Can Posture Change Your Face? What Beautiful Posture Resists Sagging and Facial-Line Changes?

Are you troubled by facial sagging or a blurred facial line? Even when working hard on skincare, these symptoms are often hard to improve. Actually, the cause may lie in poor posture.

When desk work and excessive smartphone use overlap, it leads to poor posture like a hunched back and forward-head posture. As posture worsens, it affects even your bite, blood flow, and facial muscle balance, significantly changing your facial impression.

This article details why poor posture changes your face, correct posture, and our salon’s treatment content.

Why Does Poor Posture Change Your Face?

Poor posture brings various effects to your face. First, let’s explain, in an easy-to-understand way, three reasons poor posture changes your face.

Bite Balance Collapses

Poor posture can also affect your bite. For example, continuing a hunched posture pushes your head forward and pulls your lower jaw back. If the jaw can’t develop properly, sufficient space for teeth to align can’t be secured, and tongue position can also become cramped.

When bite balance collapses, strain increases on the muscles and joints used for chewing, and tension can also occur in the neck and back muscles. In this way, posture and bite are deeply interrelated, affecting the overall facial balance.

Blood Flow Stagnates, Causing Various Effects

Poor posture makes the neck, shoulder, and back muscles more prone to tension. This tension impedes blood and lymph flow, making it harder for sufficient oxygen and nutrients to reach the face, and waste expulsion can stagnate. Poor circulation can cause facial puffiness or a poor complexion, and stagnant skin turnover can potentially invite skin trouble too. When circulation stagnates, not only does oxygen and nutrients fail to reach the whole body, but waste also accumulates, causing various discomforts like puffiness and coldness. Correcting your posture improves blood circulation, connecting to maintaining a healthy complexion.

Muscles Become Unbalanced

Poor posture causes unevenness in which expression muscles are used. When the gap widens between areas that are tense from force and areas where muscles have weakened and loosened, facial balance collapses, and sagging and puffiness occur. For example, continuing a forward-leaning posture pulls the neck and jaw muscles, causing some facial muscles to become excessively tense while other areas’ muscles loosen. With a hunched back or forward-head posture, the face, chest, and belly on the front of the body can stay loose while the back side is overworked. This kind of imbalance in muscle use leads to facial-line sagging and left-right asymmetry.

Change Your Face Through Posture! What Is Correct Posture to Prevent Sagging?

To prevent facial sagging, not just skincare but also maintaining correct posture is important. There are points to be mindful of in each scene — when standing, when sitting, when using your smartphone or computer. By developing correct posture, circulation improves, muscle balance regulates, and your face naturally changes toward a more youthful impression. Here we introduce correct posture points you can practice in daily life, by scene.

Points for Regulating Standing Posture

Developing correct standing posture also connects to preventing facial sagging. The ideal standing posture, viewed from the side, has your ear, shoulder, hip joint, knee, and outer ankle aligned in a straight line. When standing, face your gaze forward, tuck your chin slightly, engage your lower abdomen, and imagine the top of your head being suspended from the ceiling. If you stand with your back against a wall and there’s about a palm’s width of space between your lower back and the wall, with your heels and the back of your head touching the wall, that can be said to be good posture. Since crossing your legs or standing with your weight on one foot can distort your posture, it’s also important to check yourself regularly.

Points for Sitting Posture

Your posture while sitting also affects facial sagging. First, sit with your pelvis upright, tuck your chin slightly, and stretch your back as if your head is suspended from above by a thread. When sitting in a chair, sit as deep as possible, bringing your lower back close to the backrest. Sitting shallowly makes your back more prone to bending, placing strain on your lower back. Bend your knees at 90 degrees, sit deep in the seat, and adjust the chair height so your whole sole is firmly on the floor. Be careful not to let your feet dangle in the air. It’s also important to periodically stand up or move your body lightly, so you don’t continue the same posture for long periods.

Postural Points When Using Your Smartphone or Computer

Posture when using your smartphone or computer is said to especially affect facial sagging. During computer work, set the top of the display lower than your eye level, and keep the distance between the display and your eyes at least 40cm. When looking at your smartphone, spread your feet about shoulder-width apart, stand so your ear, shoulder, waist, pelvis, and ankle are aligned in a straight line when viewed from the side, and bring the hand holding your smartphone in front of your chest without hunching your shoulders, which reduces fatigue. Bending your neck to look at the screen places the head’s weight on the neck and shoulders, making muscles more prone to stiffening. Bringing the screen closer to eye level can reduce strain on your neck and face.

For Posture and Facial Concerns, KADOMORI’s Treatments Are Recommended!

For those with concerns like “I want to improve my posture” or “I want to do something about my facial sagging,” KADOMORI’s treatments are recommended. We offer specialized treatments tailored to each individual’s concern — “Pelvic Correction” for postural concerns like postpartum pelvic widening or bowlegs/knock-knees, and “KADOMORI-Style Facial Correction” for small-face and facial-line sagging.

For Postural Improvement, “Pelvic Correction”

For those concerned about postpartum body changes, a widened pelvis, or bowlegs/knock-knees, KADOMORI’s Pelvic Correction is recommended. We first thoroughly assess pelvic condition, then tighten the pelvis with a method tailored to each individual. For postpartum clients, we recommend receiving it starting 2 months after childbirth, but it’s fine no matter how many years have passed since. Regulating the pelvis leads to improved posture, of course, and also improves whole-body balance, connecting to preventing facial sagging. Let’s regulate from the pelvis — your body’s foundation — and gain beautiful posture and a youthful impression!

For Facial Concerns, “KADOMORI-Style Facial Correction”

At KADOMORI, we’ve worked on facial skeletal improvement for many years. Throughout, we’ve continuously evolved our technique while considering the needs and values of the times. We can address a wide range of concerns — beyond those wanting a smaller face, facial-line sagging and concerning left-right differences. Precisely because posture and the face are deeply related, we can resolve concerns through treatment that considers not just the face but the whole body.

Troubled by Posture or Facial Concerns? Consult KADOMORI!

This article has detailed why poor posture changes your face, correct posture, and our salon’s treatment content.

Poor posture affects your face in various ways. Continuing a hunched back or forward-head posture leads to facial-line sagging and facial puffiness.

Just being slightly mindful of your posture in each scene — standing, sitting, using your smartphone or computer — improves blood circulation and regulates muscle balance.

If you feel “I can’t improve it on my own” or “I want to receive specialized treatment,” please consult KADOMORI. By regulating your whole body, you can draw out beauty even more effectively.