“What do you think is the leading facial rejuvenation surgery according to statistics among American plastic surgeons? No, not the fight against wrinkles or even a facelift.
The American Society of Plastic Surgery names bags and swelling on the cheekbones under the eyes as the most common reason for visiting a rejuvenation specialist.
I confirm that this is indeed the case. Many of us are ready to put up with the first wrinkles and small bags under the eyes. But the cheek bags are too noticeable, and creams are powerless against them. Therefore, it is this problem that sooner or later leads to a specialist.”
Andrey Iskornev, plastic surgeon.
Causes
Know! The amount of fat under the skin in the cheekbone area increases over the years, but a number of predisposing factors can accelerate the process of formation of sufas, including:
- sudden weight gain in general;
- genetic predisposition;
- the formation of constant swelling, as a result of which the skin stretches and the subcutaneous space filled with fat increases.
Painting bags can visually increase due to sagging skin , which with age .
How to prevent sufas
Of course, it is easier to prevent any problem than to deal with the consequences that have already arisen. What is prevention? What preventative measures should be taken in youth, so that in old age you do not encounter such a problem as paint bags?
Lifestyle
Of course, in order to avoid dealing with paint bags in the future, you need to adhere to the basics of a healthy lifestyle. That is why it is necessary to monitor your diet.
Try to eat as little foods and dishes high in salt as possible. Salt accumulates fluid in the body, which is deposited in all the wrong places, including in the fat fold under the eyelid.
Proper nutrition includes consuming plenty of fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fiber, and cereals.
Avoid fried foods, fast food, and fat. Unfortunately, these foods can lead to problems earlier in life than you might think.
Also, you shouldn’t go on strict diets at the same time. The lack of nutrients also does not have the most favorable effect on your health and appearance. As a result, you can get bags under your eyes in early youth due to health problems.
The next thing you need to pay attention to is healthy sleep. Unfortunately, lack of sleep provokes the formation of bags under the eyes even earlier than would be possible with age-related changes.
Be sure to check if you are predisposed to any allergies or not. Perhaps an allergic reaction is present, you just don’t know about it. Allergenic foods should be excluded, and then the bags under the eyes will disappear by themselves.
Don’t forget that the beauty and health of our skin is only in our hands. Therefore, do not forget about proper skin care. Be sure to pamper her with good creams, self-massages, and cosmetic procedures. It is recommended to do this daily.
Don't forget to keep your skin clean. Remove makeup, try not to overload your skin with cosmetics.
Visit a cosmetologist once every six months in order to monitor the dynamics of the formation of bags and their increase. A cosmetologist, like an experienced doctor, will tell you when you should seek help from surgeons.
There are several quick ways to perform a facelift at home
You don’t need to resort to such procedures every day, but only if you have to get ready for some important event where you need to look your best
- Take one teaspoon of cold water. Dissolve a vitamin E capsule in it. Soak cotton pads in the resulting liquid and apply to the eyelids for 15 minutes.
- Freeze the ice cubes. It could be just water, or it could be chamomile infusion. Wipe the area of the eyelids and cheekbones before washing your face in the morning.
Useful gymnastics
Of course, you need to take care not only of your facial skin, but also train your muscles to increase their firmness and elasticity.
To do this, you need to do special gymnastics, which allows you to get rid of paint bags or prevent them.
- Start the gymnastics by stroking the forehead area, gradually moving to the area under the eyes.
- Then make movements from the temples, smoothly moving to the bridge of the nose, rise along the eyebrows and return to the temple area. Perform such light, slightly pressing movements several times.
- Then open your eyes wide and begin to pronounce the sound “o” in a drawn-out manner. Then close your eyes, open your eyes sharply again and repeat the procedure.
- Then start stroking again from the temples to the bridge of the nose and along the eyebrows to the temples.
- Use your fingers and lightly tap on the cheekbones and eyelids.
- Then begin to apply precise pressure on the borders of the cheekbones and eyelids, as if pressing the fatty tissue back.
Alternate all the procedures listed here with each other and do three to four times per session.
Prevention
It is impossible to prevent the development of sufs.
This is because these fat deposits inevitably appear with age.
But you can slow down degenerative processes by following these preventive recommendations :
- the diet should be balanced : it should include more foods containing vitamin B;
- for normal functioning of the hormonal system and to prevent the formation of bags from overwork, it is necessary to get enough sleep , allocating 7-8 hours a day for sleep;
- stable physical activity has a tonic and , which can be achieved by walking in the fresh air for only half an hour a day;
- You need to drink 1.5-2 liters of water per day to maintain water-salt balance.
Remember! For sensitive skin predisposed to the development of such cosmetic defects, nourishing and moisturizing face creams should be used.
When choosing them, it is better to consult a cosmetologist.
How to get rid of bags under the cheekbones: debunking myths
The first thing that comes to mind: massages, medicinal cosmetics, vitamins... This is a good option. It will be great if you add fresh air, proper nutrition and exercise! You will look much better and feel incredibly healthier.
There is only one BUT: these wonderful measures will in no way help you remove the swelling on your cheekbones under your eyes.
Let us remind you: we are dealing with zygomatic hernias, with some mini-containers of adipose tissue that fall down under the influence of the universal law of attraction. Judge for yourself, how can you solve this problem with the most wonderful massage and the longest walks? That's it, no way.
Reviews about the treatment
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Bags on my cheekbones appeared for the first time several years ago . No cosmetic products helped. The salon advised me not to spend money on creams and suggested doing a facelift .But we were warned in advance that this is not a 100% guarantee of permanently getting rid of the bags, and additional operations may be required over the years.
I agreed, as a result, the bags were almost completely removed, and although more than two years have passed, my face looks almost the same as after the procedure .”
Elizaveta Shipnevskaya, Kislovodsk.
“When I started having sufs , at first I didn’t attach any importance to it, attributing everything to age.
But over the years, my face began to look like the face of an alcoholic. It was unpleasant and ugly, and I decided to have a check-lift .
The procedure is not very expensive for me, but I am satisfied with the effect.
But the specialist warned even then that over time the bags would reappear, and then they would either have to do liposuction or consider the option of fillers.”
Marina Panyutina, 48 years old.
Fighting malar edema at home
It is practically impossible to remove sufas completely and forever, but making them unnoticeable is possible for everyone. Those who have achieved this claim: the main thing is an integrated approach using the following methods:
- Gymnastics for the face Carol Maggio. This gymnastics must be performed every day, without missing a single time.
- Japanese facial massage. It improves microcirculation and prevents fluid stagnation.
- Eyelid skin patches will help eliminate swelling during an exacerbation.
- Proper drinking regime with complete abstinence from alcohol: alcoholic drinks and drinking liquids at night are the main factors in the appearance of any swelling on the face and body.
- Caring gels and creams with anti-edematous action.
A long and persistent struggle will certainly bring results, but not all owners of malar edema on the face are capable of such a feat. Therefore, those who are not highly disciplined in terms of self-care are left with one, the simplest and most accessible way to solve the problem - a smile. Treat everything with humor - and those around you will not notice the shortcomings of your appearance, because through a radiant smile and a kind look it is simply impossible to see them.
— Author — Pelageja, website www.sympaty.net – Beautiful and Successful Copying of this article is prohibited!
Why do jowls appear?
Our face consists of 57 muscles and fat, which is concentrated mainly in the cheek area. This cheek fat, in honor of the French anatomist Marie François Bichat, has its own name - Bichat's fat pads, and reaches a very impressive size.
With age, any person experiences drooping of facial tissues. The lower jaw to the left and right of the chin is devoid of muscle support (this can be easily seen in the figure), and nothing prevents sagging in this area.
As a result, characteristic sagging is formed along the jawline - “bulldog cheeks”, which make the facial contour wavy.
In thin people, shaving is usually due to excess skin and only skin. In all other cases, sagging is enhanced by subcutaneous fat or descending lumps of Bisha
It is believed that Bisha's structures contribute not only to the “blurring” of the contour of the lower jaw, but also cause nasolabial folds and form sufas on the face.
Most often, sagging skin in the lower jaw area is the visible result of a number of invisible changes that have occurred to our face over the years:
- Low collagen and elastin content. Collagen inside our skin is like the reinforcing mesh in buildings made of monolithic concrete. Only with age does the old collagen “break down”, and the new one is not synthesized actively enough. This causes the skin to lose support and elasticity.
- Weakening of the facial muscles, which cannot hold the skin and subcutaneous fat high in the same place. Thus, as a result of weakening of the cervical platysma muscle, a “goiter” and a double chin are formed in the neck area. The same mechanism underlies sagging cheeks.
- Due to a lack of certain elements and hormonal changes, the bones become thinner and the face becomes flattened. Cheekbones lose their “sculpted” volume. Deprived of this important support, all facial structures, like on a sled, literally “slide” down.
- An age-related decrease in the amount of melanin pigment in the skin makes it vulnerable to sunlight and accelerates aging.
A face with jowls is not just a problem of age. There are other reasons too. Individual facial characteristics, stress, constant exposure to wind and cold, smoking, alcohol, coffee, poor nutrition, certain medications, endocrine diseases, rapid weight loss, a poorly developed chin and even the force of gravity all contribute.
The risk of developing early jowls is especially high in heavy individuals with a large amount of cheek fat. These are overweight people and those who, at normal weight, inherited chubby cheeks.
The same factors apply to men. But due to gender characteristics, they have less facial fat. Their skin is not subject to hormonal fluctuations during pregnancy and menopause; it remains dense for a long time. Therefore, men's jowls appear 10-15 years later.
Expert comment:
“The appearance of jowls in youth is usually a consequence of being overweight. In all other cases, this is an obvious sign of age.
. But if jowls appear after 40 years, there is no need to urgently remember the forgotten cosmetologist.
Don't get me wrong, you definitely need to continue to take care of yourself. But creams, face masks, peelings and mesotherapy do not work on jowls. And do not rush (no matter what they tell you) to invest money in fillers and 3D mesothreads - they do not work against sagging of the lower jaw, and you will simply waste your money.
To get rid of jowls on your face after 40, you need to work with the causes, not the consequences.
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Andrey Iskornev, plastic surgeon.
The mechanism for the formation of jowls on the face is the drooping of intrabuccal fat.
Alla Pugacheva
Maxim Galkin did not spare his wife and posted on his Instagram a photo of Alla Borisovna with swelling, without Photoshop or makeup. Below he signed that he loves her in this natural form and adores all her imperfections.
How Prima reacted to such a revelation remained a mystery to everyone, but fans started a heated discussion in the comments. Some spoke out in support of naturalness, while the other side expressed their sharp dissatisfaction.
Surgical interventions
In some cases, surgery is used to eliminate defects on the cheekbones. Of course, such measures are resorted to after careful consultation with specialists and identification of contraindications.
- Lipolifting. A facelift involves pumping your own fat cells from the hips or abdomen to the problem area. Due to this operation, the oval of the face is restored, facial wrinkles and malar hernias are leveled.
- Liposuction. This is a rather traumatic operation that has its contraindications, but it is considered effective. Its essence is the removal of subcutaneous fat and further changes in the subcutaneous structure, which is why excess water does not accumulate and the likelihood of edema is zero.
- Blepharoplasty. Excess fatty tissue is removed from under the skin and the skin tissue is fixed. After such an operation, a recovery period is required, on average, about a month.
Exercises for jowls
If you are not lazy and devote only 15-20 minutes a day to yourself, then gymnastics will return a blooming, fit look to young people. People with pronounced age-related changes, unfortunately, will not be able to remove jowls with exercises, but the complex proposed below will help slow down further sagging of the skin:
- - puff out your cheeks strongly for 30 seconds every day and roll the air in all directions,
- - pursing your lips like a tube, “blow out” an imaginary candle 50–55 times daily,
- - press your index fingers firmly to your cheeks and try to smile, overcoming resistance. This is a great exercise to strengthen your facial muscles!
Photos "before" and "after"
SMAS face lift. Surgeon - Andrey Iskornev.
SMAS face and neck lift. Surgeon: Iskornev A.A.
SMAS face and neck lift. Photos before and 7 days after without photo retouching. Surgeon: Iskornev Andrey.
Isolated lift of the lower third of the face and neck. Tightening of jowls and folds of sorrow in the corners of the lips. Surgeon: Vasiliev Maxim.
In the absence of significant excess skin, a comparable effect can be achieved with a thread lift of the face and neck. The best result is obtained by placing 4 threads: 2 on each side of the face.
SMAS mid-face lift, endoscopic forehead lift, deep Hollywood platysmaplasty, CO2 fractional skin resurfacing, lip contouring. “Before” and 10 days “after”. Surgeon: Iskornev Andrey.
