How Can You Improve a Sagging Facial Line? Causes and Our Treatments

The facial line greatly determines your facial impression, but it’s also a part prone to change with age. It’s also influenced by skin firmness and elasticity, so not a few people find self-care difficult. However, just improving facial-line sagging into a cleaner state can be expected to deliver a small-face effect and even a rejuvenating effect.
This time, we explain the causes of facial-line sagging and improvement methods. We also introduce KADOMORI’s recommended treatments for achieving a cleaner facial line, so please use this as a reference.

What Causes Facial-Line Sagging?

The following causes can be considered for facial-line sagging.

• Reduced collagen and elastin from aging
• Loosening of the SMAS layer
• Weakened expression muscles
• Increased or shifted fat
• Poor posture
• Disrupted lifestyle habits
• Hormonal balance changes

When skin firmness and elasticity are the cause, disrupted skin turnover is often an influence. Skin turnover can be disrupted by aging, disrupted lifestyle habits, and hormonal balance changes, potentially affecting facial-line sagging too.
This time, among these, we explain in detail the influence puffiness, fat sagging, and weakened expression muscles have on facial-line sagging.

Puffiness

Puffiness occurs when waste and fluid within the body aren’t properly expelled and accumulate inside the skin. Causes include the following.

• Excess salt intake
• Fluid insufficiency
• Lack of exercise
• Alcohol consumption
• Sleep deprivation
• Poor circulation

When puffiness becomes chronic, the skin can be stretched by fluid accumulated inside it, potentially becoming a cause of sagging. The face, where the skin is thin, is a part where puffiness tends to show noticeably. Being mindful of your diet and promoting circulation are good countermeasures against puffiness.

Fat Sagging

With age, the muscles and ligaments supporting fat loosen, and fat that increases can no longer resist gravity, causing it to droop. Fat around the chin and cheeks in particular is prone to sagging, and can become a cause of a double chin or “marionette lines” — sagging running from the corners of the mouth to the chin. Reduced adhesion between skin and fat can also be considered a cause of fat sagging.

Weakened Expression Muscles

Expression muscles don’t just control expressions — they play an important role as a foundation supporting fat and skin. When these expression muscles lose firmness due to age-related muscle decline or reduced use from less conversation or a lack of expression, they can no longer support fat and skin, leading to facial-line sagging. Weakened expression muscles can also cause nasolabial folds to become noticeable, or make the corners of the mouth droop, giving an unhappy-looking impression.

How Can You Improve Facial-Line Sagging?

Facial-line sagging can lead to concerns like a double chin, marionette lines, nasolabial folds, and looking older. These changes can also become a source of psychological stress.
So what methods exist to improve facial-line sagging?
We introduce four improvement methods.

Take UV Protection Measures

UV rays negatively affect the production of collagen and elastin, important for skin firmness and elasticity. When their production is suppressed, it not only causes wrinkles and sagging but also affects skin turnover, connecting to concerns like spots too.
UV rays aren’t limited to summer — they’re radiated year-round. Use sunscreen, parasols, and rash guards to thoroughly take daily UV protection measures.

Correct Your Posture

Poor posture like a hunched back or text neck makes facial muscles more prone to drooping, leading to facial-line sagging. Poor posture is a cause of poor circulation and weakened muscles.
A posture with a straight back and an upright pelvis uses whole-body muscles, helping prevent muscle weakening.

Get Plenty of Quality Sleep

Quality sleep is important for improving and maintaining skin firmness and elasticity. Beauty-skin components like collagen are produced through the action of growth hormone secreted during sleep. Sleep deprivation or short sleep can hinder growth hormone secretion, potentially becoming a cause that accelerates wrinkles and sagging. Also, exposure to blue light from smartphones before bed, or eating late, lowers sleep quality.
Getting regular, quality sleep promotes growth hormone secretion, activating collagen production, and can have a significant influence on skin firmness and elasticity.

Keep Skin Hydrated with Moisturizing

Since dryness is one cause of skin sagging, moisturizing to keep skin hydrated is important for improving sagging.
When skin’s water retention capacity declines, firmness and elasticity are also lost, causing sagging. Excessive cleansing or friction cause skin dryness, connecting to reduced water retention. When cleansing, avoid rubbing and gently work in foam or oil; when moisturizing, gently press it into the skin with your hands to let it absorb.

If Facial-Line Sagging Concerns You, KADOMORI’s Treatments Are Recommended!

Facial-line sagging requires improving things like weakened expression muscles, reduced beauty-skin components, and poor circulation. Here we introduce three of KADOMORI’s treatments effective for facial-line sagging.

Hedgehog Beauty Acupuncture

Hedgehog Beauty Acupuncture places about 100 needles matched to each individual’s expression muscle flow and skin/fat thickness, and can be expected to improve skin quality through promoted circulation, give skin firmness and elasticity, and improve wrinkles and sagging. It’s recommended for those who want to resolve puffiness and achieve a cleaner facial line and lifting.

Face-Sculpting Facial ＜Radio-Frequency＞

Face-Sculpting Facial, using a high-frequency thermal device, can be expected to deliver effects like lifting, fat burning, and promoted collagen production through a heat-tightening effect. Treatment while feeling a pleasant warmth can also be expected to deliver a relaxing effect.

Small-Face Lift Photo

By radiating light and heat, it promotes collagen production, and can be expected to deliver effects for skin firmness, elasticity, and promoted turnover. As firmness and elasticity improve, it’s also effective for tightening pores, and as skin turnover is promoted, effects can also be expected for improving skin dullness and roughness.

Troubled by Facial-Line Sagging? Consult KADOMORI!

Facial-line sagging leads not just to concerns like a double chin, marionette lines, and looking older, but also affects you psychologically. Its causes are various, including weakened muscles, puffiness, increased or shifted fat, and aging. As accessible improvement methods, being mindful of UV protection, moisturizing, and correct posture can be mentioned.
KADOMORI offers a wealth of treatments effective for facial-line sagging. Combining treatment with accessible improvement methods lets you achieve even greater effect, helping you obtain your ideal facial line. If you’re troubled by facial-line sagging, please consult KADOMORI.

For more on the facial line, see this article as well.

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