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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Hayley Spencer

Facial fitness gum is the new mewing — but can it really sculpt jaws?

It’s not been long since the word mewing made its way into the popular conscience. Fun to say, but less comfortable in practice: it’s the act of placing your tongue on the roof of your mouth to mime a stronger jawline. And it was suddenly being seen in classrooms all over London, much to the lament of teachers.

And the pursuit of a sculpted lower face now seems to have spawned another more involved ritual: chewing very tough, ‘facial fitness’ or ‘training’ gum.

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