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Two bad habits that make people ugly and in a bad mood. I guess you are doing them!

2024-08-15

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Recently, many people have complained online: I am just working hard, but why am I getting uglier and uglier?Class Flavor”?


Image source: A social platform @小欧不工作


This so-calledClass Flavor, what is it?——It may also cause deeper wrinkles.


These two unconscious little habits at work are the main reasons that cause wrinkles to deepen without you noticing!


Ugly habit 1:

frown


Just glance around the work area and see the expressions of your colleagues.You justYou will be surprised to find out why everyone is frowning!

Our expressions largely determine our faces.Frequent frowning is the culprit for the increasingly deep lines between our eyebrows. The lines between our eyebrows become deeper after a day of work, which is naturally because we are more likely to frown when we are at work!

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Negative emotions lead to unconscious frowning


It's really hard not to frown at work. For example, if I just can't think of a solution, I'll just frown deeply and can't help myself...Many of our unconscious frowns are caused by negative emotions. Confusion, disgust, anger, irritability, worry, etc. can all induce frowning.


And unfortunately, these negative emotions tend to occur frequently throughout our day, especially on weekdays.

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The harder you work, the more you frown


In addition to being an outlet for negative emotions, frowning can also become the "atmosphere set" when we are trying to concentrate.

For example, when we concentrate on something in front of us, we usually frown unconsciously. This is because this action can reduce the exposed area of ​​our eyelids to a certain extent, thereby reducing the interference of external light, and ultimately helping us focus on the things in front of us.


Even our "Dry rice brother"and"AhSister”, as they concentrated on aiming, they all had a noticeable frown on their faces.


Image source: CCTV News


The psychological pressure in a state of concentration will also increase the tension of facial muscles and cause frowns. When we work hard to write files or concentrate on slacking off, frowns will appear quietly.


A study analyzed the relationship between effort and frowning, and found that:The harder you work, the more your brows frown, which is actually a quantifiable positive correlation.


On the one hand, it serves as an outlet for venting negative emotions, and on the other hand, it acts as an atmosphere group when you are concentrating and working hard. No wonder that after a day of work, the wrinkles between the eyebrows have quietly deepened more than a little.


In fact, in addition to frowning, we often appear in workExpressions related to negative emotions such as surprise, sadness, anger, disgust and fear, such as pursing lips, sucking cheeks, biting lower lip, etc.Once we make such expressions unconsciously for a long time and form a muscle habit, it will more or less affect the condition of our facial skin and cause wrinkles to come earlier.

Ugly Habit 2:

Grit your teeth


In addition to making our skin wrinkled, some bad habits can also change the state of our facial muscles, such as -Cheek



andThe issue of chubby cheeks is, to a certain extent, related to a small action that we often do at work.That's right, just grit your teeth.


Cheeks can be divided into bone-type cheeks, muscle-type cheeks,FatThere are three types of cheek chubby: muscular cheek chubby and aging cheek chubby. Among them, the one most easily affected by our facial expressions and movement habits is naturally the muscular cheek chubby.


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Frequent clenching of teeth will make your face look ugly

We all know that frequent use of the masseter muscle can lead toThe masseter muscle develops and grows stronger until it becomes a protruding curve on the jaw line. But what many people don't know is that simply clenching your teeth without chewing, commonly known as clenching your teeth, can also make your cheeks grow.


After all, teeth cannot bite together by themselves, but need the continuous contraction of the masticatory muscles to maintain a clenched state. If the muscles are used too much, it is like a person who works out in the gym every day.In this way, it is difficult not to grow muscles.


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May cause temporomandibular disorder

In addition to making the face shape uglier, our chewing muscles will also become particularly tired and tense due to long-term contraction, especially the masseter and temporalis muscles, which will become stiff due to long-term tension, causing pain to spread from the cheeks all the way to the temples.


If the condition continues to develop, it may lead to the troublesome temporomandibular disorder. Unconscious clenching of teeth is both an important cause of temporomandibular disorder and a key sign of temporomandibular disorder.


Temporomandibular disorder syndrome not only brings us the unbearable trouble of not being able to open our mouth, pain when opening our mouth, and snapping sounds, but also makes our already unsmooth face shape even worse - the problem of the temporomandibular joint will make us have an additional ugly buff of crooked face and slanted mouth.


The key is that many people don’t realize that they are clenching their teeth unconsciously.


According to a paper published in 2023, approximately 16.16% to 32.08% of adults have the habit of unconsciously clenching their teeth.


In fact, the principle of clenching teeth is very similar to frowning.DepressionWhen you are overloaded with negative emotions such as anxiety, stress, etc., you often clench your teeth.


Although by gritting our teeth, we can release a certain amount of pressure and at the same time improve the effectiveness of completing tasks.But if you always keep gritting your teeth unconsciously for a long time, then you need to be alert, because you are bearing too many negative emotions and you need to find a way to relieve them!


Various micro-expressions on the face are the barometer of our emotions, reflecting our current and long-term emotional experiences. And this appearance that we easily ignore also affects the condition of our facial muscles unconsciously.


How to avoid unconscious bad habits?


Becoming aware of your own unconscious little habits is the first step.


WhetherPlace a small mirror at your workstation or put a label on your computer., as long as you can remind yourself to pay attention to your facial expressions from time to time, it will have a good effect. When you find yourself frowning/gritting your teeth/pursing your lips, consciously relax your facial muscles and gradually form a habit, and slowly you can get rid of this bad habit.


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Smile instead of frown


Of course, changing to a better expression/posture can also help us solve the problem faster.The easiest way to avoid frowning is to smile, and this is a solution that scientists have seriously studied.


This is because the zygomatic major muscle used when we smile has an inhibitory relationship with the corrugator supercilii muscle used when we frown. In short, the action of smiling naturally overcomes the frowning action. Replacing unconscious frowning with active smiling is not only beneficial for improving our frown lines, but also for positive emotional expression.


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Maintain correct bite posture consciously


Under normal circumstances, our teeth are actually in a naturally closed state. When our upper and lower lips are slightly in contact, a small gap will naturally separate the upper and lower jaws and teeth, forming a wedge-shaped gap from back to front. This is clinically called the diastasis reticulum. We can always remind ourselves to maintain this state.


You can also apply hot compresses and massage the relevant muscles to give tense muscles more opportunities to relax.


In addition to these conscious changes in movements, the most important thing is to pay attention to the sources of your stress and negative emotions, and solve the problems from the source of induction. Frowning or gritting your teeth are mostly just superficial. What we need to pay more attention to is our own emotions and sources of stress.



Planning and production

Author: Science Popularization Team of Xinshi Science Popularization Studio

Audit丨Feng Jun, deputy chief physician of the Dermatology Department of Sinopharm Tongmei General Hospital

Planning丨Yinuo

Editor: Yinuo

Proofread by Xu Lai and Lin Lin



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