Double the Trouble - How You Should Deal with a Double Chin ...

It might be how your natural jaw line falls, or it might be due to weight gain or the loss of skin elasticity as you age. However it arises, it’s rare that a double chin is seen as an attractive feature. There are various ways to deal with a double chin but remember, the efficacy of these methods depends on how pronounced the double chin is and how far you want to go to disguise or remove it.

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Use Makeup Cleverly to Disguise and Lessen the Effect

Using foundations and concealers to create optical illusion contouring is a great way to deal with a double chin. Softening in some places and emphasizing others can do wonders for encouraging the eye to look elsewhere. Dramatic mascara and eyeliner can also draw attention away from your chin and neck.

Practice Your Posture to Improve the Look

Pretend you are in finishing school and place an old hardback book on the top of your head! Practicing your posture this way can help to keep your shoulders back, uncurve your spine and most importantly keep your chin up and stop it from leaning forward and potentially bunching up.

Try a New Hairstyle Because It Can Work Wonders

It really is astonishing just how much different haircuts can affect the look and shape of your face, including your chin. Consult with your hairstylist about which styles would be best for you, but the general consensus is that an angled long bob cut is always great for lessening the look of a double chin.

Chew Gum Cos It Has Two-fold Benefits

Chewing gum is great for battling the double chin in two ways: the first being that is can strengthen your jaw muscles and the second being that it can stave off hunger pangs and unnecessary snacking, meaning that you may find yourself losing weight from all over, including your chin!

Try the 'ceiling Kiss' Exercise

This particular exercise targets the problem area underneath the chin, and if done every day really can give you positive results. Tilt your head up, pucker your lips and make a 'kissing motion' towards the ceiling. Hold the pose for ten seconds at a time and you will be giving the muscles a great work out.

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Watch Your Calorie Intake to Minimize Weight Gain

Let's be honest, one of the main causes for your double chin is likely to be the fact that you are consuming more calories than you burn and are therefore putting on weight, in this case on your face. Limiting these calories doesn't have to be a drastic change; just try cutting out midday snacking or maybe start substituting certain foods for healthier alternatives.

This Tennis Ball Exercise is Great for Working the Jaw Line Muscles

Another handy exercise for battling a double chin - grab a tennis ball, place it against your neck and lower your jaw on top to trap it. Do this trap ten times in a row, wait for about twenty seconds, and then repeat. This exercise will help to strengthen and tighten those muscles that may be weak and contributing to your double chin.

Visit Your Doctor to Get Some Advice

If you are having particularly bad problems with your double chin and have had no success elsewhere, then it may be worth paying a visit to your doctor to check out if the problem is actually hormonal. There could be a thyroid issue that needs sorting out so don't be embarrassed about seeking help for your double chin!

Try to Accept Yourself the Way You Are

At the end of the day, you only have one body and you should be encouraged to embrace it for what it is. Of all the physical problems in the medical world, having a double chin is very low on the list of worries. Yes, it can affect your self confidence, but try to appreciate your body and remind yourself that to other people, it definitely doesn't look as bad as you think.

Is this a problem you’re familiar with? Does it bother you or do you just accept it?

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@mpg3721 and neither do you. So please.

The most Effective way:excersise lol

Yes, I may have been a little ignorant. Some people may have medical issues and cannot lose weight. But the majority of people try one fad diet and give up and cannot be bothered. Everyone nowadays acts like exercise is so difficult when it's so freaking easy.

I think everyone has double chins. We just don't notice it half the time - slim, curvy, doesn't matter what shape, everyone's got one! Mine's there but not that obvious ;)

@clairepritchard you have no idea why people choose surgery over other methods so please

@Mpg3721 its okay, i see her comments a lot and they're pretty much always negative. That's just the way some people are

This whole article is kind of dumb. It's like counterintuitive to acceptance. I'm not hating it bashing anybody but "ways to deal with your double chin" please. I get that it may be insecure area for some people (if we're being real I am double chinned) but I thought this was like an insult to people's intelligence. Maybe part of the reason people are insecure about themselves is bc of articles like this. Ways to cover up and hide blah blah. Forums that teach body acceptance without actually practicing it. Whatever the case, double chinned or not it doesn't make me any less attractive to my boyfriend or the man who hit on me in the bar the other night, it doesn't make me less intelligent and it certainly doesn't deserve the acknowledgement of a way to hide it. Accept yourself. Everyone who matters already does.

@clairepritchard I am not trying to start a war here. I just don't appreciate the negativity you pour onto the comments which take away from the article.

@skylar they don't have to be but thanks for the support.

Double chins are just fat stored around the neck. Some can get rid of it, some can't. Many have lipo to get rid of the fat because they are too lazy to actually exercise and eat right.

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