Facial Expressions Generate Forehead Wrinkles

Our forehead is the said to be the part that is most likely to form wrinkles. Forehead wrinkles are therefore one of the major targets of many anti-wrinkle treatments. There is only one major reason being considered why forehead wrinkles are very common to occur. And that is because of our repetitive facial expressions.

As mentioned in Wikipedia.com, our forehead is composed of three muscles and these are the Occipitofrontalis, Procerus and Corrugator supercilii. All of these muscles are being controlled by what they call the facial nerves, thus, they are the muscles responsible in creating different facial expressions such as raising of eyebrows, frowning, squinting, and the like.

Each muscle produces a characteristic pattern of forehead wrinkle. The Occipitofrontalis muscles produce oblique wrinkles across the forehead, Corrugator supercilii muscles produce vertical wrinkles between eyebrows and the Procerus muscles is responsible for the wrinkling of the nose. The wrinkle that we could develop would depend on which muscle we frequently use in our facial expressions.

Forehead wrinkles that can be acquired from habitual facial expressions could be prevented by doing facial exercises to relax the muscles and even to improve blood circulation that can even help the skin to be wrinkle-free.