Showing posts with label Fitness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fitness. Show all posts
With the start of the new year comes the inevitable - the diets, the resolutions and (my least favourite) the GYM. Words cannot express how much I hate going to the gym, especially when it's cold outside and I can just press snooze one more time. So imagine my interest when I found out about a gym for your face? That's right, you heard me - I'm going to have a nice sit down... and exercise my face.
A workout for your face? Seriously, I was as perplexed (and intrigued) as you probably are. Any exercise whilst sitting down is always preferable. Enter FaceGym, a facial exercise and skincare studio based in Selfridges. It's meant to be a revolutionary approach to bootcamp that offers a tailored facial workout alongside a juice and nutritional programme (with The Juicery and WelleCo) in order to get your face looking fantastic.
How Does It Work?
Drawing elements of Chinese massage and acupuncture, the facial workout follows the similar steps of a normal work out. But it's NOT a facial. There are five steps including a warm up, cardio, strength, sculpting and a cool down - these are often things that draw a shudder within me (with the exception of the cool down, cos that bit can not come quick enough for me when in the gym!)
There's even a mini swiss ball for your face - seriously. The combination of these techniques is meant to detox the face, whilst toning the facial muscles, boosting blood flow for cell renewal and collagen production.
FaceCamp is the range of what I like to call "wellness workouts" for your face. So the signature workouts, plus the nutritional support that my hungover, dried out skin is probably cryyying out for.
You can choose from a selection of workouts depending on your skincare concern, but don't worry, it's not all "dry skin", "dehyrdated skin", "problem skin" boring, bogstandard, textbook skintype categories. At FaceGym, you can pick from "Phone Face", "Winter Face" and "Sugar Face" to name a few.
WHat's Meant To Happen?
The FaceGym workout draws parallels with how your body responds to going to the gym (what? pure terror and hardship? I jest.) Similarly to how your body improves in tone, lift and skin texture after some successful workouts at the gym, the results on your face after micro cardio and strength training are of the same sort. So HELLO toned, smooth, lifted facial contours.
What do I think?
Personally, i'm fascinated by the concept. There ARE 50+ muscles in your face, so I can kind of see how micro stimulation and massage can work to improve your facial tone and texture.
I'm also keen on any non-invasive ways to beautify your skin. In a world where instant fillers and injections are so readily available, I'm always trying to keep it "old school" I guess?
So there we go, I'm booked in for my first FaceCamp session this weekend. I honestly can't WAIT to tell you about it - whether it's the greatest discovery in modern beauty, or whether it was just 30 minutes of swiss-balling my face. (no jokes, you dirty dogs)........ Stay tuned.
If you're already so intrigued that you'd like to sort out your own skincare session at FaceGym, you can find out more and book here
What do YOU think? Tweet me your thoughts @FaceValueBlog or send me a comment on Facebook!
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A WorkOut For Your Face? Forget The Gym, I'm Going to Face Camp!
New year, new body? Sound familiar at all? I bet it's a common resolution for us all - this year we're going to the gym more, this year we're running every Saturday morning, this year I will do the squat challenge every day. But what if we didn't have to...?
That's right, you read mine own words correctly. What if we could get a perfect bod without the hard work? Well that sounds too good to be true of course.
At least, that's what I thought in 2013. But then these bad boys from Oriflame dropped through my letterbox and suddenly, the impossible seemed likely.....
Right, what are we looking at?
These sleek silver beauties are part of the Perfect Body range from Oriflame. We've got a stretchmark repairing cream, a cellulite dimple destroyer and a bingo-wing buster! HIYA NEW FRIENDS!
Let's face it, they're not going to cut inches off your tum but they do claim to help tone up wobbly bits and smooth out the bumps. But did they work?
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Jiggly Bits Begone! The Oriflame Perfect Body Range
Hi team! Today I'm going to be bringing you something slightly different. It's about something I'm doing next month which is really important to me and very close to my heart. I hope you don't mind the little deviation away from my normal pink capitals and exclamation marks style, it would be amazing if you could take 2 minutes to read this.
In September, I will be doing the Three Peaks challenge - an attempt to climb Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon back-to-back within 24 hours.
I would just like to emphasis how insanely hard this will be for me given that I'm going to be with a group of uni friends who are all a lot fitter and less lazy than me. (The most exercise I get is basically running from the sofa to the kitchen when I realise I forgot to set the timer for the garlic bread in the oven.)
Ive bought some hiking shoes, a rucksack - even one of those water bladders which you suck through a pipe - this is the REAL deal for me. But let's be honest, the shopping isn't the hard bit for me is it?
I've got 5 weeks to turn this butter-loving cushion that is my body into a PROTEIN MACHINE (which I imagine would look like Optimus Prime or at least the thing that all the Power Rangers morph into.) I've started walking to work more often and I'm Squat Challenging my thighs into submission.
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