Hacking Face Plasticity with Viktoria Mortensen

Exclusively sponsored by Viktoria's Face and Body Architect

In architecture, there is a fascinating principle called Tensegrity, a portmanteau of tensional integrity. It describes a structure that maintains its shape not through heavy, stacked pillars, but through a continuous web of tension. Think of a suspension bridge or a geodesic dome: if you push on one side, the entire structure distributes the stress to remain stable.
Well, it turns out the human face is a tensegrity structure. We aren't just skin draped over bone; we are a complex network of fascia and muscle that 'floats' in a delicate balance of tension. When that tension becomes imbalanced, we don't just get tired--we age. Our faces literally begin to collapse inward.

I'm a nearly 41-year-old new-ish dad, so sleep deprivation and some 'facial collapse' are expected. But this might surprise you; I recently took a selfie and realized my crow's feet had essentially vanished. This has a lot to do with some applied Tensegrity techniques I've been doing to 're-wire' this facial tension.

Judge for yourself: Facial symmetry enhanced?

Before

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Selfie

April 23rd

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Side Profile

May 3rd

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After

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Side Profile

June 15th

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Selfie

June 15th

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The woman behind this natural facelift, Victoria Mortensen, is joining us today. She is an osteopathy-trained face and body architect who has taken the ancient beauty wisdom of her native Ukraine and fused it with modern fascia science. She is the creator of the 8-week Face Plasticity program.

Mentioned in this interview

One size fits all Biohacks: Niacin for EMF-protection, Dual N-Back training to increase brainpower, or breathwork (Othership is my favorite app for this)

Standing desk - Because "sitting is the new smoking"

Techniques

Mobility exercises: Against "whithers and stroop" 

Lifting of the cheekbone (hanging head on thumb exercise) & releasing the jaw

Here's the full recording of the Face Plasticity session Mrs. Limitless and I did with Viktoria...

Books & Resources

Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful -- probably worth reading if you need any more motivation to lifehack your looks

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire -- Apparently, the core premise of the novel was statistically disproven.

My travel blog about living in Ukraine: A Spy in Kyiv? 

Hourglass - My novel about Biohacking, featuring beauty hacking

Hourglass

 

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Beauty Diet: Eat coconuts and/or avocados daily

SuperOxide Dismutase (SOD) supplements - See my deep-dive interview on the topic with François Vix, Virtue (& Beauty) Are Downstream of Health

Zone Therapy - Treating the body via the.. toes?

About Viktoria's Face and Body Architect

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Send her a selfie

Three selfies (actually)

1) Close-up of your face

2) Frontal shot - including your shoulders

3) Side profile - from the shoulder up

Takeaway question: How do your medium-term life goals connect to your beauty hacking and appearance?

My conversation with Victoria inspired this song about facial anatomy...