I came across a thread on a different forum ( https://lookism.net/Thread-Theoretical-exercise-for-cheek-hollows ). The guy explains how the zygomaticus muscles causes the skin to have a hollow look when they bulge through the skin. The muscle runs from the cheekbone to the upper corners of the lip. It is activated when you smile (I think it can be activated from alternative methods as well), they are the muscles which draw the corners of the mouth up. Exercises for this muscle are described in the link above but there are also plenty of videos on YouTube which show how to exercise the muscle.
I have noticed myself, almost every model or attractive person with hollow cheeks have prominent zygomaticus muscles.
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I think it kind of makes sense personally. Most of us already know from looking at Mike Mew's videos that chubby cheeks is also caused from the use buccinators being activated from incorrect swallowing. But I think to achieve hollow cheeks; the zygomaticus muscle needs to be utilized. Although I think other muscles around the mouth can help hollow the skin. And as mewers already know, keeping the tongue against the palate also contributes.
I've been looking at quite a few videos of celebrities and models with prominent hollow cheeks, and I've caught sight of how they fully utilize their mouth muscles when smiling/talking. I am not 100% sure whether these kind of people naturally get their prominent zygomaticus muscles from using the mouth fully functionally, but I am pretty sure it is due to this because the zygomaticus muscle is activated from using the mouth.
I was wondering whether anyone else has came across this exercise to train this muscle? Would it cause nasolabial folds from exercising it daily?
It's the zygomaticus muscle standing out because of the configuration of everything else.
See https://lookism.net/Thread-Theoretical-exercise-for-cheek-hollows
/community/community/case-discussions/my-routine/paged/3/#post-1280
Weirdly enough I can safely say that OMC helped me getting more hollow cheeks. In my opinion, the only muscle which hinders hollow cheeks ist the buccinator which only gets trained by false swallowing as described above. You could also have a look at the zygomaticus muscle, which is besides having strong masseter and good cheekbones also benificial for hollow cheeks. Jon Kortajena has a very strong zygomaticus muscle. I think you can hypertrophy the muscle with especially the first and maybe also the second exercise :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMJX0xIWj-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HixJdP6bUw
Good luck on your journey!
I got error 404 on the site. But those are not prominent zigomaticus muscles, I think they are just prominent cheekbones and great bone structure, you can see that his cheek tissue is very thin
I got error 404 on the site.
Follow the link without the close parenthesis included:
https://lookism.net/Thread-Theoretical-exercise-for-cheek-hollows
That's just all kinds of visual manipulation and low body-fat. He wouldn't have the hollow cheeks without the light, angle and image software manipulation. Don't forget the make-up and all kinds of physical stimulations like vacuums, sweat machines that models use.
For reference, here are a handful of forum posts where this has been mentioned. Definition of the zygomaticus muscles does seem to go along with cheek hollows, so hypertrophy of those muscles could be involved in developing that feature. I haven't practiced any of these exercises myself, but I'm interested to try.It's the zygomaticus muscle standing out because of the configuration of everything else.
See https://lookism.net/Thread-Theoretical-exercise-for-cheek-hollows
/community/community/case-discussions/my-routine/paged/3/#post-1280
Weirdly enough I can safely say that OMC helped me getting more hollow cheeks. In my opinion, the only muscle which hinders hollow cheeks ist the buccinator which only gets trained by false swallowing as described above. You could also have a look at the zygomaticus muscle, which is besides having strong masseter and good cheekbones also benificial for hollow cheeks. Jon Kortajena has a very strong zygomaticus muscle. I think you can hypertrophy the muscle with especially the first and maybe also the second exercise :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMJX0xIWj-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HixJdP6bUw
Good luck on your journey!
Buccinator isn't the only muscle to give bloated cheeks, my Risorius muscle is like 1cm in diameter, shit's thick, I never realized every time I smiled/talked or even ate food I tensed the muscle which also pulled all the skin of my neck upwards, hypertrophying it like crazy. To compare, I felt my zygomaticus and at the very thickest point it's maybe only 1mm in diameter.
@eddiemoney wrong, this is what robust cheekbones, with little to no zygomaticus muscle hypertrophy, looks like, notice the cheekbone does not go down to the mouth:
I see two things contributing to the hollow cheeks of the guy in the OP. First, he has large, high mass cheekbones that have vertical height and forward projection. That creates the hollow on the sides, where the masseters are. On top of that, he has a forward maxilla and the "smile muscles" (the muscles that kind of make a parenthesis around your mouth) are also prominent, framing the hollowing on the front side as well. In his case, because of the size and height of his cheekbones, the shadowing from the smile muscle connects with the shadowing on the edge of his cheekbones. I have a similar thing, except since my cheekbones are higher with less vertical height, that vertical shadow is much taller. I also suspect that the model in the OP has dimples, which contribute to the hollowing at low body fat %'s.
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