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What do you do for your beauty and your health?
Yoga, Pilates, the gym, skincare: what each of us takes up as a daily habit differs from person to person.
Today, there is something I’d like you to add to that list.
Billiards.
Activating brown fat cells, improving your gut by strengthening the erector spinae, easing stress by activating the frontal lobe: billiards, as it happens, is packed with things that make you beautiful from within.
Surprised?
Let me explain, one by one.
The billiards stance is a posture you would never take in everyday life
Picture the moment you set up your cue.
You lean over the table, hold the cue in your dominant hand, support it with your bridge, and take aim.
Your back straightens naturally, your shoulder blades move, and your gaze gathers on a single point.
In everyday life, you rarely find the body’s lines so beautifully composed as in that moment.
That is exactly why the billiards stance has a beauty that makes people look twice.
Enjoying billiards in that stance with friends or someone you love.
Then sharing a drink afterward.
Isn’t that what being stylish really means?
Embodying the cool version of yourself.
In a sense, that is what beauty is, too.
When your shoulder blades move, fat burns
In the billiards stance, setting up the cue naturally brings your awareness to the area around your shoulder blades.
As it happens, the area around the shoulder blades is where brown fat cells are concentrated.
Brown fat cells are cells that turn fat into heat and burn it off as energy.
Unlike white fat cells (what we usually call “body fat”), the more active they are, the more they promote fat burning.
They decrease as we grow older, but the right stimulation can activate them.
Repeating the motion of a billiards shot stimulates the area around the shoulder blades again and again, activating these brown fat cells.That can help with dieting and preventing weight gain.
When people say “my figure changed after I took up billiards,” it is by no means their imagination.
👉 Before you diet, tune your brain. — Billiards as a beauty habit.
When posture is right, the gut moves
Another important element of the billiards stance is the erector spinae.
Using this group of muscles that runs along the spine keeps you in a beautiful posture, back naturally straight.
And here is where it connects directly to beauty.
With good posture, your internal organs settle into their proper places, and your intestines become more active.
When your gut is in good shape:
- Skin turnover returns to normal, and the texture of your skin improves.
- Nutrients are absorbed more efficiently, and a healthy shine comes to your hair and nails.
- Your autonomic nervous system finds its balance, and the quality of your sleep improves.
That one point, posture, ripples out through every part of beauty.
There is a reason why a woman whose back straightens naturally as she sets up her cue somehow looks so beautiful.
👉 Before the serum, walk. — On skin and exercise.
Moving your brain protects your skin
Billiards moves not only your body but also your brain.
Where to send the cue ball for the next shot, which route will clear the table: this way of thinking, always building backward from the end, activates the frontal lobe.
The frontal lobe is the part of the brain that governs judgment, concentration and emotional control.
When the frontal lobe is activated:
- Your resilience to stress rises, protecting your skin from stress-related breakouts
- Serotonin release is encouraged, bringing emotional stability in its wake
- Sleep improves, and the skin’s renewal cycle settles into rhythm
What’s more, the “backward thinking” that billiards cultivates has a good effect on work and private life alike.
The ability to plan backward from a goal is polished, quite naturally, at the billiards table.
👉 To stay young at heart, and in body. — A new anti-aging habit.
👉 Korean Beauty × Mindfulness × Billiards.
Getting started, in fact, is very easy
For those who think, “I’d like to try it, but I need a reason…”
At most places, you can enjoy billiards casually, paying by the hour.
If you’re nervous about going alone, there’s no need to worry.
Billiard halls have more solo customers than you might expect.
Many also have professionals or highly skilled staff, so even beginners can easily ask to be shown the basics.
Compared with other sports, billiards is far easier to start, and that is one of its charms.
Being the cool version of yourself may be the best beauty treatment of all
Activating brown fat cells, better posture through the erector spinae, easing stress by activating the frontal lobe: billiards offers all these beauty benefits while you enjoy yourself.
But in the end, what I most want to say is this.
You, setting up your cue in a beautiful stance.
Time spent enjoying billiards with people you like, in a grown-up space.
A night of laughing together, drink in hand, after the play is done.
Isn’t the you inside moments like these the most beautiful you of all?
Beauty is not only about tending the outside.
The moment you embody the cool version of yourself — that, I believe, is the moment you shine brightest.
