Resting Bitch Face

I have resting bitch face. What started out as a look of concentration in my childhood, became a furrowed brow in my adulthood. My grandmother used to tell me I was going to have the biggest wrinkle on my forehead....and as usual she was right.

Wrinkles are just timelines on a person. I will not pretend to like them, but I don't hate them either. They are markers of a sort. Age. With age, hopefully comes wisdom. Crows feet? I do not have any of those--mine are called laugh lines. Teeth grinding and tight lips leave creases along my mouth and nose. The #11 that is right between my eyebrows can be a result of stress, lack of sleep, worry, motherhood, but mostly it's resting bitch face.

If people ask you what is wrong or if something is bothering you when you are simply deep in thought or maybe you're just having a lovely daydream when someone asks if you are unwell, you may have resting bitch face too. The downside of this is that people avoid me sometimes because they think I am too intense or a bit intimidating. The upside of this is people avoid me sometimes because they think I am too intense or intimidating. 😉  But as I have reached my fifties and my wrinkles are more pronounced, my resting bitch face has become a bit scarier. When I started deleting selfies because I saw a haggard old woman instead of a somewhat saucy hippie looking back at me, I knew it was time to start fighting back.

Besides really investing in my skincare and getting regular facials, I have been doing self massage to combat this horrible affliction.  I have a rose quartz butterfly stone that I use to promote lymph drainage, an eye rejuvenator/micro-current to fight baggy eyes, and I hydrate my face and neck twice daily, but my newest trick is intra-oral massage. This massage is done inside the mouth and is one way to combat tmj issues and headaches without using medications. The bonus of this massage is that you can treat the muscles used for mimicking and making facial expressions....the ones that are not so attractive in resting bitch face kind of incidents. This is just the second week of my new therapy so I will let you know if I can see results, I can tell you that my face feels much more relaxed after the massage and there is good blood flow so those signs are encouraging.  If you are interested in trying it in a massage session, I promise to wear rubber gloves. lol