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Press Here! Face Workouts for Beginners

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I loved this book! The concept revolves around exercising your face muscles. I never really thought about this but the concept makes sense to me. I enjoy doing the exercises they feel very relaxing and my muscles actually became sore at first. I really hope that means if I continue to do them I will see results. The illustrations are easy to follow and the pictures and colors give off a fun vibe.

Overall this is a very interesting book about face massage mean to be used for a variety of purposes, from face lift to the release of stress. I feel most anyone can find something for you because just the distressing alone is worth it for me. These are simple massage exercises that are easy to do at home with nothing but your hands no special equipment is necessary. The information is well presented with illustrations and a short description of the massage. This book is definitely worth looking at if this is something that might interest you.

One thing to keep in mind is that a full workout will take over half an hour of face exercises a day. I have a hard enough time making time to exercising my body on a regular basis so I just broke it up into a few exercises a few times a day and I feel it is manageable.

You will need to memorize the exercises if you want to do them on the go which is how I have been doing it and a few times at stop lights I have had to laugh as I realize people are looking at me (like I have lost my mind). I then pretend I am an animated singer lol… But who cares right?? I don’t know any of those people so I guess they can think I am crazy ha-ha… But seriously I think over time they will actually tone my face muscles which I need. I received this book form NetGalley for an honest review.

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I loved this whole short read book. Step by step photos and easy instructions of how to exercise every facial and neck problem area you may have. I love these exercises and feel good after doing them.

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Good tool for face massages and also how to use pressure and finger/hand smoothing techniques to aid the skin, tone, and lymph drainage of the face. Many who are used to doing stuff like jade rollers or gua sha will find this a bit redundant, but for someone just getting into this field, this is a very good little book to get started. The layout felt a little juvenile at times, the instructions a little convoluted (bit tricky to do the exercise - your eyes are supposed to be closed - then have no clue if you're doing it right or how to proceed).
Recommend reading through this a few times, especially a specific routine, to get a feel for the progression before attempting them. The exercises do seem to work, though.

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Press Here! Face Workouts for Beginners by Nadira Persaud is an amazing tool every lady or man can benefit from. I wasn't sure what this book was all about when I first downloaded it but after opening the first few pages I was wowed! This book guides you through a simple step by step process for each exercise. The workouts are easy to incorporate into anyone's daily routine as each exercise takes between 10 and 20 seconds to complete. The book starts by helping you prepare for the workout and then takes you into the workouts and express workouts! The author walks you through how to do the exercise giving simple instructions along with pictures and explaining the benefits of each exercise. You will work out your shoulders, neck, throat, mouth cheeks, eyes, forehead and more! After doing a workout I immediately felt less tension and more energized!

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Lovely short but informative book about facial massage.

I liked the layout of the book very much, it is not overloaded with information, on the contrary, it is very concise. Book and pages have a clear organisation and the instructions are shown clearly and are easy to follow.

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Press Here! Face Workouts for Beginners by Nadira V Persaud. Aptly described and illustrated workouts to help release tension and replenish the skin. Many useful suggests.

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

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This was an exceptionally pleasant surprise.

After trying the Saks Fifth Avenue FaceGym, I’ve become interested in adapting the concept of face workouts to something I can do at home.

There is no shortage of video available on the subject (some very good, some entirely unhelpful), and I was skeptical about whether teaching on the subject would translate to book form.

Thus I was pleasantly surprised to find that I actually got MORE out of this book than most similar types of instruction available in video form. Given the choice, I’ll always choose a book over a video no matter the subject, so I’m quite happy to have discovered this.

Press Here has now earned a permanent place on my vanity and I’m eager to see the long as well as short term results of the workouts.

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I really enjoyed this book. I went through the full book and marked down my favorite facial exercises. My goal for the new year is to include more self care into my daily routine and the workouts in this book fit perfectly. The images were colorful and eye catching and the descriptions for each workout were easy to understand and brief. I can't wait to get started. Even if I don't see any results in my skin, I know I will feel more relaxed every time I do.

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I'm not worried about the tone of my face, but I'm always looking for ways to relieve pain. I suffer from migraines so when I saw this book, I was interested to see if it might offer some techniques that could help.

The preparatory exercises are handy to help release tension from the shoulders up. They get you ready to do the next sets of workouts. You can choose a routine or do what you need. If you're also looking for relief from headaches, you'll find a lot here that might help. Ways of touching, manipulating, and moving parts of your face can help relieve tension. I've used a few already and they've helped! Each exercise lists benefits--the feeling as well as the beauty ones. The text descriptions and simple illustrations are clear and easy to understand.

Face Workouts for Beginners is full of techniques for people who want to work on an often overlooked part of their body.

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Since I now fall in the category of middle age, I am looking for ways to keep wrinkles at bay and tighten up my jawline a bit. I've heard these exercises are beneficial to people like me.

This book has very clear instructions with diagrams that make the exercises easy to follow. Some of these I can even do almost anywhere.

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A quick, interesting book to relieve pressure and stress in your facial muscles to feel relaxed and renewed. The illustrations and step-by-step instructions are helpful. Four stars.

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This is an interesting little book that offers simple exercises to reduce stress, help with headaches, and theoretically prevent/soften facial lines and reduce puffiness. It is arranged by chapter according to the part of the face, and some exercises are repeated in other chapters. I expected more exercises but quite a lot is more like facial massage (sometimes with lotion or serum) and pressure points like working knuckles in circles down the jawline and under the cheekbones.

Illustrations are provided for each exercise, though at times it's a little hard to follow. This is probably because you'll look utterly ridiculous doing a lot of these exercises and the photographs would illustrate how bizarre people look doing them, even with a beautiful model. You're going to be making some pretty crazy faces. :)

I tried most of the exercises yesterday while reading it and it was surprising how much the pressure points hurt parts of my face where apparently I had a lot of tension I didn't know about. I don't know how well this will work but it's good information to have now. The only big critique is that to do a full workout and see any chance of noticeable results you're looking at well over a half an hour of face exercises a day. I have a hard enough time making time for exercising my body every day. I figure I'll work some of it into things like moisturizing and she does say you can do a lot of it while doing things like walking to the bus (make sure nobody's looking! you'll look insane!) but that is something to keep in mind. If you commit them to memory, it will be a lot easier to absentmindedly do this stuff as you go about your day, but that will take some practice first.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

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I lovd the easy guidance in this book. Nice photos. Good basic workouts for young and old. The only thing that I had to mark one star less was the fact that the book did not come in kindle format. Otherwise great!

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When I saw this on NetGalley, I could not have clicked on the "wish for" button fast enough.

And I'm really happy that I did. I was previously familiar with several of those exercises, especially the scalp ones. I have to say that I love a good massage of head and face, it's so relaxing.

I will be definitely implementing most of these. It definitely helped me to release the stress and tension I tend to carry on my face. I was shocked by how stretched my face muscles felt and then relaxed the next day.

However, I have to say that some exercises felt a bit repetitive, I was certain I saw several at least twice throughout the book or they were very similar.
Plus several times, I was uncertain about how exactly to do some of the exercises because it seemed like the illustration and the description showed two different things.

But I still enjoyed this very much!

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"Press Here" gives an overview of exercises for the face. Unfortunately, it feels rather repetitive (especially the later exercises), but I liked the drawings.

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I loved this book and know I will return to it a lot. I always carry tension in my face and jaw and had no idea there were so many workouts to help relieve stress.

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