With Super Bowl approaching rapidly, stress for Sports fans Hope. As all sports fans know, it is the norm to experience intense emotions and anxiety when watching a match – in fact it is even exciting. Each week can feel like a roller coaster. Just Ask Taylor SwiftThat has helped create awareness of an important skin care phenomenon: “Fantastic face.”
Fanxiety Face unconsciously and habitually involve serious facial movements as a reaction to excitement or anxiety when cheering on your favorite team or favorite player. Beyond the internal manifestation of spectator stressIt can also have lasting effects on your skin. Below we break down what imaginative is – and if there is something you actually have to care about.
Experts presented in this article
Angela BrimhallDO, is a board -certified holistic dermatologist and owner of Sage Dermatology.
MUNEEB SHAHMD, is a board -certified dermatologist and founder of Remedy Skin.
Jaimie GlickMD, is a board -certified dermatologist in New York City.
What is Fanxiety Face?
Fanxiety, coined on social media, is the anxiety associated with the intense emotions that come with being a sports fan, which can lead to fanxiety face. The viral term describes signs of facial voltage that occur during particularly intense moments, such as watching a sporting event. “It refers to involuntary muscle tension, wrinkles, wrinkles and skin wrinkles that can occur when a person experiences anxiety or stress,” is a board -certified holistic dermatologist Angela BrimhallDo, say. “If it is experienced over and over again, it can even lead to premature signs of aging and aggravate existing skin conditions.” Fanxium face usually affects the forehead, including Glabella (aka 11 lines), the area around your eyes where crows can become more pronounced, and even areas around your mouth “where stress can lead to density that can create puppet lines,” adds Dr Brimhall.
What causes Fanxiety Face?
Although the term is sweet and catchy, the effects of fantasy face are not. “The emotional stress and anxiety experienced during games with high efforts often trigger it,” says Dr. Brimhall. Continuous exposure to intense emotions while cheering on your favorite sports team and engaging in intense facial movements causing the deepening of fine lines and wrinkles, says board certified dermatologist MUNEEB SHAHMD.
If you constantly frown your eyebrows, devote yourself to intense concentration and hard unbutton your lips in a state of stress, it can contribute to fine lines and wrinkles over time. “The body reacts to stress by release cortisol, which leads to inflammatory skin complications,” says Dr Brimhall.
Your age and the condition of your skin, such as relaxation and collage levels, may be important factors for whether your anxiety will actually cause concern on the face. “It is less about a timeline to develop imaginative and more about the age of a year experiences expression lines. From the mid-20th century, your skin cannot recover as quickly as it could once could. The more you make that face, All the more likely it will remain so, says Dr. Shah. Keep in mind that sun exposure, skin color, muscle strength and facial structure also determine how wrinkles are formed, says board certified dermatologist Jaimie GlickMD.
How to Prevent Fanxiety Face
The emergence of imagination varies greatly from person to person. Sure, it can help turn off the game, but let’s become real: participating in a sporting event from the sideline is both exciting and refreshing. Who wants to give it up for some wrinkles? There are less serious things you can do than go Cold Turkey on your favorite team.
“Prevention is the key, especially during playing time,” says Dr. Brimhall. “Participating in simple facial massage can help relieve tension. I recommend techniques such as soft circular movements in the forehead and temples and light knocks around the eyes and eyebrows to promote relaxation (during the game).” Dr. Shah says to be aware of your facial movements and to actively try to avoid repeated contractions, such as peeing while you feel worried, can prevent lines from being deepened and forming wrinkles.
Perhaps your best line of defense (word play is very intended) to be proactive with preventive treatments and skin care. “Botox or similar products like it – Dysport, Xeomin, Jeuveau and Daxxify – is one of the best ways to prevent the formation of wrinkles, “says Dr. Glick. Chemical peelinglaser surface treatment and Microneedling Can also help rejuvenate and deal with damage over time, says Dr. Brimhall.
Finally, Dr. Brimhall that you exercise MindfulnessEspecially when the efforts are high. “Incorporation of relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing or even short, meditative breaks during games, can help mitigate the physical manifestation of anxiety. Taking care of your mental health is as important as your skincare routine.”
Taryn Brooke Is a beauty writer and editor born and raised in New York City who has been in digital media for over 10 years. She is a contributing beauty writer for PS, Allure, Byrdie and Well+Good.
