Face muscles Action & Location

Action: Compresses cheeks inward

• Orbicularis Oris

• Depressor anguli oris

• buccinator

• Zygomaticus major

Action: Purses lips, kissing muscle 

• Orbicularis Oris

• Depressor anguli oris

• buccinator

• Zygomaticus major

Action: depresses corner of the mouth, frown

• Orbicularis Oris

• Depressor anguli oris

• buccinator

• Zygomaticus major

Action: raises corner of the mouth, smile! 

• Orbicularis Oris

• Depressor anguli oris

• buccinator

• Zygomaticus major

Action: closes the eyelid, wink

• Masseter

• orbicularis oculi

• Frontalis

• Occipitalis

Action:  Raises eyebrows, wrinkles forehead

• Masseter

• orbicularis oculi

• Frontalis

• Occipitalis

Action: Tenses and Retracts your scalp

• Masseter

• orbicularis oculi

• Frontalis

• Occipitalis

Action: elevates mandible (along with the temporalis)

• Masseter

• orbicularis oculi

• Frontalis

• Occipitalis

Action: elevates mandible (along with the masseter)

• Platysma

• Sternothyroid

• Sternocleidomastoid

• Temporalis

Action:  Tenses skin of the neck and depresses the mandible

• Platysma

• Sternothyroid

• Sternocleidomastoid

• Temporalis