Head, Neck & Face Muscles

These muscles around your eye help you bat your eyes~ closes the eyelids

• Orbicularis Oculi
• Orbicularis Oris
• Frontals
• Corrugator

This muscle encircles your mouth and enables your lips to pucker for a kiss~ purses the lips

• Orbicularis Oris
• Orbicularis Oculi
• Zygomaticus Major
• Zygomaticus  Minor

This mouth muscle is one that is used for chewing~elevates the mandible; retracts the mandible (posterior fibers)* a powerful chewing muscle

• Temporalis
• Masseter
• Buccinator
• Risorius

This muscle closes the mouth by raising your jawbone~ elevates the mandible (also used in chewing)

• Masseter
• Temporalis
• Auricular
• Buccinator

Muscle used to wiggle the ears

• Temporalis
• Masseter
• Risorius
• Auricular

This muscle pulls the corners of the mouth backwards, which is why it is sometimes called the “fake smile” muscle~ draws the corner of the mouth laterally

• Buccinator
• Masseter
• Risorius
• Sternoclidomastoid

This muscle pulls the corner of mouth laterally; presses the cheek against the teeth

• Masseter
• Buccinator
• Zygomaticus Major
• Zygomaticus Minor

Muscle that elevates the lower lip and skin of chin~ wrinkle chin

• Nasalis
• Risorius
• Mentalis
• Sternoclidomastoid

This large neck muscle helps rotate the head to the opposite side and flex the neck

• Sternoclidomastoid
• Platysma
• Mentalis
• Masseter

Muscle that elevates the eyebrows and wrinkles the forehead

• Occipitals
• Frontalis
• Temporalis
• Corrugator