This One Muscle Is Pulling Your Mouth Down! Lets Fix It!

Today I'm going to address a downturned mouth. Those lines, those marionette lines they're called as we get older they often occur and you often notice them in photographs when the light seems to be overhead. So let's get started straight away. Step number one, we are going to target that muscle. What we're going to do though is release the fascia that's keeping the muscle stuck. This is how we're going to do it. We're just going to use our index fingers and we're going to locate just a couple of centimetres beneath the corners of our mouth and we're going to press here and I want you to rotate and we're going to rotate about five ten times. It doesn't really matter how many but make sure you've got a firm pressure. Now you might want to use your free thumbs just to anchor a little bit because as you rotate Anchoring is actually containing the belly of the muscle, meaning you are really really focused and we're being intentional with this movement. Just 5-10 times, obviously I've done it a little more but it doesn't matter, and then go the other way. Just keep going round and round. Now I am targeting that muscle, telling it to relax the heck out, it doesn't need to pull down, I'm also releasing the fascia, getting it warmed up, getting it fired up and really helping to lift the corners of my mouth. Now, you will go pink. I'm definitely going to start to go red because we're applying pressure. That's fine. That's what we need to do. We need the blood to flow because by releasing blood into the skin, into the muscle, it warms everything up. And it also helps with that crucial element. Cellular renewal, which also improves collagen. Okay, when you've done that, the next step is actually removing some of the lymph that we have released away from our face, because a lot of what we're seeing is trapped lymph that makes us look puffy. Now, there are a couple of methods that I like to use to do this in the clinic. One would be using a cupping device. I'm going to very quickly demonstrate that But honestly, I think you'll find just using your fingers. I'm going to show you both methods, but I do advise you use some oil. So the oil that I've got with me today is simple jojoba oil. I also have my rescue remedy for mature aging skin. This is my go-to for my arms, for anywhere I've got crepey skin and for my face and my neck. It is packed. With active ingredients that really help to improve the skin tone, diminish lines and wrinkles and it's really good for your skin health too. This one is my secret recipe I'm going to share with you in the description box. So this is how I use it. I'm going to give it a shake because it's different oils and I don't want them separated. Now this little canister has a little spray which is great. So a couple of sprays of the oil. And I'm going to just do one side of my face just to demonstrate. And I'm just going to pat that all the way up the corner of my mouth up to my tragus. So just outside the ear here. And I'll demonstrate using one of these little cupping devices. They're inexpensive. If you don't like lots of plastic, we have got a glass one, but of course I've got a little plastic sucker. This is how you use it safely. We squeeze before we've even touched the skin. That will give you the suction. And then you're going to gently glide to the ear. Squeeze to come off. Do not pull the cup off. Do not drag your skin without a really beautiful oil like my rescue remedy. And that's how we're going to do it. So we're going to start with the Do a squeeze, let it sit there, and then we're going to sweep up. Then squeeze to come off. Now I would do that five times at least and then squeeze Come all the way up, sweep should I say, and then off. Can you see how that is already? You're already creating. Creating this lifted effect. I don't know if I've got bright light So if I put a shadow here so you can see the difference in my face There's a sweep now to do it with your hands, so easy, two fingers And we are literally just making waves. What this is doing, it's almost kneading the lymph to the ear, just to the ear. When you get to here, you could do a little vibration that opens up the channels ready for the lymph nodes to sweep all the toxins away. Again, coming up, two fingers, little, it's kind of like a little wave is the best way to describe it, up to the tragus, little vibration. and then let it go. When we've done that the next thing we need to do is think about releasing the lymph down our neck. Again you can use a cupping device. So this is how we're going to do it, we're going to use the cup again, we're going to squeeze where we left the lymph, come down and then squeeze again to the neck and sweep, come down to the collarbone and release. Now that's Already feels so nice. It releases all the tension. So if you needed to do that with your hands, it's the same. We're going to do the vibrations. We're going to come down. Now you can do it with both hands. Get to the jaw. And then what I'm going to do is change to a knuckle sweeping down to my collarbone. And away, so you can do this with your knuckles or with your fingers, little vibration, coming down, getting to just underneath my jaw, turning and down. So that's a very simple lymphatic drainage. So once we've started to shift all that lymph it's now time to come back to this area so we can really work the muscle. There's no point in trying to work anything or lift anything unless you've done the prep. The prep is removing everything that's blocking the muscle from being lifted. So we're going to get our knuckles And we're going to do rotations this time and then sweep. To our earlobes, rotations and sweep to our earlobes. So this is your third and final move. And what we're doing is we're encouraging that muscle to release itself and the fascia too, and up to our earlobes. And that ladies is how I address a downturned mouth. So who's the culprit? It's a muscle that sits just under the corner of the mouth. It's called a DAO. It's a triangular muscle that sits just like this, pulling your face down. It actually is responsible for a downturned mouth. So when we relax that muscle, we can turn our frown upside down. We can release it so that when we're sat in a neutral face our face doesn't look really angry and really sad. Three little simple steps. First of all identifying the DAO, doing those rotations, gripping the belly of the muscle, the insertion point and also massaging the muscle to release it. Then we're also removing lymph because we've got to get rid of the stuff that's causing the heaviness, removing the lymph, draining, draining it away. And then finally giving our muscles a thorough workout, releasing them, creating a lift. I hope you love this massage technique. Three simple steps. It doesn't take very long. Two, three minutes is all you need. You can do it every single day. I hope you enjoyed it. I've chosen this video for you next. I'll see you on the next one.