Nintendo's Otona No DS Kao Natural Facelift Training from Japan is an adult trainer game following the Nintendo DS brain and eye training consoles. Nintendo DS. If you are worried about your looks, there is now no need to resort to expensive, painful nd expensive cosmetic surgery. This new Nintendo training programme could make you look years younger in just a few minutes a day.

Mirror Image of the Soul

The face can be seen as the mirror image of the soul. It works as a receptor for impulses and transmits messages. The face is the gateway to your personality. Know your face and get to know yourself better.

Where to begin?

Start by watching other people's faces as they are talking, eating, sitting, watching television or sleeping. Notice where they carry tension. You will find that while some people seem tense in the upper part of the face, around the eyes and the forehead, others might carry uncontrolled twitching movements in the jaw and chin area. Some people's faces are relaxed throughout; others display many unnecessary expressions, seeming almost hysterical. Watch the same person's face in different moods. When is it attractive, when is it ugly? The nuances between a smile and a cry, a whisper and a shout are so wide ranging.

The console is very similar to Brain  Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day with a similar menu system and  structure - you can do daily  training and then perform specific facial  movement tasks. After doing a set number of  exercises you are rewarded with a stamp on the  calendar: a cozy flower for an "OK".  Once  you've done a task for the day, you're done for  that day - it works off the system calendar.

With a model on the left screen  and your face on the right, the game will talk you through the  different tasks. At the start of a task, you move your face in an outline so the camera  knows where your eyes, nose and mouth are for each of the exercises. Once you fit your eyes in  the proper spot, the tasks will begin.

The exercises range from opening your eyes wide to squinching your face to the left or right. The training program will tell you to perform a move and hold it for a count of five, and slowly relax. During the exercise, the game keeps track of your mouth and eye positions to determine how well or poorly you are doing the exercise. At the end of the task, it will pull up snapshots it took during the session and rank according to its internal criteria. Arrows will be placed on your video image, showing you how well the program can track the subtle movements of your lips and eyes.

What Can You Achieve with this program?

• Banish wrinkles, worry lines and angry frowns
• Revitalize drooping cheeks
• Get rid of bags under the eyes and crows' feet
• Eradicate unsightly double chins

The result you want to achieve is a gradual integration of what you learn into everyday life. You may well develop further exercises to meet your own particular needs. The descriptions and goals to be attained are clearly set out and illustrated for each move. After an initial period people will be telling you that you look well or asking you if you have been on holiday. As soon as you sink back onto old habits you will notice a slight deterioration in your face. But don't worry, progress always comes in waves. As long as you come back to exercising, you will develop an awareness in your face throughout the day which will become natural and comfortable once you get the hand of it. You will know what your face looks like and portray your moods and emotions at will in a way that you yourself find pleasing and attractive.

Training your face with Nintendo's Otona No DS Kao Natural Facelift Training in subtle ways you never knew possible is great fun and actually works in the fight against the ravages of time.

There are a number of very good books and videos on facial exercises. My favourite is Natural Facelift by Juliette Kando.