Have you noticed how different people the same age can look? They once studied in the same class, but now they can be mistaken for mother and daughter. One’s face is still fresh and smooth, while the other’s is already covered with a network of wrinkles.
Why is this happening? Wrinkles are not only a sign of age, but also a result of lifestyle.
Right now, check whether your face is at risk of turning into a “baked apple” ahead of time, and switch your life to the “self-control and replacement of bad habits with good ones” mode.
If premature grooves and folds have already appeared, erase them with your own hands within three weeks. It is much easier to remove early wrinkles than age wrinkles.
What are premature wrinkles
Premature wrinkles are not such a rare occurrence. According to statistics, every fourth woman looks older than her age. We are talking specifically about the signs of aging of facial skin, including wrinkles.
How old you give a person based on his appearance is called physiological age. The difference between physiological and actual age can be colossal: up to 15 years.
At 40, a woman can look like her daughter’s older sister, or maybe like a lady after menopause. And the main marker of age is wrinkles.
What is the norm?
As a rule, the first facial wrinkles appear at the age of 25-30. They are formed only during moments of active facial expression, and are not visible in a relaxed state. The first such wrinkles most often appear from the corners of the eyes to the temples and on the forehead, and then in other areas.
A woman’s face begins to become covered with static wrinkles by the age of 40 and beyond. These are already permanent grooves and folds that do not straighten out even during sleep.
If wrinkles appear earlier, they are premature.
After 35 years
35 years is such a conditional watershed; it is this age among experts that is considered to be the beginning of the appearance of the first true signs of age: pronounced wrinkles, changes in the oval of the face (gravitational changes), a persistent decrease in skin elasticity, a decrease in the natural ability to retain moisture and produce collagen.
If you were actively taking care of yourself before this age, then the first signs of aging will appear much later. If earlier it seemed to you that “everything is fine as it is,” then now there is nowhere else to put it off - urgently start working on yourself!
The most important thing that affects our appearance is our lifestyle. In order to look good, it is important to get enough sleep, be less nervous, eat a balanced healthy diet with a sufficient content of vitamins, microelements, fiber, fats (yes, strange as it may sound, but for good skin condition you need to consume at least 15 g of fats per day) . Be sure to take vitamins, omega-3, omega-6 (polyunsaturated fatty acids). Stop smoking (if you still smoke) - now every cigarette provokes wrinkles and folds around the mouth and thinning and dry skin.
Cosmetic procedures at this age include programs of deep hydration, nutrition, active mineralization, face and body lifting, as well as anti-stress therapy and relaxation.
After 35 years, it makes sense to actively and regularly visit a cosmetologist and apply programs aimed at combating age-related changes: chemical peels, injection techniques, the use of fillers and contouring, installation of mesothreads, as well as hardware and laser procedures. All this must be combined with regular competent home care, which your cosmetologist will help you choose.
Types of early wrinkles
Early wrinkles can also be facial or static.
With very lively facial expressions, early expression wrinkles can appear as early as 18 years old and even in teenagers.
Static wrinkles can be considered premature if they formed between the ages of 30 and 40 or earlier.
It is also possible to distinguish several types of early wrinkles depending on the area of their formation. They usually appear:
- on the forehead: horizontal furrows and vertical creases between the eyebrows,
- around the eyes: crow's feet, folds on the eyelids,
- around the mouth: purse-string lines (vertical grooves above the upper and under the lower lip), in the corners of the mouth, marionette lines (running from the corners of the mouth to the chin),
- nasolabial (stretch from the wings of the nose to the corners of the mouth),
- on the neck (aka “rings of Venus”).
PREPARATION FOR THE PROCEDURE, REHABILITATION, CONTRAINDICATIONS
Forehead wrinkle removal for men and women is performed with minimal preparation. Avoid visiting solariums, beaches, and increased physical activity 2 weeks before the procedure; stop taking blood thinning medications at least 3 days before. After peelings and injections, you should not sunbathe, visit baths, saunas, or use makeup. Your doctor may give you individual recommendations for care. Contraindications – acute and chronic diseases, pathological changes in the epidermis in the area, oncology.
How do early wrinkles form?
Only in some cases is the premature appearance of wrinkles predetermined. Heredity, physiological characteristics, hormonal imbalances, pathologies.
Basically, we ourselves do everything to ensure that our face becomes covered with wrinkles ahead of time. All our bad habits, weaknesses, laziness, and permissive attitude towards ourselves will definitely be reflected on our face.
Think about how we live.
- Every day we are exposed to an army of toxins through food and air, and for others, through alcohol and tobacco smoke. We poison our entire body, including our skin.
- We do a lot of harmful things because it is tasty/pleasant/convenient/familiar or simply out of ignorance. We spend half our lives curled up at work or on gadgets, frying in the sun, sleeping face down on a pillow, eating and drinking all sorts of nasty things, putting half a bucket of makeup on our face and forgetting to wash it off before bed...
- We take on a bunch of tasks, turn into a multifunctional robot “Mom-wife-lover-housewife-worker-animator-banker-crisis manager-boss” - the psyche cannot cope. Nervous exhaustion is our death sentence.
- And at the same time, our body becomes decrepit due to the lack of a basic component of life - movement.
- We are lazy to work on our own beauty, and instead count on a miracle. We rely on “magic” creams, tapes, injections, scalpels. But in the offices of surgeons and cosmetologists we find not youth, but an illusion that only aggravates aging (true youth is in our heads and our hands).
- The other extreme is self-torture for the sake of beauty. For example, “starvation” diets are the path to early skin aging. We need the same fats to produce beauty hormones, restore the protective hydrolipid mantle of the skin, etc.
What does all this chaotic lifestyle and inability to resist harmful factors lead to?
The natural functioning of the body is disrupted. Aging processes are launched, which should have begun only after 5, 10, 15 years.
We begin to turn into old ladies ahead of time.
Early wrinkles: causes of appearance
Now we will systematize all the risk factors that you should know about.
The main provocateurs of the early appearance of wrinkles are:
- Smoking and alcohol
- Negative mental states: stress, overwork, lack of sleep
- Excessive facial activity
- Professions in which the facial muscles are actively involved: actors, announcers, singers, brass players, teachers
- Abuse of sunbathing and solarium
- Negative natural factors: frost, wind, dust, dry air, poor environment
- Poor nutrition: food toxins, aggressive diets, overeating, lack of nutrients, vitamins and minerals
- Insufficient consumption of clean drinking water (less than 2 liters per day)
- Poor posture
- Improper sleep organization: face-down position, high pillows, soft mattresses
- "Punitive" cosmetology
- Physical inactivity
- Improper facial care: use of overdrying products (whitening, cleansing), irregular use of caring cosmetics, abuse of makeup, poor cleansing
- Swelling of the face
- Dry skin type
- Hormonal disorders
- Heredity
- A number of diseases of the skin, cardiovascular system, etc.
How many of these points apply to you?
We continue to dig further. We understand how the skin ages and becomes wrinkled.
To do this, let's first look at how it works.
Recommendations from cosmetologists
It is impossible to completely avoid the appearance of facial wrinkles, but it is quite possible to slow down the aging process.
Prevention of the early appearance of facial wrinkles must include:
- skincare treatments: facial massage and deep cleansing improve skin condition and help delay the appearance of wrinkles;
- proper skin care must include creams, sun protection, nourishing and moisturizing masks suitable for the condition and type of skin;
- timely injection and hardware procedures serve as excellent prevention of skin aging;
- A healthy lifestyle is also very important: good sleep, sports, physical exercise, facial fitness exercises, a balanced diet, and the absence of bad habits are necessary for beautiful and youthful skin.
Skin structure
The skin is a huge organ with an area of 1.5-2 square meters. m. (in an adult). It is needed to protect the body from the environment, as well as for the exchange of heat and water.
The skin consists of three layers, and its youth and appearance depend on the condition of each of them.
- Epidermis
This is the outer layer of the skin, which in turn consists of five layers. There may be fewer of them in particularly thin areas, for example, around the eyes.The epidermis is formed by basal keratinocytes. It also contains melanocyte cells that produce melanin. Skin color (race, tan), age spots, and moles depend on this pigment.
The topmost layer of the epidermis is the horny layer. In fact, it consists of dead cells that must be sloughed off - this is how skin regenerates.
The stratum corneum is covered with a water-lipid mantle - a film that acts as the first skin barrier. It is very important for youthful skin. What is this robe? The water-fat layer, which is formed by the products of the activity of the sebaceous and sweat glands (located in the dermis). It is responsible for skin moisture and its protection from external aggression.
- Dermis
This is the main layer of skin that forms its framework. Firmness and elasticity depend on it. The dermis is a connective tissue that consists of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid.Collagen and elastin fibers are the main “building material” of the dermis.
The importance of hyaluronic acid is that it helps moisture retain in the skin in the form of a kind of gel. It is what makes the dermis smooth and elastic, and also protects against toxins.
Where do collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid come from? Fibroblast cells participate in their synthesis. The elasticity of the skin directly depends on the quantity and quality of these cells.
The dermis is also penetrated by blood and lymphatic vessels, nerve endings, sebaceous and sweat glands. Their condition also affects the rate at which wrinkles appear.
- Subcutaneous fat (hypodermis)
The deepest layer. Consists of fat and connective tissue. The development of this layer depends on the specific area of skin and the person’s weight.
Correction of fine wrinkles at the Ego Estetic clinic
Modern aesthetic medicine offers a number of different methods to combat the network of fine wrinkles. Most procedures successfully complement and enhance each other’s effectiveness, so choosing an individual program for each specific case will not be difficult. Dermatocosmetologists at the Ego Estetic clinic use the latest and most effective developments in aesthetic medicine, successfully using them to correct age-related skin changes. Let's name some of them.
- Biorevitalization. An innovative procedure aimed at restoring and rejuvenating the skin through the injection of special compounds containing highly purified hyaluronic acid - the main component that moisturizes and rejuvenates our skin. The effectiveness of biorevitalization is based on the launch of natural biological processes occurring in skin cells and contributing to the normalization of metabolism.
- Mesotherapy. An injection procedure that involves the introduction of special mesotherapy cocktails into various layers of the skin using multiple superficial injections. Such formulations contain a complex of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other elements essential for improving the overall condition of the skin.
- Photorejuvenation. This technique is based on the use of broadband pulsed light (IPL), devoid of the ultraviolet spectrum. Flashes of a certain frequency and brightness stimulate the synthesis of collagen and elastin, accelerate metabolic processes in all layers of the skin and the breakdown of old protein chains. This effect provides a lifting effect, increases skin elasticity and significantly reduces fine wrinkles.
- Polyrevitalization. An injection procedure involving the introduction of the latest generation of drugs developed in the French laboratory Filorga into various layers of the skin. In addition to a cocktail of vitamins, minerals, coenzymes, antioxidants and nucleotides, these products contain high concentrations of hyaluronic acid. After the first session of polyrevitalization, a pronounced lifting effect is noticeable, a reduction in the number of fine wrinkles and an improvement in the general condition of the dermis, and skin radiance.
- Botox/Dysport. The procedure involves the injection of drugs based on highly purified botulinum toxin type A into the facial muscles. By blocking the activity of the facial muscles, it provides a skin tightening effect, smoothes facial wrinkles and prevents their reappearance.
- Plasmolifting. The procedure involves injecting into various layers of the skin a drug obtained from the enriched plasma of the patient himself. Due to the high content of platelets, such injections help accelerate cell division, significantly tighten and smooth the skin, and increase its overall tone. The procedure has no contraindications even for chronic allergy sufferers.
- Microcurrent therapy. Based on the use of minimal electric current discharges, the procedure triggers natural rejuvenation processes, stimulates the production of collagen and elastin, and improves skin tone.
Doctors at the Ego Estetic clinic will be happy to select products for your daily skin care at home. We practice an individual approach to each client, so specific procedures and duration of treatment are selected taking into account the patient’s general health condition and the presence of specific cosmetic defects.
How skin ages and wrinkles form
Regardless of whether age is to blame or some negative factors, facial skin fades according to the same scenario.
It all starts with the fact that the blood begins to move more slowly through the vessels and is less able to reach its target. The delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the cells of the dermis, hypodermis and muscles deteriorates, and metabolism slows down.
Negative changes occur in all three layers of the skin:
- In the epidermis
Fewer basal keratocytes and melanocytes are produced (melanin deficiency means worse complexion). And the number of dead horn cells increases, and they are poorly exfoliated. The skin becomes rough and rough.The lipid mantle becomes thinner, which is not surprising: the sebaceous and sweat glands work worse. Result: dryness and dehydration.
- At the dermis level
Fibroblasts renew themselves more slowly. The consequence of this is a reduction in the amount of collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid. Those connective tissue fibers that remain are damaged.The skin loses its ability to retain moisture, loses elasticity and turgor, and becomes defenseless against toxins.
- In the hypodermis
With age or under the influence of other factors (fasting, smoking, hormonal imbalances, etc.), the subcutaneous fat layer becomes thinner. At the same time, the area of the skin remains the same, that is, part of it turns out to be “extra.” Result: sagging skin.But subcutaneous fat is not a panacea. Its excess is also harmful: all metabolic processes suffer from it, which leads to skin aging.
And all this is the mechanism by which the skin fades on its own simply due to poor circulation.
Now imagine what happens to her under the pressure of muscle hypertonicity - all the main age-related problems on the face, including wrinkles, come from it. Everything is very simple.
From constant overstrain, the facial muscles spasm. What is a spasmodic muscle? This is a muscle that has become shorter and is also fixed in this form because it has lost its elasticity.
At the same time, the area of the skin did not decrease, but, on the contrary, even increased (from its own structural disorders and from constant stretching under the influence of contracting muscles). And this stretched “sheet” is pulled along by the shortened muscles to which it is directly attached. The skin folds into wrinkles.
And don't forget about lymph. Due to an incorrect lifestyle, bad habits, and age, lymphatic drainage is disrupted. Excess fluid is retained in the facial tissues by the swamp. Under the weight of swelling, the skin stretches, becomes flabby and wrinkled. Combined with gravity, swelling leads to the fact that everything unnecessary on the face “flows” down - hence the jowls, double chin, ptosis (drooping) of the upper eyelid, nasolabial folds.
Skin types
As you know, depending on the moisture and oiliness of the skin, the following skin types are distinguished:
- normal,
- dry,
- fat,
- combined (oily in the forehead, nose, lips, chin, and normal or dry in other areas).
Dry skin is most prone to the formation of early wrinkles. It is usually covered with a frequent network of fine wrinkles.
Those with combination skin are also at risk. If the skin around their eyes is dry, then without proper care, crow's feet may appear early on.
Oily skin is less prone to wrinkles, but they still appear: usually, they are rare and deep.
Normal skin is least susceptible to the premature appearance of folds and grooves.
Did you figure out the problem? It's time to take action.
Prevention of early wrinkles
- Learn gymnastics and self-massage for the face.
This is the best help for your face and the only effective way to delay aging for many, many years. - Watch your posture.
Don't slouch. Sit at the computer with a straight back, squared shoulders and raised head. When you use gadgets, don’t bow your head towards them, but raise them to eye level and don’t get stuck in them for a long time. Sleep on your back on low pillows and a firm/semi-firm mattress. - Watch your facial expressions.
Don’t wrinkle your forehead, don’t squint, don’t frown, don’t purse your lips. Self-control is required. - Lead a healthy lifestyle.
Eat right, don’t exhaust yourself with diets, move more, get enough sleep, avoid stress. - Drink clean water.
Your skin needs it. The daily norm is at least 2 liters. - Spend more time outdoors.
Oxygen is necessary for the respiration of every cell of your dermis and the removal of harmful substances from it. - Protect yourself from the sun.
Use sunscreen at any time of the year, and in the summer also use hats and umbrellas. In the sun, don’t leave home without sunglasses: the skin of the eyes (thin, vulnerable, with a minimum number of pores and sebaceous glands) is most susceptible to photoaging. - Take care of your skin with cosmetics.
Morning and evening, cleanse, moisturize and nourish. Tone throughout the day.Do not overuse decorative cosmetics, apply them for several hours and not every day; make-up removal before bed is mandatory.
Scrub your skin 1-2 times a week, or better yet, do a dry massage with a brush (drybrushing).
Drybrushing is the best way to deal with the stratum corneum. All dead cells that interfere with regeneration will fly away from you in different directions. The skin will become smooth and pink, like a baby's. The brush is also needed to improve blood supply, relax muscles, and enhance lymphatic drainage. Overall, it should become one of the main beauty devices in your closet.
Beauty365 has excellent brushes for facial massage; they are made of boar bristles. Sold on www.beauty365.ru.
Massage with a brush should be done on a clean and dry face. Move along the massage lines (they are indicated on the packaging of the Beauty365 facial brush).
Anti-wrinkle products
Is it possible to remove premature wrinkles with cosmetics?
Skin needs cosmetic care like plants need light. Moreover, it is easier to overcome early wrinkles than age wrinkles. But it is important to understand that the result from cosmetics will only be in combination with other measures: self-massage and facial gymnastics, correct posture, an active and healthy lifestyle, healthy habits instead of bad ones.
How to care for your facial skin?
Cleanse, moisturize and nourish it every morning and evening. This way the skin will remain young longer, and its thinning, drying, and loss of turgor will be minimized.
Take care of your skin using natural products.
Hydrolates
Carefully cleanse the skin of cosmetics, dust and excess fat (water is not needed for this!), and also tone and moisturize. You can choose lavender, sage and mint hydrosols from Beauty365 at www.beauty365.ru.
Oils, squalanes and balms
moisturize, nourish and protect the skin from negative external factors. These products contain a killer cocktail of substances beneficial for youthful skin: fatty acids, vitamins A, B, C, E and other “catalysts” for dermal renewal.
Follow the link to the online store www.beauty365.ru and look for suitable natural Beauty365 cosmetics there: coconut oil, camellia sasanqua oil, squalane (sugar cane oil), Verbena hemp balm (contains oils and oil extracts of hemp, coconut, shea butter, pistachio , calendula, carrot seeds).
They all contain anti-aging ingredients and help fight wrinkles. Camellia sasanqua oil also works with color: whitens age spots, prevents the appearance of freckles.
Advantages of the EMC Clinic
The European Medical Center is a leading clinic in Moscow, where all the most modern and effective methods of aesthetic medicine are presented.
Our specialists are among the best in their field. We practice an integrated approach to the beauty and youth of the skin, so we work not only with the problem itself, but also with its cause. Considering any aesthetic problem from all sides, if necessary, we are ready to provide medical support to any of the specialized specialists in our clinic.
By choosing EMC, you choose the safety and high quality of any procedure performed.
