How To Naturally Lift & Sculpt Your Face, Define Your Jawline & Age Better Without Injectables

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Welcome to The Bossticks, starring Lauryn Bosstick and Michael Bosstick. Together, they are The Bossticks.

Lauryn Bosstick (0:14)

We work out our body. Why are we not working out our face?

Shelly Marshall (0:19)

That is an amazing question. Excellent question, because there's like this disconnect where people know that when you exercise your muscles, your body will respond, like your muscles respond to exercise. And we have over 42 muscles in our face. So it makes sense that if you exercise the muscles of your face, you're going to build a strong, you know, a good framework for your face as well. But for some reason, there's this big disconnect. People think that when you exercise your face is just going to create wrinkles.

And if you're doing it incorrectly, then maybe. But if you're doing it properly and you're combining it with facial manipulation, massage, lymphatic drainage techniques, it can make a massive difference and it can really build your facial structure.

Michael Bosstick (1:05)

Well, we know now, because we've done a lot of shows on this, and there's a book by James Nestor and a bunch, that obviously jaw strength in terms of jaw placement, especially when you're young, when you're a child, chewing harder foods, you know, like as we used to and as we evolved, is helpful when you want to get that like forward jaw. Forward, yeah, forward growth. Where it's not that receded jaw, because you want that forward growth. And we've seen now with like pouches and a lot of vegetables and soft foods, you have children's jaws receding, that then later takes hold later in life. And everyone's trying to do chin implants or nose jobs to fix that, but it's because they don't have the proper structure.

Shelly Marshall (1:42)

That's exactly right. When you're not using your chewing muscles, then your muscles are going to atrophy. But we also have to remember that our bones take input from the muscles. So through a process called mechanotransduction, you place enough stress or enough force on a bone, it's going to stimulate an electrical response, which stimulates more osteoblasts, which are bone cells. And so during the developmental time, that's a really crucial time because that's what develops your bone structure. As you get older, if you're not maintaining that, then your structure is going to start to recede, it's going to start to shrink because your bones are not getting the signal from the muscles to stay strong. So that's one of the great ways that we can maintain our facial structures, which is so important. I would say it's more important than wrinkles.

Then that can help you to keep your face looking young and youthful and radiant through the years.

Lauryn Bosstick (2:38)

What I find so fascinating is, I don't know if you know this, but I had double jaw surgery when I was 25 years old. That's how I got into facial manipulation in the first place. Like that's, I was like, oh, I feel like my lymphatic needs to be drained after the surgery. And I went and did it once and I was like, wait, this is amazing. And so I just became so into it. But after studying the face and the chin and the jaw, I've learned, and maybe you can speak on this, that it's also about the way you walk.

So if you're walking duck feet, that it starts with the feet. It's about the shoes that you wear. You want your toes to be barefoot as much as possible spread out. I just bought these specific shoes for my kids that lets their feet spread out.

It's about the chewing, to you guys' point. It's about the straws that you're using. Even like we work with a myofunctional therapist with my kids and the straw, the cup that they're using is so important. And it's about also like breastfeeding. It's all these different elements that play into the jaw. Can you speak on that? Because I feel like you're the expert on it.

Shelly Marshall (3:47)

So, the way I approach everything, every area of the face is through the lens of five things. Structure, support, freedom, flow and presence. Now, when we talk about like structure, so for the jaw, that means your body posture, that means your tongue posture, that means how you hold your body.

And your emotions play a really big role in that as well, because your emotions in your nervous system dictates how everything in your body moves and the posture and the way you hold yourself through life.

And the thing that you said about the feet and the posture of the whole body, your fascia is connected from your head to your toe. So if something is pulling on the lower half of your body, it's going to have an effect on the rest of the body. And this starts to shift everything in the face as well. And so your jaw, we want that forward growth, right? And that happens mostly during the developmental time. And so then things like the straws and the pouches and like that, they're not using the muscles of your face. And so the maxilla bone, which is the beauty bone, this is the most important bone in the whole face, if it is not maintained, if it's not supported, then your jaw is going to start to also recede as well.