Hi everyone, I'm Beth with 50 plus Beauty and I'm super excited to have you here with me this morning for a video that I really didn't think I was going to make until about a week ago. Hold on, let me have a little bit of my coffee. And this is the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice and I absolutely love it. I look a little summary for the fall, I have to admit, it's an October here, but it is supposedly going to be a warm day and I did want to show you this because it is a very cute top that I got maybe a month ago at ThreadUp and for those of you who have followed my channel, you know that I love ThreadUp. It's a wonderful online resource to get gently used clothes and I always put in the search box there at ThreadUp. I put new with tags or appears new and I put in my brands. I think this is a banana republic and I think it's really, really cute. And for those of you who have never tried ThreadUp, I have a link below the video where you get a $10 credit there and I get one too. So we kind of help each other out which is absolutely wonderful. Okay, let me get into the topic for this video and like I mentioned before, I really hadn't intended to shoot this video until about a week ago when I was shooting a curology video and in that video I show you my PM skin care routine and I love curology and it is kind of the cornerstone of what I do and that video will be posted soon and in the course of doing that video I logged in to curology and I realized that I put pictures in myself there from about six months ago and so I had these six months before pictures and I just taken an after set of pictures and when I looked at the pictures I was truly amazed at the before and after of my nose. Let me go ahead and show you that picture and again I was really just doing a video about my skin care. I had no idea that a nose video would come out of it but here let me show you the picture that brought this whole thing on here it is and that was on the curology website that was about six months ago in the before picture and that was maybe a week ago when I shot the after picture and really when you just look at my face and the before and after you could really see that my face has become much more streamlined and for those of you who follow my channel you know that maybe about three months ago I started a program of facial yoga. And it happened because one of my viewers made a comment about my puffy cheeks and she said you should stop using cheek filler because your cheeks are getting overblown you've got to stop that and it kind of hurt my feelings because years ago maybe five years ago I was getting a breast fat transfer to try to get rid of my rheumatoid arthritis which I did getting the implants out and getting fat transferred into that area really did stop my joint pain it's been wonderful but when I was getting that done I also asked the doctor if he could put some of the fat in my nasal folds I just picked my nose there sorry about that and when I woke up I was horrified because in addition to doing the nasal folds he had also put some fat in my cheeks and I did not like it at all and it has taken five years to kind of go down and not be so puffy looking so her comment really kind of hurt my feelings and it got me thinking and I do believe that God doesn't give bad gifts and so I thought where is the gift in that kind of comment that hurt my feelings and that got me thinking that maybe facial yoga could pull in my cheeks a little bit so I created a program to do my whole face and I showed you the before and after results after one month and they were pretty incredible and here is a look at the facial yoga pictures before and after 30 days of doing the yoga and here it is and as you can see in the before my face just looks kind of normal and then in the after just 30 days later it looks like my cheekbones have slimmed up sun it looks like the jawline is a little more defined you know not a lot of changes in that time but certainly an overall look that the face looks more toned and after posting that results video you all asked me to post my facial yoga workout which I did and I'll link both of those videos below and now I have been doing the facial yoga at least five days a week Monday through Friday for three months now and one of the exercises that I showed you in that last video was a nose exercise because as we get older the nose lengthens and it droops a little bit and then the outside of our nose gets more bulbous and less to fight and when I saw that curology video I was super surprised at the results on my nose and let me show you a close up from that video a week ago and here is my nose before and after in the first picture that was about six months ago and compared with the after picture which is on the right in terms of the overall look of the nose in the before picture it just looks a little wider a little bigger than the after picture in the after picture the nose just looks more slim down the middle and then the tip in the before picture looks bulbous and kind of nontoned and then in the after picture as you can tell it looks to me as if the tip of the nose is a little more refined and I truly believe that my nose has shortened somewhat the tip has narrowed and the overall look of the nose looks more toned and in terms of facial exercise I've always read that nose exercise are one of the best quickest ways that you can alter the shape length size of your nose. Of course if you have a huge hunker this is not going to do too much for you but if your nose has the normal age-related changes that it's gotten a bit longer a bit droopier and a bit wider at the tip this nose exercise is phenomenal and when I did that face yoga exercise many of you said I could understand all the face yoga exercises you showed Beth but I really couldn't see the nose and that's because this is what the nose exercise looks like and I did it on video and you couldn't really tell so since this video is specifically devoted to slimming the nose I'll come in a little bit closer and I'll show you in depth how to do it. Now the first thing you do is you put your finger at the end of your nose right here and then you're just going to be pulling down pulling those muscles down you use your finger as resistance and push your nose against it like this and as you can see those tiny tip muscles are being flexed see now then you use the other hand as resistance so you're going to put this here and I'm not going to put this on here yet but I'll just show you how this works you just put your fingers here there we go and you go and the firmer you hold your finger and thumb against your nose the more resistance you have like this is not much resistance and this is more and then when you put your index finger at the tip of your nose you're adding a third set of resistance here I'll turn it aside maybe you can see it one two four so that's how that works and to do the nose exercises I do 50 this way like one two three four five six seven I do 50 and then I hold it for 50 and just hold totally flex for a count of 50 and when I'm doing that I'm imagining the tip slimming up I'm imagining the nose kind of shortening a little bit and I sort of imagine my nose with a white light around it I always remember that Arnold Schwarzenegger said that when he lifted weights he always saw the body part he was lifting surrounded in white light and so heck I thought if it's good enough for Arnold it's good enough for me but basically then you hold it for 50 counts like that and I guarantee you that if you do that exercise five to seven days a week within a couple of weeks you're really going to see your nose change and another thing about anything you're doing on your face if you really want to see your progress and keep going it's always important to take a before picture and then an after picture because our face has a lot of little areas and if you don't take a before and after picture you're really not going to notice the changes because the changes come on very subtly and that's why with regard to anything that you do with your face whether it's a new skin cream you're trying facial exercises you're trying the new face anything like that you really do have to take the before and after pictures because if you don't believe me you're going to get to two weeks a month into it and you're going to say oh it's a lot of work and I'm not really sure I'm seeing anything and you'll give it up whereas if you've taken the pictures you would actually see that you were making great progress well that was a look at how I've been slimming my nose and if you'd like to try it and you take before and after pictures if you'd like to email them to me my email is below the video and I would love to see your before and after pictures and I would share them in a future video for sure now if you're not yet a subscriber to my channel and you're 40 plus 50 plus 60 plus it doesn't really matter I hope you'll join the 50 plus beauty family by subscribing clicking that little bell and or sharing this video with a friend okay I always like to leave you with a little thought for the day and I've been reading from these miracles now cards from Gabrielle Bernstein okay let's go ahead and choose hopefully a positive thought to think about for today sometimes no is the most loving response sometimes no is the most loving response friends at first this card confuse me a little bit but then I realized that it really does pertain to my life and one of the ways in which it does is that I do have this relationship in my life where for one reason or another every time I'm with this person she puts me down like continually it's just jab jab jab and she doesn't very subtly to where I don't even realize she's doing it at the time and I just feel this need to sort of defend myself instead of realizing what she's doing and saying you know are you at a bad mood today are you feeling angry that seemed like a negative comment and this is an important relationship in my life and I've realized over time that I just let her do that to me and I have for years and really at some point I'm gonna have to buck up and stand up and say no and call her on that behavior because quite honestly I'm getting really tired of it so friends just for today if you have relationships in your life where you keep saying yes and keep taking a little bit of abuse quite honestly I hope maybe you'll think of this card and realize that sometimes no is the most loving response take care and I'll see you in my next video