Healthy skin has amazing elasticity.
It can be pulled and stretched to a great extent without damaging it.
In nature, mothers of various animal species can be observed carrying their young by the skin of the neck, with no adverse effect.

Your skin was supple and stretchable when you were born.
As you aged, it has become increasingly folded.
Each fold binds the skin to whatever is beneath it, as if you were tying it there with a string.
As a result, the skin loses its elasticity; it becomes hardened, tense and unsightly.

Most folds are not obviously visible, or not visible at all, but you can deduce their presence by the tension and hardness they cause.

There is only one way to restore your skin's elasticity; grooming it.
Human grooming is the action of unfolding your skin with your nails.
When you groom your skin; you open up the folds by pushing your nail(s) into them, and crushing their foundations.

Hard and tense skin is often associated with painful regions.
Grooming those areas will also remove the pain coming from them.
Up to four fingers can be used simultaneously, and both hands can be put to the task.

Facial traits and features are only cutaneous folds in your face.
They can be opened, crushed, reduced, and eliminated with human grooming techniques.

For quick information on human grooming:

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Don't confuse smooth skin with unfolded skin.
The skin can be nice and smooth; yet still be tense, hard and folded, because most folds cannot be seen.
Your system considers cutaneous folds as injuries, and it paves the bottom of each fold with fresh epidermis cells, to protect the skin from further damage.
These new cells are "living cells".
To determine how folded and tense your skin is, use one of the three following methods:

You can evaluate your skin's tension by simply pressing your nail down into it, anywhere on your body, and evaluating how deep it goes.
Obviously, your fingernail will go in deeper if there's no bone beneath the skin, or if it goes through a thick layer of fat.
The idea is to compare neighbouring areas, to determine where your skin is tightest, and therefore where it needs more grooming.

If your nail can easily penetrate your skin; you can conclude that it is only lightly folded and healthy.
If, on the other hand, the skin resists the push of your nail; it is very folded, and needs attention.

One simple way to find out your skin tension is to:
1• Pinch the skin, and pull on it.

2• Examine how far you can stretch the skin.
3• Compare different areas.

Some places, such as your scalp, possibly cannot even be pinched.
That’s how tense the skin has become.

Still another method of skin tension evaluation:
1• Place the tip of your nail on your skin.
2• Add a bit of pressure.
3• Try to move your nail horizontally and vertically.
4• See how far the skin can follow it.

Analyze and compare the distances reached on both axes, all over your body.
Obviously, the further your fingernail can move from its departure point, the more elasticity the skin has kept, and the less it is folded.

The folds in your skin keep on deepening all your life.
You can observe small folds on a child's skin, but these folds will grow, and become deep furrows as that person ages.
However, some points will be more affected than the rest; the points where two folds meet; the fold crossings.
The skin at a fold crossing is typically ten times harder and more tense than in the rest of the folds.
In addition, fold crossings penetrate much deeper into the skin than the rest of the fold.
They become compacted craters that sink into whatever may be beneath them, and fasten the skin to that location.
With age, the skin becomes hard as wood with reduced sensitivity.

All these folds have a hardening effect on your skin.
Your system is disturbed by the folding, and reacts by paving the bottom of each fold with fresh epidermis cells.
With time, your folds and their crossings become firm and solid objects within your skin.
They become permanent.

When you look at the skin of an old person, you don't notice the folds.
You focus on the loosely hanging portions of skin between them.

Folds and crossings have an anchoring action.
They pin the skin down.
But, between those locked positions, the skin may dangle, become stretched, and flabs may appear.
It's important to understand that the problem lies with the folds and where they intersect, not with the sagging skin itself.
Only groom deeply along the folds.
Stretched or sagging skin should only be groomed superficially, and it will regain its shape when the pressure from the surrounding folds is lessened or removed.

Grooming your skin has a considerable effect on its tension.
It reduces it locally, where you groom it.
But, grooming a particular fold crossing will affect all the others around it.
Hence the principle of tension redistribution.

On your body, each fold crossing has formed pulling relationships with its neighbors, and they've reached some kind of equilibrium.

When you groom one fold crossing, you remove part of its supporting structure.
This absence is felt by the other crossings in its vicinity.

What would happen if you only groomed the red fold crossing?
To illustrate this, imagine an unreal skin where all the crossings have the same tension.

If you only groom the red crossing; the surrounding crossings will gradually lose some tension on the side closest to the groomed fold crossing.
It will take weeks and months, but the loss in tension will be redistributed to the neighboring crossings.

However, most folds on your body are circular.
If you only groom one fold crossing, the other fold crossings all around the fold will be affected; but in a different manner.
The redistribution will decrease the tension for adjacent crossings, but it will increase it on the opposite side of the circular fold.
Removing tension from any crossing may shift your pain around.

Precautions and care should be taken when grooming your skin in areas where there is pain.
Grooming the affected areas may provoke unknown reactions, and even increase the pain.
Test-groom the regions for a few days before attempting any deeper explorations or work.
Be smart, and proceed gradually.
Groom for short periods, several times a day, until the pain disappears.