of person that
tends to talk with your eyebrows like this, if you tend to frown a lot as well with your forehead,
and if you tend to have a lot of facial expressions with your face in general, most likely your
muscles become tense and they cause droopiness for your eyebrows. If you don't think this is you,
or you're not sure, try this test right now with me. Interlace your fingers and place your hands
above your head and lower your hands towards your forehead. You'll automatically feel heaviness
above your eyelids and you will see that your eyes look more hooded. What our brain does in this
situation is it feels that heaviness and it tells your facial muscles to lift up. You lift up your
eyebrows and you create wrinkles above your forehead. So now we need to fix what's actually
causing us to have that and that's tension in our forehead, even in our cranial area in our head.
If you lift your forehead up, if you lift your cranial area up, notice how your eyes automatically
look more open and if you try to raise your eyebrows, you're not creating any wrinkles or
lines. So what I teach my students through my marathons, through my programs, is how to target the
cause of aging sign, not the symptom. So if you've seen videos where people just massage the skin
here or if they're applying some magical creams, it's not a long-lasting result. It's not a magical
solution. You need to truly address the cause and the cause is in different facial muscles. So if
you have wrinkles on your forehead, most likely you need to target your forehead, your obicularis
oculi muscle and also your cranial area. So let's try a couple of exercises. Let's see how this works
for you. If you notice results, then you know that this is the right path for you and maybe you will
try something different for yourself. So use your right hand, place it over your left eyebrow, lift
your eyebrow to the highest point, hold it like this. With your index finger of your left hand,
you're going to glide under your eyebrow very slowly. Massage every single spot under your
eyebrow. You might feel some tenderness or tension in certain areas. That's because there is a lot of
tension accumulated here over these years. So keep doing this, keep gliding until you reach the edge
of your eyebrow. Once you reach the edge of your eyebrow, use your index finger and place it under
the arch. Hold it like this and in circular motion massage. Breathe, inhale and exhale. You might feel
some tension here. A lot of people do. And then you're going to use your top hand and you're going
to move in vibrating motion, relaxing your forehead area at the same time. One, two, one more, three.
And you can see how your eyebrow looks a lot more open compared to the other side. Of course, we'll
make it even. Let's place our left hand and we'll lift our eyebrow to the highest point. We're going
to use our index finger and slowly glide under the eyebrow. Notice how this side might feel more tender
compared to the other one. And if it does, I would suggest you to work a lot or a little bit longer
on the side that is more tender to see a difference. So it's important to know how long to
work on each area, how much pressure to apply and which muscles to target. And then you achieve
amazing results. Use your fingertips and in vibrating motion move up towards your hairline
a couple of times here. And then notice how both eyebrows are even. And that's just a glimpse of
what you can do with your face, how you can age backwards by five to ten years. That's what my
students were able to achieve through face fitness. And if you're interested, I will leave a link in
the description box to my programs and I can't wait to teach you. Thank you so much for watching
this video till the end and I'll see you again in our next one. Bye!