Actors - Take Care of Your Face

Actors' careers thrive on their faces. An audience may be stopped in their tracks by an actor's skill, and that acting is often expressed through dialogue, body language... and the actor's face! If you're an actor, you want a healthy face to attract attention, to prolong the value and investment of your headshots, and to stop your audience in their tracks. In short, a cared-for face is a face that gets acting jobs.
So, how can you care for your face? Soap and water may be for the average person but you need to give your face the attention that your career deserves. Here are some tips to take care of your face and make it work for you:

1. Deep clean your face with regular exfoliating cleanses using clean water and pure soap. Be sure to include periodic detoxifications to ensure that the true you can shine through and to remove the pollutants that can make you sick or cause blemishes.
2. You might need to maintain a healthy looking tan but be sure that it doesn't go farther than that. The sun can bake your skin if you're not careful. Stay hydrated and use a lotion that contains an SPF rating in order to control your skin's exposure to the sun.
3. At night, use a replenishing lotion which can hydrate and medicate your skin after a day of being abused by the elements. Work it in with gentle massages at night before bed to allow it to do its work for the whole night while you get a good sleep.
4. Occasional messages not only reduce stress but can also help to loosen tightened muscles which may be keeping you from your entire range of facial expression. You can perform many of these yourself but an occasional professional massage can also help.
5. Exercise is considered a critical part of the body's health routine but the face is often neglected. And yet, it could be your most important attribute! Incorporate facial exercises into your routine to keep your skin supple and to strengthen the underlying facial muscles to achieve full command over your face. There are nearly two dozen muscles in the face and neck so make sure you are working out major regions of your face (eyes, forehead, mouth, nose, etc.) to work all of the muscles.

Simply put, your face is a combination of muscle and skin and keeping these in great shape - just like you would with the rest of your body - gives you control over every single aspect of your performance.

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