Who now remembers that after the release of the film “The Mask” Cameron Diaz was called “a simple but sweet girl with round cheeks”? Angelina Jolie was also chubby at the beginning of her career. Now, looking at these aristocratic beauties, no one will think of the image of a “simple girl from the next yard.”
Thanks for this we should say to the high cheekbones with the effect of sunken cheeks. They are the ones who give the face a “thoroughbred” look.
But what if you didn’t get such a treasure from nature? Fat on your cheeks is ruining your life, and you are ready to give everything to make your cheeks thin?
In this article we will tell you what to do to make your cheeks thinner - we will reveal the secrets of Cameron and Angelina, ranging from cosmetic tricks to modern means of plastic surgery.
Makeup that hides round cheeks in a few minutes
Let's say you have your dream date scheduled for tomorrow. Or an interview at your dream company. Or just an important event. You want to look good, but your cheeks, cheeks...
How to get rid of full cheeks, as they say, on the run? There are techniques that can visually change the shape of the face
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To begin, stand in front of the mirror, move your hair away from your face and look at it carefully. Most likely, with full cheeks, your face is round. This means that our task is to visually narrow it a little so that the thick cheeks do not catch the eye.
Determine the ideal shape of your face that we will strive for. There is a universal rule in makeup: dark appears smaller, and light appears larger. Therefore, we will hide the fullness of the cheeks using powder or foundation in dark shades.
Expert advice:
“Before you start creating, assess the condition of your skin. If it is dry, prefer foundation. If oily, stop with powder.
Apply the foundation to your face following the pattern.
The tone you use to make your cheeks smaller should be slightly darker than the natural tone of your face, and it must be carefully shaded, otherwise, instead of hiding the problem area, ineptly applied cosmetics, on the contrary, will attract unnecessary attention to it.”
Olga Romanova, makeup artist.
After evening out your skin tone with powder or foundation, take blush. You should apply a lighter shade of blush on the upper part of your cheekbones, and a darker shade below. The shade of blush depends on your color type: choose shades of dark clay or chocolate. However, any will do, depending on what color on your face seems most natural. One “but” is categorical for everyone - blush should be matte
. You don’t want your already round cheeks to sparkle like balls on a Christmas tree, do you?
It is very important to use a soft brush to make a smooth transition from the top of the cheekbones to the bottom. Blend from the cheeks to the cheekbones - this way the colors will fall more naturally. Apply a thin layer of powder on top. Voila! Your cheeks appear much smaller than they originally were.
You can enhance the effect with your hairstyle. In order to visually reduce the lower third of the face, you just need to enlarge the upper third, that is, choose a haircut whose silhouette expands upward. Sharp strands combed forward will perfectly hide everything that needs to be hidden. If you have long hair, then a cascading haircut or a lush, high styling would be a good solution. But you shouldn’t comb your hair smoothly back away from your face - this will only emphasize the fullness of your cheeks.
Big cheeks: reasons for their appearance
Getting rid of fat deposits in the head and neck area through exercise is very difficult. Most often, large cheeks are a consequence of gaining excess weight and sudden weight loss afterwards. Age-related changes also add difficulties:
- loss of tissue elasticity;
- decreased production of collagen by one’s own cells;
- incorrect position of the body and head during sleep, etc.
Often, chubby cheeks as an aesthetic problem are combined with a loss of elasticity of the oval of the face, sagging cheeks, the formation of a double chin, etc.
How to lose weight in your cheeks with diet
Full cheeks are often the result of general obesity or an impaired water-salt balance in the body. In this case, the recipe is obvious - lose weight and your cheeks will go away.
Expert comment:
“There are many diets; it is better to choose the option that is suitable for you together with your doctor. And it’s very good if you can change your eating behavior.
Let me share my experience: drink water. When the body does not have enough water, it tends to store it in reserve, and uses “reservoirs” in the cheeks and under the eyes for this. Are your eyes swollen? Do your cheeks seem swollen? Drink water! Not juices, not mineral water, but pure water, at least 2 liters per day. In a few days you will feel the difference."
Andrey Iskornev.
To restore water balance, eliminate salt and sugar from your diet, which accumulate water and store it in reserve in the area of our long-suffering cheeks.
Try not to add salt to your food - and you will quickly
make sure that this does not make it less tasty. But more useful - yes, and much more.
Everything that has been said about salt applies no less to alcohol. Do without alcohol, salt and sugar - not only your cheeks, but also your heart, blood vessels, brain and nervous system will thank you.
What should you include in your diet? Fiber (vegetables and fruits) and calcium. The latter is best consumed not in the form of fatty cheeses, but in the form of cottage cheese, kefir and yogurt.
Gymnastics that help quickly make a guy or girl’s face thinner
One of the effective methods on how to lose weight on your face is special exercises. You can use the following type of gymnastics at home:
- Close your eyes 15 times, then take a break for 30 seconds and repeat 4 more times;
- nod your head up and down 4 times for 15 approaches, take a minute break between them;
- Raise your eyebrows up 10 times, doing this for 3 approaches with a break of 2 minutes;
- Frown your eyebrows 10 times, doing 3 approaches;
- nod your head 10 times in one direction and the other (repeat 3 times).
The last exercise is opening and closing the mouth, this action is performed 10 times in 3 approaches.
Inhale deeply, arms wider!
Many people, having decided to remove excess volume, begin to look for exercises for losing weight on the cheeks of the face - and they do find them, although such exercises do not exist.
Fat really burns in the “furnace” of our muscles. But the largest muscles on the body are the leg muscles and back muscles. Tensing your facial muscles will only burn a couple of calories, while tensing your legs and back will burn several hundred. Therefore, the same general exercises that help to lose weight in general are effective against the cheeks.
Supplement a healthy diet with physical activity. The recipe is simple: when a person consumes more calories than he expends, he gains weight; when the same amount, his weight remains the same; when less, he loses weight. There is no other way to lose weight and cannot be.
Expert comment:
“By the way, while losing weight, you will still need exercises for your cheeks. But not really for weight loss. Their job is to strengthen your muscles and prevent your skin from sagging after you lose weight. Everything is suitable for this purpose: you can puff out and retract your cheeks, do self-massage, and also smile! Smiling is an excellent exercise, as it engages the muscles of the cheeks, and it is also an amazingly effective remedy for fatigue, blues and stress.”
Maxim Vasiliev, plastic surgeon.
To consolidate the effect, freeze herbal infusions in ice trays and wipe your face with ice cubes in the morning and evening after washing. Herbs for infusion - chamomile, St. John's wort, mint, celandine, sage, yarrow, linden blossom. The infusion is made simply: a tablespoon of herb is poured into a glass of boiling water, infused for about half an hour, and filtered.
This phyto-hardening makes the skin fresher and tightens the muscles.
Home Remedies to Reduce Chubby Cheeks
To improve your facial contour, you don’t have to buy expensive creams and serums. Home remedies made from natural products are no less effective. You can tighten the skin, thereby reducing the size of your cheeks, with special masks, lotions and compresses.
Masks
Toning, tightening and moisturizing components are used for masks. The following types of popular masks are distinguished:
- Egg. Beat the whites until foamy and apply for 10 minutes. A lifting mask tightens the skin, so after it you need a nourishing cream.
- Yeast. Add 1 egg to 15 g of yeast, 1 tbsp. l. olive oil and milk, 1 tsp. liquid honey and rice flour. Keep the resulting mass on your face for 15 minutes.
- Lemon. Mix 1 tbsp. l. cooked oatmeal, 1 tsp. lemon juice and honey. Apply the mask for 10 minutes.
Note! Lemon mixture, in addition to toning the skin, removes pigment spots well.
Masks tighten the skin, remove swelling and swelling from the face. They need to be applied in turn - once a week. It is important to ensure that they do not contain components that can cause an allergic reaction.
Lotions
To tone and maintain elastic skin, lotions help to wipe the skin after morning and evening washing. Instead of store-bought options, you can use herbal infusions. Chamomile, sage and St. John's wort have beneficial properties for the skin. To do this, dried plants are poured with boiling water and left under the lid for several hours. Afterwards, the broth is filtered and poured into a clean container. Homemade lotion is ready. Store it in the refrigerator.
Another way to use tonic is to pour the infusion into ice cube trays and place it in the freezer. Their use helps to effectively eliminate swelling on the face.
Compresses
Herbal infusions are used for facial compresses. To do this, soak a piece of cloth in the broth, place it on your face and lie with it for 15 minutes. After it, the skin will become more elastic.
Another type of compress is with salt. Dissolve 2 tbsp. l. in 0.5 liters of water. Dip a towel into the heated liquid and then place it on your face for a few minutes. Then cool the covers with ice cubes. This compress tones the skin well.
How to remove fat from cheeks without effort
The result of using home remedies depends only on your persistence. Unfortunately, it is unstable and disappears as soon as you relax.
If you want a guaranteed result, pay attention to cosmetic and medical ways to remove thick cheeks. They help even in the most difficult cases, for example, when one cheek is thicker than the other .
It turns out that round cheeks have three different causes. That is why losing weight does not always help - only in one case out of three. However, first things first.
- Excess subcutaneous fat
In order to get rid of large cheeks in this case, you need to lose weight or use lipolytics. They are injected under the skin using mesotherapy and visibly remove subcutaneous fat, revealing clear, sculpted cheekbones.
Expert comment:
“To get rid of fat on the cheeks, I recommend paying attention to two excellent products: Michelangelo and the INNO-TDS Draining ppc cocktail.
Both drugs are very effective, extremely safe and are produced in European Union plants. In the Eurozone, they share the title of “lipolytic No. 1.”
Anna Smirnova, dermatocosmetologist.
- Lumps of Bisha
Bisha's lumps are the same fatty bodies that are “responsible” for the infantile roundness of the cheeks in infants. In most cases, they become invisible with age, but sometimes this does not happen, and an unpleasant effect of voluminous cheeks is created. In this case, it is recommended to remove Bisha's lumps.
“Before” and 10 days “after” rhinoplasty (surgeon Mkhitar Meloyan) and removal of Bisha lumps (surgeon Andrey Iskornev). The lower third of the face stretched out, the heaviness of the cheeks went away. The face looks lighter and more harmonious.
“Before” and 6 months “after” the procedure - a photograph from the patient’s private archive. Surgeon: Vasiliev Maxim.
This operation is a very effective way to harmonize the face.
Expert comment:
“Removing Bisha's lumps takes 30 to 40 minutes under local or general anesthesia. However, in order for a doctor to prescribe this procedure for you, you need to be over 25 years old and not overweight.
Sometimes the doctor does not remove fat from Bisha’s lumps, but moves it upward - this allows him to “sculpt” clearer and more voluminous cheekbones.
To enhance the effect, for patients over 45 years of age, we recommend removing Bisha’s lumps as part of SMAS lifting, followed by Melsmon mesotherapy to lighten and tighten the skin.”
Salim Ragimov, plastic surgeon.
Exercises to combat cheek fat and double chin
An effective set of facial workouts will help tone your muscles, tighten your cheeks and remove a double chin. They need to be done daily. These include the following exercises:
- "Fish" Pull your cheeks in for 10 seconds until tension appears in your facial muscles.
- "Ball". Slowly roll the ball out of the air from one cheek to the other. This is done over a row of upper teeth.
- "Gum". They chew imaginary gum while opening their mouth. They breathe evenly and calmly.
- "Smile". Press on the cheeks with the index fingers of both hands, while smiling strongly. Each approach is 5 seconds.
- Closing the eyes. Close your eyes forcefully for 10 seconds and feel the tension of your facial muscles. After each squinting, the eyes relax.
To achieve a noticeable effect, you need to exercise regularly. All exercises are performed 10 times.
Less simple carbohydrates
Nothing new: sugar, baked goods and cheap pasta are sources of empty calories. Not much sense, a lot of fat.
After purification of raw materials, these products do not contain any useful nutrients and fiber. And since there is no fiber, they are digested quickly, increasing blood sugar levels. Then it falls just as quickly, and this causes hunger. So, by eating it with candy, we are only rocking the swing: very quickly we will want to take another oneHigh glycemic index foods, overeating, and obesity..
There is not a single study that would reveal the effect of simple carbohydrates specifically on facial fat. But logic dictates that if you replace simple carbohydrates with complex ones, it will help you lose weight.
Hardware methods
To solve the problem of full cheeks and a double chin, you can contact a beauty salon. Most often, clients are offered thermolifting, as well as laser or ultrasonic lifting. The advantage of the procedure is the complete absence of incisions and punctures. It can be done at any age. It has a rejuvenating effect. After the manipulation, a long recovery period is not required, which reduces the risk of possible complications. The disadvantage of lifting is the high cost.
A myostimulation procedure may also be prescribed. This is the effect of a weak current on the cheek area. Due to it, muscle contraction and skin tightening occur.
It is important to pay attention! If there is a lot of subcutaneous fat, the procedure will not have an effect.
